Yes, it looks like a case of EAO this year. Cold air is building over northern Canada and will make occasion incursions into the western and northern U.S. beginning the third week of August.

Temperatures will zip into the 90s and close to 100 but only for a couple of days at a time, certainly no long stretches at a time. And, the wild fires burning from California to the Yukon will also dim the sunshine, which in turn will tone down the heat.

Look for the tree leaves to start getting that rough, harder sound within the next couple of weeks. The bugs are already noisy.