Hot Weather Guide for Novices

As of recently, several parts of the world are facing temperatures that seem to be breaking records on an almost daily basis. I wish I had said this with over dramatic exaggeration, maybe even standing on the side of the street, carrying a hand-held bell in my hand and proclaiming, “The world is on fire!”

It’s even more depressing when you think that the last part appears to be truer than everything else that I had described before it. Because the world is on fire… kind of… sort of… Throughout the last few years, you wouldn’t stop hearing about forest fires. Heck, the first thing I heard at the start of what I assumed was an optimistic 2020 was about the wildfires that ravaged southeast Australia. A single spark of flicker is all it takes to turn a forest into a tinderbox. Things never got better afterward — more instances of wildfires ravaged and ruined lives and livelihoods. Literally, billions of animals are either killed or misplaced in these horrific incidents, with about 3 billion alone counted in the Australian bushfires, according to reports in late July of that year.

It’s 2021 now, and things certainly did not turn out for the better. Forest fires, either through natural triggers or caused by human stupidity (looking at you, gender reveal parties), are more widespread. And if you think that these fires are contained to the land, think again. Even the freakin’ ocean catches fire!