Second driest summer for La Ronge
Meteorological summer – June, July and August – came in as the second driest on record, according to data from Environment and Climate Change Canada.
The data shows out of those three months, there was only 108.5 millimetres of rain out of a normal 207.6 mm. That represents a 52 per cent departure from normal with those values being from 59 years of record keeping.
In total, there was 53.6 mm of rain in June, 44.2 mm in July and 10.7 mm in August.
“Key Lake also came in quite dry as well,” meteorologist Terri Lang explained.