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To: bitt

That’s great, but then what’s causing the record heat in AZ (130 degrees for a solid month, first time in hisgtory) or the wildfires we’ve never seen the magnitude of?

Seriously, looking for an answer not more political poop...


55 posted on 08/14/2023 4:38:16 AM PDT by guinness4strength
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To: guinness4strength
130 degrees for a solid month

Incorrect. Highest temperature ever recorded in Arizona was 128°F at Lake Havasu City during the summer of 1994. This summer in Arizona there was a 30-day stretch of above-110° high temps with the hottest day reaching 118°.

wildfires we’ve never seen the magnitude of

No total acres burned yet for 2023, but here's some history:

Year . . . Acres Burned
2022 -- 7,577,183
2021 -- 7,125,643
2020 -- 10,122,336
2019 -- 4,664,364
2018 -- 8,767,492
2017 -- 10,026,086
2016 -- 5,509,995
2015 -- 10,125,149
2014 -- 3,595,613
2013 -- 4,319,546
2012 -- 9,326,238

Wildfires and Acres

65 posted on 08/14/2023 9:13:20 AM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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