Excerpt from CRAZY CANADIAN TRIVIA 2
by Pat Hancock
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Back in the “good old days” when there were a lot more horses around than there were hockey pucks, kids and adults alike made do with slapping road apples around on roads and frozen ponds. But road apples didn’t drop from trees; they dropped from horses. And when the brown lumps of horse manure froze solid, they made great – and free – hockey pucks.
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Humidex is a Canadian word. It’s a scale used to indicate how much warmer you feel on a hot day when there’s a lot of moisture, or humidity, in the air. On a really humid day the thermometer might read 30°C but you might feel as if it’s about 5°C warmer than that. Why? Perspiring can’t cool your body down as well on a humid day because sweat can’t easily evaporate into air that’s already got a lot of moisture in it.
From Crazy Canadian Trivia 2, copyright © by Pat Hancock.
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