A typical June 1 day here in AZ, I equate this to those of you that live up North that deal with sub Zero for months on end.
And yes, that's in the shade.
It has begun!

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i bet the a/c business thrives over there lol

Must be moving North from your place. We have been promised a spike to 105° tomorrow with wind. Oh goody, the Las Vegas Hair Drier Effect.

Heck Steve we're just displaced kindred spirits, or at least kindling!

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Yeah, but its a dry heat.

LMAO, That is always funny .

I could never live there, Im hot and miserable at 80 degrees . Give me cold or rain any day . 70 is as hot as I want to go

Eh, it's 90 plus with the humidity and I have not owned an A/C for the house in seven years. If you know how to close your house up for the day then you can keep it cool, and I even own a metal roof. My truck has 260 air, two windows and 60 mph.

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Vaya con Dios

Once again, I'm a day late & a dollar short!

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We're in the humid 90's here for the third straight day, and the temp on the field in Yankee Stadium for the Red Sox game was 100+ tonight.

It's 105 now down from 108 a couple of hours ago. I may have to get my sweater out if it keeps dropping like this.

We've been in the mid 80s here in Toronto and close to 100% humidity the past few days. That is nasty.

Beat me to it

I dont even like talking about heat, Im outta here

Then there was the year we were headed to Colorado on I 70. As we blew through KC there was a bank sign that flashed the time and temp. It was just after midnight, maybe 12:05 and the temp was 102. Worse, that jeep didn't have AC. But I kept driving west. The only thing that kept me going was the thought that the next day would be worse with the sun.

So we made it to Junction City and got a Motel right behind the McDonalds at exit 296. I'd already decided to not travel the next day, but instead remain in the motel and AC. We had our dog along (dogs need vacations, too.) So about 6:30 AM he need to go outside. I leashed him up for a walk down by the interstate. I got outside and it was raining! The nicest rain I'd ever felt. And it had cooled all the way down into the 70s! Walked back and told the wife to get up and take her shower, we were driving after all. Old Spot did his business and we were hustling to get going. I had no idea if it was just a shower or an all day rain, but I wanted out of Kansas. I have no idea how anyone can live with temps that high.

Another year we rolled in to Moab, UT and the temp was 114. Too hot for life to survive. We holed up in the motel room. The next day it cooled way down to 112, so we went up into the LaSals. Found the worldly remains of a snow slide (up above Miners Basion). It looked like pine needles but right under the surface was snow and ice crystals. When the dog discovered it, he spent the next 10 minutes running in circles (doing donuts.) The next day it was still hot. I stopped in a convenience store about bought a block of ice. Hit it once with an axe and then lodged it behind the console and the back seat. Put a towel over it and the dog found it. He wouldn't leave the jeep, he just laid on the big ice cube for hours.

We're mid latitude folks. 100 degrees is ok once or twice a summer as the daytime highs. I expect it to drop down to maybe 70 by sunrise.

One of the last years we had our pool we were having friends over. It was too hot and the pool water was above 90. I drove down to the ice house and bought more of the blocks. They went in the pool with me. It actually dropped the water temp a few degrees. They melted fast because people were sitting on them. Used them as floats.

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Yeah, but you can always fall back on that "great minds think alike" thing!

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That's so hot, even the Fonz isn't cool.

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I'm with the banned ...

There's no place that I'd rather be than right here
With my red necks, white socks and blue ribbon beer...


Light Rain

72°F

22°C

I visited AZ once and you'll never find me there again (at least not the southern half. I took a video of myself (accidentally) monkeying out from the heat at the Pima Air museum. It's great, you can hear me talking gibberish and see that I'm walking in a really wavy line. I thought I had taken a video of a plane and hit the 'record' button to stop the camera, but it was still on.

I really liked AZ. My bro is moving to the Prescott area soon. I would like it in the central part of AZ but north and south are too cold or too hot!

There's one constant when it comes to weather,regardless of what it is,somebody is gonna bitch about it.
f.t.

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Yep. Try that humidity we get here in Pa(and other places). Today at 7am I stepped outside to walk my dog......felt like i walked into a sauna.

Sounds like all y'all (did I get that right?) live way to far south! At 8 am it is 46 degrees. It might hit 60 today. Tonight it's suppoosed to get down to 34.

I keep telling my wife that one of these summers, we should look for cheap airplane tickets and fly down to Mesa for a couple of days just to see what it's like. We have friends there who would just love a mid-summer visit.

I always figure I can put more clothes on during the winter, but when it's hot, I can only take off so much.

If you want extreme heat and humidity? come down my way. Currently is 95 F--and near 100% humidity and no winds.

i wore 2 shirts and a jacket at the steel challenge today, wished id brought a sweater too .but then id be too bulked up to shoot fast ....hey i missed a valid excuse for being slow! it was raining off and on and temp was16 C which is about 60 F .

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104°F and 4% humidity this afternoon with a 10-20 mph wind.

Around here we get uncomfortable when the dew point gets above 65 degrees.

I figure in the winter we run from the house to the car when it's 20 below zero just like people do when it's 105 degrees.

The real difference is people in colder climates like the temps between 40 and 70, and people in warm climates like the temps between 60 and 90.

The fun part is when people travel and see how the other half lives.

Wisconsinites actually start wearing shorts when the temperature gets above 40.

Floridians (I have family there) start shivering and wearing jackets when it gets below 70.


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What is fun is to watch the "competition" between the UPS drivers and USPS -- who starts wearing shorts the soonest int he spring and who is the last to switch to long pants in the fall.

Oh, and why do you wait until it gets all the way to 40 to start wearing shorts??? Anything above freezing is not freezing.

So is a pizza oven!

The hottest place I've ever been was Midlothian, TX in May. 105 in the shade. At that point the humidity was immaterial. No AC since I was camping, so we spent a lot of time in the shade.

The second hottest was LV in September 2003. 103 in the shade. No camping, lots of AC.

i worked a contract in westbank bc about 20 yrs ago ,testing hydro poles throughout the city, we were not allowed to start work until 7:00am but by 11:00 it was already 44c degrees according to the radio station, it was probably a lot hotter standing on the blacktop where we were trying to work . we ended up working about 4 hours a day for a couple weeks and caught up on our beer drinking down by the lake . was not a profitable job, more like a working vacation that i didnt really want to be on

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I remember one day in the 1990s when it was 114º in El Paso. I was working in a one story, WW II building on Fort Bliss with added evap cooling. It didn't do much when that sun was blaring at us through the walls and window.

Then there was the day there was a thunderstorm at 3 PM and by quitting time there was a 4 inch tarantula, flooded out of its burrow, sitting on our doorstep. The first out was one of our secretaries; you could have heard her a mile away and there was at least 15 feet between her footprints. The tarantula walked off the doorstep and the rest of us went out.

97 here yesterday-dew point was about 70-as well as about 90% humidity and no wind. This = miserable weather.

I've been a Desert Rat all my life, so the heat may discomfort, but it's not oppressive to me.
If the temp gets below 35 I go into hibernation mode.

I was there the day it snowed 24 inches, talk about suicidal!

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I stepped off an air-conditioned aircraft in Phoenix once and was nearly bowled over by the 115-degree ambient temperature.

I found it actually hard to breathe for a few minutes.
I can't believe that people get used to that.

Oh, I know I'm a sissy. I'm not denying it.

Arizona's a great state.....




....to fly over.

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We only hit 95, but I think the humidity was also hovering in the 90s.

I remember that day. It started to snow the night before, and I thought I better get up a bit early so as not to be late to work. The snow was pretty deep, and when I got on Biggs, I was breaking trail (1 ton, 4X4). I was the only one in the building; turned on the radio and Ft Bliss was closed. I went home and took a nap. The next day it was -9º, and everybody's pipes froze, including mine. El Pasoans don't know how to drive on snow. They think their brakes will actuallly slow down a car, and they think that more power applied to the wheels will get them going.

I camped in a tent in 100 degree plus temps last weekend, and so long as you could stay in the shade, it wasn't unpleasant, but it is still "dry heat" --- about 7% humidity. Later in the summer, when the humidity spikes up to around 20%, and the temps hover around 115 for days on end, it's oppressive. These conditions are among the many reasons why you should visit during the milder months, spend lots of tourist money, then go home.

The heat is due to spike again here in Vegas over the next few days with ~110°F expected Saturday. The weather folks have issued an excessive heat warning because the temps are expected to be so far above normal.

I know it has been a hot day when I go out at ~5pm to refresh the birdbaths and the robins swoop down and nearly drink from the hose. The less brave ones sit in the trees and scold me to hurry up. On REALLY hot days I have had a robin go behind me to drink from the hose faucet where it dribbles a little. I think the brave ones are repeat customers over several years and know I present no threat.

Todays high (so far).
We should top out by mid July.

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Of course it's now about 65 out and raining. If you don't like the weather in the Adirondacks, wait five minutes.

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Vaya con Dios

Rim Country,Az. today. Seems HOT to us, but people from the "Valley"/ Phoenix area have been flocking up here to get out of the heat. All relative I guess...

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I think the people that settled here must have done so during the Winter, had it been the Summer they would have kept moving.

Dave Muncie sez:
move in with Rock185 for the Summer!
Check out the temp at 9:24 pm.
Yeah it's hot, but you really do get sorta used to it.

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I spent some time in Phoenix one summer when I was in my early teens. I accompanied my older brother, who went there for some computer training. They were having a heat wave! 117° in the shade! And his car didn't have air conditioning. "It's a dry heat." Yeah! When I opened the door of the motel room, that heat would bowl me over. You could fry eggs on the sidewalk. They can keep it! I'll stay here in my beautiful mountains.

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Very interesting...