When it rains it pours, not that youB次元官网网址檇 know that if you call Victoria home this summer.
Environment Canada reports no rain fell in July at the Gonzales station (off Gonzales Bay on the Victoria-Oak Bay border).
B次元官网网址淭he Gonzales station, which has a period of record dating back to 1899, had 0 millimetres registered,B次元官网网址� said Armel Castellan, a meteorologist with Environment Canada. B次元官网网址淚t was a bit of a surprise to me that there were actually five other years where zero millimetres fell in July.B次元官网网址�
An average July will see 14 mm of rain. The last July without rain came in 1984, with other dry spells coming in 1958, 1926, 1922 and 1914.
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It was the 11th driest July on record at the Victoria Airport, where 2.2 mm fell (barely enough for a mouse to wet its whistle).
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The average temperature at the Gonzales stations was 17.1 C, 1.5 degrees above the monthly normal, while the airportB次元官网网址檚 average temperature of 18.1 C was 1.4 degrees warmer than normal (marking the fifth warmest July on record).
Castellan says July is historically the warmest and driest month for Victoria, but he expects plenty of sunshine for August.
He expects to see normal temperatures (22 C) for the next several days before temperatures begin to climb again.
B次元官网网址淏eyond that it looks like a fairly dominant ridge begins to build,B次元官网网址� said Castellan, who expects very little in the way of precipitation.
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The dry weather resulted in the province issuing a this week, including all of Vancouver Island.
Last month, the BC Wildfire Service implemented and the Southeast Fire Centre.
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