If he only had Life Alert.
Posted on 07/29/2023 7:01:33 AM PDT by dennisw
Locals bake cookies in CARS and complain of melting roads Searing heatwave is forecast to bring 110F temps to Phoenix for 30th day today Even Arizona's hardy Saguaro cactuses are dying in the blistering heat Temps are hot enough to melt dog toys, bake cookies in cars, and soften roads
A searing heat wave that continues to blister much of the US is so hot that even Arizona's iconic cactuses are dying off.
In Phoenix, Saturday is forecast to be the 30th consecutive day with high temperatures above 110F, a streak that has shattered all records for the city, with fatal results.
At the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, saguaro cactuses, a symbol of the US West, are drooping, shriveling and in some cases toppling over during the record streak of extreme heat.
Residents of the area have taken to TikTok to highlight the staggering effects of the intense heat, showing cookies baking on car dashboards, rubber dog toys melting in the sun, and roads soft enough to leave footprints.
The heat wave has had deadly consequences as well, with at least 25 confirmed heat-related deaths and 249 more pending investigation in Maricopa County, the area surrounding Phoenix, so far this summer.
At the Desert Botanical Garden, plant physiologists are studying just how much heat cactuses can take.
The garden has specimens representing has over two-thirds of all cactus species, including saguaros which can grow to over 40 feet.
Until recently many, thought the plants were perfectly adapted to extreme high temperatures and drought. Arizona's heat wave is testing those assumptions.
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I remember 1955 running the streets of Moab Utah barefooted. The cement was cool to the feet. they we had to cross the street and the super hot asphalt made us dance all the way across! “OW! OW! OW-OW!” till we got to the cool cement again.
110 for the Phoenix area is common. I’m further south and and have some elevation so it’s relatively cooler here. The monsoons here have been very light this season and that’s the problem.
Those cacti are hundreds of years old, and didn’t die until now.
I just opened my old copy of ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK by Bourke, a reprint of his 1891 book.
In the chapter Drinking and Gambling he mentions how the temp in Tuscon “often climbed up and over the 120 notch on the Fahrenheit scale before the meridian days between April 1st and October 15th.”
And in the chapter A Tuscon Baile he writes “The summer climate of Tuscon is sultry and the heat will often run up as high as 120 degrees Fahr...”
So it is quite obvious high temps have been in Southern Arizon along before Glo-Bull Warming.
Scottsdale here - It’s not at all uncommon to have temps hitting 115 or even higher during the summer, but this one has been a cooker. The duration of this heatwave is the disturbing part. I’m not suggesting anyone should panic over it, but I have trees dying that shouldn’t be dying - Fichus for example that look like they just went through a deep freeze, with burnt leaves, regardless of how much water they get. Personally, I like it hot. I can’t stand the cold. I’m happy as can be at 105 degrees. But, this stretch of 110 plus is something else. Is it climate change? Perhaps. But, there’s nothing anyone can do about it. Taxing us more isn’t going to change that. The lefties are getting a good laugh and pointing fingers at the “red hats”, but screw them. Only thing I worry about is my 2004 HAVC unit, not their stupid opinions.
One of my hippie friends in Tuscon said they had hail yesterday
The only ones complaining about “unprecedented” heat in Arizona’s summer are weenies that fled California. It is called a desert for a reason, yah TWOT’s.
Yep. As the song says, “If there’s one thing you can count on, things are gonna change.”
Liberals think that everything should be static based on the day they were born. Morons.
Oh well, should have put umbrellas over them.
I watched a you tube video about boulder dam. It was produced by US govt in 1931.
About 3 minute in the video, explaining the worker housing in Boulder City, NV, they mentioned the summer temperature reaches 125 degrees, 1931..
link 125 degrees at 3 minute mark +/-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khD_ryWxfMg
PASS IT TO THE IDIOTS
“Residents of the area have taken to TikTok”
Well, the liberal California invaders are maybe.
If he only had Life Alert.
I wonder if these people will mourn for the fallen cactus?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJFYwRtrH4
Not really different from any other summer in the low desert areas of AZ and CA.
I’d never seen that.
I guess it beats working for a living?
I don’t think 110 deg F is within their mourning tolerances though.
> at my latitude you can almost watch the deterioration of the roadway under heavy traffic load,
Product performance may be compromised by too much graft in the mix…
More likely it’s nearing the end of its useful working life.
Oh! The article actually shows crack sealant melting in the heat! Not actually asphalt, and probably wasn’t the correct formulation/application to begin with!
Cactus die all the time. They don’t get to live forever. And, are they really dying off at an unusually high rate? Someone writes it so its the truth. Is that how it works? It’s hot. It’s the desert. It will cool down in late October when it always does.
Yeah. I’ve gone through some dry hits, you can tell when a cactus is drying out, they get thin, and yellow. This year isn’t as bad as 2020, at least in Tucson. Phoenix has only gotten one decent rain. It’s the monsoon season, and the peak part, we should be getting rain almost daily. We got nothing until last week. And we set a record for consecutive 110 days. It’s definitely a brutal summer.
Where are the ticks and snakes when you really need them?
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