NYC’s summer weather has been just like how we all feel — lousy

New Yorkers walking in Manhattan during a downpour on July 18, 2026. Michael Nigro for NY Post Feeling hot & bothered It’s summertime. When living once was easy. Now? We’re getting to be the Middle East’s Western front. Land of the former free, home of the current craven. If it isn’t raining, pouring, drowning us — it’s marches, pickets, riots, parades, battles, hatreds, killings, wackos, freakos, sickos, junkies, lefties, commies. All for one and one for where? Not just because lettuce is lousy. So’s friggin’ Fauci. It’s also shootings, stabbings, wall-to-wall wars, poverty, tattooing, near starvation, stores closing, rents rising, food prices rising, air thickening, rain pouring, bicycles killing, traffic worsening, politicians burbling. Also lousy weather, crooks, scaffolding everywhere