Are you surviving...🔥

I lived in Phoenix for eight years. At first, it was nice not having to deal with the winter cold and snow. But after a while, it became tedious - I described the seasons as hot, and not as hot. Too many days of highs way over 100°F. I realized that it's sort of the opposite of Minnesota. When it's that hot, you stay inside. When it's fiercely cold here in MN, we stay inside. 🤷‍♂️

We need a LOT more rain here. The only good thing about it is there's no need to mow - the grass is dry and brown (of course, the weeds seem to keep growing). 🙄

You have the humidity. No thanks!

I can understand your feelings. We all have our favorite seasons. Some like the heat, others prefer cooler temps. My favorite time is spring when we come out of that long tunnel of winter and the snow is finally gone, the grass has greened up, the trees are starting to bud, and the bugs aren't out yet. Fall comes second, then summer, then winter - although that first snow is nice.

I can't stand the summer, either. Especially July and August. I'm counting down the days until fall begins.

We have a big storm hitting us tomorrow also.

Update: temp's finally going down to normal summer temperatures. The heat weave was only for 3 days, unlike the "heat domes" we had last year (I'll explain in a moment). It's down in the 90s today and will get down to the 80s for the rest of the week, which is how summer should be around here.


In the past, when I lived in Texas and later CA, we sometimes got these weird, freaky, high-pressure air systems that would come into the US and just sit there for weeks, cooking the land underneath it at 100+F temperatures, like a gigantic pressure-cooker.

Worst one I ever experienced was in August of 2011 in Texas. It was a large system too, so states as far away as Minnesota were suffering as well. There was no wind, and no relief at all, even at night. The air was stuffy and rarely got down to 80F during the nighttime hours. It was particularly torturous because we had a crappy AC in Texas that could only manage a 20-degree temp. difference, so if it was 100F outdoors, it was 80F indoors. There are times I wish we could have executed our stingy landlord over that. The heat dome of 2011 went away only because the seasons changed and it lost power. Then, everyone on our street got a new AC...except us. F-ing landlord refused to replace it unless it had broken on its own.

We had two smaller heat domes come into CA last summer, but something weird and surprisingly good happened. I mean, one week, we're cooking under 100+ temperatures, and then a large plume of smoke came down from wildfires in the north, and blotted out the sun, reducing temperatures to the 90s and 80s. So it was horrible that people had to deal with wildfires in northern CA, but it was nice to get a little relief from the sun further south.