 think we ll have a hot summer this year june 3 2011  in case you re new to the area here s a little tidbit from wikipedia that speaks volumes about spending a summer here in the phoenixmetro area  on june 26 1990 the temperature reached an alltime recorded high of 122 f 50 c  fun huh your humble scribe gpawn remembers that day very well one could smell antifreeze in the air from all the blown radiators and hoses almost half of the municipal buses laid down and said no mas amazingly enough sky harbor international airport was also closed for quite awhile due to the heat too hot to fly well not really but the performance charts for the commercial aircraft only went up to 120   f  and due to legal liabilities and such all flights were grounded this of course gave rise to an entrepreneurial group god bless america who began printing and selling tshirts that said   i was heatedin at sky harbor june 26 1990   amazing how quickly custom tshirts can appear during a calamity is it not while those in the midwest or back on the east coast have the luxury of asking each other think we ll have a hot summer this year those of us who live here don t even bother which such trivial matters why because we know the answer yes it will be very hot this summer no doubt about it you can take it to the proverbial bank yeah but it s a dry heat in most cases yes it is the oven in your kitchen also produces a dry heat but you don t crawl inside it do you  now gpawn has spent a total of 27 summers here in the valley of the scalded and has a few helpful tips for those of you who may be noobs to this particular brand of climatological insanity  first of all get down here to glendale pawn and jewelry to prepare for this summer you knew that was coming did you not if you can t make it down in person shop online anytime at wwwarizonapawnshopscom  here s your survival strategy  okay let s say your air conditioner is busted you just laid out a bunch of cash for junior s braces and guess what grocery prices have gone up yet again you need some cash my friend to get the a c fixed before the heat slams on we can help just bring your scrap gold and used gold jewelry to us and we ll buy it from you  fast  turn your gold and jewelry into cash  or  we will loan cash on almost anything of value as long as we don t have to feed it so gather up some of the stuff that you don t need and is just taking up space bring it to us and turn it into cash  fast  we loan money on almost anything of valueas long as we don t have to feed it the air conditioner is now fixed just in time before it hits 100 and holy cow degrees so you re doing pretty well now you ll need to make it a habit to stay in out of the heat you work out in the heat all day well that kind of gives a new meaning to the term go home and chill doesn t it happily  glendale pawn and jewelry can help you with this as well while saving you a bunch of money how you ask check this out  okay crank down the a c and you re now officially set until october  finally  nothing is more important than staying hydrated in the desert heat you have to drink a lot of water or other beverages so your complexion doesn t start to resemble the lizard that hangs around your front porch but seriously you can survive quite well as long as you have water now having water and cold beverages is one thing dispensing them with style and class is another once again ol gpawn can hook you up  you know you want this yes it s a gigantic refrigerated rockstar beverage coolerwe can almost guarantee that you ll be the only one on the block with this well maybe june will be nice to us this year and it won t be too awful hot i wouldn t bet on it at least now you have some kind of battle plan for taking on the desert and once again we are here to help you in any way we can next week we ll talk a bit about a world famous jeweler that we re sure you ve heard of and try to solve a mystery about their famous and iconic packaging and the connection to glendale jewelry and pawn we ll give you some valuable counsel on how not to mess up father s day this year and we ll also provide some commentary about various current events in any event like that segue do you have a great weekend  be excellent to each other and we ll be back to blogging on monday as always thanks for stopping by  gpawn send your comments about this blog posting to  info arizonapawnshopscom please include your permission to make your comments public or let us know if you d rather keep them private we love to hear from you  tags 122 arizona weather desert southwest glendale pawn and jewelry sky harbor z2uhnhc49at8   blog post  122 arizona weather desert southwest glendale pawn and jewelry sky harbor z2uhnhc49at8 in case you re new to the area here s a little tidbit from wikipedia that speaks volumes about spending a summer here in the phoenixmetro area on june 26 1990 the temperature reached an alltime recorded high of 122 f 50 c fun huh your humble scribe gpawn remembers that day very well 