Prince George, B.C.- Last month was the warmest April in Prince George since 1912  when weather  information started  being recorded for  P.G..

Environment Canada Meteorologist Lisa Coldwells  says  the average temperature  for last month was  8.6 degrees. ” It was a warm month, that’s for sure.  We had two daily  ( temperature) records  on the first and the  18th, but overall the entire month continued to be warm.    So we had a record breaking  warm month of April,  the warmest April we have on record  for Prince George”.

She says normally,  the average temperature   for April in Prince George  is around 5 degrees “The April  average temperature  came out to be 8.6 degrees, and the old record  was  in 1980  and that was 7 so significantly warmer when you break a monthly  record by 1.6 degrees.”

Coldwells says  the warmth is all  due to El Nino, “We are still in an El Nino spring,  but  El Nino is now showing signs of decreasing  and decaying.  So I think what we’ll see is the beginning part of May still  starts off pretty warm,  and it looks like it will be  warm  next weekend as well after a brief interlude in the middle of the week with maybe a sprinkle or two.   As the spring continues on and we get into early summer,  the effects of  el Nino are not going to be anymore  a part of our weather picture because El Nino’s gone. So  I think  that we’re going to return to a  more normal summer pattern  with normal temeperatures and normal precipitation patterns for the summer months.

She says that  precipitation should help  recover from the extremely dry  summer of 2015.