Cold Summer Confirmed

Environment Canada says August 2009 will go down as the coldest in the Fort Frances area in the past twenty years.

Climatologist Chris Hampel says the average temperature for the month was about 16 Celsius or 61 Fahrenheit.

"This year was the coldest since 1986," says Hampel. "(The area) hit the same temperature, 16.1 Celsius. The all-time low was in 1977 when the average temperature for the month was 14 Celsius."

Hampel says the coldest day of the month happened August 30th when the overnight low reached 0 Celsius.

Meantime, the National Weather Service says 2009 was officially the second-coldest summer on record at International Falls.

From June 1 to August 31, the Falls average daily temperature was 59 Fahrenheit or 15 Celsius.

That's 4.8 degrees lower than the 30-year normal.

International Falls also set ten new record daily lows this summer.