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We woke up cool this morning.

It is great outside.

It read as 80F on the Volvo.

I know. This is not cool to some but to a desert rat, in the middle of summer, it is cool. It reads as more than that really.

We are set for night temps in the 70s all week.

I think that this is unprecedented. Not to draw any conclusions about it. History says it might just be in my mind.

Real or imagined, I am just glad to have it.

I firmly believe that his summer has been cooler and very dry most of the time. A winning combination.

Last night when Booker and I did our post dinner "walk" (more of a short stroll, eating grass, sniffing posts, until the poop urge comes), the air was what I think of as "convection oven". Quite breezy and very hot (over 100F) and quite dry. It hits the respiratory track like a balm. Sinuses clear. You can feel it. A well constructed sauna.

But we don't bask in it. We enjoy, take it in and do the job we set out to do--then back home.

Occasionally, he will want to roll in the grass to enjoy the situation. I think for the same reason I do. It is clearing. Bracing. He will often drop to the grass and roll around in the midday sun, a true sunbath. This is a hot air bath.

I sometimes join him.

I don't routinely write about the weather here any more.

It is boringly the same. But seasons. Now seasons are worth a writeup no matter what the individual days might bring.

And to me, this season seems definitely cooler. And dryer.

But it is not. It is right with the trends over time.

Temperature Trends

It is remarkably normal. In conversations with people, you will here that it is the hottest ever or the coolest it has been but this is the mind at work. Dramatizing. Either horrificizing or denying the obvious.

One thing is true. The dread "monsoon", any comfort index much over 60, has stayed away.

Even when some moist air crept in it was modest. Easy to handle.

Last week there were a few days that had some water in the air but they dissipated with thunderstorms in the afternoon. Actually little of that. Noise.

When we were first here the thunder and lightning would roll down the sides of the big mountain and crack so loud!

We seem to be out of that.

Does this all add up to climate change. I don't know. If it is cooler or drier who can complain? We do not have to worry about water here yet.

It has been as dry as I remember it. There was a small shower one day this week but not much more than a wet. The deserts are very very dusty and dry. There were no desert flowers this spring.

OK.

That's it.

The weather report from Palm Springs. It is totally predictable and not a surprise but it does trend in a general way from time to time.

Within a week or a day or an hour you would hardly notice.

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