Environment Canada has crunched the numbers and has found that Greater Moncton had the warmest July on record.
A heat wave early in the month was followed by successive heat warnings throughout July.
Meteorologist Ian Hubbard says the average daily temperature was 21.4 degrees Celsius which is 2.6 degrees above normal.
“A couple of degrees is significant and that was the trend we saw pretty much over most of New Brunswick for the month of July,” he says.
Monthly stats show 11 days when the temperature climbed to 30 degrees or higher not including the humidity.
Heat warnings were issued when the temperature was forecast to reach 30 degrees or more for two consecutive days or when humidex values were forecast to reach 36 or higher for two days in a row.
Rainfall was more than 30 percent below normal during July but Hubbard notes how precipitation in June was well above average.
