My family moved to Spokane when I was in the sixth grade. Every one of us were in Florida originally because that’s where my Grandpa’s pharmacy was located. He emplotted both of my parents until he retired plus sold the company to a single of his longest running employees. Eager to find labor northward, my parents were talked into moving to Spokane by my aunt plus aunt who are residents of the city. Our visits were consistently fun, because we would go skiing or fishing depending on the time of the year. I also remember being dazzled by the Spokane Falls which is a immense waterfall at the truly heart of Spokane. There is obviously only a single larger urban waterfall in the country plus that is the Niagra Falls in NY. Every one of us settled in the school district which is beach home to more than four separate colleges all in a single compact area. The Spokane school district includes the University of WA, Eastern WA University, WA State University, Whitworth, plus Gonzaga. But it was the temperature in Spokane that caught my attention more than anything else. First of all, despite being surrounded by mountains, the winters in Spokane aren’t nearly as intense as they get in other areas in the northern USA. Aside from warmer winters on average, the summers are comfortably boiling plus dry. I assumed that we would eventually get humidity, but most of my summers down here have been comfortably dry. This last summer time was good because it lasted longer than usual. Typically hot plus cold temperatures start to drop in November, but this year we still had 77 degree afternoons in early November. That’s a single more month that we don’t have to run a oil furnace to stay comfortable inside.