A very hot and somewhat dry Summer
Nobody who experienced this summer needs to be told that it was hot. For the third summer in a row it was over a degree and a half warmer than average. That heat was also very consistent with only 3 days that were more than 5 degrees colder than average.
The precipitation for the entire summer at 211.9 mm, although well below the average of 272.1 mm, just squeaked into the average range with a wet start to September. However, the very wet ending masked what was quite a dry summer for most of the season. The precipitation for July and August was less than half of the average for those months.
In the UW weather station poll it was the least popular summer since I started doing the poll back in 2008. Typically, around 75% of respondents would say the summer was either great or good, but this year only 42% voted for these categories.
Summary for Summer 2012:
Maximum Temperature 34.0 °C
Minimum Temperature 5.4 °C
Average Daily High Temperature 26.2 °C (Long term average 24.3 °C)
Average Daily Low Temperature 14.1 °C (Long term average 12.3 °C)
Total Precipitation 211.9 mm (Long term average 272.1 mm)
(Long term averages based on 1971-2000 data for the Waterloo Wellington Airport)
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I'm curious. Given that the average highs and lows--especially lows--are trending upward, at one point will different long term averages be used?
It's interesting that you see the weather as "consistently hot", as I didn't. I saw a consistently warm start to the summer, proceeding from the warmer than normal spring. Then in August we switched to falling (though still warm) temps that began a long slow degrade into a Fall pattern.
It's only my opinion but in no way did we experience some of the truly consistently hot temps that we have had for one, two or more weeks at a time - that are especially more likely to happen in August. It's not like we had 2 to 3 weeks in a row that were "consistently" in the 30s. We didn't.
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