HOTTER THAN BLUE BLAZES

The South is a land of epic weather. In a single year, we can experience hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, a blizzard's worth of snow, and a heat index in the triple digits.

But there's something about Southern heat that speaks to us like nothing else. It's our sweat badge of courage—proof, in our minds, that we can stand mercury levels which would surely undo our northern brethren. And we do it gracefully. Southern women don't sweat—we "glisten."

-- Valerie Fraser Luesse 

Miss Luesse hit the nail on the head in explaining just how hot it gets here in the South and just as we don't sweat, we don't curse in public (umm, really??), so we 'clean it up' a bit and exclaim "It's hotter than blue blazes out here!"