there's two parts of canada that really aren't much like being in canada, in terms of climate.

- the very southern part of ontario, not including toronto but including windsor, london, kitchener, hamilton, niagara.

- the okanagan valley

these two very small regions do not have weather that is very canadian at all. windsor is further south than minnesota, wisconsin, iowa, most of michigan, a bunch of states moving west to washington and oregon and and the entire northeastern us, including almost all of new york. even toronto is a tad further north of boston.

this doesn't seem weird anymore. rather, i'd be surprised, today, if the opposite happened - if i needed a jacket in september.

but this would be considered baffling a few decades ago.

in windsor, in 2026, sept 1 is not the end of summer, it's mid-summer. sept 21st is not the end of summer. 

oct 15th is the end of summer, here, nowadays, and you would expect high humidity and heat here and to be out in shorts and tank tops until mid october at the earliest. we've had summer linger into november here recently on several occasions - meaning consistent 20+ highs.

for the americans, 35 C is 95 F. 45 C is 113 F. 

this is a canadian suburb of detroit.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis

or the gord archipelago.

if you'd prefer.