Helloooo....summer?

We are allegedly in the middle of summer here. The forecast says otherwise:

	Tue	Wed	Thu
Max	15	19	20
Min	6	14	13

For the Celsius-impaired, that's a high of 59F tomorrow, climbing all the way to 68F by Thursday. The temperature right now (Monday, 10am) is a chilly 9 (48F).

Yes, it's true that we complained about the heat in Phoenix, but it wasn't the heat we didn't like. It was the relentless, year-round, ouch-I-just-burnt-myself-on-the-seatbelt heat. We like heat, we really do! In fact, we want more of it. Bring it, Christchurch. Bring us some heat. Please.

We are told that summer doesn't really arrive until January or February, so maybe balmy days are just around the corner. I swear that this time last year while we were waiting to get our visas, the newspapers showed pictures of heaps of people at the beach. They looked warm.

We have had some hot days here, but they are sporadic. Before you even start sweating, a southerly wind blows in and cools you right back down, makes you go get some socks. And of course it was very hot in Auckland over Christmas. So it's not like we haven't felt any warmth since arriving in New Zealand. I'm just saying that a little more heat would be welcome.

It could be worse though - we could be buried in Britain's freakish snowfalls ...