Temperatures up last summer

Environment Canada says the summer of 2006 was the second-warmest since national record-keeping began in 1948.

Average temperatures were 1.4 per cent above normal during June, July and August, continuing a warming trend which has been evident every summer but two over the past nine years.
The greatest warming this summer occurred in the Arctic, where temperatures reached more than 2.5 degrees C. above normal along the border between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.