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| The hottest day of the year cooking in Statham, Georgia. Photo by me, July 2025. |
It reached 102 degrees in Athens on Monday, 100 on Tuesday and also 100 in Atlanta and I am elated July is over. The heat and humidity make July my least favorite month, I do not even like the name. The good news is that only one third of meteorological summer remains and perhaps this week was the peak of the heat. I am hopeful that there will not been another stretch with temperatures around 100 in August.
I was in Athens, Statham and Bogart on Monday during the worst of the heat. Many areas had been without significant rain since late June and driving the old Atlanta Highway the yards were brown. It was dry enough that even the crabgrass had given up. Horses and cows munched on brown grass in huddles underneath trees. The kudzu wilted and any type of breeze was nothing more than a dream. No humans wanted to be outside either, conversations with strangers were about the heat and the shade was a precious commodity.
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| Statham, Ga. Photo by me, July 2025. |
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| Statham, Ga. Photo by me, July 2025. |
I spent some of the afternoon rummaging through the top floor of an old brick building without air conditioning in Statham. The heat index was around 110 degrees. It was not the best day to be doing such, but I cannot resist wandering through old buildings when the opportunity presents.
The sky turned black by late afternoon in Athens upon leaving Trader Joe's. Relief filled the horizon as I saw the storms with red and magenta on the radar depiction on my phone. To the east over downtown Athens the rain poured. When it is that hot, the atmosphere boils up storms that unleash the torrents. Such is the summer fever and hopefully it has broken.
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| Photo by me, July 2025. |
Driving out of town, a puny storm wet the roads to make steam rise from the asphalt. Dog days be gone and good riddance to July.
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