Blistering hot 9 months out the year
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4/8/2019
I have lived here for 22 years. I hated as a kid, and now as an adult with children I have mixed emotions about here. The heat is awful, do not believe the weather averages you see online. I was here when we hit 132 degrees. June-Aug is 105-120 degrees, and it does not cool down at night, it could be 100 degrees at midnight. It is hot most the year, we get two months of cool weather sometimes 3. Monsoon seasons are pretty cool, we get very intense ones, alot of flying trampolines, roofs falling apart, we have even seen a motorcycle go flowing down the street. But it also brings bad humidity with over 100 degree weather.
This is a tourist destination, we get the snowbirds 4-6 months out of the year. In our area we get 2 million. snowbirds in the winter they camp out in the empty deserts around here. Impossible to go out to eat or get a doctor's appointment. I do have to say they bring me business in my shop so I am happy about that.
Spring/summer vacationers are terrible, they are mostly Californians, some are college kids from all over. But they trash the beaches and downtown. I hate the lake and all the partying so we stay away from downtown as much as possible.
Schools are good, but nothing for them to do outside of school. We have sports but it is too hot to play so they have practices so late at night when the sun is going down. This town caters mostly to the snowbirds, not the families with children. But i will say not alot of crime, always feel safe here, we do have a meth problem but I think everywhere does now of days.
If you love the extreme heat, boating, and desert off roading then it is the place for you
Heather | Lake Havasu City, AZ