Condor, out of curiosity, I got my thermometer. Exactly +22 deg Celsius. <High today here -22 C. Spent 4 hrs. snowmobiling with my wife and we had to convince ourselves we were having fun. As opposed to Mq's flowered tropical shirt, we were sporting red flannel trap door underwear.>
Meanwhile, I thought my PM to you might be of interest to others, re north, south, which direction is the sun, east, west, summer vs winter, night vs day etc. Most people won't have experience of it.
<I face north to soak the sun.
It makes navigating around northern hemisphere cities tricky because after decades, one gets used to thinking of facing the sun as being north. So, to go west, one tends to want to go the wrong direction unless really thinking about it. It's hard to build a mental model of a city because of it. >
Normally, including in the north when used to it, I have unerring navigation and NEVER need to ask directions. But the sun being back to front is bewildering. I go east and hit the Pacific Ocean when in Los Angeles. How weird is that? In London, I wake to start the day and it is early evening.
BTW, I worked in Ottawa for 3 years and went north as far as Deep River. Where's your "major mining company"? Other side I suppose - perhaps Sudbury? falconbridge.com
Snow from September to May [first and last snowfalls] was too much for us. Summer was black flies and sweltering heat with the most amazing thunderstorms out of a clear blue sky which would just go black over an hour or so, open up in a tremendous downpour and thunderstorm, then go to clear blue again. Of course it wasn't always like that and generally the sky was blue, summer and winter. But a week with a high of -23 deg Celsius is pretty cold.
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