"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal." —Dante Alighieri

Not usually seen in Seattle advertising:

Today we hit 102° in Seattle. [Correction: now they're saying we hit 103°, a Seattle record.] It's only been 4 months since this much more typical (and for me, much more acceptable) forecast:

BTW, I saved that forecast because I loved the slight, almost poetically bored, descriptions of how much rain is expected in those next nine days "...at a Glance":


Showers likely,
chance showers.

Chance showers ...
chance showers.

Chance showers,
rain likely.

Chance rain,
chance rain,
chance rain.