Posted on 09/01/2011 12:17:53 PM PDT by MNDude
Fort Smith hit 116 this summer and Little Rock hit 114, if memory serves me correctly during a long hot dry stretch....and that's with high humidity added to the equation. Oppressive doesn't begin to describe what it felt like. Felt like sticking your head inside a broiler oven.
I haven’t been since the late 70’s...outgrew it; but sometimes I wonder if the wild burros still run around there. I know they’re over in Oatman, ‘cause we saw them last year.
Hey, the Bun Boy in Baker is now a Bob's Big Boy!
I’m down in Topock. My stepfather works on the state road crew. Picture standing in that heat doing traffic control for 10 hours a day...with no shade. He’s been at it for 20 years ;)
I believe the climate is warming.
And I believe the climate is changing. Here where I live, we have been seeing longer winters, milder springs and cooler summers for the past several years. We had snow at the beginning of June, for heavens sake!
I lived in Vegas for 6 years and it was hot; but not the slam you against the wall humidity heat. Of course, I live in that now. Houston; although the humidity hasn’t been really bad this year. Heat, yes; humidity no.
I, the wife, and the grandson were just in Oatman about three weeks ago. The wild burros are still there too. We took a photo of a little baby one that had a sticker on its forehead that read: DO NOT FEED ME.
We asked about it and the locals said that very young burros can't handle the carrots and such that the tourists feed them. So they put stickers on their heads to protect them.
Cute as bugs, though.
I see those guys all the time and I just can’t imagine it.
Topock Marsh.
Best. Place. Ever.
Probably the only place in the world to see a black rail, clapper rail, and least bittern on the same day.
If I go the ashes route, that's the place I want my ashes spread.
But only after I'm dead. *snort*
Wow.. Bullhead City. I just spent the last 20 minutes exploring the town using Google maps. Amazing place. You can feel the heat just by looking around. I love Arizona.
I wish we had a Big Boy here, but I live near the northern end of Death Valley where it snows in the Winter.
You can get this info for individual cities. Here is one for Tulsa, OK.
Type in your zip code, when the info comes up for your current weather look for the button that says Historical Data.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/health/fitness/wxclimatology/daily/USOK0537?climoMonth=8
Just think of what the late NASCAR driver, Dick Trickle, had to put up with! His nickname was probably “Clap!”
Go here http://ggweather.com/climate/extremes_us.htm and scroll down below the map. Full dates are given. It was 1911.
I looked at 1960 and after and found 19 states set record lows and 10 set record highs.
And I think in the 1990s it was 6 and 5. My eyeballs were starting to fall out, so I might be off by one or two either way.
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I love Arizona too. I live on the Colorado River. Right across from the casinos of Laughlin, Nevada. I see all the Laughlin Lights at night from my patio. IT’s fantatsic!
Interesting both HI and AK both maxed out at 100
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