Dave Phillips is the senior climatologist with Environment Canada.
Monday is the last full day of summer.
The senior climatologist with Environment Canada says we had a good season with consistent high temperatures.
Dave Phillips says we managed to get that without facing many heat waves, or brutally hot and humid days.
“If you could kind of package this kind of summer we had, particularly in the Quad Counties area (and) across Nova Scotia but really across the Maritimes, I think it was pretty ideal- it was consistently warm,” he says. “It doesn’t matter when you took your holidays, your time off- it’s actually been warmer than normal.”
Phillips says that held true through June, July, August and September.
He says he thinks we’ll remember it fondly.
Phillips says there were a few dry spells here and there, with overall precipitation down 20 per cent.
“Sometimes precipitation didn’t come through when you needed it- especially farmers, and landscapers, and gardeners, and what have you.”
Phillips says precipitation levels were still fairly consistent- despite being down overall- so those times were few and far between.
Fall officially arrives Tuesday morning.
