More summerlike temperatures are around the corner, despite July being deceivingly average

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July has been full of all kinds of weather conditions, but this summer has one silver lining over last year's season. CTV Edmonton's Nahreman Issa reports.
July has been full of all kinds of weather conditions, but this summer has one silver lining over last year's season. CTV Edmonton's Nahreman Issa reports.
'You live in Edmonton, you have to put up with it': mixed reviews over summer weather
The kind of summer weather Edmontonians have come to expect is arriving soon, despite July being a very average – not cool – month according to the data.
'I'd say we didn't really get much summer. We had a lot of rain,' said Orlando Willis, a customer of the 80 Flavors ice cream truck on 107 Avenue on Friday.
An employee of the business also attributed a slower season to the weather. Evan Wong called sales 'not the greatest.'
'We still have people come by, but you still have dead hours here and there.'
But that's only what the first full month of summer felt like.
In actuality, July – which is normally Edmonton's rainiest month of the year – has seen below-season rainfall numbers, according to CTV Edmonton's meteorologist Cory Edel.
Additionally, the month's temperatures have been very 'balanced,' with nine days below the seasonal average, eight days at the average, and eight days above.
'I think it's been an OK summer,' Edel said. 'I think we compare it to others. And last year was such a hot July; we had 12 days at or above 30 C. It was record breaking.'
Edel said the average temperature in Edmonton in July is 23.5 C. Last year, however, the average high for July was 27.9 C.
This July is on par with the average of two days above 30 C in July.
The month has only seemed cooler than average in comparison to the anomaly that was last July.
Edel said, 'We have this funny thing here in Edmonton where we want to hit 30 C and I think once we hit 30 C, we feel like, 'Oh, it's summer.' And that's how we calibrate where it should be."
But, he noted there is hope that it could feel more like summer by Tuesday; the last few days of July are forecast to be 28 C to 31 C. August looks like it could be another mixed bag of weather, with the month both starting and closing with above-average temperatures.
'We'll have a second shot at it,' said another 80 Flavors customer on Friday, Greg Ostafijczuk.
But most of the customers acknowledged the benefits of July's seasonal temperatures.
'It hasn't been sweltering hot like everywhere else. And it hasn't been super rainy,' Ostafijczuk said.
Willis added, 'I'm quite happy with it because we don't have as much smoke as we did last year.'
As a third ice cream customer, Joan Armstrong, put it: 'It's not snow weather. That's all that matters.'
With files from CTV News Edmonton's Nahreman Issa