It’s a few more weeks until the calendar says it’s autumn, but meteorological summer ended with the start of September. It’s been a incredible season, with record heat and a lack of rain that not seen in decades. When meteorological summer began June 1 people expected a few more weeks of cool temperatures and the first 15 days of June averaged several degrees below normal, then the 16th hit and that changed it all. It was the first 90-degree day of the year many more since then. Part of the reason for the heat has been the lack of rain this summer. Energy needed to evaporate moisture in wet ground removes heat from the air. Tropical remnants are needed or there might the most active fall fire season in recent memory.