It was 77 today in Queretaro

People often ask us, "Isn't it awfully hot in Mexico in the summer?"

Not in the central mountains where we rent a house. I've been checking the temperature in Queretaro, a city less than an hour's drive from our town of Bernal, for the past couple of weeks, just for fun. It's been running in the mid to high 70s at the hottest.

That's cooler than when we left late in May. It was getting into the high 80s in May in Bernal, which is a little cooler than Queretaro as it's a bit higher. But people told us that as soon as the rainy season began, things would cool off.

Now Merida or Puerto Vallarta would be a different story...

Here's where I check Mexican temperatures: http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/MX_cc.html

There's a list of about 60 locations in Mexico you can check. San Miguel de Allende is not among them -- use Queretaro for it too.