We are schvitzing.
As we take turns at The Main's headquarters sitting around the office AC unit (we named her Salvation), a heat record was broken in the city on September 6th with a high of 31.9 degrees Celsius, and a humidex of 42.
Not to get overly fatalistic about it, but this week's harsh and sudden heatwave comes at a time when rising temperatures are shaping much of what's going on in the city right now. Tensions over the rental crisis continue to grow, essential systems like education and public transportation are groaning under mounting pressureâheck, some people were even thinking the steps of the Oratory caught fire last weekend.
Today (and the following four days?!) is calling for long overdue and likely intense thundershowers, but somehow that doesn't seem like the catharsis we need right now.
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