Summer officially arrived at 7:09 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, June 20, and the heat wave was right on time. Eastern seaboard residents, used to early summer temperatures in the low 80s, watched in dismay as thermometers in many places climbed almost 20 degrees higher than that. Here in Texas, areas all over the state have...

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