In the olden days, we used to say you’d “flipped it” when you scored enough points on a video game to overrun its maximum score and start over at 0. I remember spending more than one afternoon playing Asteroids on an Atari 2600 to accomplish this feat. Time was slower in the 1980s, or the days were longer, but playing a repetitive game for hours just to see the score restart as though you’d just started playing–try to explain that to a young person today.
It looks like television meteorologists have done something similar.
The temperatures–no, sorry, the invented temperatures of the “heat index”–will be so hot this weekend that they have gone to the opposite side of the rainbow, from the red to the violet, where they will presumably at 120 degrees or so move into the blue like it was cold.
Although to be honest, it has not gotten to 120 degrees that I recall. Over 110 a time or two. But never all the way back to blue.
