Hot, hot, hot...

We have been having a record-breaking heatwave this last week, with temps up to 38 degrees during the day, and the hottest overnight low ever recorded in Tokyo on Sunday morning, 30.7 degrees. I put Riku's room thermometer out on the deck in the shade on Saturday, and this was the result:

It probably could have gone higher, but had reached the limit! It was far more humid than 25%, probably between 60-70%, but for some reason the hygrometers on these things break really easily. Quite sure the thermometer part was accurate though, it was very very hot!

Riku seems to take after his dad more than me, and other than a bit of heat rash (much less than last year thankfully), he doesn't seem bothered by the heat much at all. Yesterday though when we got home from summer school (will do a post on that soon), he stripped off, headed straight out to the deck and lay down in his paddling pool, so he must have been feeling it a bit! I haven't got any photos of him lying in the pool, just these ones of him trying to squirt me with the pump:

Looks like this weather will continue through most of August- glad we have our new deck to create some shade and put the paddling pool on!