It can't last forever, can it? This weekend Austin matched all-time temperature records with 112F recorded at our local air force base. My car, which is a bit neurotic, claims it was 115F on Sunday afternoon, which was the highest temperature I'd ever seen on a thermometer. And we all sat here jealous of North Carolina and New Jersey and Long Island and poor Vermont with all that rain.
I am amusing myself by imagining how nice it's going to be when it does rain. The bad scenario would be lots of piddly little showers; what we want is one huge 2-3inch accumulation Texas-style thunderstorm, but that may be pretty destructive too.
Here are some more weather anecdotes. A good friend of mine had her first child in August 2007. She says that summer, it didn't hit 100F until August, and there were only four days of "triple digit" temps. She is Canadian, and has just returned from her summer migration to some cabin up on a lake, where she was, no doubt, surrounded by birch trees and cool breezes. She also said that during that long, pregnant summer, she hiked in the Barton Creek greenbelt twice a week (she is extremely fit) and then swam in the creek before returning to her car. I have never seen water in Barton Creek after about June 1. So this is NOT a normal summer and we shouldn't put the house on the market quite yet.
Here is encouraging information -- check out those little lightening flashes!
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