It's the stuff of your chilled beer swigging, lake plunging, short-wearing dreams.
Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips tells NEWSTALK 1010 the summer ahead will be hotter than normal in Toronto and drier than last year.
While the weather agency is still putting the finishing touches on its forecast for the season, Phillips predicts temperatures a degree or two above what we typically see. For example, a normal high for mid-July is 27 degrees with an average low of 16.
"We may even be complaining about the heat and humidity and spending more money on our air conditioning bills," Phillips said Tuesday.
AC units will likely get a bigger workout than they did in 2017 as Phillips expects to have many more days with temperatures hotter than 30 degrees. Toronto only saw nine in 2017 compared with 36 the year before.
Phillips says the amount of rain a region will see is always harder to predict but he doesn't expect to see the deluge Toronto did in 2017.