if you think it's hot in kingston ...

try being in st. catharines where the temperature, with the humidex, is a balmy 50C. yes, you heard me correctly: 50C. according to my mom, who is the weather network unto herself and has a directly line to god concerning the forecast (or so she claims!), that converts to a wonderfully warm 120F.

when i went for my run this morning through the streets of downtown st. kitts at 6 am it was already 28C. 15 minutes into my training run, which eventually lasted a gruelling 60 minutes, i had sweated through my unisuit (don't ask why i was running in it ...) and the old cotton t-shirt i had thrown over it for modesty. i had to make two stops for water, at a bathroom in a tim hortons and at a public fountain in a park because both times i had stopped sweating. very bad indeed. when i returned home a little after 7 am the temperature had gone up to 30C.

oh, niagara, how i've missed you!

hopefully the weather will break soon; both the official weather network and my mom say thursday. until then, our household, as well as those of our neighbours,will sit glued to the television, watching the temperature climb higher and higher ... let's keep all lucky appendages crossed against the possibility of another power blackout!