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“No matter which way you cut it, Ottawa has been a soaker in 2017 so far,” says Canada’s favourite weatherman, and David Phillips has the numbers to back it up.

Phillips took several views of Ottawa’s spring and summer weather, adding up what has happened since June 21, what the weekends have looked like, total number of days with rain and more.

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It isn’t pretty. Here are some of his findings, calculated through the end of Tuesday:

• “Since April 1 to July 11, a total of 102 days, rain has fallen on 71 days,” Phillips said in an interview.

“The most miserable period (was) from June 15 to July 2. That is a stretch of 18 days. It rained on 18 straight days, honest. It was almost like the water torture test.” (A couple of those amounts were only traces, but most were not. Canada Day had 42 millimetres.)

“Every day the weather seduced you: It looked like there was going to be a break in it and by the end of the day you got some rain.”