{"id":14828,"date":"2011-07-22T08:37:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T15:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14828"},"modified":"2011-07-22T08:37:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T15:37:29","slug":"from-sunny-phoenix-a-love-letter-to-the-summer-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14828\/from-sunny-phoenix-a-love-letter-to-the-summer-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"From sunny Phoenix, a love letter to the summer heat…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote this four years ago at DistinctivePhoenix.com<\/a>. Given all the pissing and moaning going on nationwide about — get this — summer weather, I thought I’d give you a taste of what real heat feels like. –GSS<\/em><\/p>\n

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We’re in negotiations to list a house in the Coronado Historic District of Downtown Phoenix. The temperature hit 110 this week, and the seller has determined he would rather live elsewhere.<\/p>\n

If you live anywhere but in the Desert Southwest, 100 degrees probably sounds unbearably hot to you. Eight-five degrees is hot. Ninety is a scorcher. Ninety-five is intolerable. One hundred degrees is the stuff of “you don’t know how lucky you kids have got it” family legends.<\/p>\n

I have news for you. In Phoenix, we might see a 100 degree day as early as March. Once those temperatures arrive in earnest, we will go for 100 days with 100-degree-plus temperatures. How much plus? The hottest day on record was 122, but 115 and above is not uncommon.<\/p>\n

How can we stand<\/i> it?<\/p>\n

Well, for one thing, you get used to it. If you live here for three years, your blood will thin out. Summer will seem much easier to bear than you remember. But Winter will be a bear, particularly if you go back home for the holidays.<\/p>\n

But for another, the people who stay here by choice just like<\/i> the heat. It’s not all that pleasant getting into the car when the interior is 160 and the steering wheel is even hotter than that. But to step outdoors in the late afternoon, when the heat is at its absolute worst, to feel those irrepressible waves of warmth flowing in on the Western breeze, to see forever by the light of an unrelenting sun…<\/p>\n

If you hate it, you hate it, and, like our client, you can’t live here for long.<\/p>\n

But if you love it…<\/p>\n

I rode my bike today. I went out at 10:30 in the morning, so it was only about 93 degrees outside. Shorts, tee-shirt, sneakers and my iPod, all on a mountain bike. We live along the Arizona Canal in North Central Phoenix. The canals are Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote this four years ago at DistinctivePhoenix.com. Given all the pissing and moaning going on nationwide about — get this — summer weather, I thought I’d give you a taste of what real heat feels like. –GSS We’re in negotiations to list a house in the Coronado Historic District of Downtown Phoenix. 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