Labour Day Weekend 2017

Temperatures

The Labour Day weekend this year was a pretty nice one, with 3 days above 20°C, including Saturday which hit 25.5°C. Sunday was down at 18.6°C, but that was still warmer than any of the days from the 2015 or 2016 long weekends.

Looking at many of the other years here, 2017 is pretty typical. But because 2014-2016 were all on the cool side of things, this year was the warmest Labour Day weekend that we'd had since 2013.

Precipitation

And in terms of precipitation, both Blatchford and the International recorded 0.6mm of rain on the Saturday, which is barely worth mentioning compared to some of the other recent years.

Labour Day Weekend

Lets take a look back at Labour Day temperatures:

The last two Labour Day weekends have not been warm. 2015 and 2016 both reached scorching Highs of 16.4°C on the holiday Monday, with the rest of the days below 15°C, and one of 2015's Highs was even down at 8.2°C. Those weren't the coldest recent Labour Day weekend though, because that honour goes to 2000 which didn't have any days above 15°C.

More typically, the average daytime High for the weekend is 19°C, and we usually get some days above 20°C. 25°C is pretty rare though, with only 5 of the last 22 years breaking that barrier. The overall warmest Labour Day weekend since 1995 was 2013, helped mostly by some very warm overnight Lows.

As far as precipitation goes, 2015 was really rainy, and 2016 was pretty rainy and it even recorded a bit of snow (0.4cm at the International Airport, but nothing in the city).

Most of the recent Labour Day weekends have received at least some precipitation - only 1995, 1998, 1999, 2006 and 2010 were completely dry.

Labour Day Weekend

The forecast for this long weekend is looking pretty dismal:

But what's actually typical for labour day?

The average high is 20°C, and the low is 9°C.

The warmest labour day weekend in the last 20 years was 2013, with all 4 days above 20°C. That also happened in 1995, 2001, 2006 and 2007.

The coolest was in 2000, with all 4 days below 15°C, although 2015 was a close second.

I don't actually remember labour day from 2015, but not only was it cold, it was also really rainy. And right now it's looking like 2016 might be a repeat of last year..