A Fairly Normal Month – in Tobermory!
Submitted by Bill Caulfeild-Browne
June was above the long-term mean but only by 0.5C, well inside one standard deviation. It started out cool but steadily warmed up as the month progressed. The lowest temperature was 6.4C on the first and the highest 28C on the 23rd. Nearly all the second half of the month was about what we’d expect in June.
Rainfall was a little above the average of 65mm, at 84mm. Most of it fell on the 19th (31mm), the 21st (16mm) and the 26th (14mm). Sunshine, on the other hand, was less than usual – in fact, the second least sunny June of the last decade.
The rest of Ontario, however, saw some extremes. The warm spell that gave us 28C provided Toronto its highest temperature in ten years at 36.5C. The humidex in Hamilton reached 47C.
Eastern Ontario was drier than normal but the northeast was very wet – Kapuskasing got 219mm, three times the usual. Timmins got 75% of its monthly amount in just one day. This is the kind of rain they badly needed out West.
June 21st saw some violent storms around Algonguin Park, Ottawa and Kingston, resulting in severe damage when trees fell on tents and cars. Sadly one death resulted from the storm. Highway 17 near Mattawa was closed and the OPP was supported by the military in cleaning up debris and flooding.
July looks as if it will be warmer than usual with no expected anomalies in rainfall.
