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The Toronto area has been the opposite. Much cooler and wetter than it usually is. With the exception of a couple years that have been cooler and wetter, the last couple decades have seemed to have summers with long and frequent heat waves, with corresponding periods of drought, with most rain following in a few days over the course of the summer.
So, here it’s quite cool, humid, and rainy. It’s a nice break from blue skies, high humidity, and temps above 30*. I’ve barely had to turn on the AC this summer.
It is stinking hot up here too and I am not happy. Highs in the 30s are expected for a week at least and my home just isn't built for that. Neither is my work so we might be on half-days next week if the building heats up too much.
Normally we would just struggle through but we have puppies that aren't quite 2 weeks old. It will be a challenge to keep them from overheating or getting too chilled.
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Yes, it's worse, this heat wave is spreading more across the continent now than it was yesterday. I looked at the temps in Mexico and all the southern States too. Wow!!
It's 40 degrees right now and I'm dreading what tomorrow brings. I've been doing everything you're supposed to do to combat the heat but I still have an upset stomach and my whole body feels stiff and sore all over like I got beat up and thrown in a drier to tumble dry.
This is not fun and not easy to adapt to for a society of people who have been accustomed all their lives to much cooler temperatures. Stepping outside even for a moment is like stepping into a blast oven. All of my neighbours in the highrise are utterly miserable and feeling ill, and for one of them we had to have paramedics and police called to attend to him because he had a mental breakdown this morning because of the heat and he became violent and hallucinating. I've been hearing many emergency vehicle sirens around town around the clock since yesterday afternoon.
Many of the plants and shrubs in my gardens around the building are keeling over and withering in spite of being well watered, they just can't take the intense direct sun on their leaves. I'll be glad when this heat wave is over, forecast is for it to ease up a bit within the next week to 10 days. It can't break up too soon for me.
Time to go stock up on some Pilsner for tomorrow once the heat lets up a bit later this evening.
I used a big round concave garbage can lid tuned upside down on the lawn to make it into a bird bath for all the birds. They like it.
Lytton set a new all-time high record for all of Canada hitting 46.6c. Victoria also reached an all-time record of 38c. Tomorrow is supposed to be even hotter.
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