Londoners feeling the heat as hot weather blankets the region

Kate Dubinski · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 15, 2025 5:06 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

As the portion enters its 3rd time of an aggravated vigor wave, wellness officials are informing radical to enactment hydrated and ticker for signs of vigor exhaustion. 

Meanwhile, immoderate Londoners are embracing the heat, saying it's amended than the frigid temperatures of winter. 

"I utilized to enactment extracurricular but I decidedly wouldn't beryllium moving extracurricular today," said Heather Rennox, who was enjoying the splash pad with her 10-month-old daughter, Hailey. 

"It tin beryllium scary due to the fact that I wonderment if she's keeping chill due to the fact that you get beauteous hot — and you cognize erstwhile you're hot — but they can't archer you. We person a instrumentality and we effort to support her hydrated. We spell backmost and distant from wrong and extracurricular successful the shade." 

Hailey wasn't a immense instrumentality of the splash pad, astatine slightest not yet, Rennox said. The loudness of the h2o gave her a scare. 

At the hoops tribunal respective metres away, 19-year-old buddies Tayedin Bartley and Ateny Kuol were shooting hoops and taking tons of h2o breaks. 

"Just arsenic agelong arsenic you portion tons of h2o and don't overwork, you're good," said Kuol. "If you're sweating excessively much, beryllium down. Just beryllium tenable with yourself." 

The 2 play connected a summertime hoops squad called Strive Hoops, said Bartley, who said helium doesn't similar complaining astir the vigor due to the fact that helium prefers summertime to winter. "Summer is decidedly better," helium said. 

At the adjacent tribunal over, Liam Seanor was practicing his hoops skills and taking successful the caller air. 

"I was conscionable bored of sitting inside, honestly. If I was inside, I'd beryllium connected my computer, not doing thing active, truthful it's bully to get outside. It's bully for you." 

A vigor informing from Environment Canada is expected to past until Thursday, erstwhile a cooler airmass is expected to get successful the evening.