The long hot summer

Summer comes in the calendar every year and is only long if it remains hot. That depends on the latitude. The further down south, the longer and hotter it gets. Needless to say, I enjoy better sunny and warm weather than cold and damp, as many old people do. That tendency to move to warmer and sunnier lands upon retirement is a common stance in Europe and the US. Sunny Spain or grapefruit country such as La Florida. I like to keep the article "La" as in the original denomination by the Spaniards.

I am from the Mediterranean country of Catalonia, currently part of Spain, the city of Tarragona. The Roman emperor Hadrian wrote about the predecessor of the city, in Roman times named Tarraco, "...ubi vera aeternal est". Where the spring is eternal. Indeed, although in growing old, my bones resent the few weeks of cold weather we stand in late January-early February, sometimes lingering all the way to March.

Climate change, or rather, global warming, is making our "eternal spring" push temperatures up to the upper eighties and even nineties in May and June. 

Will see what August will bring about.