Posted on 06/26/2018 12:11:58 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
Wait, 38 years ago?! But what about Anthropological Global Warming? Should be hotter today.
Nope, just 105 degrees at the moment.
Nope, just 105 degrees at the moment.
Make that 28 years ago.
Math is hard.
When we heard that the planes could not take off from Sky Harbor you went outside he was 122 feels like. Not much different than 115, like standing in front of an olpen broiler.
Ok, that makes sense, because I happened to be travelling in Arizona then, I remember how hot it was. But it was more like 28 years ago.
Phew! I feel 10 years younger.
I lived out there 33 years ago. It was like living in an oven. Yeah, it was dry ... but it was still hotter than Hell ... especially in the city.
LOL!
I love it. It keeps the relatives away.
Yeah, that didn’t work for us. We had a constant flow of visitors. Must’ve made 4 trips to the Grand Canyon in that 8 month period.
I liked my time in Tucson in the early 1990s. Don’t think I could live there again. I never used A/C in the cars. Was useless. I had a brand new Mustang at the time, and I took it into the dealer to have it checked. They just laughed. Said it was fine, but couldn’t deal with the heat. Got the windows tinted as dark as I could legally (for my home state of Idaho), and the moon roof completely blacked out, and just dealt with it.
Yes, I remember that day well.
I live in the valley, having moved here in my sixties, and like it better than I anticipated. The dry summer is pretty easy to tolerate. Late April to the end of June it is very low humidity and the night heat does relent to 60 in April to 75+ in June. The 2% to 18% humidity range makes the outdoors tolerable if you protect yourself from the unrelenting sun.
I have been here during the wet summer many years and when the winds out of the south bring the monsoon moisture and the humidity jumps to 30 to 65% it is pretty dang nasty. When it is still a hundred at 10:30 at night, that is oppressive.
I like going to the mail box in February in my Teva sandals. Much of the year I stay in running shorts and a breathable tee shirt. I swim in April and October and anytime in between.
117 down in Tucson that day. going out to the mailbox was like walking in an oven. I’d just started dating my wife. Loooong time passed.
No worries.....AC in the house.....to AC in the car......to AC at the grocery store......to AC in the car......to AC in the house. God bless Mr Carrier!! (the man who invented AC!)
Tucson cools down at night; Phoenix does not.
We lived in Tucson the summer of ‘76. Every sunset was like a post card. Much of Tucson now resembles Mexico.
lived through something similar in 1980 Texas, with higher humidity than you get in Az.
here’a a link to news story
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/news/2010/08/06/Dallas-Fort-Worth-heat-wave-of-1868
All temps listed taken at DFW International Airport, the rest of the area was considerably hotter at any given time.
I love how they calculate the temperature. In the shade, on grass and probably with misters (well, that one’s mine). Who walks around in the shade and on grass ALL THE TIME?? How often do you get out of your car in Albertson’s parking lot in the shade and onto grass?
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