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David Phillips has high hopes for the last two weeks of December.
During an appearance on the Greg Morgan Morning Show on Wednesday, Phillips was reminded the weather forecast he was about to give would be his last of 2019 on 980 CJME.
“We’re going out on a really high note,” said Phillips, Environment Canada’s senior climatologist.
Phillips said Regina residents are enjoying “wall-to-wall sunshine” and temperatures that are as much as 14 degrees above normal. If there’s melting in the next week, Regina may even see some green grass poking through the snow.
“If December was over today, it would be slightly cooler than normal because of the last week of temperatures that got down to the lows of -28, almost -30, and now they’re rocketing up,” Phillips said.
“It’s really not polar air, Arctic air. It’s Pacific air, southwesterly air coming in. There’s not a lot of snow, so therefore there’s a lot of moderation even of that temperature. It doesn’t have to melt the snow; it just warms the air and that’s what we’re seeing.”
As for his forecast for the coming months, Phillips said it wasn’t likely that Regina would see a lengthy polar vortex similar to the one that gripped the city in February.
“We think what you see is what you’re going to get,” he said. “My feeling is you’ve already had a dress rehearsal of the kind of winter where you’re going to get some cold moments. But if they last only a week, you’re all right …
“When you see that back and forth, that yo-yo kind of weather where every month presents really almost two characters or two personalities, it makes winter go that much faster. You’re not stuck day after day, week after week with the same kind of monotonous weather.”
Phillips said the weather story of 2019 in his mind was the rain that gave farmers fits during the summer and fall. His hope for 2020 is a better forecast for producers.
“All I’ll wish for them is normal weather, what their grandparents and their ag agents told them they should get because that produces the best crops,” Phillips said.