I might accuse Canadians in general of being many things, but “wimpy” is not one of them. Remarkably hardy and fierce yet mild-mannered critters the lot IMO. The winters killed any of the weak ones long before they hit puberty & could reproduce.
This past February my new wife & I took a week in Key West FL. FL was having one of their periodic winter cold snaps. The overnight low was about 60F/16C, the high about 65F/18C, and as always in the semi-tropics, the breeze never quit.
You could immediately identify the three flavors of tourist: the Canadians were wandering about shirtless in their swimsuits / bikinis. The US northerners were wearing shorts & a t-shirt. The Floridiots such as ourselves were in long pants, a shirt, a sweatshirt/fleece, a hat, and the heaviest jacket we owned or just bought (a windbreaker).
OTOH, we had mahvelous year-round tans and the Canadians … didn’t.
It all evens out.
Just now I’m finishing breakfast in an open-air restaurant in St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands. It’s a pretty day with a few puffy clouds drifting past. At 8am it was 88F/31C with a tropical breeze. Probably top out at about 90F/32C. There’s not a lot of diurnal variation here being surrounded by ocean. Folks here are golfing, playing tennis, and generally beaching.
As always, sir, you are a gentleman and a scholar: both very kind and, if I may say so, very accurate!
And of course, those of us who haven’t been killed off by the brutal winters have had to survive our national blood-sport, hockey. With its checks, cross-checks, driving players into the boards, and gloves-off fist-fights, hockey pretty much took care of the rest of the weaklings.
And with that, back to our regularly scheduled weather complaining/bragging.
It is currently 22C in this part of southern Ontario (not quite 72F) – the usual cool rebound after a heat wave. It should warm up slightly later on, but temperatures will be similarly moderate for the rest of the week.
ETA: To be fair, 22C is well below seasonal. The typical long-term high this time of year (disregarding the upward trend due to global warming) is about 26C (about 79 Amurrkin).
C’mon down here! I will be in the high 90s and probably hit 100 well into September.
It’s funny, but after midsummer, the light changes and it starts to look like fall may come someday… there’s a First Day of School Is Coming appearance in the air. Which I always loved, because I loved school, all the way through grad school. But, of course, it’s still stiflingly hot.
I’m now in Guyana a mere 6 degrees latitude north of the equator. The day dawned sunny with a few puffy clouds. At 6am it was 23C / 73F and if yesterday is any indication, it’ll probably top out around 33C / 92F.
I’m actually a bit surprised the diurnal variation is that large. I’d have expected more like 5C/9F than twice that.
The humidity here day and night is really close to 100%. It’s great pool / beach weather, but I’d rather not be an outdoor manual laborer in these conditions.
The peak across the valley got some snow last night. It’s 14,000 feet, about 1.5 miles away as the crow flies. We are at 11,200. Heat is never a problem here.
It’s a balmy 96 degrees here tucked up against the base of this mountain, about 8500 ft. lower than enipla. Drop 1500 feet down into the valley and it’s holy crap 104.
Rained yesterday and it was a heavenly 89. Today it’s a little warmer at 90. Supposed to be up to 95 tomorrow, but then all next week it’s not supposed to hit 90. Shaping up to be a pretty nice end to August.
August has been great here in SW Minnesota lake country. Lots of sun, 8os to 90s. Some really nice heavy rains and thunderstorms mixed in, usually at night. Great time to have a lake house.
Today was a mere 95 with a heat index of 101 in south Dallas. It’s supposed to be similar tomorrow, and then not approach that again. Really, nice for late August here.
Yes, my wife and I (she’s a painter, I was educated ages ago as a fine arts photographer) talked about the changes in the light recently. It doesn’t kick in to the change that I think of as “It’s more like Fuji Velvia than Kodachrome” until mid September or early October, but I can see it changing.
SoCal has been getting off light this summer, but that has come to an end. They are predicting 10 days of over 100 degrees starting tomorrow. Our turn in the oven.