On a lighter note, the Vancouver "sweltering 27 degrees with 50% humidity" must be getting laughs from anyone outside of that region, even in Canada. 27 degrees at 50% humidity, if I recall my humidex calculations, is a "feels like" temperature of...27-28 degrees. Maybe it was a typo and meant 37? Having lived on the West Coast for a few years, yes, sometimes they are wimps when it comes to hot weather (not that increasing heat isn't a problem, but still...27 degrees?), although bearing the grey fall/winter earns them some credit. I mean, it a full 10 degrees warmer than that in the interior of the province, now that's hot.
And for the housing market, it's looks like we're heading for the same cliff that the US is now toppling over. Of course, it's uphill all the way to the edge of the cliff, so most will ignore the warning signs and never seen the inevitable drop coming.
Actually old Adam W, records were broken on Vancouver Island, a 35.5 C At Victoria. As you lived here, you say, you will know that the B.C. coast is mole country, where if we get sunshine at all it comes pretty much on one day of the year. That also means that we have our eyes wide open 364 days of the year and only go squinty eyed on one.
Not only that but with 364 days of looking into the gloom we are well prepared for PO and GW. It is financial collapse, as indicated in Stoneleighs fine compilation of news items, that makes our knees go wobbly and those mole eyes roll about quivering in their sockets.
Hey, sunshine in Victoria is nothing new, although 35.5 would be a good 2-3 degrees past anything I felt while living there. Victoria gets a lot of sunshine, way more than Vancouver (2223 hours a year according to wikipedia), thanks to not having the mountains right there holding in all the clouds. The first summer I spent there had a literally zero rain for something like 2 months. This wasn't true, apparently, of most of the island, but for Victoria, it was day after day of oppressive, 20-25 degree sunny days with a light breeze. Well, I was supposed to be working on my thesis, so they sometimes seemed oppressive.
As for financial collapse, well, maybe the upcoming olympics will keep those property values inflating for a few more years, by which point, some other impending disaster will be more important. Hey, it's important to remain positive ;)
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On a lighter note, the Vancouver "sweltering 27 degrees with 50% humidity" must be getting laughs from anyone outside of that region, even in Canada. 27 degrees at 50% humidity, if I recall my humidex calculations, is a "feels like" temperature of...27-28 degrees. Maybe it was a typo and meant 37? Having lived on the West Coast for a few years, yes, sometimes they are wimps when it comes to hot weather (not that increasing heat isn't a problem, but still...27 degrees?), although bearing the grey fall/winter earns them some credit. I mean, it a full 10 degrees warmer than that in the interior of the province, now that's hot.
And for the housing market, it's looks like we're heading for the same cliff that the US is now toppling over. Of course, it's uphill all the way to the edge of the cliff, so most will ignore the warning signs and never seen the inevitable drop coming.
Actually old Adam W, records were broken on Vancouver Island, a 35.5 C At Victoria. As you lived here, you say, you will know that the B.C. coast is mole country, where if we get sunshine at all it comes pretty much on one day of the year. That also means that we have our eyes wide open 364 days of the year and only go squinty eyed on one.
Not only that but with 364 days of looking into the gloom we are well prepared for PO and GW. It is financial collapse, as indicated in Stoneleighs fine compilation of news items, that makes our knees go wobbly and those mole eyes roll about quivering in their sockets.
Hey, sunshine in Victoria is nothing new, although 35.5 would be a good 2-3 degrees past anything I felt while living there. Victoria gets a lot of sunshine, way more than Vancouver (2223 hours a year according to wikipedia), thanks to not having the mountains right there holding in all the clouds. The first summer I spent there had a literally zero rain for something like 2 months. This wasn't true, apparently, of most of the island, but for Victoria, it was day after day of oppressive, 20-25 degree sunny days with a light breeze. Well, I was supposed to be working on my thesis, so they sometimes seemed oppressive.
As for financial collapse, well, maybe the upcoming olympics will keep those property values inflating for a few more years, by which point, some other impending disaster will be more important. Hey, it's important to remain positive ;)