Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Moose Jaw Times-Herald: 'Summery-like weather' not over yet

Dogs Emmy (foreground) and Abby (background) go for a
walk with their owner on Valleyview Drive on Wednesday.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy
By Lisa Goudy


Warmer weather isn’t going to change when the calendar shifts into October.

“My sense is that there’s still a lot of pleasant weather to come. Just because we change the calendar doesn’t mean we change the weather,” said David Phillips, senior climatologist at Environment Canada. “You know, the weather ... sometimes in the fall is rather fickle. It goes back and forth.

“Nature starts kind of testing this year and is testing itself in terms of bringing some kind of a hint of winter and then summer lingers on, you see. So that’s really what fall is. It’s a transition season.”

He said the weather system that brought cooler weather will also bring between 15 and 20 millimeters of rain on Thursday.

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