Showing posts with label heat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heat. Show all posts
Friday, 31 July 2026

Last Day of July

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 We are the last day of July, at long last. How has it been for you? I have been hating July 2026, oh so much! I never like July, it is my l...
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Friday, 26 June 2026

Heat in Isola

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I know I'm blogging a lot about  Ed McBain 's 87th Precinct  crime novel series these days, as I am reading the books in order of pu...
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Monday, 30 June 2025

June Heatwave

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 Sorry for the commonplace, but I wanted to mention something: this the last day of June. One month of the summer season to be done and dust...
Wednesday, 18 June 2025

The Summer of our Discontent

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" Now is the summer of our discontent.. ." I am paraphrasing Shakespeare, but here it is: our first heatwave is on its way . It...
Friday, 26 July 2024

87th Precinct, Isola

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 " The city in these pages is imaginary. The people, the places are all fictitious. Only the police routine is based on established i...
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Friday, 19 July 2024

Almost a heatwave

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 So far this summer, we've been lucky: we didn't have many hot days, the temperatures weremostly in the lower 20s and it has been ov...
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Tuesday, 25 June 2024

Bracing Myself

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 Well, I guess it could not stay like this forever. Up until this point, summer had been fairly cool, or at least reasonably warm. Nothing t...
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Tuesday, 5 September 2023

Ugh!

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 Well, what goes around comes around. I was so happy that we had a fairly cool summer , I naively expected September to be at least as cool....
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Tuesday, 16 August 2022

"Yellow warning of thunderstorms" (at last!)

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Yesterday was the last day of a long heatwave, one of many we've had this year. Too many in fact. But now the temperatures have dropped ...
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Sunday, 31 July 2022

Ending July

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This is the last day of July and am I glad the month is ending. I am one of these rare breeds of people who don't like summer (you know ...
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Wednesday, 13 July 2022

Amber Warning of Extreme Heat

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 I'm bracing myself the best I can: it's been hot these last few days, last Monday was a heatwave, now we have temperatures slightly...
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Thursday, 23 June 2022

"Yellow warning of thunderstorms" (yay!)

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After the hot weather we have been having these last two weeks (and a few days of heatwave), I read today on BBC Weather that there was a ...
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Tuesday, 21 June 2022

"Summer Lovers Be Like..."

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 Today is the summers solstice, the longest day of the year Which I always take as both a blessing and a curse: it is a high point in the se...
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Sunday, 12 June 2022

Accursed Heat

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So far we've had a fairly strange but tolerable summer: it gets in the lower 20s, maximum and the nights and evenings remain fairly cool...
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Saturday, 14 May 2022

Trop chaud, trop tôt

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Mes parents vont à Montréal en fin de semaine, juste quand une canicule historique s'annonce . La canicule la plus précoce depuis qu...
Monday, 19 June 2017

Heatwaves in the basement

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We are in the middle of a heatwave here. One of the reasons why I dislike summer. It is sticky, it is too hot, little Wolfie struggles to sl...
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Friday, 26 May 2017

Espérer l'orage...

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Bon, ce n'est peut-être pas tout à fait la canicule ces jours-ci, mais c'est tout comme: il fait assez chaud et c'est assez coll...
Tuesday, 30 June 2015

Summertime is here (most definitely)

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Well, summer has been here for quite a while, but it did not strike me as much as this week. The temperature is bordering on heatwave and it...
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Sunday, 27 July 2014

Tout ce que vous voulez savoir sur la crème solaire

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Je ne sais pas comment c'est chez vous, mais ici c'est l'été en pleine force depuis un bout de temps. Outre que j'en suis un...
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Friday, 25 July 2014

Je m'ennuie de l'air climatisé

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Photo prise à l'ancien appart à Montréal, où j'ai passé six années de ma vie. C'était une photo promotionnelle pour le vendre, j...
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