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This is cut and pasted from the current weather conditions
station nearest me. Temperature: 100 F (38 C). That's in
Elkhart, which is two minutes to my right basically. So it has
hit the century mark. Dew point is 70 degrees. The desert at
110 feels like a spring play day comparatively, since the moisture
in the air here creates a sort of WALL effect. When you open the
door and exit a building you HIT the air; you RUN INTO
it. Then you wade into the fire. In the desert, though you feel it--
it's hot--you sort of slip through it, and if you find some shade
it's all right (relatively speaking).

For some reason this heat has triggered a shitload
of turtle activity in that the surface of the bay is covered
with painted and map turltes, snapping turtles (big) and
softshell turltes (big) all floating around, sniffing the swirling
heaviness of the ozone that has dropped to the surface
of the water, I guess. The temp will go higher. 103 I'm
thinking?