heat wave endures

Three weeks of above-average heat cling to central Grig, smothering citizens and straining moods. When they can, people head to the public swimming areas along the Yalung river or down into one of the many communal cooling caves sprinkled throughout the city's vast underground tunnel network. Some denizens of Grigovia's capital city, however, have no such luxuries; they are street sweepers and construction workers, neighborhood watches and fire sniffers, bridge inspectors, urban farmers, and elderly orphanage guardians. Usually, the city is blessed by cooling airs that roll down from the nearby Yiptlong massif, a ridge of craggy, snow-capped mountains to the north of the metropolis, but abnormally strong winds coming out of the east have kept relief at bay. “During the day, large amounts of air have been moving across the regions of desert that lie to the north of Gar Nuuzsh, to the east of Grig,” said Dr. Eiryiaest Oryast, meteorologist with the Grigovian Center for Climate and Environment. “Once these winds switch their direction across the Caspian Basin and blow the way we are used to them blowing, we here in beautiful cosmopolitan Grig should be able to comfortably return to our tastefully appointed homes and soaring apartment complexes.” The Ministry for Civilian Self-Defense released a statement today praising the high temperatures for keeping the Grigovian people bouncing lightly on their toes, crouching expectantly in their fighting holes, and wading steely-eyed into adversity.

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