Have you been feeling the heat?

Well, it could be worse.

You could be living in, say, southwestern Iran, at the head of the Persian Gulf:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/07/30/iran-city-hits-suffocating-heat-index-of-154-degrees-near-world-record/

http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/07/31/heat-index-iran-163-degrees/30933451/

On the whole, I’m quite content to be sitting right now at the southern tip of unusually warm but still relatively cool Vancouver Island, on Canada’s Pacific coast.

Posted from Victoria, British Columbia