***Phoenix is supposed to be 118 degrees tomorrow.***
I’m reading ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK, about the AZ Apache wars. The author says it was so hot in AZ, a common joke was you had to strap two mercury thermometers together to see how high above 120 degrees the temp really was, and an old scout who died and went to hell begged permission of the devil to return to AZ to pick up his blankets as he was not used to the cool temperatures in hell.
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! :-)