BAR BAR 2 said:
Y'all have summers that produce temps well over 100 degrees, illegal aliens out the wazoo AND those big dang cactus. I will take 30 below with a 40 mph breeze any day. I don't think I'm tough enough to handle that. Maybe I'll send the "Hostile Native" down there for a few days to remind her that living here with me really aint that bad.
Yeah, but it's a dry heat
At least that's what they tell me as a sort of consolation prize.
The weather forecast through this weekend calls for a minimum high of 105F on Sunday, after the cold front moves through, apparently. :shock: It's 109 F today. I've seen 119 F with a relative humidity of over 50% a few times (thankfully, not often). 110 F to 115 F highs are fairly common in the second half of June and the first half of July, then the monsoons start and the highs are generally below 110 F. Still, the winter weather can be awfully nice (75 F for Christmas, anyone?).
And on the flip side, I was in Nebraska two and a half years ago (in late January) on a horse-buying trip; it was 19 below, with a pretty stiff wind. We were looking at the horses out in a pasture, with not so much as a barbed wire fence to act as a wind break. The colts looked like bear cubs with all their winter hair. I thought I was going to keel over frozen, like a cartoon character turned into a Popsicle, at any second; everything that wasn't covered (which, admittedly, wasn't much) either stung like it was being poked with pins and needles, or felt like it had been shot full of Novocaine. I never knew my eyeballs could feel cold (but they can, apparently...). Neither did I realize until then that it is possible to have your nose running with ice crystals. Every time I read about one of you brave folks going out and pulling calves in that weather, I start to whimper and my face twitches a little.
