Cold and wet.
That sums it up for the month of August.
Signal Weather Services’ Bill Laidlaw says with an average temperature of just under 17 C, August was one of the coldest since 2000.
“And with that rainfall as well. We had 13 days with rain. A total of 154 (millimetres) of rain showed up at the airport. Normally we get about 91,” says Laidlaw.
Almost 30 per cent of our rainfall during the month came on one day, August 17.
Laidlaw says it was a continuance of weather patterns we saw at the start of summer.
“It was basically the upper ridge that had sat over top of us for a bit June and all of July and in the early part of August moved off to the west. Instead of warm hot dry air or humid air we got to replace with colder here from the north.”
