This Las Vegas summer wasn't ungodly hot, but it doesn't want to end, either.
We only had a handful of days above 110 degrees, and there was even a day in August where a monsoonal rain cooled it down so much in the afternoon that we could turn our AC off and throw the windows open for the night.
But here it is now, almost the second week of September, and the forecast is for the low 100s for the next several days. Hell, right now it's 86 degrees at almost 5:30 in the morning. That's only a few degrees lower than our all-time highest overnight low. Yuck!
They say the southwest won't get as heated as other parts of the country, but that our summers will be longer and the winters warmer. At least that's what I've read in the past. It is beginning to look like they're right. 
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I remember the summer heat stretching into early October a few times. 
Then freezing your butt off while trick-or-treating. 
I live in S.Florida now where the Temperature has never reached 100.
And there is something they call "weather" here. Terrifying at first, but you get used to water falling from the sky and actually miss it when it stops for a few days. 
I've been noticing that we've been getting more and more extreme winters over the past decade or so, in Texas, where I am now....most of them on the cold side! In fact, the only really warm winter we've had, that I can remember, was this year.
I guess all that cold air's got to go somewhere.....
