September is finally bringing what July forgot — heat records

Someone forgot to pull the plug on summer.
Want a weather record for Sunday? You can pick your favourite because we broke a lot of them at once, the way Wayne Gretzky used to. Here’s a sampling:
• Hottest Sept. 24. It reached 31.4 C at 3 p.m. The old heat record for Sunday’s date was 28.5 back in 2010, but Ottawa burned through that around lunchtime.
For context, the average high for Sunday’s date is 17.7 C.
• We just had our 13th day in a row with a temperature of at