Just Saying

It's Wednesday which means, as Canadians, it's time to start thinking about the weekend and this weekend looks to be a busy one. With a bunch of events set to take place outdoors a lot of folks are really concerned about getting rained out. Oh...and one of these events is a big one. Paddlers from across the globe are descending on the electric city as Peterborough hosts the International Dragon Boat Festival. As for the weather...see below:

















The forecast, at this point, is not looking great but there is hope. The image above is for very early Saturday morning (the overnight) and you can see a line of activity set to move through the region. So why is there hope? Let's step back in time to last weekend and the Peterborough Dragon Boat Festival where I called for rain and we ended up with a sunny afternoon. Yes, I blew that forecast (although I'm not alone) but we caught a break which is really a good thing. The active weather stayed to the south (Leamington) and the bulk of the rain fell to the north. Will that happen this weekend? It's still WAY too early to know for sure but I will say that the latest NAM image (above) is very similar to the "synoptic set-up" we saw going into last Saturday where we caught a break. You can cleary see this model show most of the rain to the north from that first are of low pressure riding high to the north and the cold fron looks to stay mainly to the south. Now we still saw rain last weekend but we also stole back a pretty decent afternoon from Mother Nature. While I'm not expecting a perfect weekend for the international races, if last weekend taught us anything...you never know. There is hope. Just saying.