You wouldn’t normally think of meteorology as being a dangerous profession, but when you’re offering an opinion that the summer’s first long weekend will be cold and wet, all bets are off.

When you also say the upcoming summer season has the potential to be cold and wet, you are treading on dangerous ground.

Bobby Sekhon, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, laughed today after offering both those opinions. He agreed that sometimes he can understand what it’s like to be an endangered species.

Sekhon said this Victoria Day weekend doesn’t look particularly appealing, but that’s kind of what you’d expect for the time of year.

“It’s unpredictable,” he said.

Some parts of the southern Yukon might well see snow this weekend, Sekhon added.

While Environment Canada won’t release its summer seasonal forecast until the end of the month, he was happy to provide some preliminary thoughts.

He was particularly interested in offering some comments as well on a seasonal summer forecast for Canada released by the AccuWeather service this morning.

That forecast prediction won’t make very many Yukoners happy.

AccuWeather senior meteorologist Brett Anderson said in the forecast that he expects northern British Columbia – and, by extension, the southern Yukon, which is included in his maps – to be cooler and rainier than normal.

“The months of June, July and August can bring to mind warm days filled with sunshine. However, this isn’t expected to be the case across northern British Columbia this summer,” Anderson said in the prediction his team produced.

“A storm track from the Gulf of Alaska into Canada’s western-most province can ignite rounds of rain over the region throughout the summer months.

“Most of the Pacific moisture, at least for the first half of the summer, will likely be directed into northwestern British Columbia,” he added.

“As a result, there will be cloudier and cooler days compared to normal.”

Anderson also added that slightly lower-than-normal sea surface temperatures off the northern British Columbia coast can moderate temperatures across the region, keeping them near to below normal.

Flooding is a possibility in some locations.

Sekhon agreed this spring hasn’t been particularly appealing so far, especially the last few weeks.

If the predictions are correct, this will make three consecutive weekends in May with mostly-poor weather for most of the Yukon.

Overall, the spring has been much as was predicted in the Environment Canada forecast for the season, which called for cooler than normal temperatures.

Sekhon said the EC agency is still wrestling with its summer seasonal forecast, and so far “there hasn’t been a lot of consistency” in the models.

“There are no strong signals,” he said, in contrast to the AccuWeather forecast.

“It’s looking like it could be cooler in the southeastern Yukon, but it’s not very conclusive.”

In the southwestern sections, it might be more seasonal, Sekhon said.

In the central and north regions of the territory, there is potential for the weather to be better as the effects of unpredictable oceanic weather are minimized.

While the conditions haven’t been impressing Yukoners, Sekhon said, it’s been great for a slow melt of the snowpack after a massive amount of snow this past winter.

“It’s been pretty much the best we could have hoped for. A long, slow melt rather than a rapid melt that could cause flooding.”

The recent conditions temperature-wise have been pretty close to normal, EC stats show, despite what people might think.