The southeast has gotten a taste of a sunny summer over the past week, but soon the weather is shifting back into the cloudy, rainy systems which dominated July. Environment Canada's latest forecast calls for a system to start up on the weekend, which sees continuing rains establish themselves for next week.
Meteorologist Crawford Luke details the coming system and what we can expect for a return to rainy weather.
"Looks like it's more like a thunderstorm risk than anything. It's going to be a bit more organized rain further north, potentially. But for the southern part of the province, it's going to be more of a thunderstorm risk in terms of how we get our rainfall."
Rain begins Sunday and continues into Monday, though Luke wouldn't cross off the possibility of a few drops on Saturday.
Those rains would add up and give the start of next week a rainy feeling.
"Especially if you get thunderstorms on both Sunday and Monday, there could be a few spots in the southeast that have like an inch of rain or 25, 30 millimetres or so by next Monday evening."
"It's not necessarily looking like widespread rainfall. It might be highly variable amounts, just given where these thunderstorms end up forming and tracking."
While rains are less predictable after Monday, Luke says we'll return to an unstable, potentially rainy pattern like we saw across July.
"It is a bit of an active pattern. Monday, that kind of goes through, and Tuesday, it looks like it might be further north again, like well north of the southeast. But then Wednesday, it looks like we're kind of back into a chance of some thunderstorms again in the south and maybe even again Thursday. It kind of looks overall like next week probably is going to be a bit more on the unsettled side."
The lone saving grace of the week will be a bit of warmth as that flows into the southeast.
Luke says people will need to get their eyes back on the regional forecast as we head into next week.
"Looks like a lot of days, kind of Sunday onwards, with a chance of a thunderstorm and kind of a warmer air mass. I guess a bit of a return to some of the weather we saw back in July, a little bit."
Weather stats showed that July was above average for rainfall, which could repeat this month.