June 2, 2024:
Theological weather. Environment as indifferent god.
The trail around the park is concrete, bright white wide and reflective, so that radiation comes from all directions without mercy. Increasingly enhanced radiation, as the ice caps melt and the oceans boil and East County in June is cloudless and scorching hot.
Overhead: Sheriff's helicopter. USN F-18s, USMC Ospreys. It's cooler at altitude. Here: cloudless, scorching blue heavens.