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Still scrambling to be sure that everyone made it out safe, but buildings are lost:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-wildfires-lytton-july-1-2021-1.6087311
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Lytton has broken temperature records for the past three days, and a fire near there has invaded the town and all of Lytton is evacuated:
https://globalnews.ca/news/7994950/evacuation-orders-issued-wildfires-bc-heat-wave/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytton,_British_Columbia

Today here it briefly hit 44C, but spent most of the day at 43. It is now down to 34, and Maggie is pacing back and forth, ready for doors and windows to be open. It won't be as late as last night today, but it won't be right this minute, miss.
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I was tempted to keep the house closed, but the girls were really insistent that outdoors needs supervising. Constant monitoring overnight, in fact.

So yesterday I opened at 9:00 pm, when it was 30C. I'd kept the house at 28, and the outdoors went down long before the inside temperature even budged. It was still 24 when I closed up today at 10:00 am.

I kept the house at 26 today (actually 79F because there is something psychological about allowing the house to get into the 80s [1]), and opened up when it was 30 outside, which was at 10:00 pm. Warm steamy (ew) air still streamed in. [2] The house has crept up to 27C, and the outdoors has dropped to 27C.

Tomorrow is still predicted to be beastly:
https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/bc-51_metric_e.html


[1] - I have this perception with 2:00 o'clock and 2:30. 2:00 is early afternoon, 2:30 is late.
[2] - there are lakes here, which evaporate, but which don't provide any moisture on the ground.
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It did pop up briefly a couple times to 43C, but it was mostly 42C.

It is currently 40C, and the sky has a slight haze, which means the heat will get sealed in for the night, and we'll start the day hotter earlier. Huzzah.
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We were expecting Tuesday to be the peak, but it looks like now that Wednesday wishes to do a Bobbsey Twin.

Also, the heat is tightening its grip earlier and earlier in the day. Previously I closed the house around 2:00 pm in the afternoon. Yesterday was noon, and today was 10:00 am.
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Cloudy skies, that's how.  *whew*

We've had unrelenting sun and high temperatures for the last 10 days or so.  At first it is welcome, but by day 6 it is too much.  Vancouver is accustomed to more rain, and we don't have many automatic sprinkling systems - things start to wilt.  Also, people get very crabby.  I'm one because I don't sleep well in the heat.  And the city starts to stink in a very stinky way.

Yesterday we had a few wisps of cloud veiling us from the sun, and there was a strong breeze stirring up the air.  I stayed up 'til one this morning, leaving the doors open with fans blowing to get all that gross hot air out of the apartment.  Then I slept 'til noon in blessed cool.

The day is continuing cool (75 F) in the house, so that is nice.  We could do with a good downpour, though, to freshen things up.  The interior could do with the rain more, to help dampen the fire near Lillooet.

http://www.lillooetbc.com/
http://bcwildfire.ca/hprScripts/WildfireNews/Fires.asp
http://bcwildfire.ca/hprScripts/WildfireNews/Situation.asp?Mode=normal&ID=249

If this is June, then July and August are likely to be beastly.

But, for now, yay the blessed cool.

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