THE CLIMATE OF TORONTO 
on six consecutive days the following temperatures 
were registered: 98°, 101°, 108°, 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 
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 
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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