It’s Not The Heat. It’s The Humidity.

News flash: It’s humid in Virginia Beach.

It took me five seconds on AI to confirm what I already knew from living in the resort city for the past 42 years.

Going outside in the summer is like walking into a dog’s mouth.

So exactly what Mensa member designed the new Dome concert hall, with retractable hangar doors for extra outdoor seating, without realizing that from May until October those open doors would turn the entire venue into a tropical rain forest?

As usual the buffoons who run the city not only soaked taxpayers for $55 million to build the 3,500-seat Dome, but now they’re shaking their tin cup, begging for another $661,712, to build an “air wall” to keep the humidity out.

Here’s an idea: Keep the doors shut.

Problem solved.

That won’t happen. Later today, self-important city factotums will whip out their abacuses and demonstrate how the new air wall will “pay for itself” in five years. We’ve seen this movie before.

Let’s back up. The Dome is part of the 12-acre Atlantic Park that includes the surf park and retail space. When city honchos were trying to sell the project to a skeptical public, a glad-handing member of city council told me that public investment in the project would be small, about $54 million.

I laughed in his face and said it would be at least $100 million.

He assured me I was nuts.

I WAS nuts. Taxpayers ponied up $152 million.

If history is any predictor by the time the sun sets tonight the Virginia Beach Development Authority will merrily vote to build an air wall.

Oh, and the final cost? It’ll be at least a million.

Hang on to your wallets, Virginia Beach.