WEATHER WORD: Talk about a full-blown fall of summer. A week’s worth of honking northeast winds can do that. This is not to say we’ve seen the last of mildness; just wait a few weeks or so. I’m not ready to switch my mini splits over to “heat.”

Expanding the horizons, hurricane watchers are eyeing a record – more like a non-record – as the western Atlantic has yet to register a named hurricane, although a recent far-off cyclone got up to sustained 70 mph winds before disbanding.