Unless I am hallucinating - which is not outside the realm of possibility - the calendar tells me it is July 17.
That is mid-summer."
Which means it is going to be hot out.
Of course, it can't just be hot. That's not nearly enough for our friendly forecasters.
Now we have to know what it really feels like.
Here's a hint. It feels hot. It is July, after all.
OK, I admit it. This is my pet peeve, and not just because I like hot, humid weather.
It now seems the job of our local weather folks is to scare us 365 days a year.
We just survived what seemed to be nightly tornado warnings.
That was eclipsed by flash flood warnings.
Now we have excessive heat warnings.
Imagine that, it's going to be hot on July 17.
Of course, it's not going to just be hot. It's going to be "dangerously" hot.
That's why we have the "feels like" temperature.
It's not going to just be in the mid-90s. It's going to "feel like" it's more than 100. And that's the whole point. Anything to be able to drop that 100-degree reference.
This amounts to the summer version of the wind-chill.
You can bet one thing: When this heat wave breaks, it will be accompanied by "dangerous" storms, tornado warnings and flash flood advisories.
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