Dog Days Double Down: Central Texas Bakes Under a Relentless Heat Dome (August 10–16, 2026)

If you stepped outside this past weekend and felt like the air itself was fighting you, you weren’t imagining it. Central Texas is deep in the thick of what climatologists call the “dog days” — and this year, the dogs have teeth. The Heat Dome Explained The culprit behind our misery is a subtropical ridge…