While the official end of summer is still a few weeks away, meteorological summer ended on Aug. 30. Looking back, it seems that it wasn't just the West that experienced warmer than normal temperatures. Widespread droughtOf course, the heat wasn't the only big summer weather story for the West, which suffered a crippling drought. "Winnipeg, I think, gets the gold star or the ribbon, in terms of days above 30 C in Canada," Phillips said. I mean, Thunder Bay had 18 days where the temperature was above 30 C. They normally would see six days," Phillips said.

Source: CBC News September 04, 2021 15:00 UTC