Oh yeah -- almost every conversation includes some reference to our record breaking never-seen-before-this-early-in-the-season temperatures that have arrived for Memorial Day weekend.
One could postulate a theory or two about global warming or surmise that the Mayan apocalypse is indeed nigh (or nigh-ish, as we still have 208 days until that "event", for those keeping count). But in Chicago it for sure means that three things are absolutely true:
1.) The AC is fully on (and block by block brown-outs are only naturally to follow).
2.) The beaches are full (trust me, I know -- I sizzled my skin for a good ninety minutes on one today, and took my chances at there being contaminants in the water -- but then had to leave when even being on the fringe of the beach populace turned into being accosted from all sides by "beach sprawl").
3.) It's SHOOTIN weather (as in lots of people are bound to get shot -- although mostly confined to a few violent 'hoods, it's just a part of modern day urban life that high temperatures lead to hot headed "issue resolution" of the firearm variety).
Which means for two Sundays in a row ... I close with ... "stay safe out there!"
A CHICAGO METEOROLOGICAL TITAN's OPINION:
http://blog.chicagoweathercenter.com/tom-skilling/
THIS WAS THE 2011 STORY -- SO MAYBE IT's CHANGED SINCE THEN?:
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/06/29/report-great-lakes-beaches-most-frequently-contaminated/
AND THIS WAS THE STORY WHEN WE JUST BROKE RECORDS IN MAR 2012:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/12/chicago-murder-rate-up_n_1420382.html
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