As summer vacation winds down, it seems like mornings in Toronto have had that first-day-of-school feeling for more than a week.
When you dig into the data from Canada's federal weather service, it turns out this summer hasn't been as unusually cool as you might think.
Environment Canada meteorologist Peter Kimbell says so far, the summer of 2017 is about average.
"We've been plagued by a cool, cloudy air mass from the north for much of the summer and that might have contributed to why people perceive that its cooler than normal," he says.
Kimbell says it might seem like a chilly summer in caparison to the one that came before it.
That's particularly true when you consider the number of recorded days with highs above 30 degrees.
May-August
Days 30+ degrees in 2016 = 36
Days 30+ degrees in 2017 = 8
Avg. Days 30+ degrees overall = 15
Toronto had milder nights than in the average summer, which compensated for slightly cooler daytime highs.
Kimbell says it all evens out for a summer that has been a fraction of a degree warmer than the average.
June/July/August
Mean temp in 2016 = 22.7
Mean temp in 2017 = 20.4
Mean temp average = 20.2
Kimbell adds that northern air mass has also resulted in weather that has soaked southern Ontario with more rain than normal.