8:00 PM
100F
3% humidity
clear
From earlier today:
These guys are everywhere right now. Bark scorpions glow in black light if they've shed recently. We use a black light to check patios, garages, and bedrooms. We check our clothes and especially shoes before putting them on and bed linens...
{offers you a strawberry lemonade popsicle}
The dewpoint is -8° right now. I didn't even know that was a thing.
I've been in the dripping wet heat of the south, not in Florida, but in Georgia, Alabama, etc. That is far easier to deal with, at least for me. Air conditioning is a real blessing...
We use umbrellas for shade, too! Walking shade. Sometimes called parasols. It must look so odd to outsiders to see a bunch of people walking around with open umbrellas when there's not a cloud in the sky, lol.
In the early 1900s one of my relatives made it her life's work to track everything down and publish it in a book. She made it all the way back to the 16th century. The book is 500+ pages. And she did all that before DNA tests and before computers!
Please do! This is the stuff no one tells you before you move here.
My northern European genes are particularly ill-suited to the desert but even if your ancestors came from an arid climate, the desert will still destroy everything you own - or you will pay a fortune trying to keep maintain and it.