THE CLIMATE OF TORONTO 



on six consecutive days the following temperatures 

 were registered: 98, 101, 103, 97, 95 and 92. 

 The average warmest day of the year is July 15th, 

 but the normal changes very little between July 5th 

 and August 12th. The warmest summer on record 

 was that of 1911, with a mean of 68.8 ; the warmest 

 June was that of 1895, with a mean of 67. 9 ; the 

 warmest July that of 1868, with mean of 75.8, and 

 the warmest August that of 1900, with mean of 

 71. 6. The coolest summer was that of 1869, with 

 a mean of 62.2, and in this summer the temperature 

 was over 80 on but five days. 



The summer rainfall is quite evenly distributed, 



each month averaging a little under 3.00 inches. 



The greatest rainfall was 15.88 inches, in 1841, and 



the least was 1.95 inches, in 1899. The heaviest 



I monthly rainfall in summer was 8.15 inches, in July, 



] 1841, and the least a trace in August, 1876. The 



heaviest falls ever recorded were 3.45 inches during 



i a thunderstorm on the 4th August, 1878, and 3.88 



inches during a 22-hour rain in July, 1897. 



The downward trend of the temperature curve is 

 not rapid during the autumn, and it is not until 

 October 7th that 50 is reached, and November 26th 

 is the average date on which mean temperature 

 drops to the freezing point. The warmest autumn 

 was that of 1908, with a mean of 51. 6, and the next 

 warmest, 1912, with a mean of 51. 2, in each year the 

 three months being above average. The warmest 

 September was that of 1881, with a mean of 67.8; 

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