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Jutting out from the north shore of Lake Ontario, it’s estimated the county has experienced 90 per cent less rainfall this summer than it traditionally receives each growing season.
The department’s Canadian Drought Monitor indicates that despite a spring bounty of rain and a few scattered rain showers in summer, a lack of regular precipitation over the summer, hot temperatures and drier conditions have led to a D2 Severe Drought classification as of Aug. 31.
Warmer temperatures are forecast to continue this week with daily highs of 26 Celsius forecast by Environment Canada.
While older, healthy vines are holding up for the most part in the dry conditions, younger vines may not be doing so well in some corners of the county, vintners told The Intelligencer in interviews.
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