Should we talk about the weather?

Fans of alternative rock pioneers REM might smile at the oblique reference to “Pop Song 89,” opener to the band’s major label debut “Green.”

Others might sigh, get up or stand as they sip a tall glass of Turner’s tea from a glass dripping with condensation as this dad joke continues.

The ideal summer weather of Monday and Tuesday, when it was warm but not muggy and sunny without storms, has ended. Meteorologists expect it to get hotter, more humid, with the risk of showers and thunderstorms as the weekend nears, making it apropos to invoke this Glenn Fry ear worm, recorded before hell froze over and the Eagles reunited.

Extreme heat returns Thursday when temperatures should soar past 90 degrees Thursday, according to Jared Rackley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Moon.

Pockets of the region could see a heat index — that’s how hot it feels taking the humidity into account — above 100 degrees.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday could also include rain and thunderstorms that will temper how hot it gets, Rackley said, but it will still be warm.

It’s a fitting time to listen to this Black Sabbath deep cut and chase it with a spoonful of summer sounds and a song about the month that’s closing.

The dog days of summer are here, by most accounts.

The weather service doesn’t define when the dog days of summer begin, Rackley said, but the Old Farmer’s Almanac considers the dog days to start July 3 and last through Aug. 11.

Fun fact: the dog days are less about the likes of Old Yeller panting beneath a wilted Oak tree and more about the rising of Sirius, the Dog Star, something that happens Aug. 11 this year.

Of course, there’s a song that fits, by the inimitable George Clinton.