Phoenix set to break heat record

The Hill ^ | 07/18/2023 | LAUREN SFORZA

[ChicagoConservative27]

Phoenix is slated to break its heat record as the city approaches its 19th consecutive day of hitting 110 degrees or hotter in the area.

Phoenix tied the record for the most consecutive days with a high temperature of 110 degrees or more on Monday at 18 days, which ties it with the record previously set in 1974, the Phoenix National Weather Service (NWS) said.

Phoenix also broke its record for the highest overnight low temperature ever on Monday with a low of 95 degrees, which surpassed the 2009 record of 93 degrees. It was the eighth consecutive day of overnight lows being above 90 degrees, which was another record for the area.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Record previously from 1974??? I thought the 70s was the ice age? What gives?

[rlmorel]

This reminds me of sports statistics.

“Well, Bill. Joe Blow is the first player in NHL history to get a goal in every other game that is played on a Monday for five weeks in a row where the dates are odd days and not even!”

[SamAdams76]

1974 was a peak year of the Chevy Camaro.

All those teenagers cruising up and down the strips with Led Zeppelin 8-tracks blaring out the windows really did a number on our ozone layer that year.

[Sacajaweau]

we’re assuming the thermometer is in the exact same location under the exact same conditions, and the same thermometer used in 1974.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Often we are told that you can’t go by day to day weather, in seeing evidence of global warming.

But then those people who tell us that, jump all over heat waves, or hurricanes, as evidence of global warming. But this contradicts their telling us that the day to day weather is not an indicator of global warming.

[Sacajaweau]

How much asphalt has been added and how many trees destroyed since 1974...wherever the thermometer was location...and lets take a look at the population.

[Disambiguator]

I lived in Phoenix about 35 years ago, and I remember that it would stay above 100 degrees around the clock for weeks during the summer.

This article is just climate change gaslighting hysteria.

It’s hot in Phoenix! Especially now since the urban heat mass has gotten huge.

[Red Badger]

Well, it’s a dry heat......................

[shadowlands1960]

it’s summer... and Phoenix is hot.... okie dokie...

[Dilbert San Diego]

yes, the urban heat island phenomenon is a factor in these high temperatures.

But just because there are more man made structures absorbing heat, does not mean that the overall weather patterns have changed.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Trees in Phoenix? Not many. Asphalt? A lot.

[KC Burke]

Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix has increased in size four times in the last 40 years. During the nine years I spent there, the high temperature readings varied substantially across the many reporting stations in the valley. The airport was not where anyone lived of course.

[V_TWIN]

[PsyCon]

Thanks to Willis Currier, I don’t care.

[Sacajaweau]

none of this has anything to do with fossil fuels.

[alloysteel]

Non-religious people who have lived through one summer of ANY year in Phoenix without the benefit of air conditioning cannot be converted to Christianity. They no longer have fear of Hell and the Lake of Fire.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

Hi Lauren Sforza,

Did you miss Junior High?

It’s a desert.

Common adjectives used to describe deserts are “hot,” “dry,” and “empty”

They write songs about them and name SW companies after them.

You are a moron from the moronosphere.

[IYAS9YAS]

I lived in Phoenix about 35 years ago, and I remember that it would stay above 100 degrees around the clock for weeks during the summer.

I lived in Tucson in the early 1990s and we had one summer where the temps didn't go below 100 for at least ten days (that is to include overnight temps). Tucson always ran about 5-10 degrees cooler than Phoenix any given day. I know Phoenix had similar temps back then. The line that the highest recorded overnight low temp from 2009 is bovine excrement.

[Bon of Babble]

The media is screeching as if this has NEVER happened before in all of human history and it is the End Of The World.

The words “Climate Change” are in every news report - never mind core samples and tree rings that show drought and heat in the Southwest are the norm, not the exception.

Of course, there are more calls than ever are for “lowering ‘our’ carbon footprint” in the face of “looming world-wide disaster.”

LOL, what a joke - this is to get more people to buy EVs - even though I’m getting notices NOT to plug them in due to the electrical grid being overloaded from a/c’s (which the NWO also wants to ban).

[Theoria]

Localized weather phenomena is a norm. Frost line moved down in the late 1890’s in Florida, there was once citrus further north. The additional infrastructure and peoples throughout the south west and west in general is a factor in weather conditions. That is life, and expect it to continue. Man made conditions often expand phenomena, like the dust bowls of the 30's. We've yet to see what putting millions of people and their demands in desert conditions have in such areas.