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Article content Edmontonians were looking for ways to keep cool, or embracing the first truly hot days of summer, as extreme temperatures arrived in the city on Tuesday. The city was poised to meet or exceed record temperatures for a second day on Tuesday. Edmonton reached 34 degrees Celcius by 5 p.

m. at the Edmonton Blatchford station, up from a daily record-breaking 32.6 C set on Monday .



The record for July 9 was set at 34.1 C in 2015. Environment Canada has issued a heat warning for much of Alberta.

Local temperatures are expected to peak Thursday with lingering heat through most of next week. The arrival of this scorching heat wasn’t something Michelle Riopel looked forward to. “I don’t deal with heat very well.

I get whiny and cranky and lethargic.” “I do have an AC unit, but it doesn’t work very well. My place is like an oven,” she said laughing.

Riopel spoke to Postmedia outside Kind Ice Cream on 102 Avenue just before noon on Tuesday. She wrote a list of ways to cool off and posted it on her fridge for when the heat gets to be too much — soak a bandana in water, put her feet in cold water, turn on the fan, to name a few. “I’m miserable in the heat, so I kind of go overboard.

” Going to aquafit at the Wîhkwêntôwin (formerly Oliver) outdoor pool was her solution Tuesday morning, followed by ice cream on her way to work. Grace Streuth, Alex Forest, and Sam Kulathilaka had a similar idea. The three coworkers stopped at the same ice cream shop a.

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