There was plenty to be thankful for over the long weekend, including the temperatures experienced in the Cariboo region.
Environment Canada Meteorologist Lisa Erven said the maximum daytime temperatures on Saturday and Sunday got up to 17 or 18 degrees depending on where you live which is 7 to 8 degrees above normal for this time of year.
“When I look back into the statics to see what our daytime maximum temperature records are, believe it or not, for mid October for 100 Mile House, Quesnel and Williams Lake, the current standing records sit in the low to mid 20’s.”
However Erven noted Williams Lake posted the 4th warmest day for Saturday October 15th by reaching 17.5 degrees and the warmest going back to 1991 was 21.3 and for Quesnel the record for that day was in the mid to upper 20’s in 1945.
Looking ahead Erven said the Cariboo will see average temperatures over the next couple of days then starting to fall a few degrees below normal by Thursday.
“By the time Friday’s storm arrives in BC depending on it’s timing, there is a potential for some of that precipitation to fall as snow or wet snow even down to valley bottoms. The snow if anything is probably going to be short lived for the valley bottoms but certainly certainly in the high terrain of the Cariboo mountains those peaks are going to look quite white in the upper elevations by the time we get to Saturday.”
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