Posted on 06/22/2017 8:54:16 PM PDT by cardinal4
Maybe you saw the insane numbers? Eighty-five degrees at seven in the morning, 119 degrees by noon (in June!), planes unable to fly in the heat, tap water coming out hot, pavement so boiling it instantly destroys skin, jokes about “but it’s a dry heat” getting immediately annoying, millions of people wondering, for the umpteenth time, why the hell they live in Phoenix anyway and hey isn’t South India pleasant this time of year?
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Sometimes it’s warm, sometimes it’s cold. It’s called weather.
It’s Morford hyperventilating and burning up all those nasty adjectives that’s doing it, I tell you. Make him buy carbon credits from China before we all roast to death in a fiery hell.
Longest stretch of temps in Phoenix being in excess of 110 degrees was in 1974. 18 days. And that was when the coming ice age was all the climate alarmists raving points were about at the time.
My least favorite city to date (of the ones I’ve been to) had to travel there for biz. Recall a few years back..in july. 112 at night. No thanks.
The day our family moved to the Phoenix area in 1968, it hit 114F. It was like that several days that summer. You learn to deal with it. Suck it up, buttercup. This is NOT news in Arizona. The CRJ regional jet has had restricted operating days (>118F) in many parts of the world ever since it was introduced.
Guess Morford’s never been to Viet Nam in July.
I live in the Albuquerque area (not city proper). My boss's wife is from Las Cruces (south-central NM, just north and west of El Paso, TX). He says her family's home is an old adobe home. Thick adobe walls, tile floors, shady overhangs. Says it's nice and cool in the house most of the summer.
Hot in Phoenix in the summer? Who’dve thunk it?
I was in Phoenix on June 10th one year. It was 106 degrees. No amount of money could convince me to go back. :-)
I’ve experienced 112 in Las Cruces, NM on several occasions. It honestly didn’t feel all that hot. But, the pavement did, the car seats did, the ignition in particular blistered my fingers and I was parched all the time, had to keep fluids around when outdoors. I sunburned my eyes once due to glare off of the adobe buildings, that was painful.
Sweat works real good there and the pool feels nice and cold though, unlike here in the humid south, to the upside.
We often vacation near Tampa...usually in January,sometimes February.But once we went there in October.
The heat and the humidity were outrageous.You couldn't walk ten feet without becoming soaked in sweat. I've been in dry heat too...95 degrees in Dubai.That feels a *lot* different than 95 degrees in Tampa.
The pool in Phoenix was like pea soup. The AC was never really cool and this was in Scottsdale Resort. It was a miserable place. When I got back off the plane in Atlanta it felt cool.
YOU LIVE IN A DESERT! nsfw language
Working outside in mid to high ninety degree temperature with humidity in the 90% range, you need to take salt tablets and you need to drink water, your sweat doesn’t evaporate you just stew in it until you go inside. Then, you freeze until the sweat evaporates, leaving a salty residue. If you’re acclimated you don’t sweat all that much if you’re dressed right, meaning light loose fabric that can breathe, so long as you’re not exerting yourself. That’s why those goofy but oddly dandified seersucker suits for men were once common.
I spent two years in South Korea, then three in Tucson (Air Force for both). I'd take Tucson over Korea any day. I was at Homestead AFB for water survival training in late May 1991. It was beginning to suck real bad at that point.
Went through basic at Lackland AFB (San Antonio, TX) mid-July to end of August (yeah, didn't think that one through) in 1987. Ugh. I hate humidity. Never want to live in it again.
It cooled off at night there, I think that would be the difference.
I had some friends visit from Germany in 1992. I was stationed at Davis-Monthan in Tucson at the time, but was home on leave to visit with them (one was an exchange student from when I was in high school, and she was staying with the family she'd been hosted by).
They were using stand-by tickets and could fly out of anywhere at the time, so I asked if they wanted to visit Tucson. They said sure.
The trip opened their eyes about just how big the United States is.
We traveled from Nampa, ID through Las Vegas, then Phoenix, to Tucson. 1,100 miles overall, but only driving in three states (ID, NV, and AZ).
When we went through Phoenix, there was an electronic bank billboard showing the temps. It was, funny enough, about this same time in June, and the billboard was switching back and forth between Fahrenheit and Celsius.
My friends noted the billboard at 112 F, but didn't say anything. When it flashed 44 C, they lost it.
They couldn't believe it could get that hot.
They're used to mid-to-high 70s in the summer, maybe touching the 80s. The highest recorded temperature in their hometown is 92 degrees Fahrenheit.
Yes I have been to Frankfurt and Paris in June. It was so cool we had light jackets on a lot of the time.
I think living in the desert is something you have to be born to. :-)
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