Torontonians dreading the arrival of hot and humid summer weather may be in luck, says Environment Canada’s senior climatologist Dave Phillips.

Phillips says the city will likely get a cooler summer than it has in previous years, with far fewer days where the mercury tops 30 C.

Last year the temperature topped 30 C on 25 days. Ordinarily, that temperature is only seen about 14 times a year.

“The flip flopping back and forth we have seen the last week very much might be a dry run for what kind of summer we will see,” Phillips told CP24 Monday morning. “There could be fewer of those sort of scorcher days and nights and maybe fewer smog days. Really, it could be a very comfortable and wonderful summer.”

Phillips told CP24 that the three previous summers have been significantly hotter than usual and temperatures might finally return to something approaching normal this summer.

Of course, that doesn’t mean Torontonians won’t get their fair share of heat.

“The summer will be made up of some hot moments and cool moments and it will all average out to be maybe something close to normal by Labour Day,” Phillips said. “We think it will be a normal, seasonable kind of summer.”

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