Fewer April Showers Bring…..Less May Flowers?

May 3, 2019 | 10:20 AM

There weren’t many April showers in the Vernon area last month.

Environment Canada says it was drier than normal, with just 12.4 millimetres of rain or snow, less than half the normal amount of 27.9 mm.

“Even though temperatures were fairly close to normal, it was quite a bit drier than normal. In fact we only got about 44% of the normal precipitation in April,” says Meteorologist Bobby Sekhon.

The average mean temperature for the month was 8.4 degrees Celsius, which was pretty close to the normal 8.7.

Sekhon says it wasn’t super dry as far as records go.

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“It was only the 33rd driest April on record for Vernon, with records going back to 1901,” Sekhon tells Beach Radio News.

Sekhon says Kelowna and Penticton also had drier than normal months.

“It’s towards May and June where we really get high precipitation — like the most in the year pretty much happens in May, June and November and December — so the upcoming next two months will likely be a lot wetter on average.”

by Corey Fischer