CALGARY - Environment Canada's senior climatologist is shaking his head over a spate of bad weather hitting the Prairies this year -- most notably in Alberta.

David Phillips, who has been on the job for five decades, says the 2016 weather season isn't likely to be one that Albertans and others on the Prairies will look back on fondly.

He said tornadoes, wind, hail, thunderstorms and humidity are up in all three Prairie provinces but nobody has had it worse than those living in northern and southern Alberta.

Phillips says Calgary received 206 millimetres of rain last month -- the most since 1927 and there were 19 thunderstorms on top of it.

He says weather systems appear to have been stuck in a holding pattern on the Prairies.

Phillips says after suffering through devastating wildfires last spring, flooding in Fort McMurray on the weekend may have some people wondering if a plague of locusts might be next.