The Real Face of Summer

Posted on July 19, 2004 in Weather

The Maine summers of last week have fled back to Maine and the true California summer has arrived, blasting the land and its people with 99 degree temperatures on our hilltop.

We went out for about an hour in the sun yesterday, to learn the workings of my father’s telescope. Even with minimal exertion, I needed to chew up three salt tablets to dismiss the dizziness and the burning of my scalp. Summer, the season of death, has arrived.