As unseasonably warm temperatures continue through until the end of August, many are reluctant to imagine the hot weather fading away into chilly fall temperatures. Luckily, folks at Environment Canada have issued the long-term fall forecast for September, October and November, and they suggest fall will be warmer and drier than average.

However, meteorologist Terri Lang says an overall warmer fall doesn’t mean we won’t see fall-like weather patterns. “There’s a greater probability that fall will be a warmer one and thus sort of delays, but that doesn’t mean that we still won’t get cool days, that frost won’t come, that we won’t get early snows,” she explains. “When you say that the forecast is for above average temperatures, people think it’s going to be hot the whole fall, but no, it means on average, if you take the average of all the temperatures of that whole time period, it will average out warmer than average.”

As far as winter goes, Lang says it’s still too early to forecast specifics, however, the current outlook forecasts a La Nina, meaning colder and wetter than average. The Environment Canada winter forecast will be issued at the end of November.