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Originally Posted by Denscity
Some people are only learning now that the BC Interior is hot and sunny every year. Meanwhile it’s been normal for a thousand years.
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Maybe. On the other hand, I wonder how educational it is when people around you are describing increasing discomfort in the conditions. RHINO from Kamloops was providing advice on how to cope in homes that are not built for this heat. That's useful and interesting.
Let's be honest here, the lesson is contextless and ill-informed and reads like you are more interested in jockeying with mercury, because you are not even telling us the experience of the conditions. Numbers are fun but when you are sitting in your icebox, it doesn't tell us anything. Numbers can contextualise our heuristics but when you are never talking about the heuristics, it's just numbers.
Secondly, it is perhaps much more interesting to discuss ways of building homes to deal with the heat, how to build homes safe from the dry conditions, and what you expect to use those warm temperatures for. Because numbers, just numbers, don't tell a story. Don't ride the mercury, tell us a story. Or as they do in the writing sphere: show, don't tell.
Because there is another story that you telling. Lytton got to 49.6°C. You don't mention that it burnt down right after. You told us the number, you didn't tell us what that did to the town. That is misleading. How educational could that ever be?