It may be summer, but snow was falling in parts of Newfoundland Tuesday.
John Jack Lushman said there were roughly five centimetres of snow Tuesday morning on the deck of his cabin near Burgeo, N.L.
91ƵI never seen it this late in June. I seen it in June but can91Ƶt remember it being this late and this much,91Ƶ said Lushman, who shared a photo of a flowers he had planted on Sunday that were now buried in snow.
Environment Canada said the snowfall set a record for June 26 in Gander, N.L., where about two centimetres had fallen by mid-morning Tuesday. There was no previous snowfall recorded on that day.
91ƵWe91Ƶll be in the record books for that,91Ƶ said meteorologist Justin Boudreau. 91ƵBut we91Ƶre not complete strangers to late-season snowfalls in Gander.91Ƶ
Boudreau said 3.2 centimetres of snow fell in Gander on June 20, 1996. The city also saw .8 centimetres of snow on June 29, 1952 and .2 centimetres on June 30, 1995.
The province91Ƶs Transportation Department was warning residents to drive cautiously and tweeted a photo of a Burgeo road covered in a thin layer of snow.
Other photos on social media show wet snow covering cars and a sprinkle of snow on deck furniture.
Jake Reid tweeted: 91ƵNewfoundland: where snow tires are considered all-season tires.91Ƶ
Meanwhile, Twitter user Colin Ian Murray declared his love for the province, despite the snow.
91ƵHard to swallow, but still beats living anywhere else!91Ƶ tweeted Murray.
Boudreau said the temperature was hovering around the freezing mark in Gander Tuesday morning, and was only forecast to reach 3 C, which would break another record. The previous coldest June 26 was 4.4 C. The average normal temperature is around 19 C, and the highest was 32 C.
91ƵWe91Ƶre opening a pretty wide range of temperatures for this time of year,91Ƶ said Boudreau.
But it didn91Ƶt appear the snow would be sticking around.
The national weather forecaster had issued rainfall warnings for eastern and central parts of Newfoundland, where between 40 and 70 millimetres of rain were expected to fall by Tuesday evening.
The Canadian Press