Why? Because the very things cities are made of -- asphalt, concrete and steel -- absorbs more heat energy than the materials the natural environment is made of. 
Nothing to see here, no global warming, kindly keep moving ....
Posted on 08/08/2025 1:08:52 PM PDT by Mariner
Record-breaking heat continues for parts of the desert Southwest into the weekend, with sweltering temperatures beginning to expand east into the Heartland.
Extreme heat warnings remain in effect for parts of the desert Southwest -- including Palm Springs, California; Phoenix; and Tucson, Arizona.
High temperatures are expected to reach well into the 100s and up to 115 in spots.
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We have not hit 80 degrees yet, and probably won’t this late.
103 F in Lubbock Tx roght now.
Where are you? I want to live there.
Amazingly, we’ve only had about 3 days over 100 in San Antonio this summer and they were in mid-May. I’ll take it.
54 F in Seattle last night. Woke up cold and had to shut the window.
75 F high today.
Hot weather is on the way.
Three days of mid-80s, about 6 degrees above normal.
The Long Range Summer forecast predicted much hotter than normal and very dry.
They got the dry part right.
Temps, however, have been a little above normal, but only two or three days have been uncomfortably hot.
Sweltering. Might hit 72 degrees. And 58% humidity! (Oregon coast)
Yes, humidity rises.
Last 10 days in June, first 10 days in July is the scorcher period.
Same here, but I try to avoid that now. When you get older, you have to be really careful not to get too far behind on staying hydrated, because it's a lot harder to catch back up. I try to get the outdoor stuff done each day before it gets much over 90.
Yeah back in the 90s, Mesa AZ was 120+ quite frequently. You don’t really sweat unless you’re in the sun.
I was a Fedex driver in Phoenix for a short time back in the late 80s. 118 was not unheard of during the summer.
The saying was, “once it gets above 115 degrees, it’s all the same!”
But it’s a dry heat. 🙄
It’s a dry heat.
I agree. I coached the Colorado Big League all-stars (Little League 16-18 yo) in the 2004 regionals in Biloxi in early August & hid in my hotel room tween games, practices, & the pool. We don’t go east or south in the Summer if we can help it; I was used to Central Valley (CA) heat growing up; the humidity is what we can’t stand.
In my old days in Texas the asphalt streets would get gooey at 105ish.
It was a steakhouse parking lot and there were no trees. What little foliage I remember was short, squatty and pointy. OK, some alien-looking Joshua ‘trees’ in the Martian landscape.
I had no AC, we relied on wing vents blasting us with 400° oven air.
I remember passing an open-air rock concert off some kind off the interstate, it looked like Mars, red, barren, desolate, I wondered how they survived the heat.
“I thought I’d died and gone to Hell, but I was only in Tucson.”
Little Bill Daggett
PS A roadrunner was being chased by a coyote off I-8 and they were both walking, tongues hanging out.
I used to live in Puyallup.
Damn, I loved that weather...most of the time.
It got 96deg once.
I asked someone “why” who moved there recently, from Colorado Front Range. Better pay, cheaper housing, lower general prices, less crime.
I am unfamiliar with the Colorado Front Range. A town there would be???
Folks from Richmond, VA last month say “Hold my beer”. I’d have given my left nut for 45% humidity. We were close to twice that and most of the month was in the 90°s
It’s been a cool summer in Maryland.
Why? Because the very things cities are made of -- asphalt, concrete and steel -- absorbs more heat energy than the materials the natural environment is made of.
Nothing to see here, no global warming, kindly keep moving ....
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