‘Sunny weekends’ in store as summer arrives on Saturday
Posted June 20, 2014 7:33 am.
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The Greater Toronto Area made it through a seemingly endless winter, and a spring that took its time to get started.
And now, it appears Mother Nature is backing off a bit as summer officially arrives this weekend.
The region, and much of southern Ontario, endured a harsh winter and extreme cold. In December 2013, a massive ice storm in the GTA downed power lines and left 600,000 customers in Ontario without power.
Environment Canada senior climatologist Dave Phillips is predicting a “Goldilocks” of a summer: not too hot, not too cold, but just right.
“We’re calling for it to be rather a normal kind of seasonable kind of a summer,” Phillips said.
He describes the forecast as “delightful,” and and has even more good news.
“I see a lot of sunny weekends. It doesn’t matter how wet the summer goes, as long as the weekends are dry and sunny, we think it’s a perfect kind of conditions,” Phillips said.
Summer officially arrives at 6:51 a.m. ET on Saturday.
The forecast calls for some morning cloud and then mainly sunny for the afternoon, with a high of 24 C.
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