It is height of Summer at the moment.
This means, in the U.K. at least, that any protracted spell of sunny and warm weather gets to be described, in some newspapers, as a " Heatwave ".
This phenomenon causes some journalists to take a break from seeking the truth in a glass.
(the " in vino veritas school of journalism ")
Instead they stumble on through the mists to arrive at some long-forgotten nugget of learning that passes for journalistic endeavour-they check the statistical records for previous occurrences of similar weather.
