Labour Day Long Weekend 2019

Do we really want to talk about Labour Day Long Weekend weather? I guess that we might as well...

Temperatures

The average High temperature for the Labour Day weekend is actually only 19.4°C, so I guess that we shouldn't be too shocked to have sub-20°C days?

• In 2018 the smokey August was just ending, and the Friday reached 20.4°C, but the Highs for the rest of the weekend were between 15-18°C.
• 2017 was a warm Labour Day weekend, with the Saturday at 25.5°C, and the Friday and Monday both above 20°C.
• And for the three years from 2014-2016 there wasn't a single High above 20°C, although 2014 came close. 2015 & 2016 both reached scorching Highs of 16.4°C
• The warmest recent Labour Day weekend was 2013 with two days hitting 25°C, and the coldest was 2000 with no Highs hitting 15°C.

Precipitation
(the title of this chart is wrong)

And precipitation is fairly typical.

• 2018 had rain on the Friday, Saturday & Monday.
• 2017 had rain on the Saturday & Sunday.
• 2016 had rain on the Friday, and the International even recorded a bit of snow on the Saturday.
• 2015 had rain on all four days for a total of 34mm.

Going back to 1995 the only Labour Day weekends with no precipitation were 1995, 1998, 1999, 2006 and 2010.


Updated for 2019:

And so Labour Day 2019 ended up with one day above 20°C, with the holiday Monday hitting 21°C. The Friday High was down at 13.7°C, which is cool, but 2015 & 2016 had much cooler days. And the Saturday and Sunday were just above 15°C. So across the weekend the temperatures were pretty close 2018, well below 2017, but above 2015& 2016.

For temperatures the International recorded rain on all 4 days, with Saturday having the most at 6.1mm. For Blatchford (which isn't shown here) the Friday had the most precipitation with 5.3mm.