NANAIMO — With the month of July behind us, meteorologists are hoping it means the hotter and drier-than-average conditions are also behind us.
With an average temperature of 19.8 degrees Celsius, 1.7 degrees above normal, July 2025 is ranked as the eighth hottest July in Nanaimo, with records dating back to 1892.
Meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada Matt Loney, said it was also incredibly dry, with only 3.8 millimetres of rain falling the entire month, only 15 per cent of the normal amount of 25.4 millimetres.
“We’ve had 14 other drier Julys than the 3.8 millimetres that fell. There’s certainly months in the summer where you get a big ridge of high pressure that hangs out there, it’ll do that for weeks on end, (and) it deflects weather systems.”
Other places on Vancouver Island didn’t fare any better in terms of rainfall, with Comox only seeing two millimetres of rain last month, which was only the ninth driest month for the coastal community.
Loney said the summer months have played out mostly as predicted so far, with June 2025 ranked as the 21st warmest for June in the Harbour City’s history.
However, he said they’re expecting a major pattern change for the first week of August, with strong signals indicating rainfall.
“The rest of the month, to me…looks kind of a mixed bag. It looks like kind of normal temperatures, maybe a little bit above normal, and near to above-normal precipitation for the balance of August and into early September.”
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