Dog photo from the MB Flickr pool by our very own Ryan. Why don’t you people take more pictures of dogs, anyway?

That’s right, kids. The Dogs Day of Summer start Tuesday. All three of them. Because in Seattle, we get just three days of summer.

From the people who spend our taxes on fancy weather radars, the National Weather Service:

… Excessive heat watch in effect from Tuesday afternoon through
Wednesday evening…

The National Weather Service in Seattle has issued an excessive
heat watch… which is in effect from Tuesday afternoon through
Wednesday evening.

Temperatures will be 15 to 20 degrees above normal with daytime highs
reaching into the 90s across the Tacoma… Seattle and Everett
areas. Wednesday will be the warmest of the two days with highs
in the mid to upper 90s possible.

So, to remind everyone about how 90+ degree days work in Seattle:
1. Everyone complains, except for people from the Southwest or Southeast who laugh at Seattle weather wimps.

2. Then the people who were laughing remember they don’t have air conditioning because in this town you only need it three days a year.

3. Where there’s air conditioning, there’s people. Lots and lots of people. Especially movie theaters. This would be the perfect time of year for some A/C’d art house to show the director’s cut of Das Boot, because people would willingly sit through all six hours.

4. Your most likely Jim Forman sighting: Manguson Park. Maybe Green Lake, if they can somehow get it open for swimming again.

5. This is the one time of year “I have air conditioning” works as a pickup line. The rest of the year, you’re a wasteful anti-environment reactionary Republican. But this week, the whole bar is coming home with you.

6. Oh, bought your fan yet? If not, too late. And don’t buy an air conditioner. It will be right back in the closet on Friday, anyway. Well, if you’re desperate for sex, knock yourself out; just don’t buy the overpriced ones from Best Buy.

So, let’s all get ready to scorch together! Summer only comes three days a year!