Say a Hot Goodbye to Oddly Cool June

(I found this in the AZ Republic. Too true to not share!)


OK. You can start complaining now.

Summer's here.

It's time to haul out the dry-heat joke book and challenge your friends to see who remembers the most synonyms for "searing."

But look on the (glaringly) bright side. It is a relief to have moved beyond that strange season of disbelief.

Valley residents have spent weeks wondering, "What month is this, anyway?"

We're chilling our way through the coolest June since 1913 with astonished appreciation.

After all, how often does the heat wait to start until after the calendar's official first day of summer?

Now the full weight of the season is upon us with all the wicked certainty of a 180-degree steering wheel.

Some places have winter to endure. Arizona has summer.

Of course, we still have those glorious monsoon storms to enjoy.

And we can look forward to fall.

Not that we're trying to rush things, of course.

But it would be great if the heat ends when the calendar says fall has officially arrived. That's Sept. 22.

Summer arrived by the calendar.

Nobody will complain if it departs in the same way.