it's the humidity

Today, at lunchtime, my daughter and I stepped outside for a few minutes. It was 94 degrees, but---according to my weather station on my fridge---felt like 102. WHEW! Even if the calendar hadn't told us yesterday was the first day of summer, this made it clear. The heat is here. And so is the humidity.

There's this joke around these parts that the official N.C. state motto should be "It's not the heat, it's the humidity." Heat is bad, don't get me wrong. But heat paired with a wall of air that...