With the overcast skies and rain in today’s forecast and combined with yesterday’s rain, it can safely be said, that May Run 2017 feels more like May Soak 2017.
And the rest of the week will not be much drier even though there are a couple of days in the seven-day forecast that call for some sun, some rain.
But as the old saying goes, every rain cloud has a silver lining and that silver line means with all the rain, lawns are greener, trees are sprouting leaves, flowers are blooming
Sunday, May 21, 2017, 4:27 p.m. - A chilly and somewhat windy Saturday has given way to a similarly cool, and wet, Sunday.
The forsythia, or Northern Gold as it is also known, was sighted in front of the Timmins Public Library Building in the pouring rain. According to Canada Plants, the forsythia is one of the harbingers of spring.
In addition, readers might have also spotted a smattering of small blue or purplish flowers on their newly lush green lawns.
The tiny blue flowers are called scilla or scilla siberica. These babies are among the first flowers to bloom in spring. They are wild flowers and sometimes they are so prolific they can turn an entire field blue.
All these great plants and more brought you by the showers that began overnight Saturday throughout Ontario with temperatures ranging from 10 to the mid teens Celsius.
The Weather Network has reported that a 15-30 mm is expected by the time the rain clears out early Monday, lasting longest in northern Ontario and southern Quebec.
Environment Canada’s forecast is similar to the Weather Network, but it calls for the intermittent rain to end by Thursday May 25, where as the Weather Network calls for the chance of rain to continue through next weekend and continue into Monday, May 29.
As one person said it best about all the rain in Timmins: “At least it is not snow! Like they got in St. John’s Newfoundland.”
