The month of July will be rarely been so cold

Vincent Larin

Saturday, 29 July, 2017 22:58

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After a month of July historically cool, the mercury never exceeded 30 degrees Celsius, meteorologists predict that the weather will be at the rendez-vous in August for the end of the holiday of Quebec.

“This is the warmest month, normally, and it has not even been a single heat wave. It really is a summer special ! ” said the meteorologist and author Gilles’brien.

The maximum temperature reached this month was 28.7 degrees, on the 18th of July.

Yet, each year in July, the mercury rises above 30 degrees Celsius in the average of 3.6 days in Montreal, says the meteorologist of Weather Media Frederick Boulay.

He added that the temperatures have still been in an average of 25 degrees, only a degree less than normal.

If the weather was cooler in July, the weather very rainy spring seems to be behind us, according to Gilles’brien. He fell a little less than 95 mm of rain, barely more than the average of 93 mm of the last years for the month of July.

Arctic Air

At a time when the Western provinces were aware of the hot weather that has caused fires of unprecedented cold front has kept temperatures in Quebec are very low, ” says Frederick Boulay.

“We can say that it was in the situation of the trough, so that the heat of the West passed below us. It is as if the heat we avoided “, he explains.

According to Gilles’brien, this “polar vortex” may explain in part the impression that the summers in quebec are staggered.

“It takes time for the soil to warm up, so it also affects the temperatures,” he said.

The beginning of the month of August could well start, as temperatures are expected to rise significantly for the end of the construction holiday.

August clement

In the next few days, no weather system major should not cross the southern part of the province, which, in fact, that Gilles’brien that the time will be rather forgiving.

“We should close in a heat wave with temperatures of 27 or 28 degrees “, he explains.

“But it is not as if the city was going to be a shortage of electricity because everyone uses their air conditioning at the same time “, swatch Frederick Boulay.

From mid-August, the average temperature will begin to decrease at the rate of one degree Celsius per week, according to meteorologists. The sun will also begin to be less high in the sky and the days will be shorter.