Temperatures

I've been receiving worried communications about the excessive heat dome in the southwest. I can reassure all that we we are not in the hot zone. 

While Santa Fe is in the southwest and it's dry and desert-like, we really have more in common with Denver's climate. We're in the Rockies, at the very southern end, and we're at 7,000 feet -- two thousand feet higher than the mile high city. 

Phoenix is 500 miles away. Dallas is 650 miles from us. We really aren't in the same climate at all. The terrible, scary temperatures are not affecting us.

But it's summer and it's sunny and hot enough. The sun is so strong here that you don't want to be out in it in the afternoons. Temperatures have been in the 90s at times in the afternoon, and with direct sun it's better to stay indoors and take a nap. We do run the air conditioner in the afternoons. 90s is very hot for Santa Fe.

But nights are cool, and when I get up to make coffee in the mornings it has been in the 60s and the windows are open and my morning sit on the patio is nice. It's summer. It's quite hot in late afternoon, really nice at other times, and not the catastrophic calamity that so many people are dealing with in Arizona and Texas. 

So we are okay. It's dry, though. We do need rain.