OTTAWA, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- The trend for summer to get hotter year after year is becoming a norm in Canada as the country reported another warmer-than-average summer in 2007, Environment Canada said in a report Sunday.

During this past summer, temperatures were 0.9 degree higher than average across the country, reinforcing a trend that has seen summer getting increasingly hotter in one of the coldest countries in the world, said the report.

Canada's average summer temperature has risen nearly a degree since records began in 1948. Five of its warmest summers have happened in the past decade, and average summer temperatures have not dipped below the norm for the past decade, the agency pointed out.

The change is "consistent with what scientists predict will happen more frequently as the world becomes warmer as a result of climate change," it said.

2007 was Canada's seventh-warmest summer on record. The hottest summer registered was in 1998, when temperatures were 1.8 degrees over the norm, said the agency.