“It is spicy out here,” my girlfriend exclaimed with some delight after we exited the chilled 74° inside my place. I had just finished some Kung Pao chicken (“George likes his chicken spicy.”), and I was feeling the heat in more ways than one.
(I had to, right, Seinfeld fans? Here’s the context if you aren’t familiar.)
For the last two weeks, temperatures in Kansas City and across the Western country have risen to the upper 80s to low 90s to now upper 90s in Kansas City, a dramatic rise from a comfortable spring.