Ever since the Highland Jazz & Blues Festival moved from its last November date featuring 40-degree weather, the change to September dates has delivered heat indexes approaching 100 degrees.
Goodness, everyone knows that the hottest time of the day is in the afternoon before the festival’s shutdown time of 6 p.m.
The “hot bake” is good for vendors selling liquid refreshments and end of season sun bathers who want to have an audience admiring their itsy bitsy teeny weenie yellow polka dot bikini or see through short shorts and halter tops.
AI reports the average September Saturday temps top 96 degrees, and October Saturday highs are 10 degrees cooler.
The good news is that visitors CAN bring their own coolers, unlike the new YMCA baseball complex which has infuriated team supporters with bans on bringing in water as well as limitations of cooling liquids for the competing teams.
This is a great FREE festival that is reflective of the free-spirited, non-conventional Highland culture that draws a large crowd that would benefit from more people, more enjoyment and probably the same half-clad folks in a cooler October setting.
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