If you spent the month of July in Montreal, you might be wondering if the cool, rainy weather we've seen actually broke any records.
As far as temperature was concerned, daytime highs have run about a degree cooler than normal — but this was actually the first July since the year 2000 where the temperature failed to break the 30-degree mark.
"That's a mark of a warm day, a beer-drinking kind of a day," says Environment Canada's senior climatologist David Phillips. "We typically would see in Montreal...about four of those in a particular July."
In fact, the temperature did not climb above 28.7 degrees, on July 18.
Meanwhile, Phillips says despite how things might have looked, the rainfall totals for the month were just about on average.
"We've has about 92 millimetres of rain — you normally get around 89," Phillips says of the first 30 days of July.
However, out of those first 30 days, 20 of them had at least some rain or drizzle.
So can we expect to see some kind of summer weather in August?
Phillips says his forecast models suggest a warmer-than-normal August, and in the very short term, we may actually see a 30-degree day on Wednesday, with lots of sunshine.
The last time Montreal saw a 30-degree day was on June 18, when the mercury soared to 32.1 degrees. That was one of only three 30-degree days we've seen this entire season.
Clouds and showers, however, are expected to return as early as Wednesday night, and persist through the rest of this week.