Saturday’s temperature had triggered an excessive heat warning across Arizona as lows were expected to range between 80F and 86F
On Saturday afternoon, the National Weather Service announced that the temperature at Phoenix Sky Harbor international airport reached 110F, making it the 54th day this year with temperatures of at least 110F.
Saturday’s temperature breaks the previous record of 53 days that was set in 2020. From 1991 to 2020, the average consecutive days of 110F or above is 21 days, the NWS said.
An excessive heat warning has been issued for south central and south-west Arizona until 8pm on Sunday as weekend highs are expected to range between 108F and 114F. Meanwhile, lows are expected to range between 80F to 86F.
110F = 43.33C if anyone else was wondering.
Jesus fuck that’s brutal even for a desert.
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Good bot, that’s hot
Thanks I had to scroll way too far. Please upvote this guy
It’s also getting towards the end of the summer there when it gets humid.
I’m curious to see what the rains are like during El Niño with this heat
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We need a bot for that.
I believe the headline is wrong. It’s not 54 consecutive days, it’s 54 days this year total.
In July, Phoenix broke it’s previous record of consecutive days above 110F with a 31-day streak. Previous record was 18 straight days 1974.
Can confirm this headline is incorrect.
Yeah seriously we had a few days of weather in the 80s when it rained not too long ago.
How do I report a title as inaccurate?
So what you’re saying is that there were one or maybe a few days in there that fell slightly short of being record-breakingly hot. Yay?
I understand your sentiment but factually inaccurate is factually inaccurate and a disservice to the reader.
That’s life in PHX…
If there’s anyone here living in the region, remember to drink water! The best method to prevent heat exhaustion or worse is to drink small amounts of water frequently, like roughly once every 30 minutes or every time you feel thirsty (whichever happens first). When all said and done, the best indicator is the color of your urine. It should be a light yellow color.
If you’re working outside, make sure you’re also drinking something with sodium electrolytes like liquid iv or Gatorade (other drinks like Prime aren’t suitable, they pad their electrolyte count will potassium).
If at all possible, take a cold shower at the peak of the heat around noon to regulate your temperature and comfort. If you get heat exhaustion, STOP WHATEVER YOU’RE DOING AND GET INDOORS. Heat exhaustion is the first step towards heat stroke and death. You will die in heat like this if you don’t take care of yourself. Do not “tough it out” or wait “5 more minutes”.
Stay safe out there
take a cold shower
Well umm, that’s kinda the trick. In Phoenix in summertime, “cold” water is cold in name only. It’s more tepid than anything. That’s just another part of what makes it so oppressive living there in summer.
I have to put ice in my babies bathwater to cool it down to 98, it literally comes out at 103 degrees when it’s 115 out. FML
Yea, backyard pools are the norm in large swaths of the valley (Phoenix+). It’s the best way to avoid your kids burning to death if they don’t wanna go outside at midnight.
It is also a great way to stress the already stressed water ressources further, so the region will have to be depopulated earlier.
I haven’t used the hot water knob in the shower since May. Looks like it’s going to be at least another month till I do.
That’s fair. I live in the Midwest, so I’ve never had that problem and don’t have any solutions. These are things I learned while doing work like mowing, picking ragweed and rock, moving grain bins, and stuff like that
Man this summer we were out and about, my eldest started talking like a zombie and I noticed she wasn’t sweating. Oh boy stage 1. Ok AC right now, no negotiations, no waiting.
What if I get fired if I take a break and face complete homelessness if I don’t keep my income
The important question is why put a city there?
Testament to mankind’s arrogance
And the power of air conditioning
Follow-up question: why make that city a car-dependent hellhole of McMansion suburbs larping as a city, seemingly designed to be as energy-intensive as possible?
I’m not arguing for it, but as someone from Florida, I can understand why it’s car-dependent. It is too hot to walk to a bus/tram stop, wait, get on a relatively freezing bus/tram with wet clothes, get off, walk in the sweltering heat, and arrive at your destination drenched in sweat to freeze in a/c again.
For mass transit to work, there would have to be lots of stops very near locations, high frequency of transport vehicles, and the culture would have to be okay with people being sweaty. Maybe people could travel with a change of clothes and a towel, but then locations would need to have changing rooms.
I think Americans are too used to the luxury of not being sweaty, so it would be hard to accept and use a mass transit system in really hot places.
I wonder if covering walking paths with solar panels would help?
Edit: also maybe zoning that allowed things to exist closer together instead of promoting car use
For one, the zoning should be altered to build everything close together and make walking more feasible. [(NINJA) EDIT:] Now I think about it, a number of buildings built before mechanised cooling in warmer climates were built with their ground floor entrance set back from the rest of the floors above, creating a covered, shaded walkway. Perhaps such a feature on hypothetical buildings in walkable areas in Arizona and New Mexico could work? [/edit]
For two, solar panels are but one option. Much easier would be to simply rig the place up with tarps over the streets to create shade. Hell, there’s a town in Spain where those tarps are a local cultural phenomenon
I’m aware of the tarps, the country I live in had them and still has in some places but they have started to copy the car centric ideology (to my disdain)
I only suggested panels because they can become net negative and help offset the coal generation of electricity that’s still common in a lot of places.
Also, for zoning, that’s what I was thinking too, things built by as close as possible
Because people think they are entitled to live wherever they want and expect society to fix whatever issues might prevent that, on their behalf, for free.
It attracts older folks because dry heat feels good for aches and pains, arthritis, etc.
Yeah summer sucks but the spring, fall, and winter is incredibly mild with many using neither heat nor AC. Arguably heat generation is more wasteful in places with even moderate to harsh winters.
Phoenix sprung up because it’s actually a pretty stable location. No wild fires. No earthquakes. No tornados, hurricanes, etc. Good hub to the east / west, too.
Fyi, in Phx you’re using AC in Fall and Spring too. Quite common to hit 100F at some point in April and in October. It’s so sprawling too all the asphalt and concrete turn the “heat island” effect into something more like a “heat continent”
Fair point — I live here but I shouldn’t broadly include all of Spring and Fall but roughly a quarter-to-half of each depending on the year. Usually we don’t go over 99 until May and we don’t leave 100s until October (Mean).
If you’ve got decent insulation it’s possible to regulate with some ventilation at night to make it through most of the day and barely any use of A/C. It’s when the nights start staying hot from that heat island effect that just destroys us.
You forgot water in your list of things it doesn’t have
Honestly this heat wave just makes me want to live there even more.
If you like mosquitos in the desert that are only there because idiots have grass lawns that they dump water into, it’s great.
I like being hot and I have severe allergies and asthma so deserts agree with me.
I’m just saying, there are other desert cities that are better than Phoenix because Phoenix folks love grass. Sante Fe is almost entirely xeriscaped, very few mosquitos.
Yeah that would be way more my speed. I have no interest in moving to the desert and having grass. That’s fuckin crazy.
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If any city can survive this, it’s Phoenix. From this oppressive heat, they will rise once again from the smoldering ashes. Not like the phoenix after which they were named, but like any non-mythical bird. They will smolder and scatter like the ashes of an unplucked pigeon that got caught in the chimney, causing the homeowners to ask “what on earth is that smell? Did something die?”
As a wise man once said, “I feel like a phoenix; Rising up from Arizona!”
Nothing to see here folks, just more of the China hoax on climate change.
Believe what I tell you, not what you see.
I’ve been living in my car in PHX right now and I can confirm it’s fucking hot here.
Why are you living in your car in phx? Can you move north?
Bad breakup stuff, can’t move RN cuz my kids are here. I still have a job, I just need to pay some stuff off and put together a deposit is all
a monument to mans arrogance
HVAC companies and car repair shops are thriving
One of our local HVAC shops has a massive warehouse filled to the ceiling with equipment, all paid for and waiting to install.
I don’t think so. We had that “hurricane” in Calif that was mostly in Arizona. I have multiple friends there and I know the temps dropped that time a couple weeks ago. So it may have been 54 days this year, but not consecutive.
Yeah, that’s strange. I’m not trying to pretend to be a weather expert, but a quick Google shows it’s been less than 110 a week ago.
https://www.localconditions.com/weather-phoenix-arizona/85001/past.php
I am going to need to see a breakdown on deaths by political affiliation to gauge how to feel about this.
Haha, let’s dehumanize people we disagree with!
On the other hand, conservatives (in the US, maybe elsewhere) are so consistently and universally wrong, if they all died we’d be better off.
The disagreement isn’t like “Should we get pizza or tacos”. It’s like “Should gay people exist?” “Is climate change a thing?” “Is slavery good, actually?”
Pretty much every problem we have is made worse by conservatives fighting to keep the status quo or reverse progress.
Fuck them. We would be better off if they were dead.
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Least bloodthirsty democrat
Well, Maricopa county (and Arizona as a whole) was pretty much evenly split last election, and in the end it came out as blue, so I think it’s not that much of a leopards situation.
I’m sure deaths by age group will help you feel something.
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But who cares about the climate change? Today we have a new iPhone release, isn’t it?
More cameras? More battery life? More workers rights?
No! Just more greed of those old men sitting behind their desks and playing with our world as their little toy as Bob Dylan said in his song.
In other news, heat islands in the desert are hot.
Im chilling with 50 C here.
I got heat stroke just reading this.
