Are we ready for summer? Weather, that is. Like the old saying goes, “Some like it hot and some like it not.” I fall in the latter category, but regardless, hot weather is heading our way this weekend and next week.
Just how hot is still up in the air. I don’t think it will be record-setting heat, but 90 degrees or warmer is officially in the hot category for us. With all the remaining moisture in place when the thermometer goes up Friday and over the weekend, it could be a tad muggy.
This heat won’t be accompanied by dry east winds, so we will have to endure the gradual drying out of the atmosphere. Overnight lows will be very mild, either a one sheet or no sheet bed cover at night, unless you have air conditioning. Plan ahead and have the AC and fans in good working order.
The source of the warm weather — OK, hot weather — will be a large high pressure system over the Four Corners area bringing desert heat our way. It has been very hot down there, with Death Valley temperatures advertised to be between 125 to 130 degrees and around 120 degrees in Arizona.
