Summer So Far As A Resident Of Toronto

Besides the tourist attractions and the shopping, there's only really one other thing worth talking about in Toronto: the weather.

Holy crap.

The days are very hot and humid (see: 38*C on Saturday) and because of the extreme heat and humidity you get random massive downpours during the day and an earth-rocking thunderstorm at night.

Driving home from Alliston Monday afternoon I got caught in one such massive downpours on the highway and let me tell you it was one of the scariest driving experiences of my life. I was going along the usually 120 km/h when it started raining a little bit. Okay that was fine. But then out of nowhere it was like the sky was falling it rained so hard. With the wipers maxed out you could only just barely see the car right in front of you. Traffic on the highway slowed to a 20-30 km/h crawl, and I was in the left (aka. fast) lane. This went on for what seemed like an eternity and then all of a sudden it lifted and returned to normal medium wiper-speed rain. And then like 1/2 an hour later, the rain was gone and it was sunny as if it had never rained at all. Which made it feel kind of weird having to blame my lateness to work on a downpour...