Warm, but not too warm. Dry, with few events rained out. And dazzling sunshine, day after day.

Some are calling it the best summer we’ve had in a long time.

“It was wonderful,” said Rachel Colegrove of North Tonawanda. “Perfect!”

Not a single outdoor concert on her busy schedule was rained out. It was the perfect weather to enjoy the beach and farmers markets. And she was able to do plenty of hiking, camping and fishing – making it just the type of summer she dreams about.

It was good for business, too.

Just ask Michael Pettys, manager of the Beach Club at Mickey Rats in Angola.

“It was phenomenal. It really was,” he said. “We beat sales records for the eighth year in a row.”

That is despite a “really bad” start to the season during the cold and rainy spring.

“When it’s 60 degrees

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