I could do without the HOT. But I'm hoping to avoid the rain I've had on my trip home the last few years. Last year I stopped in Aberdeen SD because I was catching up with the rain. It was supposed to clear by 10:AM. I waited in the hotel room until noon but it wasn't clearing. The rain was supposed to move out to the east but I was always just into the western edge of it even though I kept slowing down and waiting for it to clear out. Knowing that I had a 420 mile ride to home I pressed on in order to get home before dark. The rain did eventually move out to the east but not unitl I was about 20 miles from home and pretty wet.
In all my western rides I've had quite a few in which I rode under the same cloud for a long time going eastward. These were mostly all widespread rains, not the pop up afternoon thunderstorms that are so common. I can watch the radar on my GPS and dodge a lot of those. The good, bad, and the wet.