Canada having hottest year on record

[Praxus]

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Conten ... =News/News

[Cyclenall]

Great! I love hot weather but I thought 2005 was the hottest year ever in Canada? Global warming....maybe.

[Aquawind]

USA as well..

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2006/s2663.htm

[curtadams]

I'm surprised California isn't hotter than that. This June, for coastal Southern California, has been the hottest I can recall. Weather here is normally very predictable, especially in the summer, and June is always - I mean always - cool and cloudy. "June Gloom", we call it. Not this year. Most days it's already cloudless by the time I pick up the paper - which is mildly unusual any time of year. Average temps seem 5 or more degrees F above normal. This would be hot even in the highest of summer, which is August - September for us (seasons run late here). It sounds like the effects of the subtropical subsidence zone moving north, which is happening due to global warming, but I don't think it's moved that far yet. Hasn't the rest of the far South been having a lot of droughts lately, though?

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

Indeed. It was not too bad here in June; thanks in large part to all that heavy rain, but quite humid. Now however it has been hot, hazey and humid all of July, thus far.

[conestogo_flood]

It's not as hot as last year I thought. Last year Waterloo had 42 days of temperatures above 30C when usually we only have less than 5.

Sunday and Monday here are 34C and 35C, 93F and 95F.

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

Same here. We have only had one 32 C/90 F, heat wave day, yet this year, and that was yesterday. It was humid in June as I mentioned, but not that hot in terms of actual air temp. They are of course talking about the mean temp. for the first six months of the year, and I know that it was a very mild and calm Winter in the East this year.

[Cyclenall]

Ontario today is going to be HOT!!! Some areas will be around 35-36 C/ ?? F and it will feel like 43-44 C. This will continue for 5 days in a row.

I think overall this summer as been slightly less warm then last year but we seem to get these hot humid heat waves that are hotter then last year. They last 3-4 days at a time. The last one I can remember was May 30-June 2, 2006.