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What online media do, she says disapprovingly, is spread panic. Yes it was hot yesterday. Yes it was 38C/ 100F. Does that merit screaming about Toronto's hottest day EVAR!!! and cooking dinner on car hoods? I do not think so. It was 100F often in my childhood. Ah, says the weather agency wisely, but those measurements were downtown, not at the airport, and downtown holds heat and the measuring agency moved around whereas Pearson's weather agency has been in the same spot since 1937. Yes, and? I live downtown. It gets to be 100F on occasion. It was also, pace the scary humidex warnings, a dry 100F with a wind, and rather invigorating. One window AC flying low kept my whole house quite pleasant. I have met more unbearable 24C/ 75Fs, with mug and unmoving air and grey pollution.

And it was only the *fourth* hottest day on record at Pearson, so nyahh.

('Like Osaka, isn't it?' said the European dad whose Japanese-kei wife took him there one traumatizing summer. Yes, rather; but we're a lot greener than Osaka.)

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^_^ they're always goiing on about the heat over here too ... It's always hot. But then again they also go on about the wettest days, the highest rainfall, the humidity. It must be a throwback from being a British Colony - always talking about the weather. ^_^

How are the peepers doing.

See, we're having the 100°F heat (near 38°C) + the humidity + lousy air quality (the Baltimore-Washington area tops the list for forecasts of poor air quality today at the official gov't Website). It's icky, but it's also not terribly unusual for DC in the summer. The U.K. diplomatic corps used to consider this a tropical post, I'm told, despite the possibility of real snow in the winter.