P.A. enjoying warm weather

Locals in the city and province are enjoying warmer than usual weather, with temperatures reaching around the 19 degree mark on both Wednesday and Thursday according to Environment Canada.

Environment Canada meteorologist Terri Lang told paNOW the higher than normal temperatures are a by-product of some recent changes.

“We finally have a ridge of high pressure and it’s an upper ridge of high pressure, that’s finally moved over … it’s been sitting over British Columbia and out to sea,” she said.

Lang said systems like this help define where the jetstream sits.

In most years systems similar to the current one tend to move over sooner, which results in warmer weather conditions earlier in the fall.

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“We usually see it for parts of September,” Lang said.

She added it is not clear why the pressure system took longer to move over when compared to previous years.

“That’s the million dollar question, we don’t know why it decided to do what it did and stay out that long,” she said.

In terms of the longer range forecast Lang said it looks like the conditions will remain for a little while.

“It does look like the pattern breaks down next week … spring and fall are always the time periods when we get a lot of variation in the weather, because it’s always that epic battle between that cold air in the North and the warm air to the South,” she said. “People (should) get out and enjoy the weather while they can,” she said.

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