Vancouver has the Gulf of Alaska to thank for this weather.
Well, not the place exactly, but the atmospheric patterns circling above it. A system in the North Pacific is picking up moisture and slinging it down B.C.'s coast to Vancouver, which means several more days of grey, wet weather, according to Jennifer Kowal, a meteorologist with Environment Canada.
Three day forecast
"It's going to be showery for the next day and a half," she says, noting that Sunday morning (May 26) featured the heaviest rain for the next little while.
While Monday features cool temperatures compared to the usual (highs between 14 C and 17 C, depending which neighbourhood you're in), showers will be intermittent and serious rain isn't expected.
However, Tuesday is expected to be a different story, with 10 mm to 20 mm of rain (predictably, southern communities can expect to be on the lower end of that, while North Vancouver will be on the upper).
"It's more of a continuous period of rain through the entire day," says Kowal. "It starts in the morning and continues through the afternoon."
It'll also be cooler, with temperatures just hitting 14 C.
Wednesday, May 29 is expected to be similar to Monday, though maybe a bit wetter and cooler.
So this is May-vember
The streak of cool, wet weather this year has occurred just before June, which is often dubbed June-uary in Vancouver for wet, cool systems that interrupt the warm weather.
So a new nickname has been created.
The term we've been using is May-vember, it's the same thing," explains Kowal. "Cool and dreary.
"Hopefully once we get out of this system we don't have a June-uary, because we had a May-vember already."
June warmth
Right now it looks like that may come true, as the beginning of June is forecast to be much warmer.
"The day that looks like we're going ot have a shift in the pattern is Thursday," says Kowal.
Showers should be lessening throughout the day and a high of 18 C is forecast (the usual for May 29 is 17.7 C).
By Friday late-spring/early-summer weather is expected, with more sunshine and highs in the low 20s.
"It's hard to say this far out, but we are looking at at least the low 20s," Kowal confirms.
