One thing we can’t complain about as we look back on 2020 is the weather.
As we struggled through the pandemic, mother nature allowed us to spend most of our time outside.
Bill Laidlaw of Signal Weather Services it was definitely a warm year in the Dryden area.
“The average temperature for the year was 3.1 which is half a degree above the long term average. Just in case you are wondering, we’ve had years where the average temperature for the whole year was below freezing. The last time we did that was 1950.”
The high temperature was 34 degrees on July 3 while the cold day was -37.4 on February 13.
Laidlaw notes it was also a dry year.
He says total precipitation for the year was 436.1 millimetres, roughly two-thirds below the normal 719.7 millimetres.
The warm weather will continue throughout the first full week of 2021.
(Photo: Sheena McLaughlin)
