A look at your Easter long weekend traveller’s forecast
Posted March 28, 2013 10:07 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – The first long weekend of spring is expected to be a beautiful one for local travellers.
News1130 Meteorologist Russ Lacate says sunshine awaits anyone heading to the Southern Interior.
“We’ll stop short of calling it ‘summer heat,’ but really, for late March, the numbers are almost off the charts in the forecast right through this long weekend, including your sunnier Good Friday afternoon, which features a high near 20 degrees around the Okanagan.”
“By Saturday and Sunday, it’s up towards 23 degrees and a very realistic chance to be re-writing the record books across the southern half of the province for the weekend,” he adds.
It’s not looking too shabby for folks heading to Vancouver Island either!
“If your long weekend’s beginning in the ferry lineup, I think you’ll have to settle for somewhat more modest numbers, as far as the temperature goes, in your Island forecast for this long weekend. But you won’t be cheated on sunshine; it’ll be a gorgeous Good Friday afternoon and equally nice on Saturday and Easter Sunday,” says Lacate.
“I’m thinking those Victoria temperatures will be around 15 or 16 each afternoon. Even on the west coast of the Island, around Tofino and Ucluelet, you can count on numbers in the low to mid-teens in the sunshine for most of the weekend.”
Cross-border travellers have been getting the short-end of the stick weather-wise in early spring, but Lacate says that’s expected to change for anyone heading into Washington State.
“Only a few more showers expected for the balance of the day, and then it clears up starting Good Friday. So, don’t cut your holiday short; expect sunny Seattle through Saturday and Easter Sunday, when the mercury is expected to hit the 20-degree mark.”
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