Citations:Junuary

Proper noun: "(British Columbia, Northwestern US, humorous) a June with cool, rainy weather, typical of the Pacific Northwest climate"

 * 2000, Karen Stewart, "Weather you like it or not", North Island Gazette (Vancouver Island), 21 June 2000, page 9:
 * While commiserating with a fellow North Islander the other day I heard a great word used to describe the wild and wooly weather we've been having: Juneuary.
 * 2010, Grahame Ware, "Tom Chappell: A Sucker for Succulents", Take 5 (Ladysmith, BC), July 2010, page 17:
 * The warmth of the hoop house is welcome given the coolth of this mid Junuary day.
 * 2011, Pat Neal, "'Tis the season – bar the bathroom", Peninsula Daily News (Port Townsend, WA), 8 June 2011, page A9:
 * This must be the coldest "Junuary" we've had in years.
 * 2011, "Summer Guide 2011", Willamette Week (Willamette, OR), 15 June 2011, page 18:
 * Not exactly bathing-suit weather, but close enough for Oregon. Warm enough to melt a Popsicle, slowly. Not another Junuary, anyway.
 * 2011, Paige Miller, "Will Summer Ever Come?", Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin (Seattle, WA), Summer 2011, page 2:
 * A plant donations nursery volunteer commented yesterday as we gathered around in our woolens, "We are in Mayvember. Is Juneuary coming next?"
 * 2012, Troy Landreville, "Berry farmers hoping for some summer sun", Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows Times (Maple Ridge, BC), 28 June 2012, page 1:
 * “Junuary” has put a chill on the month that transitions from spring to summer.
 * 2012, Toby Gorman, "Drab June gives way to sun", Nanaimo News Bulletin (Nanaimo, BC), 5 July 2012, page 1:
 * June 2012 – the month sarcastically referred to as Junuary – was cold, damp and dark, Environment Canada meteorologist David Jones says.
 * 2012, Clare Adams, "Summer means outdoors", The Now (Coquitlam, BC), 25 July 2012, page A12:
 * A year ago we went straight from "Junuary" into a similarly drenched July, but this year we've already hit the spray parks, the outdoor pools and had picnics at the park.
 * 2013, Waverly Curtis, The Big Chihuahua, page 11:
 * It was June in Seattle, but we sometimes called this month Juneuary because the weather is not that much different from January.
 * 2013, Arno Kopecky, The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway, unnumbered page:
 * There I was on the fourth of July, hiding in the galley with Zach from a sun that had finally emerged after an interminable June-uary, watching Ilja struggle to replace a battery.
 * 2013, Paige Miller, "Sunshine on Our Shoulders", Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin (Seattle, WA), Fall 2013, page 2:
 * There was no “Juneuary” this year, and nary a drop of rain in all of July.
 * 2013, Mark Richardson, Canada's Road: A Journey on the Trans-Canada Highway from St. John's to Victoria, page 18:
 * There’s no point griping about this to Newfoundlanders though. “Aye, it's some terrible ting, but dat’s de way she is,” said my host this morning. They’re calling it “Juneuary.’ Apparently, last June it rained 23 days of the month.
 * 2014, Ryan Snodden, introduction of Sheilah Roberts, Rain, Drizzle and Fog: Newfoundland Weather Stories, pages 3-4:
 * Winters like the infamous season of 2000-01, when more than 6 metres (21 feet) of the white stuff fell in St. John's, and summers like 2011 (complete with "Juneuary" and "Fogust") only make us stronger.
 * 2015, David R. Montgomery & Anne Biklé, The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health, unnumbered pages:
 * Seattleites complain about Juneuary, but the cooler, wetter weather and light-filled (though not often sunny) days guarantee that lettuces and hearty greens thrive.
 * 2015, Angela Garbes, "How Is Washington's Drought Affecting Local Farms?", The Stranger (Seattle, WA), 8 July 2015, page 41:
 * Everybody in Seattle knows that summer doesn’t typically start until after the Fourth of July. It’s when, after months of rain (the infamous “'Juneuary”), the clouds finally part and the temperatures rise.
 * 2017, Carol MacKinnon, "Islanders find hope for summer in annual Strawberry Tea", Bowen Island Undercurrent (Bowen Island, BC), 23 June 2017, page 5:
 * The “Junuary weather” meant we had to postpone the tea for three weeks until the strawberries were ripe.
 * 2019, Mark Synnott, The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life, page 197:
 * The occasional patch of ice hid in the shadows, but the air was mild, the sky clear. Climbers were calling it "Juneuary."
 * 2019, Allison Williams, Moon Pacific Northwest: With Oregon, Washington & Vancouver, unnumbered pages:
 * Although the summer boasts the warmest, driest averages of the year, there's a reason Pacific Northwesterners speak ruefully of "Juneuary": Sometimes June feels more like January.
 * 2019, Dan Savage, "Editor's Note", The Stranger (Seattle, WA), 27 March 2019, page 5:
 * Fixate on how June is so cold around here that locals call it Juneuary.
 * 2020, Alanna Peterson, When We Vanished, unnumbered page:
 * "Congrats, you two! Last day of school–just in time for Juneuary.
 * 2020, Glenda Bartosh", "Protection–Whistler-style", Pique Newsmagazine (Whistler, BC), 18 June 2020, page 46 (section title):
 * A PERFECT WARMING MEAL FOR A ' JUNUARY ' DAY
 * 2022, Renée Alexander, "Guest Editor's Note", Source Weekly (Bend, OR), 23 June 2022, page 3:
 * Despite the thermometer insisting it’s Junuary, this week’s issue is chock-full of fun options for welcoming the balmy weather that June typically brings… eventually.
 * 2022, Renée Alexander, "Guest Editor's Note", Source Weekly (Bend, OR), 23 June 2022, page 3:
 * Despite the thermometer insisting it’s Junuary, this week’s issue is chock-full of fun options for welcoming the balmy weather that June typically brings… eventually.

Proper noun: "(humorous) an unseasonably warm and sunny January"

 * 1922, "A Smile or Two", Madison Capital Times (Madison, WI), 23 January 1922, page 16:
 * According to the weather, this month ought to be called Juneuary.
 * 1948, " ' Juneuary ' On Coast", The Times News (Twin Falls, ID), 14 January 1948, page 2:
 * Temperatures in the 80's and brush fires kept the heat on southern California today as a "Juneuary" continued unabated.
 * 1973, Pottstown Mercury (Pottstown, PA), 19 January 1973, front page:
 * Juneuary Weather
 * 1989, "Area enjoys 'Springtime' in mid-winter", "The Dispatch" (Lexington, NC), 1 February 1989, front page:
 * The warm month of January has threatened grain crops, fruit orchards and flowers, according to an agricultural spokesman, with one Charlotte radio station calling last month "Juneuary."
 * 2000, Rural Futures (New York State Legislative Commission on Rural Resources), page 16:
 * Virginia, Maryland; unseasonably mild ("Juneuary?")
 * 2008, "Getting a chill from the Almanac", Sun Journal (Lewiston, ME), 28 August 2008, page A8:
 * In 1995, the Almanac nailed a surprise January heat wave – christened "Juneuary" – in the Northeast.
 * 2012, Bart Jones, "Report from the President", Newsletter of the Tennessee Native Plant Society, Volume 36, Number 1, March 2012, page 2:
 * I sit here writing this it is almost 70 degrees in Memphis. Our “Juneuary”, as dubbed by the media, has been nice. I'm sure we still have a bit more winter ahead of us, but it does make one itch for the approaching spring and the emergence of our beloved wildflowers.
 * 2013, Brian Coe, The Mountain House & Thereabouts, page 231:
 * The weather was sunny all the time. Fishing, surfing, writing, sex, music, parachute skateboarding, interviews and a backpacking trip back to the hot springs with Grant. We started calling in Juneuary.
 * 2013, Brian Coe, The Mountain House & Thereabouts, page 231:
 * The weather was sunny all the time. Fishing, surfing, writing, sex, music, parachute skateboarding, interviews and a backpacking trip back to the hot springs with Grant. We started calling in Juneuary.