By Anais Voski and Ted Feibel, Ottawa Citizen, July 29, 2015
Temperatures in Ottawa soared to 34 C on Wednesday afternoon, making this year’s
July 29 the hottest in 123 years. It was briefly thought that the temperature —
which topped the high of 33.3 C recorded in both 1949 and 1959 — was a
record-breaker. But then Environment Canada meteorologist Peter Kimbell said he
discovered that Ottawa reached 36.1 C in 1892, although there is no one alive to
remember it. On the Fahrenheit scale, that’s 97 degrees. via
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