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OH BOY ! JULY 21st IS HERE...
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OH BOY ! JULY 21st IS HERE... OH BOY! JULY 21 IS HERE! The 21st day of July probably doesn't mean anything extraordinary to any of you guys, but to me and M. this day represents the middle of our summer. The 21st of course, is NOT really the middle of summer. For US however, it means that the "wicked" desert sun will now turn it's face toward the Southern Latitudes and slowly, day by day, bring down the daytime temperature and decrease the long, hot days. The longest day of the year, is the summer solstice that occurs on June 21st. At our latitude that means it starts getting light in the mornings on the Southern California desert at 4:30 in the morning, and isn't dark until after 9 PM. The winter solstice on December 21st, has our days ending with dusk at about 4:30 PM, and getting started way late at around 8 AM... Ginger, the weather expert, broadcasting from a Palm Springs T.V. station 60 miles from us, tells us all that AUGUST is the hottest month of the year on our desert. Perhaps in the spiked temperatures at the peak of the day, August IS the hottest month, but we still look forward to it because the long glaring hot days are getting shorter all through August. Those of you living in Northern areas of the country often find yourselves "housebound" by snow and cold weather during the winter months... We live in housebound conditions during July, and August, caused by the extreme heat and glaring sunshine. At the peak of our summers, the days here consist of over 15-1/2 hours of hot light. When I first bought my place on the desert, almost everyone--including me--left our homes and went to other places out of the desert to escape the summer. In those years from the early 1970's on into the late 1980's available air conditioning was awful. It was ungodly loud, very expensive to run, broke down just about every summer during the hottest day, and was not able to filter out the moisture that would accumulate in a house where the AC was going 24/7. Technology has improved Air Conditioning now to the point where we hardly hear it running and "dry modes" on the remote control wick out the moisture that accumulates inside. Technology has also improved the efficiency of these machines to the point where running them 24/7 is affordable to nearly everyone. We still start getting "cabin fever" at this time of the year, though. We look forward to October and then on to the rest of the winter months, where we can be outside most of the day without being beaten down by old SOL.. I hope those of you reading this, are having a great summer, and live in places where the temperature for you is perfect. by david stardust.... Monday morning ... July 21st, 2014..   |
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the last few days here have seen it at 30 c as it will be therest of the week. i think 30c. is about 86-88 F.
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Yeah, those walks across campus in January really sucked.
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the last few days here have seen it at 30 c as it will be therest of the week. i think 30c. is about 86-88 F. silky... 
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temp is not perfect here,but it's home 
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Phoenix is about as hot as it is here--but I think you get a lot more rain than we get---and humidity...Arizona is a lot easier to live in than California has recently gotten..There are too many people here, and too many crazy laws... I have some good friends who live in Golden Valley, Az..
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In Ct, if the weather sucks, we just wait 5 minutes. A remember the weather there wasn't to my liking.. lol..
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That's right sweet Chocolate.. You're in Arizona aren't you?
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Pretty warm here too but not as hot as you are.. I love the desert and heat.. hugs V
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You are right about those of us up North being housebound in winter and being a like heat more than cold sort of guy I often think of moving south. Then I think of housebound in the summer. Now if I could afford to snowbird.  Palm Springs, 40 miles to our South--as the crow flies--has thousands of Snowbirds during the winter months...that's really how they manage to survive economically. Our house is about 3000 square feet, and there's always things to be repaired, shelves to be put up, and other things we do when we're housebound, so it's not too bad. Plus, the very early mornings are cool and we do a little work outside before the sun gets blasting..
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I don't like to be cold. I mostly like the climate here, even the very hot summers when the humidity is in the single digits..Recently though, during the past 3 years (and this summer too), the humidity is up around 50%. We haven't had any measurable rain in our area for two years....but it keeps trying to rain and failing at it... I'm really happy that the new AC I put in has a "dry" mode that gets rid of the moisture in the house, and works really well..Aside from being housebound, we're very comfortable...
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You are right about those of us up North being housebound in winter and being a like heat more than cold sort of guy I often think of moving south. Then I think of housebound in the summer. Now if I could afford to snowbird. If you see me in the real world, come say "Hi Justskin." I always behave. Preferably not well. 
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Pretty warm here too but not as hot as you are.. I love the desert and heat.. hugs V Become a blog watcher sweet_vm
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temp is not perfect here,but it's home    ---------------------Dennis US ARMY (RETIRED) AND YOUR FRIEND I never mean to offend(blog or comment) anyone ,If I do contact me please. Please check out my blog Harley-Davidson Drive(19harley86)
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