10 reasons the Las Vegas summer heat is actually the best
The “dry heat” of Las Vegas brings around a new wave of complaints from Las Vegas locals and visitors alike every summer (and by summer, we mean the 8 months of 95 degree-plus heat), but it’s really not that bad.
As far as extreme weather goes, Southern Nevada really only has to deal with drought and the occasional flash flood. No hurricanes, no tornadoes, one minor earthquake every few years and that’s about it.
Here are 10 more reasons the summer heat in Las Vegas isn’t all that bad:
Melting ice cream on the way home from the store gives you an excuse to eat all of it at once
If it’s 105 out when you go grocery shopping, it’s almost a guarantee the ice cream is going to melt at least a little bit, so instead of risking your health refreezing it, bring along a spoon and eat it on the way home, or better yet, as you stroll the aisles for more groceries.
Life is more fun when you don’t know where that cockroach went
Summer months mean summer bugs in Las Vegas, including spiders, scorpions, snakes and everyone’s favorite, cockroaches. The best days are when you spot one skittering across the kitchen floor and you don’t catch it quick enough. Where did it go? Where will it appear next? That’s just the summer keeping you on your toes.
You’ll have a natural looking glow all summer from the misters
Don’t worry about contouring or highlighting to achieve that perfect glow, misters on the side of almost every restaurant will keep you looking shiny, fresh and a bit moist.
You’ll be able to recognize how sweaty you actually are when you enter a 65-degree room
Thankfully everyone else is just as sweaty, so it’s not a big deal, but there’s no better feeling than phase two of cooling off, when you realize your clothes are stuck to your body.
Your hands will be softer after your skin melts off on your steering wheel
Or your seat belt buckle, your gear shift, the arm rest, the buttons on your radio...
When the soles of your shoes melt, you won’t have to worry about buying FiveFingers
If you’re unfamiliar with FiveFingers, they’re the foot-shaped minimalist shoes once involved in a lawsuit, and by the time the soles of your own shoes melt into the shape of your foot, you won’t need to buy them anymore.
You can have slow-baked, warm cookies all the time if you leave dough in your car
Forget frying an egg on the sidewalk, upgrade your day by starting out with cookie dough on your dashboard at 9 a.m. and by the time 5 p.m. rolls around, you’ll have some warm, delicious cookies waiting as a reward for a job well done.Staying home from work to watch Netflix is totally acceptable
Plans? Cancel them. Work? Call out. You’ve got better, cooler things to do.
You’ll have great posture because every surface you’d lean on is 10 degrees hotter than the sun
You can’t lean on the car, you can’t lean on the metal barriers, you can’t lean on anything, because everything is practically the sun. All of the sitting up straight in your car and standing up with your shoulders back will fix any issues you have with your posture.
You get to look forward to an actually comfortable winter
Las Vegas has one of the calmest winters in the country with only a sprinkle of snow once every few years and temperatures others would trade in a heart beat. No shoveling, no bundling up to the point that you can’t move and no fresh coffee freezing over the second you walk outside.
Contact Kristen DeSilva at 702-477-3895 or kdesilva@reviewjournal.com. Find her on Twitter: @kristendesilva
