It has been incredibly hot (for eastern Canada), temperatures in the high twenties with humidity. Overnight it hasn't cooled off too much. We purchased a house that was built before the exterior heating pumps were in widespread usage here, so this house isn't air conditioned. It gets hot.
One of the benefits of living in eastern Canada, however, is the breeze verging on gale that we get most of the year. It's the kind of wind that brings the sleet, snow or rain sideways towards you, pops umbrellas, blows off hats and hoods and makes runners of the previously uninitiated, trying to retrieve their head gear. Depending on the gusts, it can make short work of garbage and compost bins, and anything else that isn't protected somehow, or nailed down.
During the depth of the heat this past week, the wind was blowing from the west at thirty plus kilometers an hour. This makes for a lovely cross-draft when the windows are open at the front and back of the house. Natural air conditioning, cheap and environmentally friendly! We're very lucky!
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