Christmas in July, Anyone?

It was a record breaking month, weather-wise, in July for the Rainy River district.

Environment Canada's Sandy Radecki says the average temperature was well below normal.

"The average temperature for the month was 15.3 C," says Radecki. "This is about 3.5 C below what is typical for Fort Frances. Historically, the records we have go back to '77 and this is the coldest July ever."

Radecki says the highest temperature recorded during the month was on July 26th when the thermometer reached 26 C or 79 F.

The lowest was on the July 12 with the overnight low dipping down to 2 C or 35 F.

The area also say about 99 millimetres of rain, about 5 millimetres greater than normal, but Radecki says about 2/3rds of that fell over a two day period.