Luigi pointed out that my latching onto that animation of the heat wave sweeping across America “only tells you that it’s hot. Not that it’s any hotter than in ought to be”. And, as so often, he’s right. He was good enough to link to items that demonstrated that both May and June were indeed hotter than they ought to be. In the interests of making things as easy as possible, I’m going to share a picture of not the temperature but the temperature anomaly. And boy, has it been hotter than it ought to have been.
8 degrees F is almost 4.5 degrees C.
We’ve been playing around with 