Posted on 07/25/2023 5:40:08 PM PDT by Az Joe
I roofed two summers in the Dallas area during my youth. Brutal. Before all the Mexicans came to town.
Good lord! How old are you?
Let us see.
25th Day of July
Right in the heart of the Sonoran Desert
Tall buildings and very black pavement.
Traffic up the yingyang, all belching hot exhaust.
Air conditioners cooling buildings and exhausting the hot air outside.
The National Weather Service, people that live in cooler climates and lots of new comers all are crying; “The World is ending”.
Old timers and natives are saying; “Yup, it gets hot in the desert in the summer time”.
Hot in the Sonoran...uh...Desert. Whaddaya know? I was there once. On a horse with no name. It was good to be out of the rain.
Well, maybe the Mexicans were already there but our crew was all redneck white boys. Circa 1983.
That is the key point.
Monsoon seems to be AWOL.
Not the first time that’s happened.
So glad I moved to Idaho! I don’t miss those temps one bit.
Twas 112 in Bullhead city...again
Now, every day, there has to be a record or someone at the NWS gets fired.
Thanks for covering. That’s a good one.
Dew point is the better metric for comfort, and that metric makes your point. Lower is better.
119 degrees @ 14% relative humidity equates to a 57 degree dewpoint.
100 degrees @ 40% relative humidity equates to a 71 degree dewpoint, which is very juicy. Basically like a hot wet towel in the face.
Dew point is the metric we use to know if our swamp boxes will work well, or not. Though the air temperature component has its own significance as well. A swamp box isn't much good in the daytime if the dew point is higher than 50F, but is much better at night with same dew point. We don't yet have the perfect swamp box effectiveness metric, IOW.
And they didn’t remember your name.
I started a roofing job one day in the summer. I quit at lunch. True story.
John McCain, is that you posting from Hades?
Ohhhh that’s low man, very low.
People complaining about the heat in PHOENIX are no different than those who move next to an airport, and then petition to have it shut down, due to noise.
Day after day of 118, 119, it’s so much worse than the usual 117 or 118. According to the media, and this is why we must now ride bikes and change the weather back to 116 or 117 so it will be much easier to survive. Or just move the thermometers away from the airport tarmac. I dunno, just a normal person who didn’t go nuts.
By the way, looks like some monsoon storms finally breaking the drought by this weekend. The strong upper high is going to weaken a bit and turn off the magnifying glass effect. May “cool down” to low 110s.
HA! That’s the truth. I was in Phoenix once in June and it was 106. Then we went up to near Flagstaff and it was in the 80’s.
Who’s complaining?
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