Ah, the heat. It's what we Kansans love to hate, and complain about, every summer.

It's already settled in, even though today is -- or will be -- the first day of summer. I've already seen comments from people that they've had enough of summer already. Breaking new: We'd have to have summer before we can get sick of it.

But I must admit, it's been difficult not to join in the growing chorus of people saying enough is enough. It's the humidity, however, that I can't take.

Oh sure, the rain has been nice this spring. Make no mistake about that. We needed it and will continue to need it.

But if the heat continues, we'll soon be right back into it, where we're struggling to have enough moisture.

Bottom line, we're not out of the drought. We've just had a vacation from it.

I still argue, and will continue to do so that we've been in a drought since 2000, when rain started shutting off.

Oh sure, we've had intermittent rains, timely ones in fact, to help farmers raise the crops they needed.

Receiving big rains, however, don't help replenish soil moisture, fill ponds or replenish aquifers.

Ponds in my neighborhood, for example, are not yet full.  They're a lot closer, but not there yet.

The heat, and a recently mentioned prospect of a flash drought, like that in 2012, I think it was, threaten the notion that we've turned the corner.

A flash drought coupled with near-century mark temperatures spell trouble.

Obviously, I'll only be able to tell you how that works after the fact. But for now, batten down the hatches, we might be in for a bit of a tough ride this summer.