Summer officially begins at 5:26 AM MST (8:26 AM EDT) tomorrow… which means it’s time for BrendanLoy.com’s quarterly post about how silly it is to say that the seasons “officially begin” on the solstices and equinoxes. (Hi Mike. :)
Here in Phoenix, it has felt like “summer” for quite a while, but it won’t take too much imagination over the next few days to recognize that summer has definitely arrived:
Holy freakin’ furnace, Batman!
June 20th, 2006 at 9:58:42 pm
It’s great that I’m predictable enough that I don’t even have to make certain comments for them to be anticipated and acknowledged.
June 20th, 2006 at 10:31:23 pm
It’s not so much that you’re Predictable, Dr Mike. It’s just that you’ve got us all so well Drilled. :) “Refutation #K-7 from Professor Wiser.” “Right.”
Brendan, that’s just Ridiculous. “Mostly Sunny”, indeed. :/ Fie. :}
June 20th, 2006 at 11:48:41 pm
I was lucky enough to be in Pheonix during the summer of 1995, when the temperature hit 121 in July. (One degree shy of the all-time record I believe) It was then that I decided a postcard I found was onto something. It read:
Welcome to Tempe, AZ. 60 miles from water. 6 inches from hell.
June 21st, 2006 at 12:08:24 am
45 Deg C - and I thought it got hot here Down Under!!!
June 21st, 2006 at 2:40:43 am
Hmmm. That little graphic is a good argument for becoming nocturnal.
Whose grand idea was it to build a city there anyway?
June 21st, 2006 at 6:21:33 am
and you want to live in the middle of a desert because why again? Seriously, trying to cover purgatory while your still alive so you don’t get in too much trouble for being a lawyer?
June 21st, 2006 at 8:06:30 am
But it’s a DRY heat!!!!
Just like my oven.
:-)
June 21st, 2006 at 3:49:07 pm
The guy living in the DC area decides to criticize someone else for living in an area with an unbearable summer? Seems like a stretch, given that Brendan’s not in Houston…