Aw, let it go, @nimelennar! 
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Come on. This is the first time in forever I’ve complained about the heat.
I couldn’t keep it in. Heaven knows, I tried.
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I posted this in the Canuck thread last Sunday.
You can see why Lake Ontario can serve to cool you off.
I was down to the lakeshore on Monday. They had just bulldozed the debris off the road through Humber Bay Park West. This road is about 30 metres or more from the normal shoreline and about 3-4 metres higher. Logs the size of telephone poles had been tossed up to the road, small trees uprooted, and big boulders heaved around on the beach. This is not our usual mid-April weather. On the plus side: no mosquitoes.
The best Canadian weather is yet to come. That’s why we love the seasons. We seem to be missing one this year.
We usually don’t either, but if we do, I want to go somewhere where there is snorkeling so I can cool off.
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See, that makes no sense to me. You fly somewhere to warm up, and then spend your time there cooling off.
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There are people who surf (in wetsuits) all winter in Lake Michigan. Personally, I’d like to go somewhere warm enough that I won’t die of hypothermia either IN the water or within minutes of leaving the water. Guess I’m just weird that way.
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It’s all about balance. But seriously, snorkeling where the water is warm and the fish are colourful beats going hypothermic in July to see some green algae and maybe a rock bass.
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Great minds think alike!
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In January we were down by the lake and there was a man kitesurfing in strong winds. When we left two hours later, he was still going strong.
The cooling water outflow from the Darlington nuclear plant east of Toronto is a popular spot for frostbite racing in Lasers.
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Yeah yeah.
People always forget a) having neither a lot of room nor a lot of snow, we don’t keep things like snowmobiles and/or tire chains around (I have seen both suggested), and b) that time the army got called in? The snow wasn’t that bad. It was just our idiot mayor had cut the snow removal budget in anticipation of not needing it, and he was wrong. That was also in the 90s.
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Not a lot of room? You mean that TO neighbourhoods are more compact than, say, the Plateau? I don’t seem to recall that…
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I’ve found that it’s not the people who live in Ottawa or Montreal who snark the most – it’s the ones in Orillia or smaller places.
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Wuss.
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I’m glad I’m not a Newf…
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Just this morning, my daughter said “I really hated not having a Spring this year”. I’ll show her this, to prove it’s always worse somewhere else!
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Yup. Also, last I checked, we have about a month of spring left to go. It has been very spring-like here recently, classic May weather; I can’t imagine it has been much different over your way.
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No, really, our “Spring” so far has been two days of snow fall, only small amounts of rain until recently, temperatures in the 30s and 40s (F) with some highs in the 50s. Just recently we’ve gotten some days into the 60s so it’s feeling like late Spring/early Summer finally.
She’s not wrong: we really didn’t have a Spring this year. The usual bulb flowers had at most one day in bloom before succumbing to freezing temperatures. Ferns are finally growing, now. That’s not normal here.
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Oh my! Temperatures here have been in the 20s (Celsius - 70s in Fahrenheit) the last week or so, the tulips are in full bloom. Spring took its time coming, but it’s here with a vengeance (unlike last year, where summer didn’t show up until late September/early October).
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Whoa, that’s horrible!
It’s mid-90’s today (F), so there you go.
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With luck, we won’t see that until July. I like temperatures in the 70s. 
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