If you like warm weather, climatologists say summer is going to stick around for at least a few more weeks.
While some have complained summer showed up late and never brought the heat we’re used to, for some it’s been perfect.
“It hasn't been too hot other than that week in July,” says Barrie resident Allen Weiss. “But the rest of the summer has been wonderful. Great time to play and not too hot to work.”
But others say it's been too hot, too cold, and nothing in between.
“It hasn't been the best summer because we had a week in July that was excruciatingly hot, too uncomfortable and then the last week of July, first week of August, wasn't warm enough to go to the beach,” says Barrie resident Pat Edmunds.
If you're one of those people dreading the end of summer, however, there’s no need to pull out those winter coats just yet.
“So our models are showing warmer than normal is really the pattern or flavour of what we think the fall will be,” says Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips. He says it will be warm, dry and, as an added bonus, the fall colours could be the best in years.
“This year we had the amount of rain we needed, the temperatures, the trees were not stressed, trees love this kind of weather, there's been little pollution and if we get this perfect backdrop of warm and sunny and dry it will be the frame of the perfect picture to see the colour change season,” Phillips says.
He says it's still too early to make an accurate prediction of what we can expect this winter, but according to early models it looks like it won't be as harsh as last winter, but not as mild as the year before.
