July is often one of the hotter months of the year and can be crucial for farmers who are looking for a bit of moisture as well.

This year, while there was a wave of heat at the end of the month, the total statistics point to that number actually being average.

Those statistics were provided by Natalie Hasell, Environment Canada Meteorologist.

“Looking at the Canadian climate normals ... in July, typically you get 6.7 days of temperatures above 30 degrees, so the fact that you had 7 is actually, right at normal pretty much.”

Overall temperatures were also average, being fairly close to standard.

“If we look at the overall temperature, the mean temperature averaged over the month was 18.5 degrees. Compared to normal, which is 19.4 degrees, you were just a touch below normal. If we look at the standard deviation that is 1.7 degrees and you were off normal by 0.9 degrees," said Hasell, "So technically speaking, what you saw was normal,” 

Hasell says that even with an average temperature, there was still a lot of variability over the month.

The hottest days reached 36.2 degrees, around the 24th, and that was joined by some cool days which had a high of 15.4 degrees on the 4th.

Meanwhile, Estevan was parched for moisture, with one of the dryest years on record.

"Looking at your totals for Estevan, we see 7.3 millimeters. The normal is 67.5, so you are at 11% of normal and that is the second driest since records began. In Estevan, we have 111 years of record for the month of July in Estevan. So that's pretty remarkable."

Hasell says she hopes today's storms don't cause any problems as some moisture is set to soak in.