Victoria Day Long Weekend 2021

We have a brand-new holiday-centric dashboard to play with, so let's take a look at Victoria Day weather for 2021.

The Victoria Day long weekend is infamous for having unpredictable and often crummy weather. On the right side of the chart we have 2021, and it had a bit of that, with a cool Friday and Monday, but a fairly warm Saturday and Sunday. 

Highs:

Our average High for the May long weekend is around 17°C. This year Saturday hit 18.1°C and Sunday made it all the way to 20.9°C, while Friday was down at 12.6°C and Monday was 15.8°C.

In recent years the Victoria Day long weekends in 2017, 2018 & 2020 were all pretty summer-y with some days up around 24°C or 26°C. And 2019 wasn't cold; it just wasn't hot with Highs between 17°C and 19°C.

And so the last really cold Victoria Day long weekend that we had was 2016 with the Friday-Sunday all having Highs below 8°C, and the holiday Monday reaching a scorching 11.4°C.

Lows:

The average Low for Victoria Day is around 6°C, and this year Friday-Sunday were all below that, while Monday's Low reached up to 10.3°C. The Low of -1.5°C on Friday joins 2015 and 2009 as the only recent Victoria Day long weekends to have a frost.

Precipitation:

Looking at the green bars for Precipitation the 2016 long weekend really stands out with a total of 68mm. May's average Precipitation is 52mm, so that was more than a month's worth over 4 days.

In comparison 2021 was pretty (or really) dry. Blatchford recorded 0mm of Precipitation, even though Monday was actually a little bit rainy. On Monday the International recorded 5mm and Stony Plain had 1mm.

Calgary

Just for comparison, the 2021 Victoria Day long weekend in Calgary was a pretty rainy and chilly one. Saturday was the warmest day with a High of 13.8°C, and Sunday and Monday had a total Precipitation of 16.7mm.

Winnipeg and Regina were also cool and rainy this weekend, while Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal all started off with Highs above 30°C on the Friday.