What's more current than the weather?

[BigV]

spent last weekend in Ridgecrest, California.

I was a little alarmed when the crawl on the Weather Channel indicated that the predicted high for the day would be 113 degrees. I LOL'ed when they helpfully added that the chance of rain was 0%.

The heat index is unknown, and the dew point might have been 78 or better, but it was irrelevant. I don't remember ever being sweaty, and we were outside plenty. The transition from the air conditioned car (on max cool, high fan, always) to the outside was like when you open the oven door and lean down into the onrushing shockwave of heat as you take the pizza out. It was just a physical blast of meanness. Gah.