Canada Day 2019

Here's a quick look at the history of Canada Day weather in Edmonton.

Temperatures

Canada Day for 2013-2017 were all quite warm, with Highs between 25°C and 29°C. Last year 2018 was a little cooler though, with a High of only 19.8°C.

The warmest Canada Day was 1924 with a High of 35.6°C. The coldest High was 1912 at only 11.7°C, and the coldest Low was 1919 at 2.8°C.

Over the last century the average High for July 1st has stayed fairly consistent at around 22°C, but the average Low has increased from 9°C to 12°C.


Precipitation

We get at least some rain on Canada about half of the time.

Recently 2012 was a pretty big year with 14mm at Blatchford and 7mm at the International. And 2015-2018 all had a little rain at both stations, ranging from 0.2mm to 2.2mm.

Blatchford's rainiest Canada Day was 1998 with 30.2mm, and the International's was 1973 with 25.4mm.

We will be back with an update once the 2019 numbers are in the books.


Updated for 2019

And so Canada Day 2019 comes in just a bit cooler than 2018, with a High of only 18.6°C, which makes it Edmonton's 16th coldest Canada Day since 1880.

And that actually overstates things, because the temperatures peaked at around 8AM, and then started stopping:

By 11PM it was down to about 8°C, which did probably make this one of Edmonton's coldest Canada Day fireworks shows.

It was a fairly rainy and gloomy day, and Blatchford and the Airport received 6.4mm and 5.2mm of rain respectively. That's a reasonably amount of rain, but it doesn't compare to some of the giant thunderstorms from previous years.