Let's pretend this is the last time I'm going to talk about how hot it is, okay?

[listersgirl]

There are people out there (you know who you are) who are TOO AFRAID to complain about the hot, hot summer we're having, in case the weather gods take revenge by starting winter in September.

Babies.

I am not afraid! I will stand up for all of you in saying:

SHUT IT WITH THE BLOODY SWELTERING WEATHER!!!

circe_tigana very nicely informed us that it was hotter in Toronto than in Bombay yesterday. NICE. And, oh, look, it's only going to get hotter today and for the rest of the fucking week.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

I just want to stop being covered in sweat from the moment I step out of the shower. And I wouldn't mind being able to sit down without having my legs suction-cup together. And is it too much to ask that we actually get to do summery things in the summer, like go outside?

Ok, weather gods, strike me down. I'm ready for you.

Also, I would like all tourists who think of Canada as one big igloo to come visit me this week. That'll put marzipan in your pieplate, bingo.

Comments

[globetrotter1.livejournal.com]

I almost fainted when I saw Toronto's weather forecast. I'm not sure I want to go back.

[listersgirl]

Maybe you can bring the not-ridiculously-hot weather with you!

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

At least you're not in Kuwait...

[listersgirl]

*whimper*

Oh, yeah, that looks totally...fun...

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

I know. How to people live there and NOT TOTALLY DIE?

[jeejeen.livejournal.com]

coughcough::sudan::coughcough

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Tomorrow it will be SIX DEGREES HOTTER in Toronto than in Khartoum.

[sarcasma.livejournal.com]

I'm still reeling from Kuwait. WTF, weather gods?

[jeejeen.livejournal.com]

*takes shirt off*

we really shouldn't start that again.

[listersgirl]

It's legal, you know.

*nods*

*leers*

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHA!

[jeejeen.livejournal.com]

AND ALSO HOTTER THAN MIAMI! WITHOUT THE NAKED PEOPLE ROLLERBLADING EVERYWHERE! It doesnt seem quite fair, somehow.

ALSO YOU WILL BE SORRY WHEN WINTER STRIKES IN SEPTEMBER!

[listersgirl]

No way. I've NEVER complained about the cold and the snow and the freezing and the 50 billion layers of clothing, not me.

Erm.

[jeejeen.livejournal.com]

When I was in the (cold) shower this morning, I was thinking about what cold feels like. I wondered... will I ever be cold again?

BUt then I quickly stopped that train of thought because-let's face it- I'll feel cold again all too soon.

[voleuse.livejournal.com]

Also, I would like all tourists who think of Canada as one big igloo to come visit me this week.

Snerk. Kind of how people come to California mid-November and are surprised that it's windy and overcast?

[offscreen.livejournal.com]

HEE. It was colder here than it was in Mississippi for most of last winter.

[listersgirl]

Nooooo! Don't break the golden sunny stereotype!

[offscreen.livejournal.com]

Then I guess I shouldn't mention that when I went to the beach to watch fireworks on the 4th, it was very gray and cloudy and so cold I had to borrow a sweater and wrap myself in a fleece blanket.

[listersgirl]

Blankets! I miss blankets.

[morag-gunn.livejournal.com]

Ha ha.

All the more reason to move to Vancouver. You know, aside from the fact that I'm having a party on Friday and you would be invited.

[listersgirl]

Damn. Could you just postpone that party for, I don't know, a few years?

[zoje-george.livejournal.com]

Downtown Canadia isn't made up of igloos?

You LIE!

[listersgirl]

That's only in the winter. In the summer the igloos get packed up in carefully labelled boxes ("Winter Stuff") with mothballs, and new homes are built from dripping air conditioners and freshly packed smog.

[starfishchick]

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Vengence will be theirs!

I spent 10 minutes after lunch looking up information and forecasts about the Land of Benton Fraser:

http://text.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/forecast/city_e.html?nt-20

http://www.arcticnaturetours.com/aboutUs/map.html

http://virtualguidebooks.com/NWT/LowerMackenzie/Tuktoyaktuk/InnerHarborTuk.html

http://www.assembly.gov.nt.ca/VisitorInfo/NWTMapandHistory/Tuktoyaktuk.html

[listersgirl]

My grandmother was a librarian in Hay River. I'm starting to think she had the right idea.

[starfishchick]

It looks really cold lonely cold scenic up there.

[twoweevils.livejournal.com]

Word. You know it's bad if I'm envying the Coast Guard ice breaker pilot on the radio this morning. This morning it was 11C in the Beaufort Sea. Sounds lovely. *sigh*

M.

[listersgirl]

Suddenly skinnydipping in the Arctic Ocean sounds like a really good idea.

[offscreen.livejournal.com]

On a not entirely unrelated note, weather.com can kiss my ass. They measure their temperatures at the top of some building downtown [or worse, at the airport] that gets lots of cool breeze, so they deceive unsuspecting people into thinking it's really 76 degrees in Los Angeles, when down here near the pavement and windows and things that reflect heat, it's probably about 95.

[listersgirl]

[oh look: while I've been reading this, the temperature went up 2 degrees! joy]

I know. They suck. However, that doesn't stop me from staring obsessively at the wee weather icon in my systray.

32 degrees Celsuis

[goblinshark.livejournal.com]

No igloos? I'm disappointed, wherever will you keep your pet polar bears? D.C. does have Toronto beat by a few degrees today, but at lesat everywhere here(except the Metro) has AC.

Re: 32 degrees Celsuis

[starfishchick]

It is 2 degrees in Resolute today.

(That's the red square on this map: http://www.nunavut.worldweb.com/Maps/ProvincialMaps-Flash/NunavutMap.html.)

Re: 32 degrees Celsuis

[goblinshark.livejournal.com]

Ooooo..never has the Artic seemed so appealing.

[twoweevils.livejournal.com]

I have two wee weather icons in my systray--one for sunny, subtropical South Jersey (where I am) and one for what has apparently become torrid Toronto (where M. is).

You're beating us, 33 to 32 degrees right now. That happens so rarely that I needed to report it somewhere. Good thing there was this thread open.

Seriously, staying cool has become the entire focus of my life right now. I hate to leave work because the building, once cooled, stays at a pretty constant 25--which my house does not.

K.

[listersgirl]

Yes, I will admit that work looks mighty attractive these days, even though I feel very silly having to take a sweater because it's so much colder than outside.

My new trick is to just make a careful inventory of all public places that have air-conditioning. I have never spent so much time inside of grocery stores.

[edwud.livejournal.com]

i do not complain about the weather. i merely make statements upon it, like "it is hot" or "tonight i shall cuddle my icepacks again because there is not an air-conditioner to be found in the city". I shall despise the roommate with the AC, and wish that my fan were larger. I will wish that i did not get on the aeroplane from Victoria to the big Smog. But i shall not complain, because (and this is the important part) it can always get worse. It can get hotter, more humid, and stay that way for months. if the weather predictors are right, today is nice. Friday will be hot. go forth and put your sheets in the freezer.

[listersgirl]

*whimper*