It was only June, and people were already dying under those pixelated hot-pink pools. Not dying in large numbers; it wasn’t yet the kind of heavy weather where the feds would start sending in the iron-barred evacuation trucks. It was still only early June, when heat could be very anomalous without becoming actually lethal. But it was the kind of heat that kicked up the stress several notches. So the old folks’ pacemakers failed, and there’d be gunfire in the evening and a riot at the mall.