premise: It 's not how hot the summers are here as much as how long they go on . Temperatures started topping 100 degrees in May this year , and for a little while it 's bracing . You think you 'll fight it out , but by August you are desperate and the sun seems to hang smug and sullen at dead noon all day long . There 's a vicious , personal quality to the heat of these late summer days , like summer has it 's teeth in your neck and it 's going to shake you till you 're limp , wring the last bit of juiciness out of you before , if we 're lucky , it dies in late October . Why do they want the summer to end ?
hypothesis: because by August you are desperate