Saturday July 8th 2017

Guess what? It was hot again today. The mercury reached the triple digits again. These high temperatures are ten degrees above normal for the area. It’s worse south of here. Las Vegas and Phoenix are experiencing record daily highs and record number of consecutive days in a heat wave.

I pretty much used the heat as an excuse not to do anything today. Most of June was very busy touring in the National Parks. So far July has been a more sedate month. I will be back in National Park touring mode in August and September. I will be visiting the parks in southern Utah starting with Arches and Canyon Lands in early August. Right now, those areas are hotter than here. I’ll continue on with Capitol Reef NP, Bryce NP and Zion NP in Utah. I haven’t decided yet how to visit the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Reservations in the Grand Canyon NP campground for RVs are not available until late October, so I’m considering other options.

The roses in the campground enjoy the heat with their irrigation water.

I went out for a couple of hours this afternoon. Primarily for lunch at Arby’s. Preparing food with limited power and the need too keep the AC on is a challenge. To run the microwave or worse the convection oven, I need to turn off the AC so I don’t blow a breaker. Thinking about things that can be prepared on the stove alone is the challenge. The other option is to grill outside, but standing in the hot sun to watch the grill is also an issue.

Late this afternoon it clouded over and I experienced a little bit of a “Dry Thunderstorm”. It was very windy, I heard thunder and I may have felt moisture on my skin, but I didn’t see any evidence of rain. The clouds cleared and the hot wind continued into the evening.