After rain and snow have been on the forecast for April in the southeast, the first weekend of May is now shaping up to be very summer-like. Temperatures will be soaring up to the near 30-degree mark, and the sun will be shining over a couple of days.
While this morning we woke up to some thick fog, Environment and Climate Change Canada Meteorologist Stephen Berg says that won't last for too long.
"Got a warm front that's pretty much over top of you right now. That's producing a temperature inversion near the surface, so you're getting cooler air down below towards the surface and kind of trapping the moisture near the surface and being cooler. Condensation is occurring, producing the fog, especially in the valleys, kind of a lower elevation.
"As that boundary pushes eastward and southward, it'll clear towards the middle of the morning, it looks like, and then should be generally pretty reasonable, pretty sunny for the rest of the day."
Berg expects the weekend to be unseasonably hot, though we're still a ways away from any extreme heat levels.
"Getting into the mid-to-high 20s for the most part for Saturday and Sunday, so that's quite a bit above normal. Normal values are high at 17 and low of about 2, so getting towards the 10 degrees above normal mark."
The weekend will also stay very sunny, though Berg states people may need to properly prepare themselves, as that sun could bring about some burns on the weekend.
"Might have to watch out for some sunburns if you're certainly prone to that, and it might be a little bit of a shock to the system too with having not so many really warm days recently, so might need to make sure that people are hydrated and whatnot and stay cool if they need to be."
The baseball season will be starting up across the southeast, with games already scheduled for teams like the U18 AA Brewers.
Berg says the conditions will be ideal for play, with wind and some moisture only picking up after the weekend.
"It does look like Monday into Tuesday, there might be some higher wind gusts, maybe to 60, 70 kilometers per hour, coinciding with a bit of a brief cool period. Might also be some wet conditions on Monday, so I guess a cold front's passing through and going to drop temperatures down to closer to normal values for Monday to Wednesday before warming up again towards the end of next week."
Berg says with the coming heat, we'll see freezing conditions become a distant memory for the southeast.
"It's looking like a foreseeable future for the next week and a half or so that you won't get much in terms of temperatures approaching zero on the low side, so Tuesday or Monday night into Tuesday night may be into the kind of single-digit pluses, so 3, 4, 5 degrees or something like that, but certainly not super threatening in terms of below zero, so that's nice."
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