Last month will not go down as the hottest June ever recorded in Southern Manitoba, but, that does not mean it was not a month for the record books.

David Phillips with Environment Canada says the average temperature last month was nearly three degrees warmer than a typical June. There were also multiple temperature records that fell last month. Those included at Gretna June 4th when the temperature hit 41.3 degrees, Emerson soard to 40.6 and Morden reached 40.4 C.

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"That temperature... that may be the warmest moment of the entire summer," suggests Phillips. "Even with this incredible heat wave that has occurred in the last ten days in western Canada."

Last month, there were seven days when the temperature hit at least 30 degrees at the Gretna Environment Canada weather station, and five days at the Morden weather station. In fact, depending on the location, there have already been nine to eleven days when the temperature has reached that mark, including the last five days in a row. Phillips says this is all happening before even reaching the dog days of summer.

"The warmest moment of the summer is typically around the 28th of July, and we're still several weeks away," says Phillips. "So I think it will be a warmer than normal summer. I doubt it will be the warmest on record, but we certainly might come close."

According to Phillips, this is probably all a sign of things to come, pointing towards one hot summer.

"All the models are suggesting the same thing, they have had it right so far," he says.

Phillips says there is a cardinal rule in weather that what you see is what you are going to get. He notes clearly the circulation is set up to encourage more of a southerly flow than a northerly flow, which means weather that is warmer than normal.

Meanwhile, Phillips says the heat wave in western Canada has become a phenomenon being talked about across the globe. Phillips says he has been inundated with calls from places like South Korea, Singapore, Colombia, Berlin, Paris, London, San Francisco, Washington and Madrid.

"I keep saying to them, we are the second coldest country in the world next to Russia, we are the snowiest country in the world, we are the home of wind chill, polar vortex and frostbite and I've never I don't think, had an international interview on warm temperatures," says Phillips.

Lytton, British Columbia set an all-time heat record for Canada when it reached 49.6 degrees last week. According to Phillips, that is hotter than the hottest temperature ever recorded in Las Vegas, Phoenix, Europe or South America. And, he says there were probably 12 other locations in Canada that all had temperatures slightly "cooler" than Lytton, but would all have been hot enough to break Canada's previous heat record.