It was a coll start to the morning across the area today with temperatures in the 10 to 15C range across the province. This would make it one of the coolest mornings since May. Under bright sunshine the temperature will recover to 26C today and a warm 30C on Saturday under sunshine. A frontal boundary will return the threat for showers to southern Quebec, Ontario and northern New England by Sunday.
Just how hot a summer has it been this summer? Well here in Montreal, we reached 30C (86F) or better on 9 of 31 days in July. We had 21 of 31 days over 27C (81F) and a record high of nearly 35.7C, the warmest since the heatwave of 1975. Well how about Windsor, Ontario, they recorded the warmest monthly average ever in Canada at 25.8C, by comparison we were an equally warm 23.1C. South of the border the numbers are impressive. Texas has been melting under intense heat and drought for the entire summer. Dallas yesterday ended its streak of consecutive days of 100F or better at 40, just shy of the 1980 record of 42 days. Waco broke its record at 43 days off 100 plus temperatures and Wichita Falls 42 days, both set during the summer of 1980.
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