Here Comes the Desert Heat...

[wildthing]

It was 102 yesterday and likely 100 today in San Jose, CA...

[Don Ro]

Doing some grinding at the bench in my shaded patio...I just had to stop and go indoors. It's 76' in here.
Just too damn hot in the shade out there.
I can't image being out working in the sunlight today.
Even my bench vice is hot to touch.
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Shade temp at 3:05 PM...near Hwy 101 & Pima Rd.
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[speeder]

Not that I need to validate my decision to live in coastal CA., bit thanks.

[Jrboulder]

Originally Posted by BlueSkyJaunte

Yeah, they're crazy. On the plus side, I went out to lunch today and the girls in crop tops and short-shorts were out in force. So it ain't all bad.

That's February through November in Tempe!

Originally Posted by speeder

Not that I need to validate my decision to live in coastal CA., bit thanks.

Current plan is to move to CA at the end of 2018. Gotta finish school and grow my business some more and then just buy a place when I move.

[Oracle]

Just move to Canada.. here, all your sweating will be a distant memory for 10.5 month/year..
And good part of the reminder is raining/hailing or too windy to sit outside, but that glorious weekend which all stars line up so you you can finally sit on your deck, the mosquitoes will remind you to stay inside, like the rest of the year.. :-(

[Don Ro]

Just returned from Home de Pot...took Hwy there and streets coming back.
A noticeable lack of traffic. I guess they're in shopping malls or a theater.
Or home sucking on some cold pineapple.

[masraum]

I was in the Phoenix area once. Frack that! I did think that the atomizers at every entrance and exit were genius.

I'm kind of surprised that you folks haven't gone underground. Tunnels and basements and subways seem like the place to have everything there.

[RANDY P]

Originally Posted by Don Ro

Supposed to climb towards 120' here next week...starting this Sunday.
I'll be migrating between my pool and the indoors. Sometimes it's too hot to even be in the pool.
That's when I do laundry, vacuum the joint, wash dishes, and other vicissitudes of indoor life...like snoozing and watching TV.
Damn sure no working in the garage.
A month or so of this then comes the paradise of the Phoenix Valley winter.
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I did fuel lines, carb tuning and setting timing starting at 4PM in the garage yesterday, for 3 hours. That was a mistake..

I still feel it, today.

rjp

[porsche4life]

Our downstairs ac went it yesterday. Amazingly the upstairs unit kept the whole house to about 85 all day until I could get the parts to fix the other. Not the time of year for that crap!

[Evans, Marv]

It is the wife's birthday today, so I took her ziplining and to dinner afterwards. I was kind of dreading it since temps all over the place were in the mid 90s, but it wasn't bad at all. I still don't like being out in the sun in those temps. I can't imagine being out in 120 degrees.

[porsche4life]

Just set your oven to 350, open it up and stick your head in. That's about the sensation I got when I left the office today. Just miserable hot.

I lived in Houston for a while, and I have to say though that 110 with high humidity is way worse!

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Originally Posted by masraum

I'm kind of surprised that you folks haven't gone underground. Tunnels and basements and subways seem like the place to have everything there.

Actually we have friend in the Valley here who lives in an underground home. The only room above ground is her kitchen. Her power bills are minuscule.

There are some challenges with building an underground house - banks don't want to write a mortgage for what they consider a low-demand design concept. And the ground here is REALLY hard, so digging it out is major bucks. Basements are few and far between for that reason.

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by BlueSkyJaunte

Actually we have friend in the Valley here who lives in an underground home. The only room above ground is her kitchen. Her power bills are minuscule.

There are some challenges with building an underground house - banks don't want to write a mortgage for what they consider a low-demand design concept. And the ground here is REALLY hard, so digging it out is major bucks. Basements are few and far between for that reason.

Heard it's supposed to hit 120 in Phoenix tomorrow. I feel sorry for you guys.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

Heard it's supposed to hit 120 in Phoenix tomorrow. I feel sorry for you guys.

Most of the population just goes from air conditioned place to place. The folks that have to work outside usually just work at night.

[speeder]

People there basically go from oven to refrigerator. What a miserable existence.

[Jims5543]

Originally Posted by peteremsley

My boss just suggested I do a day trip to AZ on Monday for 2 meetings. Fly into Tucson and home from Phoenix. Hmmm.

Make sure you can fly back out. Landing, no problem, taking off in 120° big problem.

Phoenix flights cancelled because it's too hot for planes
Phoenix flights cancelled because it's too hot for planes - BBC News

Gotta laugh at the article though.


They decide to get all political and throw in some "climate change".

It's a well-known problem - a 2016 report from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) even warned that higher temperatures caused by climate change could "have severe consequences for aircraft take-off performance, where high altitudes or short runways limit the payload or even the fuel-carrying capacity".

When earlier they tell you the standing record was in 1990 about 12 years after we were told we were heading towards an ice age.

The all-time record for temperatures in Phoenix is just slightly higher, at 122F, which hit on 26 June 1990.

Regardless, make sure you have a flight out, cancelling mid day flights will make things crazy at other times. If it were me I would want to fly out predawn.

[Eric Coffey]

Originally Posted by speeder

People there basically go from oven to refrigerator. What a miserable existence.

Please keep spreading the word, or maybe even take up a "movement" there. Anything to slow the mass exodus of folks from CA to AZ would be appreciated.
It is getting out of hand. Thanks.

[Eric Coffey]

Originally Posted by Jims5543

Gotta laugh at the article though.


They decide to get all political and throw in some "climate change".


When earlier they tell you the standing record was in 1990 about 12 years after we were told we were heading towards an ice age.

Yeah, the density altitude at those temps is pretty high (reducing lift), so safety first. Of course, it's certainly not a new phenomenon, or unique to PHX. It affects other airports, especially ones at higher altitudes.
I think the cut-off temp here at PHX is 118F, which has been reached numerous times in the past, including dates that were well before the airport even existed (like the 1920's).

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by speeder

People there basically go from oven to refrigerator. What a miserable existence.

Yea, and never have to worry about a killer devastating mega billion dollar earthquake, mudslides, race riots or huge wildfires. It has to be hell.

[Jrboulder]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

The folks that have to work outside usually just work at night.

Unfortunately that's rarely put into practice. Landscapers are out doing work right now and UPS, USPS and Fedex are out making deliveries with no AC. Some construction has been halted.

Amazon and Ontrac both use air conditioned vans. The Amazon driver for my neighborhood used to drive for Fedex Ground.