During the summer, driving in Arizona isn't like driving in most other places.

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[applegrove]

1. Don't know how you all survive the

summers there.

[former9thward]

10. Air conditioning.

Air conditioned home to air conditioned car to air conditioned workplace to air conditioned store back to air conditioned home. Now what they did before the 1950s I don't know. Of course no one lived in AZ before then.

[SharonAnn]

2. I remember driving West through Arizona at the end of August in a car without air conditioning

We'd stop and get a bag of ice, put some into Ziploc bags, put one on the head, one in the bra, and one across the back of the neck. It worked! We survived it!

But it was definitely an experience I wouldn't want to repeat.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. Looks like Texas summers too.

You can very easily burn yourself on the steering wheel in summer in Texas, whether it's humid or dry; it's still HOT.

[snappyturtle]

4. I'm in Texas and my thermometer in the car read 106 degrees

two days ago when I got into my car.....parked in the shade! Whew!
it was a hot one. Today only got to about 95 degrees...so much better.

[Warpy]

6. I park in the sun here

and the car is orange with a black interior. I find it's a great way to get varmints out of any wool I suspect they've gotten into. The heat inside the car kills all the wool eating bastards: insects, eggs, larvae, pupae.

[snappyturtle]

8. ........

[Warpy]

5. My solution is a fake fur steering wheel cover

Yeah, it looks dumb but it keeps the wheel comfortable in both hot and bitterly cold weather. We get both in the high desert.

[Atman]

7. We just drive naked.

There was never anybody around, anyway. And it was near Sedona. Just slipped the clothes on whenever we had to stop.

[grantcart]

9. meh El Centro/Yuma is much worse than Tucson

El Centro is 100 ft below sea level and it is 105 at 9 o clock at night.

10 in the morning and I don't even have my air conditioning on, in El Centro you never turn it off.

But you are right about the steering wheel if the car stands in the shade for 4 hours, too hot to handle without a towel, but I like your idea better.

[DesertRat]

11. That's only true in the desert areas

But not here in the White Mountains. It's 62 degrees here right now, in the 40's overnight.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/greer-az/85927/weather-forecast/341811

[MiddleFingerMom]

12. Mt Lemmon here at Tucson is usually about 30 degrees cooler than rhe desert.

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My favorite half-day trip on my motorcycle would be to the top of Mt Lemmon
for a piece of pie and then home.
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During the fall months (before they shut the road other than to residents), I
NEVER failed to forget my gloves and would spend the last few miles of the
trip riding one-handed -- alternating my hands between my legs to guard
against frostbite.
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That's my story and I'm, um... sticking to it.
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OH!!! Riding through the White Mountains in my car on vacation inspired
me to give up my 35-year boycott on riding (due to a horrendous accident).
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That road reminded me of the joy of riding -- I went out and bought a Honda
Shadow Spirit 1100cc the day after I got back.
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[DesertRat]

13. I love our state's diverse climates!

[Lady Freedom Returns]

15. Even in Winter it is a grab bag!

Ski in the morning in the Mountains, and take a dip in the afternoon when you are in the Valley. Talking Tucson mind you.

That was the coolest part of my first winter there. I could stand on my deck down on the Valley floor, in a T-shirt and watch the snow fall on the Mountains!

[Lady Freedom Returns]

14. HA!

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But I still love that State!

[Pakhet]

16. Cars with all the windows rolled down

In August have an automatic right of way