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and now, 30° plus again?

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

The weather has gone completely nuts. After soaring temperatures in March of last year, where we broke records by more than ten degrees for two weeks, we've had a summer so cool the sustained temperatures were fully fifteen degrees below normal. Today it was so hot that although I was rained on coming home my sleeves were dry by the time I got in, and it was only the bits where I was sweating beneath my raincoat that were wet. And we're scheduled to have a high of 14°C on Friday??

We've had days of Calgary-like temperature swings with high humidity, high wind, and literally unprecedented amounts of rain. Shivering at a streetcar stop telling someone "I'm not dressed for this!" one day, then sweltering in the same light coat the next. Commuter trains being evacuated by cops in boats, a near-miss with the remnants of the largest (in diameter) hurricane ever recorded, record rainfalls that match even scientists' warnings. Yup; mayhem.