May. The Washington Post was the only paper to give the briefing significant play, with an extensive story on page 3. Nothing turned up on the Internet at the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, or Miami Herald, which instead ran a story on an influx of cold 60-degree sea water along the Florida coast. Hot summers are not unusual, particularly in the South and Southwestern United States.
Phoenix is low desert, so summer weather there makes Dallas temps look like a cold front.
Today the forecast is for a low of 88 degrees and a high of 118 degrees, and it won't vary much for the next five days. The reason, I was told, is that everyone has air conditioning or evaporative coolers. Al Gore's warnings about global warming, as if he is an expert worthy of heeding. ABC at least acknowledged disagreement about whether global warming explains the current heat wave and drought in the South, but didn't bother with devoting even one second to any view contrary to the politically-charged line espoused by VP Al Gore. Here's ABC's Ned Potter.