It's Like Africa Hot

This late summer heat wave in the Bay Area has been an unwelcome surprise. I heard from a colleague that it was a sweltering ninety degrees in the Outer Sunset District of San Francisco the past few days. That is astounding for an area that is typically blanketed in fog and never gets much warmer than the upper sixties. Another colleague who is on maternity leave and has been working from home out in Pleasanton has had her air conditioning system going round-the-clock, with the plus one hundred degree highs baking her roof. What is up with the weather? If it gets any hotter, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) may just rise from his grave and take back his quip, "the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco". A more apropos quote is the one from the Matthew Broderick character in the film remake of Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues: "It's like Africa hot".