When it isn't one thing, it's another. Today it was both and then some. Real-feel temperatures in New York neared 100˚ (it felt the same in the shade as in the sun!), brought down only a little by a sudden torrent an hour ago. All the while, the air was unhealthy because of smoke from wildfires half a continent away. Still, we're not getting the worst of any of this. We haven't, like many western states (and European countries and Asian cities), had our highest recorded temperatures, aren't encountering fires exploding around us like in Canada, the American West or Spain, or, like many of the places we visited in China last month, are wading through streets flooded by slow-moving typhoon Bavi. But we do have a Congress with nothing better to do than try to make daylight savings time permanent, "saving daylight." Deckchairs!
