ML, any day now, they’ll start the gas conversion and then a boiler replacement. The plumber swears she can get the heat working to the master bedroom radiator, finally. Not a project I wanted during high 80s weather. IS something I hope I’m grateful for in January.
Lol, I see one of the Hallmark channels is running Christmas themed movies, snow and all. Or maybe I can rewatch Trapped, set in an Icelandic blizzard.
For the Phoenix posters, why not Flagstaff ?
@publisher what do you consider beating the heat? It’s 92 in Flagstaff today, but we did take our family up there one year for a summer vacation. We went up over 11000 feet to the top of Mt Humphreys and also hiked a lava tube (essentially a short, dead end cave) in one day. We visited native American ruins, we did the Red Mountain hike, which we all loved. Took our kids to a deer petting zoo, the Lowell Observatory, and an historic home tour. A bunch of other things. Flagstaff is a lot of fun, but some of you might still think it’s a bit hot. They have lots of afternoon thunderstorms up there. The white mountains in eastern Arizona (Show Low, Pinetop) are beautiful too, and cooler.
My understanding is that Flagstaff is usually 20 to 25 degrees cooler than Phoenix.
Work - I have been freezing in my office.
Yes that’s probably accurate. 115 in Phoenix today, 92 in Flagstaff.i think Flagstaff is at about 7000 feet elevation. It also cools off a lot more at night.
Northern Michigan is lovely and rarely sweltering. Beautiful area and I mean both the U.P. and the lower peninsula. I also second Yellowstone. We just got back from there and wore sweatshirts. It was in the seventies. It was hard to come back to the heat.
I’m in Tennessee and it is really hot right now. I lived in Dallas for almost 30 years and my husband is a Texas native. We bolted for a week in Colorado every August. We still do that from Tennessee, but we have to fly instead of drive. I remember leaving Breckenridge (we now go to Crested Butte) to drive back to Dallas and putting on a fleece top to pack the car and gradually shedding clothes as we drove towards Texas. By the time we got to Amarillo it was sweltering again. We are looking forward to being in Crested Butte in about 6 weeks!
I live in coastal California and it is really hot today and I think through the weekend. I think the beaches are forecasted for 100 degrees. We are not accustomed to this kind of weather.
If there aren’t icicles, it’s not enough temp difference. AC at home is better than traveling for a few relatively indistinguishable degrees up north. We’re in Boston tonight, traveling up to Maine tomorrow. I’ll stand the humidity for some time on real water and the smell of pines, but we were hoping for cooler temps here. I’ll take what I can get.
In the Phoenix area, AC and boat drinks served poolside solve all ills. I’ll only travel for other benefits.
It’s 50% humidity in Mid-Coast Maine, a teeny bit lower in Boston, right now. That’s not bad at all. We weren’t affected by the humidity in Maine, a few days ago.
When we used to visit my grandmother in Phoenix, DH used to joke he had to start his jog before 8am and that by the time he turned back, he was running from the shade of one palm to the next. Of course, the older folks loved it. My great aunt joked 90 was sweater weather.
If you are jogging or playing golf in the summer, you better be doing it before the sun rises.
OTOH, 90-100 degrees here is quite comfortable but not sweater weather. It only starts to feel very warm over 100 and really hot over 105. Below 100 is where the “but it’s a dry heat” comment comes from. No one complains about temps in the 90s here, even visitors. My Michigan brother DID keep his sweatshirt on in the low-90s when visiting and complained that he came to swim and it was barely warm enough. Low/no humidity makes a huge difference in comfort.
When we were in AZ in the heat (90s), we still felt it was HOT. YMMV
What we thought was incredibly cool (pun intended) was swimming in Death Valley (in CA, of course) at the pool there and literally shivering once one got out of the water due to the quick evaporation, but of course, that didn’t make the whole park feel cool - just a few minutes after leaving the pool.
We stuck to short hikes in AZ due to the heat both times we’ve been there. Once was summer, so probably 100+ (same year/trip as Death Valley’s 114+). The other was in the fall and not as hot, but still met our definition of hot.
My comfort zone is 50-80. It doesn’t matter if it “feels like 90+” with the humidity or just is 90+. To those who feel one doesn’t sweat (due to evaporation) in the desert… we sure did. That surprised us as we’d heard the saying too. Myth busted as far as we’re concerned.
Our northern bodies might be adapted differently though. Southern folks come up to our place and feel cold when we’re still wearing shirt sleeves. Where my mom lives (further north) many don’t even put a coat on unless the temp is 40s or below. When we lived in FL they were giving major “cold weather” warnings at those temps. She laughed when we shared it with her. She still laughs at how easily they close school around us, much less further south. Humans get used to where they live.
When we go up to PA (Poconos) in the summer it can be chilly or really hot. The one thing we can count on is that we will freeze in my sister’s over air conditioned house. We live in the south and my husband in particular is extremely conscious of energy usage and environmental matters. He doesn’t cool the house enough when he is home alone to be tolerable, in my opinion. When I’m home we are at 77-78. My sister sets AC at 71 and we are in sweatshirts.
Well, we’re not planning to beat the heat… we’ll be in Disney World in 2 weeks 
It was chilly here overnight. 
We keep our house at 71 as well. I can be fine in the heat and the humidity, but when it’s 95 and 90% humidity - blech. My son went to school in upstate NY. He’d wear a hoodie in the 30’s.
I’m going to look into the Alaskan cruise. I’d also really like to do a south african safari, that may be more than we wanted to do though. I did really enjoy Iceland last year, we’re going to go for New Years this year for a few days.
If I had my way I’d spend winter in the Caribbean and July in someplace in the 50’s - 60’s.
Bring your parka if you ever come to visit me, MOWC! Have always hated the humidity, from back in the days of growing up in south Jersey.