Is the summer season shifting?

WATCH ABOVE: The warm summer weather has some asking if the school year should be moved to better match the seasons. Gloria Henriquez reports.

NDG — NDG’s Nelly Rusu and her kids were not planning for a park day Monday.

As her kids were soaking up the fun in one of NDG’s splash pads, she confessed it’s one of the few days this summer they have been able to enjoy a hot, outdoor day.

“We were at the library 30 mins ago,” she said.

“As we’re passing by, they saw the water and they just couldn’t stop themselves. The beginning of the summer season wasn’t cold, but it wasn’t like this.”

Rusu is on to something.

Traditionally, July is our warmest month of the year.

But that hasn’t been the case for a few years now.

Environment Canada registered last week—so, August—as our warmer week of the summer and that begs the question, are our weather patterns changing?

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“Well of course the climate is changing,” said Environment Canada Meteorologist René Héroux.

“Not only in Canada but throughout the world, so in a way this could mean summers are longer because the summer season is longer in a way.”

Proof of that longer summer season is The Confederation pool in NDG.

It is normally closed this time of the year but its hours have been extended a few weeks longer.

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The pool’s doors opened at 1 p.m.

As NDGers were lined up to access the pool, some were suggesting the pool should remain open longer.

“As long as we have this heat, everything should be pushed further,” said Sylvia Mavross.

Some of the lifeguards mentioned that it has been difficult to staff because a lot of the workers are CEGEP students who are now back to school.

Yuliae Angelov suggested school should be pushed back a few weeks later to match the weather.

“If you ask the kids, of course it has to be extended. Not to one week, but two,” he said in between chuckles.

Héroux, however, said we shouldn’t rush just yet.

“That natural variability is the main characteristic of our climate so we can’t say, ‘I’m going to take my holiday now every September because it’s warmer.’ Not necessarily,” he said.

The Québec Education Minister‘s office confirmed there are no plans to push back the school year.

But the good weather is good enough for now for NDGers like Rusu and her family, who see more spontaneous trips to the splash pad and perhaps fewer trips to the library, in their near future.