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AngelsKiss
June 10, 2005, 05:23 PM
It's not only blistering here but the smog is so thick I could not see the the lake from my office and my office close to the lake.


It’s not just a heat alert – it’s an extreme heat alert. The city of Toronto has officially upped the status of its warning about the weather.

The G.T.A. is baking under near record high temperatures, with readings in the 30s feeling closer to the 40s with the humidex.

Add a smog advisory and a humidex alert to the mix, and it makes for one sticky, grueling and dangerous day. And forecasters predict it will last all the way through the weekend.

An extreme heat alert is called whenever there’s a continuous period of excessively hot weather and the likelihood of the vulnerable succumbing to the oven-like conditions is over 90 percent.

The move means four cooling centres will be immediately open for those needing a place to get out of the sun.

Full Boil (http://www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Story/20050610-007/page.asp)
Manu
June 10, 2005, 07:42 PM
My word......damn this little country is blessed!
AngelsKiss
June 10, 2005, 07:56 PM
My word......damn this little country is blessed!

Yeah too often we don't realise how much so.
Manu
June 10, 2005, 08:38 PM
And we bawling bout the little heat we having! Bwoy......
AngelsKiss
June 10, 2005, 08:39 PM
And we bawling bout the little heat we having! Bwoy......
You in Jamaica if it ever get to 22 degrees it would a bit chilly right? We have had 22 degrees here and it was warm as anything, felt more like 28.
Bahama Mama
June 10, 2005, 08:44 PM
You aint lie about the heat AK. Here in Gueph it is as hot as a camel's a**. The humidity here is so bad that you dont even sweat, and instead the prespiration remains locked in so you just overheat. I was doing a BBQ on Sunday and it was 28 celcius. I had to sit down under some shade cause I was getting heat stroke. Someone remarked you should be used to this kind of weather, but to my recollection the tropics dont get this high of humidity. It is just frickin hot, and you sweat pools. At least there is some ocean breeze back home to cool the effects of the sun's fierce heat.

I can only imagine the heat in congested and crowded TO, thrown on top of all the pollution form the thoussand of car and bus exhaust.
Manu
June 10, 2005, 08:45 PM
You in Jamaica if it ever get to 22 degrees it would a bit chilly right? We have had 22 degrees here and it was warm as anything, felt more like 28.

You seet!!! 22 degrees is freezing!!!!
AngelsKiss
June 10, 2005, 08:53 PM
Someone remarked you should be used to this kind of weather, but to my recollection the tropics dont get this high of humidity. It is just frickin hot, and you sweat pools. At least there is some ocean breeze back home to cool the effects of the sun's fierce heat.

I can only imagine the heat in congested and crowded TO, thrown on top of all the pollution form the thoussand of car and bus exhaust.

That's the mistake they make all the time about it being hot in the Caribbean, then I have to explain to them how things are.

BM...like I said, not only is it hot here but you should see the smog. I don't know how more ppl don't end of with respiratory infection, or may be they do and we just do not know about it.

You noticed they had to open the cooling shelters for the street ppl or anyone who need to cool off?


No Manu, 22 degrees is nice, you want to feel freezing try -35 :)

Hey BM where you here year before last when we had that major ice storm and the great lakes froze over something that had not happen in some 25 years?
Bahama Mama
June 10, 2005, 10:04 PM
That's the mistake they make all the time about it being Hey BM where you here year before last when we had that major ice storm and the great lakes froze over something that had not happen in some 25 years?


Yeah I was but I barely recollect that story. I was in my denial phase at that time about how cold it realy was :D