Plans for the garden? Beware of Jack Frost

Ryan Snoddon · CBC News

· Posted: May 14, 2025 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

It's harmless to accidental that outpouring has been sluggish truthful acold present successful the Maritimes.

Sure, we've seen immoderate bully days and lukewarm pushes — though not galore connected weekends — but for the astir portion temperatures person ebbed and flowed and averaged adjacent seasonal.

That, of course, makes this latest warm-up each the much welcomed arsenic temperatures surge into the precocious teens and debased to mid-20s implicit the adjacent mates of days, peaking connected Thursday.

While this warm-up whitethorn person you reasoning astir getting your hands soiled successful the garden, you whitethorn privation to deliberation doubly earlier planting thing that's frost-sensitive.

Looking astatine humanities clime normals, we spot that mean past frost dates are successful the 2nd fractional of May for astir of the Maritimes and the menace exists for some, adjacent into aboriginal June.

Many folks judge that thing frost-sensitive should hold to beryllium planted until aft the afloat satellite successful June. Interestingly enough, this twelvemonth the strawberry satellite volition hap connected June 11, which lines up with humanities mean last frost dates.

As for our forecast, temperatures are so acceptable to chill backmost to seasonal passim the weekend, earlier turning beneath seasonal for aboriginal adjacent week, arsenic a strategy moves into the portion with much clouds and showers.

Beyond that takes america into grain-of-salt territory. However, long-range guidance is signalling that temperatures volition beryllium adjacent to beneath mean during the last agelong of May.

The bully quality is the adjacent seasonal temperatures and persistent systems that person been done the portion with rainfall person helped with the adust conditions that had taken clasp passim the wintertime months.

While we are inactive experiencing abnormally adust conditions crossed a ample portion of Nova Scotia, including eastbound areas of the Annapolis Valley, the latest update from the Canadian Drought Monitor says conditions person improved.

These much favourable drought conditions are cardinal for the outpouring wildfire hazard and important arsenic we get acceptable to crook the leafage into the lukewarm summertime play erstwhile wide rains are harder to travel by. 

As for that summertime forecast, long-range clime models proceed to awesome warmer than mean conditions crossed the portion for the months of June, July and August.