In an earlier entry on this blog, I talked about the heat that is a Japanese summer. Well, it has arrived. And it has brought some friends along too. They go by the names of: Humidity and Discomfort.
The annual rainy season finished much sooner than I, or anybody, expected this year, and as a result, the summer officially began. The rainy season for us in the Kanto area was relatively mild, with not much rain. Other parts of Japan are in a world of trouble from their rains that have resulted in flooding and landslides (landslides are never much of a problem here in the middle of the Kanto Plain).
However, summer is its own burden. We are just a few days into the summer season, and already it is too hot. To recap, Saturday the temperature reached a balmy 32 degrees, Sunday came in at 33 degrees, and yesterday, a holiday, came in at a blistering 36 degrees. Todays forecast? Yep, 36 degrees again.
Add to the temperatures the high humidity, and you got yourself one heck of a day of sweltering and sweating. There is no way to escape it. My wife and I have a system of going out to use someone else's air conditioning (like a shopping centre or big store) to stay cool (plus, we don't have to pay the electric bills).
Even the nights are too warm and humid. Since we do not have any kind of central air conditioning, we have to rely on a complex system of a room air conditioner and an electric fan. Still this does cool sufficiently at night. As a result, I often wake up sweating and uncomfortable.
The good news is that we only have about 2 more months of this weather before the fall.
Wow! Not a huge fan of that kind of heat either! Where in Canada are you originally from? Thanks for joining FMIC! Have a fantastic day!
ReplyDeleteAm from Oakville, ON originally. have also lived throughout the GTA, most recently in Burlington, ON.
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