CORNWALL, Ontario – If you’ve enjoyed the warm, rain-free days of late The Weather Network has some good news for you.
The agency released its annual autumn forecast Tuesday, which predicts a gradual cool down over the course of autumn in the Cornwall area.
“Fall is a transition season,” said Kelly Sonnenburg, a Weather Network meteorologist. “We have two patterns set up for the fall. The first one will see temperatures at or slightly above seasonal.”
But things won’t last that way.
“We’ll see a flip of a switch in mid- to late October,” Sonnenburg said, adding that’s when temperatures are expected to take a plunge.
By the time November and December roll around, it will start to look and feel like winter is fast-approaching.
“We can’t rule out some late fall snowfall,” she said.
The main driver of the fall weather pattern is El Nino, a mass of warm sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean.
Sonnenburg said the fall precipitation models suggest that as long as the warm weather remains, it will be drier in our region. But when temperatures begin to fall, weather systems will become a little more unsettled.
Fall officially begins Sept. 23.
For more, check out the fall forecast here.
