STILL WAITING TO TEE OFF
A little winter-like weather in April didn’t deter staff at Chedoke Golf Course Friday, who unloaded trucks off golf carts as they get ready for the upcoming season. The snow — around 3 cm across the city — made accessing the clubhouse difficult, so a city truck was brought in to salt the steep road so they could finish the job. There’s no snow in the forecast for the weekend, but chilly temperatures are expected to stick around until Wednesday, when a brief reprieve is in the forecast. But don’t expect warmer spring-like conditions until later this month.
Hamilton’s weather is about 5 to 10 C below seasonal average.
The city was hit with around 3 centimetres of snow Friday. But that’s not unusual for April.
“The average amount of snowfall reported in the Hamilton area in the month of April is 8.4 cm, so that’s average,” said Peter Kimbell, warning preparedness meteorologist with Environment Canada.
“The bad news is the cold weather is going to persist. In fact, it’s cold throughout the weekend.”
Expect high winds to continue until Saturday night, too, Kimbell said.
Environment Canada is predicting a mix of sun and clouds Saturday and a temperature of -1 C. By evening, the temperature is expected to dip to -6 C, six degrees below normal.
Below-normal temperatures will continue throughout the weekend and into the beginning of next week.
It will warm up by Wednesday – about 6 to 8 C warmer — but this warm weather will be “short lived,” Kimbell said.
“There’s not an indication of a sustained warming trend in the short term. That’s up to 10 days and maybe even two weeks. So, I think (we) probably won’t see much really pleasant spring-like weather until at least after the middle of the month.”