As the sun set, the warmth left the dry air, and the light dimmed quickly in the unclouded sky.
You probably already know the highlights: chaotic weather, regular records set for warmth on land and at sea (and 2014 heading for an all-time heat high), 355 months in a row of above-average temperatures, more ice melting faster, more ocean acidification, the "sixth extinction", the spread of tropical diseases, drops in food productivity with consequent famines.
What is timeless is what we actually do at it – gather together with friends and family, eating good food in good company, giving gifts: setting human warmth against the outside cold".
The sun was just starting to set, shedding golden warmth over the scene.
The past three winters in the United States set records for warmth.
This is a bittersweet love story full of humour, irony and warmth, set in Narayan's fictional city of Malgudi.
The record warmth set in 2014 was surpassed again in 2015, when global temperatures surged to 1°C (1.8°F) above pre-industrial averages, worsening flooding, heatwaves and storms.
Set in the warmth and light of Southern California and told in tactile and olfactory prose, it was grounded on two subjects she obviously knew well: Arab-American communities and cooking.
With echoes of The Odyssey and material drawn from 19th-century captivity stories, this is a movie of complexity and contrasts - knockabout humour alternates with mysticism, Ethan's racism seems to triumph over Pawley's humanism, and the excluded life of the itinerant outsider is set against the warmth of domestic bliss.
September is the 4th month this year to set record for warmth.
