A Meteorologist with Environment Canada says numbers don't tell the complete story when you look back at the summer of 2017. This week we flipped the calendar to November but Natalie Hasell has now crunched the numbers for the months of June, July and August.

The average temperature this June was 16.8 degrees, compared to 16.4 degrees which is normal for that month. In July it was 19.5 degrees, compared to an average of 19.0 degrees and in August it was 17.7 degrees compared to 18.2 degrees.

Environment Canada also tracks the number of days in which the temperature hits 30 degrees. This year that happened once in June, three times in July and three times in August. Hasell says seven days of at least 30 degrees is nearly right on par with an average year in this area.

But even though the average temperature was warmer than normal in two of three months this summer and even though there was a normal amount of really hot days, Hasell says there was a lot of variability in temperatures during those three months. For example, August saw the mercury climb to 32.2 degrees on the 29th, less than one week after only reaching a maximum of 15.9 degrees.

Meanwhile,the summer of 2017 will also be remembered for being really dry. In fact, most of southern Manitoba received less than half the precipitation it normally gets for the months of June, July and August.

According to Hasell, there is a correlation between the minimal precipitation this summer and our lack of severe weather.

"The fact that the ground isn't all that wet because it hasn't been raining all that much does play a role in terms of how much moisture has been available for the storms that do make it to Manitoba," she says.

In terms of severe thunderstorm tornadoes, Hasell says there was only the single one this summer in Manitoba. It happened June 21st near Pelican Lake. In a normal summer there will be between 9 and 12 in this province.

"That kind of gives you an idea of just how different the weather was this season in Manitoba," says Hasell.