If your NFL team is already under water (sigh), cheer up and focus on the NBA. Trading starts today, so jump on the appropriate Slack channel. Draft day is Wednesday, the preseason starts December 11, and the 72-game season starts December 22.

Summer officially starts on Saturday, so enjoy your last week of Spring 2020. To keep people from getting sunburned, the weather plans to rain across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast all week.

It’s the countdown to Halloween that will come knocking on your door this Thursday. Weather forecast: frightful in some places, with snow in the Midwest over to the Great Lakes and rain up the entire eastern coast. And, of course, wildfires in California.

Seems like everyone goes to Las Vegas for a convention at least once every two years. If you’re there now or going in the next couple of weeks, there will be millions of other tourists in your way. Relax, not the entire state of Kansas, just grasshoppers.