This was no bummer of a summer, unless you can't stand the heat and humidity.
Even though this hot spell will break and usher in a few days of normal or even slightly below normal temperatures by the weekend, Phillips says don't write the obituary on summer quite yet.
Astronomically, summer still has a few weeks left, but Environment Canada closed the book on the season September 1st, and nobody has to tell you it was a scorcher.
Phillips predicted a warmer than usual summer, though even he was caught off guard by how warm it got.
In fact, he says it was one of the warmer summers on record.
In the Orillia-area, there were 14 days where the temperature climbed above 30 degrees, when normally there would be six of them, and last year, Phillips says there were just three.
The average temperature in May, June, July and August was all above normal.
Besides trying to beat the heat, people were also trying to cope with the very high humidity.
Phillips says it felt oppressive and sultry at times as the humidex got well above 35 degrees.
While there was a small tornado south of Orillia last month, he says there weren't as many severe weather events in the region.
Precipitation was in shortly supply during June and July, but Phillips says rescue rains came in August.
He says Canadians live for the weekends and they were scott free of misery weather during the long weekends in July, August and September.
Phillips says last summer seemed so cool and wet, where it was impossible to string two or three good days in a row together.
As for the fall, Phillips says there is a lot of residual heat in the lakes and on the land, and computer models are predicting the season will be warmer than normal.
