Not Quite Phoenix

[digitS']

But, an April with a monthly average temperature warmer than Salt Lake City ...

The nearest large WS office is compiling April weather numbers. It will be the second warmest April on record. Only April 1934 has been warmer over about the last 125 years. 54.7°f average for this month

I went to a list of US cities. It won't match extremes and this is temperature not precipitation or humidity or anything else.

Spokane Washington was warmer on average than Portland Oregon, Indianapolis Indiana, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, and Baltimore Maryland ... we are 8° above average!

Our April average should match Buffalo New York, Minneapolis Minnesota, or Toronto Ontario.

Steve

 

[aftermidnight]

Our April has been the warmest in recorded history, I hope that doesn't mean we are going to have another stinking hot summer, if we do you all are going to see what a whimp I can be .

Annette

 

[digitS']

Water, Annette.

It's magic.

Water.

Steve

 

[Smart Red]

Sorry, Steve. Even water isn't enough to stop me from melting in the worst of the summer heat. Then it is early to work and into the cool house during the heat of the day.

And now I have spouse to worry about. He seems to have lost his sense of temperature. I've found him out working in near 80 degrees with his winter jacket on. One big sweaty mess under the jacket.

 

[aftermidnight]

For some it's all in what you are used to, when we were in Tucson one December the temps were in the mid 70's during the day and we were all in the pool at the motel we were staying at, the natives were commenting, look at those crazy Canadians. T-shirt or halter tops and shorts kind of weather for us. The natives were still bundled up and one gal we talked to even wore socks and a sweater to bed to keep warm, grant you it did cool off at night,still....
When DH was young he did a lot of hunting and fishing, he was out in near freezing weather a good lot of the time, they'd even camp out in the snow on a mountain side and think nothing of it. As soon as he'd come home and through the door he be complaining how hot I had the house, the thermostat was set at 68 so down it would go to 65 and I'd nearly freeze to death.
The shoe is on the other foot now, the thermostat is set at 75, he will even sneak it up a bit at times, he has a little heater in his man cave turned on if he's still cold, poor guy can't take the least bit of cold anymore, in the meantime I'm sitting in my girl cave, door shut, window open. Over the years I got used to a cooler house and now I have to get used to a warmer one .
YES ... we have are own little domains and our own remotes too, might be why we've been married for 60 years this summer . I can take it up to low 70's and then I melt and it's inside for me. Last summer it hit the 90's, broke the record for hottest day in recorded history (over 100 years). It was almost too hot for DH for those couple of weeks. I just sat in front of (MY) TV, cold drink in hand, ceiling fan on full tilt. All he had to do was take one look at me, smart man, not say a word....we ordered a lot of takeout those two weeks .
Annette

Annette

 

[Nyboy]

I love my central AC. Note to self call for summer service.

 

[baymule]

It's already hit the high 80's here. And yesterday we got tornados! We braved the storm to meet my sister and her friend in town. They had come for Canton First Monday (over 400 acres of flea market) so we met at a Mexican restaurant to eat and visit. Tornado sirens went off, it was black outside, rain was sideways, @Devonviolet was texting me the latest updates, it was looking real bad. The restaurant manager was watching the TV weather and asked everyone to go to the kitchen. Some little girls were crying, probably sure they were going to die. Their mother tried her best to comfort them. @Devonviolet texted me that it looked like the storm was hammering our little farm. We didn't know if we would have a home to go to when we left.

There was a building just down the highway that was totally obliterated. Just destroyed. The car lot next to it was not damaged, nor were any of the cars. Roads were closed and impassable because of fallen trees. Citizens were out with their chainsaws, not waiting on the county. The first way we tried to get home was blocked, a long line of cars, so we turned around and went home another way. We even drove under a tree hanging over the road, the truck cab barely clearing it. Our house was fine, no damage, no power. Everything is back to normal today, sunny, beautiful, would never know we got 5" of rain, tornadoes and all the fun that comes with it.

 

[aftermidnight]

OMG, that was a close call, glad to hear you didn't suffer any damage, that's one horror we don't have to deal with where we live. We have had some very high winds that have been very destructive but no tornados, here one minute gone the next, everything lost in an instant, I don't know if I could handle that.

Annette

 

[Smart Red]

So glad that your home wasn't in the way of the storm.

 

[baymule]

I left hurricane country for THIS???