Oy, stay chill SE Arizonans..

[denbot]

I'm in indanapolis loading for a home run back to Los Angeles. I always check the radar app for weather, and today I noticed unfamiliar colored warning zones in Southeastern Arizona.

The maroon color denotes a high temperature warning for the area. The predicted highs are from 108-116. That's pretty damn hot.

Stay hydrated my friends.

[gopiscrap]

1. Holy cow isin't a little

early in the season to be that hot. I've been there in August when it was like that but not June

[Ptah]

2. Tucson's first 100 degree day this year was May 5

So, no, its not unusual.

[Laffy Kat]

4. It already been in the 90s in Colorado. Very strange. nt

[politicat]

8. Sadly, no.

I graduated HS in the first week of June, on a 110 degree day. I skipped my Bachelor's graduation in mid May on a 106 degree day. Both were in the 1990s. I spent my teens and early twenties (til I got out) being nocturnal from around the first of May until September. And the desert soil is not stable enough to do the sensible thing and dig basements into the ground, so houses are almost all slab foundation.

I will say the range of daily temps in Maricopa county has narrowed and is trending higher. When I was in elementary school in the 80s in Maricopa county, nights would cool off to the high 70s. Now, a temperate summer night is 85, and in some areas, 90 is just expected. It's the urban heat island effect that results from paving everything, and it's not good. Also, humidity is up from my childhood -- 10-15% was normal back then. Now, 25-30 is usual, and 30-40% is not uncommon -- more pools, more misters, more plants and water features -- which makes the heat more dangerous.

I've long had a theory that AZ-crazy is the result of long-term, chronic dehydration. It definitely gets worse in the summers.

[shanti]

9. Heh

Some folks put ice in their pools to cool them down. It's too hot to swim otherwise.

[Ptah]

3. Yea, it's been hot for a while.

[kairos12]

5. We are catching a break in Phoenix today. Only 92 degrees. Much hotter later this week.

[denbot]

6. Last week I had a drop in Chandler.

I delivered a dozen pallets at the Bashas's D.C. (Distribution Center) arriving around midnight, it was still 87 degrees around 02:00 when I got back on the road heading home.

Phoenix weather is pretty stable, which is to say, pretty freaking hot, pretty much all the time!

[UTUSN]

7. Unbearably *hot * where I am - just go out to get to the car

[Kali]

10. watermelon, a small pool, and fans

no prob (although the wifi kind of malfunctions at 95 or so. no idea why)

I'm at 4500 feet so 10 to 20 degrees cooler than the desert floor(s). Honk when you pass through again.

I'm just west of the blackened Dragoons. https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1038&pid=4094