Not to complain or anything, but...
Aug. 1st, 2006 01:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fajrdrakoI can't recall Ottawa ever being this freaking hot. Ever.
Humidex of over 48C, they say. Or 120F plus.
Kinda makes me long for January again. But not really.
It's not supposed to be this hot in August.
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Date: 2006-08-01 06:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-01 06:10 pm (UTC)Grump.
(I will try to give myself courage by picturing myself as the brave knights at Hattin, trapped in the July heat.)
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Date: 2006-08-01 06:20 pm (UTC)Yes, ghastly is the word for it.
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Date: 2006-08-02 11:18 am (UTC)I wonder at the heat in your country because I ever thought in Canada there is terrible cold and white eis bears walk peacefully along.
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Date: 2006-08-02 11:29 am (UTC)I suspect it's true here too - maybe not as an average, but in terms of the extreme days. I haven't heard them say so. The weather reports are focussing on storm warnings and possible tornados.
What country are you in?
Yes, we get terrible cold - just wait till you hear my complaints about the weather in February! We don't get many ice bears around Ottawa, though. It's probably just as well, they'd clutter up the aisles of the supermarkets where they sell fish. We do see them on TV, drinking coca-cola. I suspect artistic license.
The thing is, we have two main seasons - "too hot" and "too cold". (Otherwise known as 'winter' and 'construction'.) It's called something like the Northern Temperate Zone, and I suspect the word 'temperate' there is sarcastic.
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Date: 2006-08-02 11:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-02 12:48 pm (UTC)We do occasionally get black bears in the area, and sometimes they wander into the city - that happened just a few months ago, when a cub was found wandering near the area I grew up it. I suppose it was trying to get to the river - going right along the city streets.
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Date: 2006-08-03 10:05 am (UTC)The other things I love from Canada is the rock group The Band (Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel) and Neil Young, Joni Mitchell. They are all united in a movie directed by Martin Scorsese "The Last Waltz" which movie I love deeply I've seen it about thirty times or more.
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Date: 2006-08-03 11:14 am (UTC)Yes, poor thing. The city authorities tranquilized it and took it out into the wilderness. It must have been totally confused by the terrain.
I've searched for Ottawa on a map - it's pretty in the south; the stories I read in my youth were about Hudson Bay.
Yes, Ottawa is far south of Hudson's Bay, thank goodness. (Though it was probably pretty hot at Hudson's Bay this week, too. Comparatively speaking.) I've been as far north as James Bay - never further.
But most of the population of Canada is spread out to the south, so you don't find a lot of people near Hudson's Bay, and no large cities.
I'm glad you like Canadian music - I do, too! I'd add k.d.lang and Ian Tyson to the list, and Cowboy Junkies.
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Date: 2006-08-01 07:00 pm (UTC)I am so unbelievably thankful we have central air here or I would be so dead.
(ps that's 48 not 38 -- fruedien slip of the fingers?)
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Date: 2006-08-01 07:11 pm (UTC)It's hot here even with the air conditioning, which I guess is to be expected.
Have you heard a weather report about how long this is supposed to last?
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Date: 2006-08-01 07:28 pm (UTC)Tomorrow looks to be much the same, though possibly not quite as hot by a couple degrees. And then Thursday looks to be much more like last week, so still hot, but will seem much cooler compared to today!
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Date: 2006-08-01 07:31 pm (UTC)So true! I want it to be 18. Is that too much to ask?
Thursday looks to be much more like last week, ... but will seem much cooler compared to today!
Small mercies!
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Date: 2006-08-01 08:04 pm (UTC)(ok your weather is maybe a tad high for my taste, but a bit in between? Wouldn't it be nice if we were super alchemists and could mix and shake our respective weathers. (or would it become a horrendous episode of the sorcerer's apprentice?)) (I seem to be on a superpower trip today? maybe I am feeling inadequate?)
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Date: 2006-08-01 08:26 pm (UTC)I wish it would start here!
Wouldn't it be nice if we were super alchemists and could mix and shake our respective weathers
If only we could! I wouldn't mind a little Antarctic chill right now, me and those penguins... sliding on ice...
A superpower trip sounds like a good idea. Superman used to use his super-breath to cool things down... Then there's Marvel's Iceman, who makes ice out of air. And Mr. Freeze, a very dorky Flash villain at DC Comics, who could make a lot of money legitimately right now.
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Date: 2006-08-01 08:06 pm (UTC)http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/cities/can/pages/CAON0512.htm
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Date: 2006-08-01 08:14 pm (UTC)Nope, refusing to believe in it doesn't make it go away. It was worth a try for a moment there.
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Date: 2006-08-01 09:12 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humidex
I wonder why we don't have a humidex
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Date: 2006-08-01 09:47 pm (UTC)Out of curiosity, I checked the weather in Windsor today. (They are considerably south of Ottawa.) Ottawa currently is 97°F/36°C (without taking the humidex in to account). Hmm, they're at 97°F/36°C, exactly the same as us, though the report says "partly cloudy", and we haven't a cloud in the sky. Just some haze around the horizon.
Maybe you don't have a humidex because you don't have as much of a temperature/humidex differential? I don't know what the reason would be. Here they tend to report humidex (in summer) and wind chill factor (in winter) because it's usually significantly different. And really, you don't dress for the actual temperature, you dress according to how cold or hot it is going to feel.
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Date: 2006-08-02 02:52 am (UTC)Right now, here, it is 32C with 59% humidity for a heat index of 36C.
Its just too damn hot.
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Date: 2006-08-02 10:46 am (UTC)I suspect the reason is that the extremes of Canadian weather makes it more necessary and useful for people to know Humidex as well as temperature - it might be useful elsewhere, but with just an added bit of urgency in Canada. (Mostly at the -30C and +30C ends of the spectrum.)
Or maybe it's just that Canadians are unduly obsessed with weather.
The climate isn't much different in, say, Minnesota or Alaska or Russia.
Interesting question!
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Date: 2006-08-02 10:36 am (UTC)Now, that sums it up!
the Humidex is a Canadian thing.
Huh... I didn't know that. And I'd wondered what a 'heat index' was. Now I know!
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Date: 2006-08-01 08:26 pm (UTC)I'd weep but it's too hot to bother.
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