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It's summer in Arizona. Time to come inside
latimes.com ^ | June 2 2016 | Nigel Duara

Posted on 06/03/2016 5:22:55 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

“It gets unpleasant quickly,”

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TOPICS: Outdoors; Travel
KEYWORDS: arizona; summer
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To: trebb

I there anywhere in the country with humidity higher than Mobile, AL?


21 posted on 06/03/2016 8:04:08 AM PDT by chasio649
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To: trebb

“It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day..........”


22 posted on 06/03/2016 8:07:24 AM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make up stuff. It wastes time.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Funny.

It's no joke that you can fry an eggs on the sidewalk in the summer in Arizona. Been there done that.

I walked a round of golf one summer day years ago in Phoenix. Was the usual hot but drank a lot of water and caught the shade when I could. Otherwise, just felt like another summer day on the course.

When I got home that evening and watched the news, the weatherman said it had broken a record that day of 122 degrees.

Dang it and I missed the whole thing! :-)

23 posted on 06/03/2016 8:07:51 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: PUGACHEV

I’ve been in the Mojave at 112 and get in the pool and get out and be briefly chilly in the dry wind

Then it starts up

I like dry

It’s still hot admittedly but it’s far easier than 90s or 100s and drenched air saturation

Only places I’ve been where I wondered how folks survived were Gilbues northeastern Brasil and Death Valley near the bottom

120 or so

I’m old so I recall Death Valley Days and I always wondered how’d they do that in the summer ....mule teams carrying borax up outta that inferno

Plus a tribe of Indians who live there


24 posted on 06/03/2016 8:11:37 AM PDT by wardaddy (No wobbly Donald....full steam ahead)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I’m driving from Middle TN to Santa Fe today and yes I agree though serious summer hasn’t hit the south yet

94 in Nashville is warmest yet

Been wer lately

Taking two of my five on historical tour to Carlsbad and Artesia and Las Cruces then up into mid Rockies

10-11 days

Mom hates road trips unless they lead to Neimans

My great grandpa and grandma are buried in Artesia and others in Santa Fe

I go out every couple years for now 58 years

I’ve seen purty hot in Las Cruces


25 posted on 06/03/2016 8:17:59 AM PDT by wardaddy (No wobbly Donald....full steam ahead)
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To: chasio649
I there anywhere in the country with humidity higher than Mobile, AL?

Biloxi is only 40-50 miles away and on the same coast. Destin Florida and such also get really steamy from time to time.

Hate it when it really gets hot and sticky - can step out at 6 AM and have your undies stuck before taking 3 steps...

26 posted on 06/03/2016 8:18:16 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

All this hate for the desert! Lived here all my life, lived in a home without A/C only a swamp cooler back in the 60’s. Survived just fine. We’ve adapted, same way those crazies in northern Minn have done with all that below zero weather. I prefer the dryness over humidity anyday. Spent a few days in the summer in Houston and felt like I couldn’t breathe, the air was so heavy.


27 posted on 06/03/2016 8:19:36 AM PDT by UnRuley1
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To: HandyDandy

“I was out chopping cotton And my brother was baling hay... “


28 posted on 06/03/2016 8:19:56 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: UnRuley1

http://www3.forbes.com/investing/25-best-places-to-retire-in-2016/3/
Apache Junction, AZ named one of the best places to retire.


29 posted on 06/03/2016 8:25:42 AM PDT by UnRuley1
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To: HotHunt

***It’s no joke that you can fry an eggs on the sidewalk in the summer in Arizona.***

Did that at Clinton Arkansas back in Aug 1975. Waiting for the ice age to hit back then!


30 posted on 06/03/2016 8:27:13 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: trebb

We have that big ole bay that steams us thoroughly.


31 posted on 06/03/2016 8:48:37 AM PDT by chasio649
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Not to mention Valley Fever.


Being the LA Times, they forget to mention that the “valley” in valley fever is the CA Central Valley and it also affects the San Fernando Valley. Remember all of the cases after the Northridge earthquake?

32 posted on 06/03/2016 9:17:04 AM PDT by az_gila
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To: wardaddy

I don’t belittle 110 degree heat. I’ve experienced that in Arizona. That and low humidity will suck the water out of you in no time. Coming from the East, we don’t usually prepare ourselves for that. The absolute worst place I’ve ever been is Ponce, PR. Under the Tropic of Cancer in July was like being a small insect in a toaster oven.


33 posted on 06/03/2016 9:40:53 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: Awgie

Hah! Spit in Phoenix and it will evaporate before it ever gets to the sidewalk. We call it “verga”.


34 posted on 06/03/2016 10:12:44 AM PDT by Do_Tar (To my NSA handler: Only kidding.)
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To: PUGACHEV

Ponce is hot......we used to bunker in Mayaguez

New Orleans too is rough

I was in Rio at my then girlfriends apt in Ipanema with no ac and just a fan

104 with Tampa humidity

My cardiac arrythmia with pvcs went ape

Course she was gorgeous and very happy to have me there.....what’s a little cardio inconvenience...lol


35 posted on 06/04/2016 12:43:30 AM PDT by wardaddy (No wobbly Donald....full steam ahead)
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To: chasio649
We have that big ole bay that steams us thoroughly.

Yep - an our area has the Biloxi back bay and a number of other inlets marsh lands that do the same. This whole region from Louisiana to Florida is the sopping pits in the Summer months.

36 posted on 06/04/2016 2:32:02 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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