Is it hot where you live? August is my least favorite month of the year. It’s the month one suffers through. In many places, it’s hot and humid (the steamy heat that coats and drains) or if you live in Arizona (except for Flagstaff), it’s that dry, blasting heat with three-digit temperatures. (100-120 F or 37/48c ) This photo is a visual cool down. I enjoy looking at photos out of season. This surprise snowfall happened on Christmas morning, 2016. We drove up to Jerome to get a view of the valley. Hang in there! Fall is fast approaching.
Cindy Bruchman 
Our daughter (in Phoenix) is visiting us in northern Wisconsin at the end of the month and she is soooo ready to cool off. She’s having trouble wrapping her head around the need for long pants and a sweatshirt. Over overnight temps lately have been in the fifties. We can already feel the beginnings of fall just around the corner. For us desert dwellers, we’ll probably start heading south in mid-September, but it has definitely been fun spending the summer up north in the Midwest. I do not miss those three digit temps!
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YOu are smart to stay put! I would love to get away to the north for the month of August. I’ll have to wait until retirement.
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Awesome
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Why thank you!
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Ah wow. Feel refreshed just looking at it.
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Oh, good. That’s the point. Is it hot in England right now?
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Not really, but it’s still refreshing
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We don’t get a great lot of hot weather here in the UK usually, but this year has been exceptionally dry and humid in places. I’m not a big fan of hot weather tub. Roll on Autumn! 🙂
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I hear you!
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I posted a story about Jerome – a town with a wild, wild past – and that area looks gorgeous indeed with a coating of snow – beautiful picture, and it does indeed work nicely to counteract the heat!
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I remember your oist. I live at the bottom of the mountain just 3 miles from Jerome . We get to see the lights of the town twinkle every night.
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I didn’t realize you were that close! Beautiful country!
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It is a pleasant part of AZ.
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Nice to see something out of season, though snow in Beetley is a real hindrance to everyday life, so I don’t want any!
23 C here today, with 27 forecast for the weekend. Hot enough for me, Cindy! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete. x
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I bet it’s humid, too. You would love our snowfalls. They arrive prettily and melt within 48 hours.
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Yes, it is hot here in Lebanon, TN. We raised our kids in Florida and will move back. I will never escape the heat, which I love more than cold, but when I walk I picture snowflakes falling all around me! Thank you for this photo :)Jen
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Welcome, Jen! Good, sometimes it’s fun to “fall” into a picture and imagine yourself there.
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Beautiful break from the summer heat, Cindy.
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Hi Maggie! Thanks, very much.
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We are having a wet, windy, weird August. Bring on Autumn!
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That sounds like fall to me! 😉
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It’s not hot here, though as Pete says it’s supposed to be getting hot at the weekend. It’s pigging raining where I am, as it has done for most of August. This is not how it’s supposed to be.
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Yeah, I hear the grumbling (Pete) about how wet and then hot your summer has been. Our group was so fortunate that the week we were in London, it was the perfect window — lovely weather and the day we left — the hot spell came. Dodged a bullet! I hope your weather settles down. Makes you wonder what your winter will be like!
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Haha yes, whatever it is you can be sure we’ll moan about it! It’s traditional.
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He is predictable. 😁
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Post.
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He is predictable. 😁
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i like winter pics tho i donr like winter weather
nice one
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Yeah, especially when it is hot outside.
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i love how ones first impression is many shades of blue, but on closer inspection, there is only one blue. spring i jusy breaking through here. we can once again eat ice cream.
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I like the hole the clouds made. Thank you Bill, for commenting.
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i heard that Flagstaff is a bit cooler cuz it’s higher?
I recall how surprised I was years ago when I saw a photo of Sedona in the snow. Till then I didn’t believe it ever snowed down there at all. Guess I never saw any Westerns that were filmed in Arizona with snow in them. I’m still guessing it’s not all that frequent. Or is it?
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Hi JC. We get (Clarkdale is at 3500 ft.) a snow fall around Christmas time that lasts a couple days. The ground doesn’t freeze here. An hour away north is Flagstaff at the top of the state and it’s cold up there. They are at 7,000 feet, so resemble the temps you’d find in the Colorado Rockies. An hour south of us is the northern end of Phoenix. It’s the best time to visit Phoenix. Comfortable and sunny.
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I’ve only been to Sedona once when the heat was a problem. My buddy and I stupidly did drive across the Mojave to California one day – with no air conditioning – and it was easily over a 100 degrees. A very bad idea. But we made it – pretty toasted.
Naturally we try not to go at peak heat months.
Love to go there again sometime – if it hasn’t turned into a city.
Thanks for the information Cindy.
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I guess I’ve only travelled through Arizona in summer and it is hot to the extreme except in Flagstaff of course. Hard to imagine snow there. 🙂
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It has been pretty consiatent. One snow storm drops,a few inches and it is melted by the next day. My kind of winter. 😉
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Beautiful, Cindy!
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Great post 🙂 Beautiful pictures as always, but I hate thinking about winter during any other season. I usually comment on pictures like these during winter time 🙂 Having said that, I hate winter due to the cold and snow 🙂 Anyway, keep up the great work as always 🙂
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It seems safer looking at the snow in a warm season.
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You can’t take a bad picture! I’m going to start calling you “Margaret Bourke-White!” 😉
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You are wonderful!
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