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Hot, humid and muggy!

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It is so hot here in Toronto! At this time – almost 7 pm it’s 32 Celsius 90 F, and it apparently feels like 36 c ( 96.8 F) with the humidity. That’s normal body temperature – 96.8 F.

Toronto is so humid. I’m sure that this is just the beginning of a long hot muggy sticky summer. It was even hotter earlier today.

Yesterday was a little cooler but still warm and sticky.

I did end up going out into the garden yesterday evening. Within an hour I was overheating! When I finally did go back inside several hours later it took me a couple of hours to cool off even though we had the air conditioning on. Unfortunately when I did cool off I felt too cold! There’s no happy medium is there?






Storm Watch!

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It’s hot here today! 31 Celsius (87.8 F) with a humidity factor bringing the temperature up to 40 Celsius (104 F). See I told you it gets hot and humid here in Toronto.

It’s been dark and kind of overcast for the last couple of hours, but just a few minutes ago it got almost as dark as late evening and the wind picked up like crazy.

A storm’s a comin!

Now there’s thunder and lightening but very little rain. So far.

This is the kind of weather that causes Tornado’s to spring up in the Southern Ontario region. I hope that one doesn’t, but I wouldn’t be surprised to hear of a few towns that got hit by one.

Chances are also high that our power will go out at some point in the near future. A couple of years ago when there was a good storm like this one’s shaping up to be my husband and I heard a loud crack and saw a giant flash of light off to the east. Turns out it was a transformer that got hit by lightening and blew up! That kept the electricity out for a while!

Wish me luck?

I’m sure my plants will love the extra water and nitrogen in the air from the lightening … but I really hate thunder storms.

Temperatures rising

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It’s the strangest thing. Early Thursday morning it was -20 Celsius outside. That’s pretty darn cold. No more snow but what’s out there certainly wasn’t going to melt any time soon, or so I thought.

Now, it’s 1:30 in the morning and I’ve been watching the temperature rise throughout the day. It’s -9 Celsius. It looks like it’s going to be warmer over the next three or four days.

It probably won’t be warm enough to melt all that snow but it should be warm enough to get outside and clean up the driveway a bit better. The snow plows made a mess of the entrance to our driveway since one of our neighbors cars was parked in front of the neighbors house the night of the snow storm. When the street plows went by they had to miss the car and this left a wide path of snow in front of our driveway.

So, unless the plows come by again to move the snow over a bit more- hopefully when the neighbors car isn’t parked there, we still need to clean out the opening to our driveway a bit better. Oh, we did shovel. We can get in and out, but it’s still a mess that stretches about ten feet out into the roadway – thanks to the neighbors car.

How did everyone else do after the snow storms?

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