Posted on 07/18/2023 7:07:55 AM PDT by 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.
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To me Phoenix/Chandler/Mesa/Scottsdale are is like metro Los Angles on a boil. Way to big and way too hot. There are cooler places in Arizona that are better than Poenix in all ways. I won’t mention my choice ‘cause I have not moved there - yet - and no need to help demand push up housing prices there.
we had to stay overnight in Phx several yrs ago....its was 106 at 10 pm...
Living in the middle of it, lawn or farm irrigation likely plays only a small role.
Our green belt with lawn irrigation is 1-2 hours every 2 weeks, and this home irrigation area is not that large. Pools of water soak in quickly on dry soil.
Ag irrigation is mostly miles away from the city. The heat island, however, created by buildings, expansive runways and roads radiates stored daytime heat into night-time air.
Ooooh, for the good ol’ days.
I'll take 110 in Phoenix over anything over 85 with over 50% humidity any day.
I was driving back to Tucson from Idaho in the summer of 1993 with some friends from Germany. I had to get back to Davis-Monthan AFB from leave and they wanted to see the southwest in the summer. I warned them it would be like nothing they'd ever experienced. It was around noon and we were driving by a bank sign in Phoenix, and it read 112°. I looked at it and mentioned how glad I was for A/C. They looked too, and kind of shrugged. Then the signs flipped to 44° Celsius and they freaked out. They made me stop so they could take a picture of it.
I first drove through Phoenix in ‘72. It was a modest city and separated from the adjacent communities to a good extent. Now Scottsdale, Mesa, Glendale and the 30 other cities all run together in one megatropolis 110 miles by 100 miles. The heat sink of the downtown and airport has steadily increased I am sure but I take your point.
On the weather pages and television do you see the wide variety of temperature and rainfall across the whole valley as I have mentioned?
The fear mongers on the left cherry pick data and history and then lie to make their points and arguments.
Sorry, wrong year. It was the summer of 1992 when we went by that 112/44 sign.
You sound like a real Putz
Back in the 1980s, the City of Phoenix publicly announced they were moving their official temperature sensor (up or down the pole, I forget which) in the hope that they could displace Tucson as the hottest city in the state.
Is it something I said ?
My point is this Phoenix heat story is BS. It’s not debilitating. We know how to manage it, with some common sense caution advised.
I’ve been in Houston in May and it felt worse.
I would probably agree...although I will say, when I was in the USN and went to Yuma on a detachment for Air Combat Maneuvering training for our squadron at the end of July, it got as high as 115 degrees on at least one or two of the days, and I am sure, to people who live out there, they are used to it, but when the back of that C-130 opened up, it felt just like opening an oven...
But it was the dry heat, and...it didn’t feel bad at all.
Until I had been out in it for a while. Then I thought I understood those guys in the desert who would look up at the burning sun, with no water in sight!
Precisely
I hear ya. I used to fly in the back of the EC-130H at Davis-Monthan (I was enlisted electronic weapons systems crew). The only thing I hated was they’d turn off the A/C in the back of the C-130 when they wanted to do touch and go or combat landing practice. The A/C was needed for the electronics in the back, but they turned all that off when taking off and landing, so the A/C got shut off as well. 105° outside, 115° in the tin can inside. Sometimes the aircrew was real nice and dropped us off first.
I think he was joking at the golf story. Golf putts (putz).
Hahahahaha...you sound like you were baked spam in a can!
Thank you for serving, FRiend...:)
Learned a lot in those days.
Putz as in golf aficionado it was a meant as a term of endearment
Lying liars gonna lie.
Attention: MSM Brainwashing operation going on... be afraid of the weather citizen.
Your multi-billionaire globalist slave masters need you to be afraid so you can be controlled.
Be afraid...👻...be very afraid..it's Summertime. 🌞
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