Hot Hot Hot

 I'm not saying my area is experiencing anything like the devastating heat on the Pacific Coast, but here's a little factoid for you. According to the meteorologists on the local TV stations, in a normal year, the Philadelphia region gets (on average) 30 days with temperatures of 90 degrees Fahrenheit or above in the period between June 1 and September 30. This year, as of today, we have already had 20 such days!

We're only six weeks into a 16-week period...and we're at two-thirds of the "average" number of "hot" days. Most of those days have been in high end of the spectrum, too--not just 90 or 91, but 95 or 96--and with a humidity that makes it feel like it's above 100!

Fortunately, so far our power grid seems to be keeping up with demand...but for how long?

Hot Town in the Summertime

 Looks like we're in for a blistering season, not just in the West where temps have been hitting record highs for months, but across the whole nation. The long-term map on last night's news indicated temps in the 90s for all of the contiguous US, as far north as Montana and Maine. Here in the Philly area, we've been spared so far (save for a few days last week), but predictions are for late June and July to be scorching...and humid.

Of course, the nay-sayers will tell you this has nothing to do with climate change (which is a myth, anyway, according to them), although the Far West hasn't experienced anything like this in 125 years...and not for such a prolonged period, ever. I swear we could having weather like the scenes in The Day the Earth Caught Fire, and some on the right would swear it was all just seasonal temperature changes.

And, if things go on as they are, we could well be in that situation.