These have been two weeks of incredibly high temperature. June is never so hot! It was like being in July and August.
But from today heavy rains are expected. Therefore today may become the worse day: when the fiery hot weather doesn't want to give in and fights its extreme battle to predominate.
On one side Summer is advancing with great boldness and on the other dawn is receding. The earliest sun rising was at 5.36 (i.e. 4.36 solar time) on the equinox, the 21st of June. Now, on the last day of June it is already 4 minutes later, at 5.40 (4.40 solar time).
I get up very very early, usually at 5, but often even earlier, and I like to spy on the rising sun. For me it's an event that makes me happy. Especially in Spring when dawn comes earlier and earlier.
Then the equinox arrives and the next cycle begins, with its slowing down. And somehow it's a paradox, because it is exactly when the strength of the sun is instead increasing! It feels strange inside...