No June Records Set

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 There may not have been any new benchmarks set, but Environment Canada says the record books will show June 2006 was very warm and dry in Prince George.

The weather agency has released the monthly summary of statistics for June, showing the warmest day of the month was the 26^th, when the mercury topped out at 30.8 degrees. The coldest day was just a few days later on the 29^th, when the low was 1.3 degrees.

As for precipitation, the area only received 23.6 millimetres of rain over the course of eleven days when there was measurable precipitation recorded. Normally, about 72 millimetres of rain falls in the area over the month of June, with about 16 days during the month seeing some sort of precipitation.

Last month's conditions were the driest on record since 1987, when 21.7 millimetres was recorded, but that benchmark was still well short of the driest ever June on the books – in 1951, only 10.4 millimetres of rain fell in the Prince George area.

Environment Canada says warm weather during the last week of June, including the 25^th and 26^th of the month when temperatures rose above 30 degrees, helped boost the monthly mean temperatures by nearly 2 full degrees.

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