Southland Too Hot? Toronto Keeping Cool

TORONTO —  Question: What comes after two days of rain? Answer: Monday.

Toronto has just endured its 17th consecutive rainy weekend.

If that isn’t bad enough, the city also has suffered the coldest July of the century. And, the weather bureau says, if things don’t pick up soon, Toronto may record its coldest combined July and August ever.

“We’ve hit 30 degrees (86 degrees Fahrenheit) only once this year, and it wasn’t even in summer, it was in spring, back on June 13,” said Bill Hepburn, a meteorologist at the federal weather bureau. “Normally we hit 30 degrees 14 times in a summer.”