“Texas is Hotter Than the Hottest Place on Earth.” Come on. Is this click bait or what? When Newsweek published this headline last month, I thought to myself, “prove it.”

So, yeah, California’s Death Valley is technically known as the hottest place on Earth and certainly the driest place in North America. And on one horrible day in May, when meteorologists were forecasting a “real feel” heat index of 112 degrees in south central Texas, it’s true that – for one day only – our region was hotter than Death Valley.

But is this a trend? It’s safe to say we’re in an era of extreme weather events. Flood plain maps are being redrawn as Houstonians come to the dawning realization that we must learn to live with water , and we’re noticeably nervous about the grid crashing either because we’r

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