. . . one is rather jealous of a climate that in poor weather makes you get naked and sit still to keep cool!
Well, yes, the HEAT! My guess is that when you were'nt here it was HOT. I don't recall.
When it is, it is in your face if you dare step outside. The effect is worse in a city. Everything RADIATES heat. From the ground, paved or not, from the sides and of course from the sky. The longer summer runs the less it cools off at night. This is not a warmth or heat that eventually borders on discomfort. It immediately assaults you. Descriptions fail, you have to experience it.
Yes, sitting and trying to stay cool is one tool. I can assure you that if you walk outside in this HEAT you don't even consider hanging out by the pool. It's not wise. I don't understand people that do.
I would love to visit your extreme.
If you do ever visit here again and it is HOT, remember there isn't much to do except trying to stay cool. 
Duane
It was typical stinkin'
HOT when Nuduke visited in an air-conditioned bus. They got a piece of it, but by the time we got out and about, the evening was cooling and Arizona dry heat balmy. It wasn't that ridiculous
HOT but in the afternoon. It was quite pleasant on the golf course, bare feet in the grass, naked.
Yes, hanging out BY the pool is dumb. One must hang out IN the pool, maybe with occasional trips to the shade to get the wrinkles out.
The immediate assault of the heat can be experienced with the following procedure. Turn up your oven to 425F, a good pizza baking level. Place your face next to the door. Quickly open the oven door, and then begin to place your head inside. It feels just like that. Don't worry, you won't get your head in there, the body will recoil naturally, most likely...unless you get in a hurry. Do not touch the inside of the oven, or grill sheets, only experience the air. After that, imagine being hit with a hot breeze of the stuff. Breeze lightly seers the body instead of cooling it, when it becomes what we call
WAY TOO HOT, the teens F stuff.
You CAN drive a car with just two fingers.
You can get a blister from a door handle.
Leather, and vinyl seating are....and metal chairs! Bare feet on hot coals, like concrete, need to be avoided. Natural surfaces are much less grilling.
The best parking space is the shady one, not the closest.
I'm not kidding. The cold water faucet has hot water coming out of it.
This is real!
Jbee
Just a recap BUT REAL!
You notice your car overheating before you drive it.
You no longer associate bridges or rivers with water.
You can hear the weather forecast of 115 degrees without flinching.
You discover, in July it only takes two fingers to drive your car, because your steering wheel is so hot.
The best parking is determined by shade.....not distance.
You run your air conditioner in the middle of winter so you can use your fireplace.
You can make sun tea instantly
Hotter water comes from the cold water tap than the hot one.
It's noon in July, kids are on summer vacation and yet all the streets are totally empty of both cars and people
You actually burn your hand opening the car door.
Sunscreen is sold year round and kept right at the checkout counter.
You put on fresh sunscreen just to go check the mail box.
Some fools will market mini-misters for joggers and some other fools will actually buy them. Worse.....some fools actually try to jog.
You can fry an egg on the hood of a car in the morning.
You know hot air balloons can't rise because the air temperature is hotter than the air inside the balloon.
No one would dream of putting vinyl inside a car.
You see two trees fighting over a dog.
You have to go to a fake beach for some fake waves
You hear people say "but it's a dry heat!"
All of your out-of-state friends start to visit after October but clear out come the end of April.
You think someone driving wearing oven mitts is clever.
You think 60 tons of crushed red rock makes a beautiful yard.
Vehicles with open windows have the right-of-way in the summer.
Kids ask, "What's a mosquito?"
People who have black cars or black upholstery in their car are automatically assumed to be from out of-state or nuts.
You know better than to get into a car with leather seats if you're wearing shorts.
You can finish a Big Gulp in 10 minutes and go back for seconds.
You know a swamp cooler is not a happy hour drink.
You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Arizona.
You take rain dances seriously.
When a rainy day puts you in a good mood.
When you drive two miles around a parking lot looking for a shady place - even in the dead of winter.
You feed your chickens ice cubes to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs.
A hundred ten in the shade is sorta hot, but you don't have to shovel it off your driveway. The temperature drops below 95 and you feel a bit chilly.
You've experienced condensation on your butt from the hot water in the toilet bowl.
You would give anything to be able to splash cold water on your face.
You can attend any function wearing shorts and a tank top.
You realize that asphalt has a liquid state.
People break out coats when temperature drops below 70 degrees.
The pool can be warmer than you are.
Announcements for Fourth of July events never end with "in case of rain......"
Everyone's smiling and talking about the great weather on rainy days.
Welcome to Arizona, where summer spends the winter - and hell spends the summer. ~Popular saying, modified from a booster slogan in the 1930s
Once, it was so damned dry, the bushes followed the dogs around
In Arizona, shade trees are your best friends. (And occasionally the basis of small civil wars over parking.
It's so hot even my fake plants are wilting.
You know you live in Phoenix when the four seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and are you freakin' kidding me?
"Heat, ma’am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones."
You eat hot chilis to cool your mouth off.
You learn that a seat belt makes a pretty good branding iron.
You discover that you can get a sunburn through your car window
Your biggest bicycle wreck fear is, "What if I get knocked out and end up lying on the pavement and cook to death?"
Jbee
