BANFF – Although July was undeniably a wet month for Banff, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) says it didn't make the record books.

Banff received 98.7 mm of precipitation in July, which is more than double the monthly average of 46.9 mm, but the record of 144.8 mm set in July 1903 remains unbroken.

“Every summer is different, and this summer has been a wetter one for the foothills, primarily in southern Alberta, but up towards the Jasper area too,” said ECCC scientist Christy Climenhaga.

“We've had a number of events in the month of July that have really brought in quite a bit of rainfall to the region, some convection too, so it has been a wetter run through the month of July than maybe that we're used to in the past,” Climenhaga added.

Jasper, meanwhile, was on the drier

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