Beating the Heat

So its hot, very hot. Today Environment Canada figures that we will see temperatures of 34 degrees Celcius. That's without the Humidex reading. Right now (at 10:35am) it is 28 degrees and the Humidex says it is 36 degrees. It's going to be murder out there at the peak of the day. And if you think that's hot. Its going to be 37 in Moosonee. Moosonee! That's 98.6 degrees F for those in th US. If you are not from Canada, check it out on a map. It's going to be bad. I mean Moosonee sometimes see snow in June. Their average temperature for June is 21 degrees, these guys are so remote that you have to fly into their community, there are no roads into there.

And yesterday it was 31 degrees. And at 1:30 p.m. at the height of it, my husband, our friend Jody and I got on our bikes (pedal bikes - not motorcycles) and rode about 42 km from Callander to Nipissing. MAN WAS IT HOT! Jody and I were noticing that even with it so hot you could feel the temperature rise a few degrees more when you neared the new asphalt on the highway. I think the temperature in the air might have been 31 but the temperature on the highway had to be 40. Needless to say I was quite happy to get home and stand underneath the hose for a good soak.

And tonight, we plan to go out again. What's up with that? Well Jody and I both want to lose a few pounds (nothing like sweating it out eh?) and hubby and I have not ridden together for years, it's just time. Be nice if the weather could cooperate though. With temperatures expected to be this hot all week, this would be the perfect week to rent a cottage on a lake somewhere and just melt on a dock and eat watermelon.