Yup, July WAS A Scorcher!

Tuesday, August 01, 2006 09:08 AM

You were right, July was a real barn burner!

Environment Canada's Jim Steele reports 5 new high temperature records were set, and we got just a little bit less rain than normal.

That deluge of rain that made the weekend Folkfest the "Soak fest" was more than one third of the monthly total rainfall in just 24 hours!

Here are some of the numbers:

Mean Monthly Temperature 17.2 Normal 15.5

Mean Monthly Maximum 24.2 Normal 22.1

Mean Monthly Minimum 10.1 Normal 8.8

TEMPERATURES

Records Highs:

July 2^nd 31.6 degrees – old record 31.1 set in 1942

3^rd 33.7 degrees – old record 30.6 set in 1942

21^st 33.5 degrees – old record 29.4 set in 1942

22^nd 33.7 degrees – old record 29.8 set in 1978

23^rd 32.3 degrees – old record 31.3 set in 1994

Warmest Days 33.7 on both the 3^rd and 22^nd

Coolest Day 3.9 on the 19^th

PRECIPITATION

Total Monthly Precipitation 63.2 mm Normal 63.5

Greatest rainfall in 24 hours 23.2 mm on the 29^th .

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