@alex The weather pattern just doesn't seem unusual to me. To cite two examples from Houston, 1997 and 1990 had similar unrelenting heats in the month of August. The only difference from 2023 is that the high is 4-6 degrees warmer. The underlying weather pattern of prolonged heat without break isn't that unusual. I think the fact that it's hanging around triple digits instead of 97-98 is having an outsized effect on the perception.