We’re very lucky in how we split the year, with early autumn to early spring mostly in the Mediterranean and the other half of the year in northern Ontario. And yes, of course we know what we’re missing. We have friends and the internet and not all that distant memories.
And we do know what we’re missing in Northern Cyprus as well. September is the only month in which we haven’t been here. In 2020, the year of the lockdown, we were here from March until August. And as climate change is making Canada stormier it is making Cyprus hotter.
In 2021 a study in Cyprus showed that the previous four years had been warmer than average. And it only got hotter. In July 2023 there were sixteen days in a row with temperatures over 40 degrees. A record broken in 2024 when July was the hottest month on record.
NASA says that a global temperature rise of 1.5 degrees means more heat waves, water stress over half the planet, declining food supplies and rising sea levels. And the Mediterranean will warm faster than the oceans, meaning declining marine life and increased coastal erosion.
Meanwhile we manage to avoid contributing to global warming by never using furnace, heater, or air conditioning. (OK, fireplace in shoulder season). But at admitted environmental cost of transatlantic flights.
So a glass of wine and April Mediterranean warmth.
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