Yesterday morning I was on the phone with my sister in McMinnville, Oregon, a Willamette Valley town about 50 miles from Portland, where the temperature at 9:00 was already 84 degrees and they expected a high of 100.

Makes me shiver with foreboding.

Yesterday's high in Juneau, Alaska, where I live, was in the low 60s. I don't think I'd survive 'down south' these days.