Reply #25: In defense of Phoenix.

[Neshanic]

I have lived here for 27 years. Not for lack of imagination, and not because I am entering the George Hamilton Tan Pro Invitational.

Being the first to grouse about this place, there are the things that make it bearable. Just as people have to endure snow for a season, we have to endure our summer. There are four distinct seasons, two dry, two wet; a dry period between approximately May through mid-July, the summer Monsoon, mid-July through the end of September, the dry period between the end of September till the winter rains in November and that lasts till the end of March.

That gives us approximately Mid September to early May of weather that can only be described as perfect. The winter rains are quick moving sytems digging south that hit low and fast from the Pacific, and so it is not a week of rain, but may a day ot two. The rest is like the most perfect day in the East.

Yes it's insanely hot. No, it's not a dry heat that you can deal with. No the air conditiong never goes off and the windows are never opened. But between October and May, gentle breezes blow though your house at perfect temperatures, and it's really worth it.