The first 6 months of 2006: the warmest Jan-June on record

"It's not supposed to be hot like this. Lately there have been evenings when you could sit outside at 10 p.m. without a coat. All my life I couldn't do that."

-- Connie Clayton, 58, a lifelong resident of Frazier, Colorado, elevation 8,550 feet, in today's Washington Post.