St. Albert will have some near-normal fall weather this week after last week’s scorching heat.
Environment Canada predicted daytime highs of 16 to 20 C over St. Albert for Sept. 10 through 16 as of Sept. 10, with showers and rain predicted from Sept. 11 to 13. Cloudy conditions were expected to roll in on the night of Sept. 10 and largely continue until Sept. 16.
Such temperatures were within the normal 6-to-17 C conditions this city has historically seen at this time of year, and were a marked change from the scorching 30 C heat it experienced the previous weekend.
The showers might be of annoyance to some farmers, who traditionally prefer their crops to be dry when they’re harvested. Alberta Agriculture reports that hot conditions these last few weeks had let Edmonton-area farmers bring in the harvest at a record pace, with some 16 per cent of major crops combined as of Sept. 3 — way ahead of the 10-year average of 6 per cent.
Environment Canada was projecting above normal temperatures for Alberta for the next three months. That follows on what the European climate service Copernicus determined last Friday to be Earth’s hottest summer on record — a consequence of human-caused climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
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