Fun71

Whew. Today was the 30th day this summer that was 110ºF or higher.
And folks wonder why I don't drive my convertible during the summer.


http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/...days/88810368/
Phoenix tops 110-degree mark for 30th time in 2016
Alexis Egeland, The Republic | azcentral.com 1:49 p.m. MST August 16, 2016

Phoenix surpassed the 110-degree mark again on Tuesday, inching the city ever closer to the record for most days in a calendar year when the temperature tops 110 degrees.

Tuesday marked the 30th day in 2016 that Phoenix temperatures have reached that uncomfortable threshold, and the city needs only three more days to surpass the record of 33 days set in 2011.

deadeyejedi

yikes ! we had three days in a row above 90 and i was bitching .you might as well go for the record now

76olds

Wow, that's brutal Kenneth. We had many days here in Toronto in the 90's. We have A/C in the office but not in the shop. The shop gets up to 105 by 3 in the afternoon with the machines running. At that point everyone's beginning to get frustrated and moody. That's when you know its time to shut er' down and come in earlier in the morning.
I can't imagine 110 for that many days, people must be going crazy!!

Eric

joe_padavano

I've spent time in Phoenix in the summer. I'll still take 110 in Phoenix over 95 in D.C. any day.

1968_Post

Couldn't agree more. Joe. I lived in Scottsdale and Tucson for 5 years. It took a year to adjust to the heat, but once I did I loved the weather. I'm in Tennessee now and can't adjust to the humidity.. The air here is so heavy here it could be cut with a knife

jaunty75

Phoenix in the summer is like Duluth, Minnesota in the winter. You live there for the other three seasons, not for summer (or winter).

In cold climates, what do you do on a zero degree day in winter? You don't spend much time outside. You get quickly from your house to your car or your car to the store or work or wherever you just drove to. You spend as little time actually outside as possible.

It's the same thing on a 110 degree day in Phoenix. You don't spend any time outside. You just get from the car to the building and vice versa as quickly as you can.

jensenracing77

I will take the 110 in Arizona or 95 in Washington any day over 40 and lower anywhere. I hate cold weather so bad. I want to move south, maybe NC area but my Job and family keep me here.

ELY442

X2, no matter how many layers of clothes you wear, you're still freakin cold. I deal with the hot blazing diesel engines where I work but at least the bus depot provides us huge commercial fans that keeps us cool and bottles of water when the temp goes over 90*.

joe_padavano

The difference is that in Phoenix, you don't hear your car rusting overnight.

1968_Post

True, but in Minnesota, your interior won't spontaneously combust.

joe_padavano

I'd rather replace an interior than floor pans and quarter panels.

1968_Post

true dat!

m371961

I hate heat. I can put on enough clothes in the winter to do what I need to. I can't take off enough clothes to stay cool when it is hot.

442Fred

After a week in Tennessee at the nationals I am enjoying the dry heat...... In the pool.

Fun71

I grew up on the Gulf Coast, spent my first 30+ years in the hot, humid marshes of SE Texas/SW Louisiana before moving to the hot, dry desert. I must be acclimated to heat because when I go back to visit during the summer it just doesn't feel that bad, even when everyone back home is moaning about how hot, humid, and miserable it is.

I will say that out here anything up to ~105 doesn't feel too bad since it's typically dry, but when it gets to 115º or more it's just brutally hot, no matter that it's a "dry heat". There's nothing quite like having your eyeballs dry out when the hot wind blows in your face and your eyelids stick when you try to blink.

Ozzie

Global warming? When I was young (60 years ago), I can remember rare cases of single Fahrenheit digits here in the winter. Now it's rare if it gets below 32F in the winter. The summers haven't gotten a lot hotter possibly due to being surrounded by water and the almost daily rain. (August max. is usually mid 90s). But I do remember viewing the shrunken glaciers in Alaska during a visit.

Fun71

That reminded me of a local weatherman reporting that 2015 was the hottest summer on record. He made a point that the daytime highs weren't any hotter, but the night time lows didn't get as low as in the past due to the huge heat island of all the concrete in what used to be open desert. This made the average temperature higher even though the high temps weren't any higher.

LondonCutlass

Don't know how you guys can function when it gets 100+ in London we moan when it gets to 90 (like today) but it's not the heat it's the humidity that gets you.

We average late 70s early 80s in the summer which is perfect for working.

rustyroger

Well, I'm a Brit, even so I can function in Texas 100+ heat, I helped a friend I was visiting lay turf. His Mexican hired helps had quit and were muttering "El Gringo loco" as my wife and I got on with the job. Sure, it was hot, but we were scheduled to make a long trip next day and wanted the job done.
I took a walk round Ayers Rock one February afternoon (High Summer in Oz) with no ill effects.
But I hate British Winters, nothing even close to Canadian or Northern State cold.

I guess I should have emigrated somewhere hot years ago.

Roger.

LondonCutlass

Hey Roger my wife is from Tenerife and even she is moaning about the heat today. Trouble is we are not set up for it. They might have AC in the shops but generally Brits don't have it in their homes.

Fun71

I'm OK up to about 105ºF but when it's a few degrees shy of 120º there's no way I am doing anything outside.

rustyroger

Going to spend a week at my wife's house in Spain next week, predicted weather around 80-85f, just like home this week.
Doesn't it make a change to read about Non Brits bitching about the weather?.

Roger.

zeeke

I'll take the cold and the snow any day. Let the Cutlass warm up and drop the top. Just cross you fingers when you put it back up.

rustyroger

Got up to 113f in South East Spain on Monday, a record for September.
It was a mere 104f at a classic car club gathering at Los Montesinos on Sunday. No Oldsmobiles, but two superb '57 Chevies, a convertible and a two door hardtop, several old British MGs and a couple of Triumph TR3s. Several new Camaros and Mustangs as well but my favorite was a 1965 (I think) Imperial. Rare as rocking horse sh#t and it would have enhanced any car show in the world.

Not a large gathering, and it seemed mostly expat Brits were the car owners, still it made a change to go to a show in blazing sunshine!.

Roger.