The Long Hot Summer

Signs that it is an unusually long, hot summer on the Kapiti Coast:

• It feels like a Waikato summer with temps of 26-28°C. Long time Kapiti residents complain about the heat when it reaches 22°!
• It's 37°in the house when I arrive home in the evening.
• Darren is wearing shorts and sandals to work.
• I'm on my second lot of lettuce and petunias, and the tomatoes are fruiting like crazy.
• It's the heat not my aging joints limiting my speed around the squash court.
• There are a few more ripe customers than usual in the library.
• People are using their heat pumps on the cooling setting for the first time.
• Day after day of blue sky, sunshine and little wind 😎