It's getting hot in here

Today I got home from work and the thermometer said it was 86, which is shockingly warm given how cool it's been lately. This is how mild the summer has been: it's July 16, and I finally got around this evening to swapping our down comforter for a lighter quilt. It's not that I've needed the down comforter, but I haven't been uncomfortable with it either. Back in the States our house is so poorly insulated that once the DC heat and humidity cranks up (May at the latest) I literally beg Gretchen to put the down comforter away because it's too uncomfortable to sleep with it. Today one of the local papers basically said (if I understood the German correctly) that it's the first normal weekend of the summer.