Bobby Sekhon, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, might soon become the Yukon’s least-wanted person.

Sekhon spoke to the Star on Tuesday to discuss where the weather is going. While his predictions aren’t as likely to cause public outrage, it might be just as well if he doesn’t visit the area anytime soon.

Sekhon confirmed what every Yukoner already knows: the weather this spring has been markedly less than ideal.

“It was wetter than average,” he acknowledged.

That applied to nearly everywhere around the southern Yukon. Only Watson Lake was approximately normal.

“It was fairly wet by Yukon standards,” Sekhn continued. “It was wetter than people are used to.

“Burwash Landing had the fourth-wettest spring on record. There were two days it received more than 20 mm of rain.”

Hand-in-hand with that was a notable increase in cloud cover, he said. Which, of course, also affected temperatures.

Averages for May generally come in at 17C for a high, and four degrees for a low.

Some days approached those levels, but most didn’t. Yukoners aren’t likely to forget the bouts of snow either.

Sekhon attributed much of that weather pattern to a consistent storm track from the Pacific that was shoving a lot of moisture and cloud cover in the direction of the Yukon.

“It was an active storm front from the Pacific that went ’round and ’round,” he said. “It was a bit abnormal.”

He had better news for the summer seasonal forecast.

Sort of.

Sekhon said he’s expecting a near-average to possibly slightly-above-average summer. That was the good news.

The bad news is that he cheerfully pointed out summer is also the wettest Yukon season normally.

June temperatures average 19 degrees for a high, and six for a low.

July tops out at 21 and eight degrees.

August is more like June at 19 degrees and seven.

It’s approaching a year since Whitehorse had a temperature of 20 C or more, Sekhon said. That last happened on Aug. 22, 2020.

As for the immediate extended forecast, he said, the next couple of weeks aren’t showing any indication of extreme weather or precipitation.

The weekends don’t look promising either, with more clouds forecast.

Sekhon laughed as he relayed that, and he laughed harder when he was asked if there was any particular explanation of the current string of so-so weekend weather.

“Weather doesn’t take days off,” he quipped. “It looks like it’s going to be unsettled and mixed conditions.”