If you thought it was unusually sticky in many parts of the province yesterday—you’d be right.

Tropical air pushed northward by the remnants of Hurricane Lee caused temperatures and the humidity to rise in many areas, particularly in the eastern portion of the island.

High temperature records were reached in the Argentia-Placentia area, Winterland on the Burin Peninsula and Daniel’s Harbour on the west coast for yesterday’s date.

While the official temperature was in the low 20s, the humidex made it feel like the mid-30s in many areas, with a dew point nearly the same as the temperature.

In St. John’s yesterday at mid-day, the temperature was 22.5 degrees, but the dew point was at 21.4, with a humidex of 31.

That, says meteorologist David Neil, made it oppressively sticky and uncomfortable for a time.

He says the dew point is the temperature at which the air must cool in order to reach saturation. Neil says it affects the body, and makes it feel hotter, because the body cools through the evaporation of sweat, and when the dew point is close to the atmospheric temperature, then it can feel very hot and sticky.

Luckily the dew point and humidity is rapidly dropping as the remnants of Hurricane Lee pass to the north east.