Victoria Day Long Weekend

Last year I wrote a lot about the Victoria Day weekend, because it was very cold & rainy. So lets take a quick look back to last year, and also see what's more typical:

Temperatures

The average High temperature for the Victoria Day weekend is 17°C, and the Low is 6°C. Things bounce around quite a bit though, and sometimes it's pretty summery, but a lot of the time it really isn't.

The coldest-overall Victoria Day weekend going back to 1995 was actually last year, with only 1 day that managed to break 10°C. The warmest-overall was in 2008, with 2 days above 25°C and 2 more above 20°C. And we haven't broken 20°C in any of the last 3 years, so 2013 was the last time that we had a Victoria Day weekend that you might actually call "summery."

Precipitation

And as far as precipitation goes, 2016 was the big story. Last year we got 80mm of rain over the 4 days, which is about double the average for the entire month of May. The two recent years with any snow were 2009 and 2010, with 2.4cm and 0.8cm respectively. We can see here that we get some rain almost every year - the only year without any was 2013 - but most of the time the rain that we get is a pretty small amount.

And the forecasts for 2017 are looking a lot more typical than what we saw last year.