Where I live, I have seen times we hit 116 degrees for several days. It is hot in Texas in the summer.
I traveled AZ every other week on business for quite a few years. It is normally a little hotter than here.
Oh, I agree that Arizona is typically hotter than South Tennessee, but we can see temps over 100 for a month at a time, or we have in the past. My truck was in the parking lot at work a few years ago. I had the windows halfway down and I still found my rearview mirror on the floor when I got in it. LOL
My sister lives in Bryan Texas. Texas is hot but she says it’s about like here where she lives.
When we are 90-100, it’s a wet heat and you can’t breathe outside at all. When we can’t stand it anymore, we go to the Smokies. It’s a day trip for us.
A friend of mine came from Wisconsin to spend a week with us in August a few years ago. I recommended a better month but they wanted to come in August. She said, “it gets hot in Wisconsin too”. They won’t do that again.
It’s normal for Arizona to be hot. I don’t buy global warming as the reason though. Summer is hot. Some summers are hotter than others and always have been.
It’s the global warming I’m fussing about. The earth has always heated up and cooled down. It always will.