Don’t let the cooldown that kept temperaturesin the 70s the last few days fool you: This summer was certainly on the sultry side.

Mike Silva, meteorologist for the National Weather Service office in Mount Holly, said July’s mean temperature of 79.7 was the third hottest on record for that month and is 3.5 degrees above normal. The data was gathered from the service’s climate station at the Atlantic City International Airport, which he said would be similar to readings in Southern Ocean County.