Monday, June 30, 2008

HOT!

Just to give you an idea of how joyful Las Vegas is in the summer... the following photos. The first was taken at about 5pm and it was 109 degrees. I had just gotten out of my car (parked in the drive) and I wondered how hot it was in the car. I placed the temp sensor in the car and it got up to about 146 degrees. I took it out and put it back into the shaded carport and got a high of 116 degrees around 6:30pm. Today it was even hotter. It is a dry heat, as they say, with a humidity that hovers around 10%, but as I write this at 9:30 pm it is still 100 degrees. It is impressively hot.
The first year we lived here one of my kid's plastic cars actually melted on the back porch (it was a black car)-- the little roof caved in on itself and the windows bubbled out. I was impressed.