Did you know that the University of Waterloo has a weather station located on the Waterloo campus?

At their website you can find local weather information that is updated every 15 minutes: Weather.UWaterloo.ca

Below is the text of their latest email summary (you can sign up for this email service at the website).

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University of Waterloo Weather Station Summary - June 2010

A warm June that was the wettest in over 40 years

Apart from a 5 day cold stretch at the beginning of the month, the rest of June was pretty warm. Overall it was a full degree warmer than average, despite the fact that the highest temperature was only 28.3 °C, the lowest June high since 1993.

But the real story was the precipitation, at 130.3 mm it was the wettest June since 1967 and the wettest of any month since December 2008. The rain was consistent with a large storm (over 10 mm) occurring at least once a week and 17 days with some precipitation compared to 12 days on average.

But even with this really wet month the precipitation for the first half of the year is still a bit below average. We have had 372.3 mm so far in 2010 and the average at this point in the year is 415.0 mm.

Summary for June 2010:
• Maximum Temperature 28.3 °C
• Minimum Temperature 5.4 °C
• Average Daily High Temperature 23.1 °C (Long term average 23.6 °C)
• Average Daily Low Temperature 13.6 °C (Long term average 11.3 °C)
• Total Precipitation 130.3 mm (Long term average 80.0 mm)

(Long term averages based on 1971-2000 data for the Waterloo Wellington Airport)

Follow this link to see the graph showing the temperature and precipitation:
http://weather.uwaterloo.ca/download/historical/2010/2010-06.pdf

Do you have something to say about this month's summary? Why not leave a comment on the UW Weather station blog: http://uwweatherstation.blogspot.com

Frank Seglenieks, weather@civmail.uwaterloo.ca - University of Waterloo Weather Station Coordinator ( weather.uwaterloo.ca )

The University of Waterloo weather station is supported by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Department of Geography, the Climate Research Branch of Environment Canada, and Campbell Scientific Canada.