The recent windy and stormy weather deposited this unmanned sailboat on our property Sunday morning. No word on how long it has been drifting in the Seaway, or who the owner is.Today will be sunny, warm and DRY. The rest of the week will be warm and humid with lots of showers and thunderstorms around right into the upcoming weekend. Temperatures will warm to close to 27C each day with humidex readings over 30C. A little more summery but sadly showery as well.
Both Saskatchewan and southern Alberta were hot and stormy over the weekend with temperatures approaching a sultry 40C in places and reports of hail and funnel clouds as well. Forest fires continue to rage in the hot weather in interior British Columbia.
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I am curious to know your take on the reason for the poor weather. I've heard discussions on things like an abnormal high-pressure system that is parked over Greenland and not moving, which results in the low-pressure system behind it (i.e. over Quebec/Ontario/Maritimes) having nowhere to go, and thus simply rotating around us. But I do not know details on this, or why this has happened; something else in the world triggered this?
From what I would assume, the high pressure system will slowly move out from Greenland, and let us finally get some high-pressure systems in our area. The problem with this is it's a long, slow, arduous process, which is why we constantly have rain and thunderstorms. I fear this will be like last year, where we get summer only near the end of August.
Thoughts? I have no idea the details, nor am I any form of meteorologist. I just am sick of the terrible weather over eastern Ontario...
Very valid points. The biggest problem this year has been the location of the jet stream. It is further south than normal allowing the storm track to move across southern Canada as opposed to further north. This has kept the warm and humid air to our south and introduced a more northwesterly flow. Couple that with a twist in the jet stream as opposed to a more zonal flow and that has left numerous low pressure areas stranded over Quebec and the Great Lakes. The result is daily showers and cooler than normal weather. With all the moisture available at the surface, it seems anytime we get sunshine, like today, clouds are generated quickly.
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