It was 108 degrees in Athens, a temperature that is not unusual for a few days in Julys past, not in June. Low 90s is the usual day temp otherwise with low humidity. Additionally, the Saharan dust that was rare, if ever, is now making “appearances.”
Air conditioning was unheard of when I was growing up there in a city of 1 million. Now it is everywhere in a city of 5-6 million and where it doesn’t cool off as much as those years at night. Too much cement and tarmac.
Still, by the sea and the northern suburbs things are far more pleasurable on such hot days. But, heat is heat.
It is 93 today in Athens.
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