I was In Chicago since Saturday night returning last night. Monday and Tuesday we’re full on summer-85-90 with dews. I’m embracing change-time to turn old man winter’s eyes to the north.
It’s ironic that bears, big cats, bulls, and other big animals scare people a lot more world wide vs tiny mosquitoes which can cause malaria and other diseases...
OT but have you read “The Big Burn” by Timothy Egan? Great read and highly educational. About the catastrophic fire of 1910 out west. Smoke was detected as far east as Greenland.
My benchmark was the late summer early fall of 1954. Carol/Edna/Hazel. I remember as a young boy riding my bike after Hazel passed with my mother yelling after me-careful-there are loose trees! Winds were still gusty but l had to get out in it. A 7 year old weenie.