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Some people would call TV season over since all the primetime shows are officially on hiatus, but there's still a crazy amount of good television coming our way in the summer!

The summer of 2011 was the second hottest on record for the United States, and the hottest in 75 years, government weather experts said Thursday.

Texas just finished the hottest June through August on record for any state in the U.S., weather officials said Thursday. National Weather Service meteorologist Victor Murphy told The Associated Press that Texas' 86.8 degree Fahrenheit average beat out Oklahoma's 85.2 degrees in 1934.

Labor Day weekend signifies the unofficial end to summer travel season. Looking back, there’s at least one encouraging takeaway from the summer of our discontent. If we survived the mishaps of the last few months, we can survive anything.

Summer 2011 has given us many things, some of them good. Three months ago, only the earliest adopters had heard of Kreayshawn, the Weeknd, Fall Creek Boys Choir, or countless other current iPod staples. Foster the People are famous now. So are LMFAO (like we said, it’s not all good).

The good news for Hollywood: summer movie revenues are up worldwide as studios rebounded from a dismally slow start to the year. The bad news: Domestically, revenues rose only a fraction compared to the previous year's, while actual movie attendance dropped for the fourth-straight year.

The U.S. Forest Service is warning that fire danger in the Angeles National Forest is being moved up a notch from "high" to "very high" over the Labor Day weekend as extreme heat is expected to return to the region.

The heat wave that has gripped Southern California will continue for at least one more day, as the National Weather Service issued a heat advisory for large swaths of the region.

Sweltering may have reached a new record last month, as Oklahoma racked up the country's highest monthly average temperature ever.

Important health tip for the summer: Drink more wine! A better protection against harmful sunburns might be a healthy dose of SPF sauvignon blanc, suggests a new Spanish study.