The nation’s capital saw a crazy couple of weather days, from a record-breaking heat wave, to cool and rain, starting with heavy rain and thunderstorms Friday night into Saturday morning, leaving localized pooling on roads. While temperatures did warm up on Saturday, it left people unsure of what to put on. “Who knows what to wear today. If we get wet, we get wet,” says Karis Weightman. That didn’t stop people from getting outside Saturday to enjoy the day once the weather warmed up. “It’s quite nice. We had a bit of rain this morning but, now it’s warming up,” said Emilie Brazeau, an Ottawa resident. “This is great weather for a Canada Day weekend. A lot of warmth. Way better than rain and way better than snow. So we’ll take it,” said Roxanne Lefebvre, another Ottawa resident. The next few day will be another whirlwind of weather with more heat and wet weather on the way. Environment Canada says a hot air mass is expected to settle in Sunday and stick around for the next few days. “The hottest day is expected to be Monday, with that daytime high of 32°C. Hot temperatures will persist into Wednesday. This heat will not get as warm as it did during the heat event last week and we are not expecting records to be broken with this event,” said Environment Canada in an email. “It’s been a long winter. Every day that’s sunny and warm, we’ll take all the vitamin D that we can take,” said Lefebvre. “It’s not going to spoil our Canada Day celebrations by any means,” added Dan Manns, who’s visiting the capital. “That’s the beauty of Canada. We never know what we’re going to get with the weather.” Lisa Addison says she is not a fan of the heat and isn’t looking forward to more of it on the way, but she will sacrifice it to take her dad out from the hospital to get some fresh air. “I love the hot weather,” said Tony Meagan, an Ottawa resident. Environment Canada says it will be a warm Canada Day despite the wet weather expected. “For Canada Day, we are expecting another low pressure to move through early Tuesday morning. With this, the Ottawa area can expect more widespread showers and thunderstorms in the morning before diminishing to scattered showers in the afternoon with perhaps the odd thunderstorm. The daytime high is forecast to be 28°C,” said Environment Canada.
