A/C !! We get everything done early or late. But that’s been a fact since Europeans came to Texas.
Thankfully the worst is usually 2 months, however, we’ve had longer.
That recent summer of 3 months of blistering heat was hard on everyone/thing
Something has changed to make the southern US so vicious and deadly. I’m not a man made climate devotee but the earth has its cycles as does our Sun and I read the solar system is seeing change as well. So, as they say, it’s the only home we have.
A/C rules!!
PS- Tucson is different from Phoenix. That desert bowl will beat you up. I can’t take Phoenix in summer.
Some precip totals in Iowa over the last month. You can see that 0.53" just north of Ottumwa in Oskaloosa. That small pocket seems to be the driest spot in Iowa. And it's not even close really.