It is not raining

That is the subject everyone wants to talk about. It is hot, and sometimes it is humid. It has even tried to rain a time or two but this is no monsoon. And everyone is testy, tired and hot. Arizona in July without rain is a set up for mass hysteria or murder, which ever happens first. Both activities are bound to overheat a body so I guess the world is safe.
You can always spot a tourist in Arizona in the summer. They are the people who park their car in the space closest to the entrance, instead of the one that will be in the shade at 2PM that is half a parking lot from the store front. They don't use a reflector for the front windshield and leave something on the dash board slowly melting into the plastic. The tourists are walking on the sunny side of the street, and when they take their sunglasses off they have that albino raccoon look around the eyes. They seek out the sun and actually lay in it! They wear black because it is slimming. Never mind that it makes the outfit a quick solar cooker. The tourist is out and about during the mid-day hours. No sensible local stirs after 10 or before 3PM if they can possibly avoid it. But most of all the tourists don't gather in groups in a spot of shade, scanning the sky with hope . Monitoring the development of every small cloud and judging the potential of every errant breeze to bring Rain. Blessed Rain.
When it gets here I hope its a frog strangler!