June was moderate.
July was hot, sometimes rainy.
August is unbearably hot. One day the heat/humidity index was 129*F. I feel like I am inhaling steam when I breathe. It has been this way for a few weeks, and the 15-day forecast shows at least 15 more days like this.
The doctor told me to stay indoors with my air-conditioner to off-set my heat rashes. A friend said, "Yeah, but you've got to live." So, I'm trying to strike a balance.
The last time I recall feeling this hot was about 1980 in west Texas. The real temperature then got up to at least 114*F.
Many Chinese people I know can't afford an air-conditioner, or if they have one they can't afford to run it very often. Electricity bills can run pretty high. I run my A/C quite a lot, doctor's orders, but my sympathies go out to the people running around in their neighborhoods in their thin pajamas with wet towels over their heads. They are just trying to survive.
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