JBCODD Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 (edited) A hunnert freakin' twenty degrees in parts of the metro Phoenix area today. Schvitzin' hard. Third day inna row at 120. Hope this ends soon...... Edited July 25, 2018 by JBCODD More sniveling 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 Ouch. 102 over here, and it's about as hot as it gets. Couldn't imagine 120. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallette Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 Easy in Phoenix. Just find a nice outdoor bar with misters. Absolute bliss in that dryness no matter what the thermometer says. Gimme a swamp cooler and 120 over AC and a 100 any day! Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 They always talk about a "dry heat," but having been to Arizona several times, I don't see it as an improvement over our Gulf Coast weather. We get bountiful rain and plenty of clouds to help us through the summers. Arizona is just sunny and hot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck115 Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 1 hour ago, Jeff Matthews said: They always talk about a "dry heat," but having been to Arizona several times, I don't see it as an improvement over our Gulf Coast weather. We get bountiful rain and plenty of clouds to help us through the summers. Arizona is just sunny and hot. Yeah, last year when we drove out to San Diego we stopped for gas in Yuma; it was 117 degrees! I can confirm, at 117 degrees it doesn't make a damn if it's a dry heat!!!!!!!!! 😲 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJkizak Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 Well my hot water heater is set for 125F. Do you Arizona guys need hot water heaters? JJK 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbomberger Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 10 hours ago, Jeff Matthews said: They always talk about a "dry heat," but having been to Arizona several times, I don't see it as an improvement over our Gulf Coast weather. We get bountiful rain and plenty of clouds to help us through the summers. Arizona is just sunny and hot. You must have missed Monsoon season which is what we are in the midst of now. Arizona is amazingly green, the desert plants are blooming and even the animals are enjoying the difference. Yep its hot, and usually dry. Nebraska is much more unpleasant when it is 90 than Arizona is when its 105. I like the Gulf area also, but I love the desert. Good thing we aren't all trying to live in the same place. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 57 minutes ago, dbomberger said: You must have missed Monsoon season which is what we are in the midst of now. Arizona is amazingly green, the desert plants are blooming and even the animals are enjoying the difference. Yep its hot, and usually dry. Nebraska is much more unpleasant when it is 90 than Arizona is when its 105. I like the Gulf area also, but I love the desert. Good thing we aren't all trying to live in the same place. Monsoon season must be almost all the rain you get. Your annual rainfall is 14 inches. Ours is 47 inches. It's not unusual for us to get 10 inches over the course of a few days or a week from time-to-time. We got around 45 inches from Hurricane Harvey, alone, last year. That was pretty exceptional. I like Arizona, including its deserts. The northeastern part is full of pine forest. I wouldn't live there because it's not "home" to me, but I do like the state. The Pinetop area is nice. Highway 89A is real nice where it cuts through the northern tip of Grand Canyon National Park. Then, there are places like Kayenta, which leave me wondering how people live there. It's a real town, but wow, how it's in the middle of nowhere. Good memories of various road trips. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerwoodKhorns Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 1 hour ago, Jeff Matthews said: Monsoon season must be almost all the rain you get. Your annual rainfall is 14 inches. Ours is 47 inches. It's not unusual for us to get 10 inches over the course of a few days or a week from time-to-time. We got around 45 inches from Hurricane Harvey, alone, last year. That was pretty exceptional. We get 3.7" in a "normal" year. Many times less as we are in a prolonged drought. And I still see these idiots planting grass and letting irrigation water run down the street. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 2 minutes ago, tigerwoodKhorns said: We get 3.7" in a "normal" year. Many times less as we are in a prolonged drought. And I still see these idiots planting grass and letting irrigation water run down the street. Wow! I don't think I could live with so little rain. I bet the car wash business is really slow there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJkizak Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 That rain would burn your skin anyway at 120F so it's ok not to get much. JJK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twk123 Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 Its funny, I was talking to my co-worker who works in our Scottsdale office about the weather and he said how nice it must be that its 76 deg here in the Springs. Then my phone alert went off I had to hang up and get the cars inside due to the severe thunderstorm warning. It just missed our house but Manitou Springs got pounded: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbomberger Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 5 hours ago, Jeff Matthews said: Monsoon season must be almost all the rain you get. Your annual rainfall is 14 inches. Ours is 47 inches. It's not unusual for us to get 10 inches over the course of a few days or a week from time-to-time. We got around 45 inches from Hurricane Harvey, alone, last year. That was pretty exceptional. I like Arizona, including its deserts. The northeastern part is full of pine forest. I wouldn't live there because it's not "home" to me, but I do like the state. The Pinetop area is nice. Highway 89A is real nice where it cuts through the northern tip of Grand Canyon National Park. Then, there are places like Kayenta, which leave me wondering how people live there. It's a real town, but wow, how it's in the middle of nowhere. Good memories of various road trips. Those are nice areas, I prefer the desert personally (or I wouldn't be here). You're correct, the monsoons are very important for the water and the good the water does. It's Oasis like here at the moment. (South of Tucson, 40 minutes from the Border). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBCODD Posted July 24, 2018 Author Share Posted July 24, 2018 (edited) Dang 120 again today. Still schvitzin'. 112 at nine PM. Edited July 25, 2018 by JBCODD More whining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEH Synergy Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 I won't cry about 100 then. If I was in your shoes I would look at that vests that hold the frozen ice packs(swat uses them). I have used them in hospitals in the past and they will bring a large smile to your face. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwillie Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 8 hours ago, dbomberger said: Those are nice areas, I prefer the desert personally (or I wouldn't be here). You're correct, the monsoons are very important for the water and the good the water does. It's Oasis like here at the moment. (South of Tucson, 40 minutes from the Border). I really, really like Green Valley AZ. Those mountains to the east sure are pretty as the sun goes down. One of my favorite all time restaurants is down in Tubac. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunburnwilly Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 Lived there from 1988 to 1990 don't recall anything higher than 114 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunburnwilly Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 12 hours ago, tigerwoodKhorns said: We get 3.7" in a "normal" year. Many times less as we are in a prolonged drought. And I still see these idiots planting grass and letting irrigation water run down the street. I lived off of 60th st and Indian School rd , a stones throw away from the Az country club . The wasting of water was incredible ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBCODD Posted July 25, 2018 Author Share Posted July 25, 2018 59 minutes ago, sunburnwilly said: I lived off of 60th st and Indian School rd , a stones throw away from the Az country club . The wasting of water was incredible ! 59 minutes ago, sunburnwilly said: I lived off of 60th st and Indian School rd , a stones throw away from the Az country club . The wasting of water was incredible ! Quote Too true. When I was transferred from Colorado Springs in 2000, the Springs was under strict water rationing (Colorado owed Kansas a lot of water drawn from the Arkansas River) watering lawns on certain days, no washing cars in driveways, no collecting rain runoff. I got to Phoenix and every apartment complex had ponds and fountains, golf courses everywhere, watered daily, hundreds of thousands of irrigated acres of farmland,etc. I was stunned by the profligate usage in a desert environment. Prolly why almost none of the Colorado river drainage water ever reaches the ocean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YK Thom Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 Wow, that is hot! We just got back from a holiday in Ontario and we thought it was hot at 30, which was where it hovered for almost two weeks. Back home now and it a comfortable 22. 120 f is 48 Celsius!!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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