First day of summer and start of hurricane season!

So today is the official start of summer although we've been in the 90s daily for the past 2 weeks! Here is our weather station reading as of 2pm today:

The weather stations sad face tells the story - it's a warm one! Generally the hottest part of the day here is around 4pm and as you can tell from the little arrow, it's only getting hotter out there. Good thing is my clothes on the line dried within minutes!

As a reminder as to how crazy the weather can get here, we had a lightening and thunderstorm come through on Sunday night. It was pretty powerful. We had an inch of rain in about an hour and the lightening was very active. The tree below is in our neighbours front yard. It got struck and as the was so close the clap of thunder that quickly followed was deafening. I screamed like a little girl in an octive that MM believes is not human :)
The rocks are supposed to be all around the base of the tree but the lightening blew them out as it passed out of the tree.

This one strike caused us all a few problems. Our cable TV box was fried and we had to get a replacement, our neighbours lost their TV, Phone and Internet service and another neighbours lawn sprinkler control panel no longer works! All day yesterday there were service vans all over the place fixing down cable boxes!

The weather man (Yanez) is predicting an active hurricane season - let's hope he's wrong (he usually is!)