In my fifty-two years of life, I’ve never been somewhere in October where the temperature was above 100 degrees. Witness our car’s dashboard this afternoon:
For the past few months, as we’ve had day after day of hundred-plus temperatures, everyone kept reassuring us it would cool off in October. Hmm. This doesn’t feel like “cooling off”.
Now, as we enter October and see a week of heat warnings in the forecast, those same people are protesting, “It’s never like this!”
The same thing happened when we moved to Montana. Within a week, there was a wind storm the likes of which people hadn’t seen in half a century. As we experienced other freak weather events over the years, we figured it must’ve been us. Now that we’ve moved to El Centro, the freak weather has followed. Sorry, everyone…