Looking like Sunday or Monday of next week could be the window for the heat to start up. Still a ways to go hopefully gets tamed down and no 90s. If that’s the case that’s about 4 weeks straight with just one pretty warm day in there on 7/6. That’s a pretty good run for post 2012 summers.

New rule: It’s not “real heat” unless I get a 90 burger and Tiger gets a C note.

Fire of the day…

The whole Southern tier of the US is seeing active weather today!

Interesting test of the AI vs. physical models coming up. Though there's still a lot of spread, the physical models generally agree on a weak trough followed by a strong ridge, while the AIFS is much flatter. Euro, then GFS, then AIFS: