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[ellarien]

Summer's coming; it isn't too hot yet, but it will be soon. Actually, we seem to have had a wonderfully long, cool spring, but it can't hold for ever; we're heading into the nineties now.

Four months, maybe five, and it should start to cool down again. I don't have to be here for all of it. I can do this. In the meantime, the allergies should calm down once the heat has withered most of the flowers.

Even after ten years, I don't really have coping strategies for Tucson summers that work for more than a couple of weeks, It's all uncomfortable compromises, between decency and comfort, between noise and heat, between semi-starvation and even worse heat and noise. By the end of the month I'll already be tired of salad and summer dresses and sleeping under a sheet, and there'll still be three months to go.

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[amberdine.livejournal.com]

It must be tough.

I flirted with moving to the Tucson area a while ago, but after a week-long visit in August it was just so... unrelenting.

[ellarien]

Exactly. We get month-long runs of hundred-degree days sometimes, and just-before-dawn lows in the eighties, and even air-conditioned offices mostly hover in the high seventies, so it's possible to go for a couple of months without ever getting really comfortably cool.

For the other seven or eight months, though, it's lovely. We don't get many winter days that I wouldn't trade for a summer day back home -- or half a summer day, anyway, the day lengths being what they are. And we don't get hurricanes or or blizzards or ice storms or earthquakes or mudslides or proper tornadoes -- just the occasional microburst and some really spectacular thunderstorms.