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Hot and dry July ends wet, with August heat wave drying things up again
NANAIMO — The mid-Island is setting more heat records this summer.
With a mean temperature of 20.0 degrees Celcius, July 2024 ranks as the sixth warmest July in the Harbour City’s history, with records dating back to 1892. The average mean temperature for the month is 18.1 degrees,
Matt Loney, meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada said it was also an extremely dry month despite a few days of rainfall near the end.
“Towards the end of the month we were running pretty dry, but then things caught up right at the end of the month. The total for the month was 12.8 millimetres, that’s below the normal of 25.4, so just about half as much rainfall as normal.”