Easter Long Weekend

Today we'll take a look at the recent weather history for Easter.

Temperatures

Here are the High and Low temperatures for each Easter long weekend, going back to 1995.

Easter is a little strange, because it moves around a lot. Since 1995 the earliest that Easter fell was March 21-24 in 2008, and that latest was April 22-25 in 2011. For Edmonton weather, the difference between late-March and late-April can be the difference between winter and spring.

The coldest recent Easter was 2002 with Highs below 0°C and Lows around -10°C. 2002 was also one of the years with an early Easter on March 29-April 1. And the warmest recent Easter was 2000 with 2 days above 20°C, and it was one of the late Easters on April 21-24.

The average High for all of these years was 10°C, and the Low was -2°C. The last few Easters have all been pretty unremarkable, and have just hung around that average.

And even though the Easter of 2017 is pretty late in April, it looks like we're going to be on the cold & snowy side of things.

Rain & Snow

Earlier this week we saw that April isn't a particularly rainy or snowy month, and that's the case for Easter as well. 2014 was a fairly late Easter from April 18-21, but it still had 6cm of snow. Easter 2009 was a little bit earlier on April 10-13, and had 6mm of rain across the 4 days.

Based on all of the snow that is currently in the forecast, it looks like the Easter of 2017 could be a notable one.

And with that, I think we've now got all of the holidays covered.