Howdy, this is Jimmie Kepler. I don’t know where the readers of my blog live, or what their weather is like. I live in Dallas, Texas. Dallas is in the southwestern part of the United States of America. It is summer in Dallas.
Long time residences and native Texans refer to this time of year as “the blast furnace”. Why do we call it that? It is because the weather is usually as hot as if you were near a blast furnace.
Speaking of the word hot, it is not used by the weather person on the television or radio until the temperature is over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. When we are just in the 90 degrees range, they say it will be warm today. My guess is where you live 90 degrees is considered hot. It isn’t that way in Dallas or north Texas.
Most days when I get off work, if the temperature is below 100 degrees I do not turn on my car air conditioner. The exception is when I am just sitting in traffic.
To stay cool in our homes in the summer we run fans and air conditioning. My house is normally cooled to 78 degrees with a fan running to keep the air moving.
My day job considers the warm weather. We are allowed to wear shorts to work twelve months a year. On the warmest days, you will find me in khaki shorts and a Hawaiian shirt. It is very casual business dress.
Why not leave me a comment about where you live and the weather you have in July? I would love to hear from you!
Here in San Francisco, especially where I live on a high steep hillside, summer is generally a time of dense fog that gets so thick it condenses from the trees and falls like rain. Our temperatures are normally in the 60’s and occasionally into the low 70’s on what we consider really warm days. But I have also lived on the California desert, and I’m very familiar with genuinely ‘blast furnace’ type weather.
Here in Wyoming, we consider 90 degrees hot, but we occasionally get up to 100 and beyond.
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