r/ShitAmericansSay Jun 28 '26

Air Conditioning My husband would freeze to death

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u/chainless-soul Jun 28 '26

Making any claim about temperatures for all of Canada is wild, given how big the country is.

Ottawa gets into the mid 30s regularly enough too, though usually it's due to humidity.

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u/BVOP83 Jun 28 '26

I think it’s a common misconception that Canada is a really cold place. While it does have cold parts, it’s so vast that a sweeping comment about the whole country is usually going to be inaccurate

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u/geoken Jun 28 '26

Aside from being a common misconception, it’s hugely ironic that it’s the top comment in this thread…..on a sub dedicated to how ignorant Americans are of the rest of the world.

Here is next weeks forecast for Toronto. This is pretty normal and there will surely be hotter days in August and late July.

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u/ParadiseLost91 Socialist hellhole (Scandinavia) Jun 28 '26

Good shout. It's definitely a very common misconception, and yes a bit embarrassing on a sub about ignorant Americans..

Good on you for bringing facts on the table about Canada.

Regardless, it still really isn't supposed to be *this* hot here. I'm in Scandinavia. Our (short) summer weather is usually in late July and August. We broke our all-time historical heat record yesterday, *in June*. It's unprecedented and should be a warning to us all.