But it's a *dry* Apocalypse


Another new all-time record high temperature for Portland today. That'd be 112 degrees Farenheit. Yikes.

I was out walking for a few blocks at 7:30 this evening, and I got quite a shock. Between the sidewalk under me and the neighbors' retaining walls next to me, it was an oven, to be sure.

Tomorrow will be a rerun of today, they say – maybe even a few degrees hotter. But at sunset tomorrow, when the breeze shifts to the west, it's supposed to cool things down to 68 by dawn on Tuesday. That would be a 45-degree swing over nine hours. Let's hope.

Maybe we'll get a week or two before the wildfires drive us all back indoors with smoke. It's getting easier to imagine how the polar bears feel.

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  1. Just as the mask mandate comes off, here come the fires. And remember, no fires could possibly be started by mostly peaceful arsonists.

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