Knowledge from Setting and Local weather Change Canada present temperatures in Ottawa in April have been across the month-to-month common, but it surely was wetter and snowier than ordinary.
The month-to-month imply temperature in Ottawa final month was 6.7 C, simply 0.4 C above the traditional imply for the month. This follows three months in a row of above-average temperatures. January, February and March every got here in at round 4 levels hotter than regular.
April was wetter than common, nevertheless, with 108 millimetres of mixed precipitation for the month, nicely above the typical of 74 mm we usually see.
These spring showers are bringing the Could flowers, with many tulips already blooming.
The whole precipitation contains 94.2 mm of rain and 19.6 centimetres of snow. Ottawa noticed round 8 cm extra snow than common final month.
“In Ottawa, 28 crashes have been reported on the fifth the place 18 cm of snow was recorded,” Setting and Local weather Change Canada mentioned in its month-to-month abstract.
Could outlook
Setting and Local weather Change Canada is anticipating increased than common temperatures this month.
“Lengthy vary steerage suggests continued hotter than regular circumstances most certainly from the Nice Lakes into northeastern, central and jap Ontario. The magnitude could also be best in southern parts of northeastern Ontario and over the lakes themselves,” the climate company says.
“Steering for precipitation suggests solely weak and variable anomalies.”
