July has gotten off to a soggy start across southern New Brunswick after Environment Canada said June was much wetter than normal.
Meteorologist Jill Maepea said the recent trend of wet weather is thanks to a series of blocking patterns affecting our region.
“Blocking means we have ridges of high pressure that stay where they are and we have troughs of low pressure that stay where they are. There’s not really much change in where they’re going,” noted Maepea.
“Temperatures don’t really fluctuate all that much. We tend to have warmer nights with cloud cover and temperatures don’t really get the chance to climb during the day with the lack of sunshine.”
Data shows Moncton was 50 percent wetter than normal in June with 147 millimetres of rainfall and Saint John saw more than double its normal amount of rain with 226 millimetres recorded.
Maepea added the recent wet trend follows a dry deficit which accumulated after an extremely dry spring especially in April and May.
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