Long weekend forecast: Sweltering, sticky, and hot
Posted Jun 28, 2018 08:23:28 PM.
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It's not just the heat it's the…well, you know the rest.
Forecasters have been warning of the coming “heat event” for a couple of days
“It's going to be a cooker starting tomorrow (Friday) and carrying on for well, we can't see the end of it. I mean it could go eight days, nine days,” said David Phillip, senior climatologist with Environment Canada.
Environment Canada is expecting some record breaking temperatures and humidity for Canada Day, but the whole 'block of heat' figures to be intense and long-lasting.
“We're in for a long bout of it and that's the issue it's not only the intensity of the heat and humidity, but it's the duration of it. And that really becomes a health issue when it goes on for so long,” added Phillips.
Canada Day could be a record-breaker: The hottest July 1st was in 1963 with a recorded high of 36.7 degrees Celsius.
According to Phillips it's quite possible that by the time this heat spell breaks we'll have had more above days about 30 degrees in this one stretch than we had all last summer, when the capital region clocked just a half dozen of those.
