2017: The year that summer forgot

At first it didn’t seem like the worst of summers, once you got past record-setting rains in June and July. Then David Phillips dug deeper.
“If there was anything about this summer, it was just consistently poor,” he said Tuesday.
Phillips, Environment Canada’s senior climatologist, began by pulling up the numbers for weekends — and they are not pretty.
There have been 31 Saturdays, Sundays and holiday Mondays since June 1. They played out badly, like so:
There were