Summer Continuing To Ruin Autumn Weather

Plenty to talk about today, but let me start with something that affects everyone (as they say): The weather. In case you didn’t hear, it’s going to be 85 degrees today.

You may remember 85 degrees from such times as mid-July.

Yet here we are, on October 8, flirting with the same temperature. And so comes the dreaded “unseasonable weather” stories, which are the same damn thing every year. But nobody remembers the last time it was unseasonably hot in October (well, besides last week) and so everyone’s all, “Man, has it ever been this hot in October?”

Well, apparently, no, not on October 8. We’re shooting to break — shatter — the 1887 record of 84 degrees today. We can feel better than those Philadelphians of 120 years ago, though: We have air conditioning. On the plus side for them: They only had to sit through 4 years of Phillies losses.

Even hotter today than 1887? [Inquirer]