I opened my google homepage today and saw the weather report for the three places I track, LA, Brooklyn, and Houston. It looked like signs of the apocolypse (or global warming):
1) Rain is forecasted for the rest of the week
2) Houston will break 100 degrees F for the rest of the week
3) Current conditions in LA are Haze.
A little over a month ago it started raining in the middle of the night in Brooklyn and hasn't stopped. (Forty days of rain and counting). So I was looking forward to a hot Texas summer. Since arriving I've heard everyone complain about the heat. I just kept telling them that it was summer in Texas, but no one could remember a summer this hot.
Turns out they are right, this week we have broken the heat records set in 1980. It is the hottest June of my life. It is too hot to go to the dogpark in the morning, even before ten am. That is hot.
I went running today in Memorial Park, something I have been looking forward to since January. About a mile in, I stopped and used the restroom. Pulling up my running shorts was as difficult and unpleasant as putting on a wet swimsuit. A one mile run before 9 am had left me completely soaked. It was like I had gone swimming in a pond in shorts and a T-shirt. It is going to be a long, hot summer. This kind of heat is a bad harbinger for hurricane season.
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