Gerry was in Port Dover on Friday. It has a restaurant on the beach, where you can sit at your table with your feet in the sand. (Port Dover is known for the Friday the 13th motorcycle rallies.) I wonder why there aren't more beach restaurants on Lake Ontario. I am thinking of heat waves that normally come in August, and beaches are the natural place to 'cool down'.
There's a heat wave in California right now. It is expected to be worse than the heat wave in 2006 where the highest temperature was 119 degrees in Woodland Hills on July 22nd. Electricity providers instituted rolling blackouts Friday night. Can you imagine being in COVID-19, a heat wave, and then a black-out.
We were in Pasadena for the railroad convention in 2013 and the news then reported that it was the hottest temperature ever officially recorded. But the next year recorded hotter temperatures and in 2018 it was 118 degrees in July. So far that's been the hottest on record.
In comparison our hottest temperatures were in July in Ontario and Niagara so far this year. But they don't compare to the hottest temperatures on record. That was in July 1936 at 108 degrees (42.2C).
California is dry, so when we factor in the humidex, the temperatures felt like the mid-40s in early July in Ontario.
What can we hope for in August? What climatologists say on heatwaves is that we should 'get used to it'. That's Dave Phillips, the Senior Climatologist at Environment Canada.
I took a trip through the Blossom Trail images from this past Spring. Aren't they so green and cool in appearance?
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