I had a visit yesterday afternoon from my cousin that lives in Arizona, she was/is liking our weather these days. It got up to 79 degrees yesterday afternoon and it was

SUNNY too!
It's a wonder your cousin wasn't chilly in the 79 degree weather!
Yeah, but you don't have the HUMIDITY to go with your 103--it's a dry heat, don't ya know



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Reminds me of a magnet I have on my fridge. It has a tiny thermometer on it and shows a skeleton sprawled out in a lounge chair with the sun beating down on him. Below him it says, "Arizona...it's a dry heat".
True, we have no humidity and it IS a dry heat, but stepping outside is like stepping into a 500 degree oven. The sun shines every day and can be relentless. Seriously though, I will take this dry heat over the East Coast heat and humidity any day!
The good thing about living here is that every place, and I do mean every place, is air conditioned. It is very easy to get out of the heat. And once the sun goes down in the evenings, it is absolutely gorgeous. Beautiful breezes. And another thing, there are very, very few bugs here, which makes it a wonderful place for dining outside.
Hi Luv. Need to tell your firefighters to step it up. We're getting smoked out over here.
I'll see what I can do! Probably not much! Fortunately for us, but unfortunately for you, the winds are blowing the smoke eastward, away from the Phoenix and Tucson areas. The area of the fires is about 300 miles northeast of Tucson. We haven't even seen any haze from the fires. So sad, though, for everyone affected by the fires.
How close are you to Albuquerque?
We have hazy skies from the smoke from the AZ fires too--btw, what is burning in AZ, it's all sand and cacti

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And don't forget cowboys!

Actually there are six national forests in Arizona, mostly in the central part of the state. The fires that are burning now are in the central/eastern area, near the New Mexico border.
Most of the desert areas are in Southern and Southwestern Arizona. Phoenix and Tucson are in the Sonoran Desert, which does consists of a lot of sand and cacti!
10:00 am, sunny and 83 degrees. Going for a high of 100 this afternoon. Just another typical summer day here!
