Summer Weather
May 8, 2008
HE IS OFTEN THE MAN WE TURN TO FOR WEATHER TRENDS. ENVIRONMENT CANADA'S SENIOR CLIMATOLOGIST, DAVID PHILLIPS, ALWAYS HAS A LOT TO SAY ON THAT SUBJECT. AND TODAY, HE SHARED SOME OF HIS FORECAST TRENDS WITH AN AUDIENCE AT THE KINGSTON CANADIAN CLUB. PHILLIPS SAYS WHEN YOU LOOK OUT THE WINDOW YOU SEE WEATHER, YOU DON'T SEE CLIMATE. HE SAYS THIS PAST WINTER BROUGHT KINGSTON SOME SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS -- VERY COLD AND LOTS OF SNOW. BUT DON'T BE FOOLED. HE SAYS GLOBAL WARMING IS STILL A BIG THREAT.... AND WE'LL GET EVIDENCE OF THAT, THIS SUMMER. DAVID PHILLIPS: "LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO BE WARMER THAN NORMAL. AND FROM A PRECIPITATION POINT OF VIEW, WE THINK IT WILL BE A LITTLE BIT MORE PRECIPITATION THAN LAST YEAR, NEAR NORMAL TO MAYBE A LITTLE SLIGHTLY LESS THAN NORMAL. AND OF COURSE THERE'S NO FORECAST FOR SMOG DAYS FOR SEVERE WEATHER, WE JUST KNOW THAT'S A GIVEN IN KINGSTON AND EASTERN ONTARIO."
