Tuesday, September 22, 2009, is the first day of fall, one of my favorite seasons. But it sure doesn’t seem like autumn in the Pacific Northwest because the anticipated high temperature today is ninety degrees! That doesn’t seem like a change to me. Fall weather is usually crisp and cool, chilly enough for a sweater in the morning and cold enough at night for blankets on the bed, although not quite nippy enough for flannel sheets.
These high temperatures in fall give thermophobics something else to fret about in life. By the way, there really is a word and an actual medical condition for fear of the heat: thermophobia. Of course, a fellow thermophobic let me know that. I wouldn’t say I have a fear of the heat, more of a dislike for it. Hot weather is not something that I look forward to. It probably has something to do with too many heat-related brushes with skin cancer, sleepless nights, and long rides home on buses with no air conditioning. Of course, come February we thermophobics will likely be whining about the cold weather and the rain. C’est la vie.
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