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33+ days, of 110 degrees or more.

rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
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New record in southern Arizona. Weather warning, for the coming 5 days. Extreme temperatures, Sunday is expected to be 117. 

Because of the Chinese crud. I'm stuck down in this hell hole. It makes me extremely grumpy. If the air conditioner craps out. Lets not even contemplate  that.
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  • nononsensenononsense Member Posts: 10,928 ✭✭✭✭
    It's getting to be pretty old at this point. While our very early A.M.s are comfortably nice for breakfast on the patio, anything later is well, sweltering. Long range forecast doesn't bode any better for some relief. I just stay out of the Valley and all points south until this trend breaks. It is nice when I have to run up to Flag for the day! :) The AC just went out on my daily driver today so this is another weather based nuisance to deal with. :/
    Best.

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  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 40,253 ***** Forums Admin
    We had a high of 70° yesterday. Supposed to heat up to 75° today, and maybe all the way up to 80° by the weekend.
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  • 4205raymond4205raymond Member Posts: 3,450 ✭✭✭✭
    Was in Las Vegas with my Army buddies for reunion about 10 years ago. 114 degrees. Never again. Don't know how you folks out there can stand it.
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  • nononsensenononsense Member Posts: 10,928 ✭✭✭✭
    I asked that very same question way back while on a lengthy business trip to Houston. How to you all stand this heat and humidity?
    Answer: We go from the air conditioned house to the air conditioned car to the air conditioned office and reverse it in the evenings.
    Here we hope for a shorter hot spell in the summer (about 30 days usually) so we can open the windows and enjoy the normally pleasant weather. Usually the evenings up here are nice, although the Valley and points south never get below 90 in the evening. Our current problems are fires, lightning strikes and people being stupid with matches and cigarettes. Monsoon is non-existent.
    Best.


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  • toad67toad67 Member Posts: 13,008 ✭✭✭✭
    We had a run of about ten days with 90+, and a couple close to 100. Cooled down into the 80's the last couple of days, but is supposed to get to the mid/upper 90's in a couple more days.
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  • sxsnufsxsnuf Member Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭✭
    I'm sympathetic to anyone trying to survive in those kinds of temps.
    "But, it's a dry heat." Yeah, right!

    Arrivederci gigi
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  • serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
     I would definitely buy a mist swamp -cooler Mechanics Floor fan if I was outside doing any type of activity during the day. Plus a pre cooler for the outside air with water mist before my A/C central unit got it before conditioning it. They say planes can't take off in that high heat if loaded down either.
                                                                serf
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  • nononsensenononsense Member Posts: 10,928 ✭✭✭✭
    There are lots of folks who use the misters outdoors around their patios with decent results. But remember that Arizona is an arid State with drought conditions going back 20 years or more. Watering people or plants can get you in trouble when the aquifers start to run low. The best thing that could happen is to shut down Las Vega's ridiculous water usage for their idiotic water features. That and curtail a few of those 1,000 room hotels... :D

    Best.
     
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  • SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭
    I was in Las Vegas in July, the first time I have visited there.   The water features, despite the water being recycled through the pump, have to lose a lot to evaporation.   What I noticed that was a huge use of energy was the casinos etc. having the doors open and spilling cool air out onto the sidewalks.   
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  • SW0320SW0320 Member Posts: 2,552 ✭✭✭✭
    SCOUT5 said:
    I was in Las Vegas in July, the first time I have visited there.   The water features, despite the water being recycled through the pump, have to lose a lot to evaporation.   What I noticed that was a huge use of energy was the casinos etc. having the doors open and spilling cool air out onto the sidewalks.   
    I was there in August, temps were 120 most days, only got down to 90 overnight. As you said I also remember walking by the open casino doors and all of a sudden you would get this blast of cool air and what a waste of energy.

    I was considering renting a Harley to go for a ride when I was there.  The dealer talked me out of it, he said go back to my hotel room and turn my hair dryer on the highest setting and let it blow in my face.  He said that was what it would feel like riding a motorcycle in that weather.

    We have had more days then I can every remember of over 90 degree days with high humidity this year.  It is getting quite old as I cannot get anything done outside and to top it off we have not had any rain.
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    We have now had more than 30+ days in Austin of over 100 degrees with no end in sight....101 right now and quite humid.
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,708 ✭✭✭✭
    How cool can the a/c make the house when it is 113?

    Ah, Arizona.  My brother and I rode out to Prescott on our BMW motorcycles to visit our aunt and uncle.
    We were watching the morning news there at the condo in Prescott, the guy said it was a heat wave and we would get 117 that day.   Good God!
    We rode out the next day, that was the hottest weather I ever had seen by about 15 degrees.   We had developed this trick back in Tennessee, pull in to a gas station and hose ourselves down with water, from head to foot.  As you drive down the road the water evaporates and you get cool.   Back in Tennessee it worked great, stayed cool about an hour.

    Here is the irony of Arizona.  It was so dry, we hosed down at the gas station, and out on the road, we almose froze.  That water just evaporated in the hyper dry air.  Froze for five minutes and then the water was gone.  And then we roasted.

    Thank God for being, at the time, a 34 year old soccer player I was in pretty good shape.
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  • rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    allen griggs said:
    How cool can the a/c make the house when it is 113?

    Ah, Arizona.  My brother and I rode out to Prescott on our BMW motorcycles to visit our aunt and uncle.
    We were watching the morning news there at the condo in Prescott, the guy said it was a heat wave and we would get 117 that day.   Good God!







    You must have been watching, the Phoenix TV.  Prescott is at 5,500' elevation. Warmest I can remember it being in Prescott. Was just under 100 degrees. And that is very unusual. Because of it's elevation. It usually runs -20 degrees, from the Phoenix temps.
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  • Wild TurkeyWild Turkey Member Posts: 2,425 ✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2020
    Here in KY we have "contact sweat" -- your skin contacts the air and you sweat.
    I played football in the Texas Panhandle in the '60's (BEFORE water breaks :rolleyes: ) and would sweat off 20 pounds but never got really hot.
    Now in KY I walk 50 yds from house to shop and back and I'm soaked and overheated.
    Have to have a fan and sweat band to work in non-AC shop.
    Yeah, I'm ready for cooler/dryer weather.
    I like the categories local station uses for humidity:

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  • nononsensenononsense Member Posts: 10,928 ✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2020
    allen griggs said:
    How cool can the a/c make the house when it is 113?

    Ah, Arizona.  My brother and I rode out to Prescott on our BMW motorcycles to visit our aunt and uncle.
    We were watching the morning news there at the condo in Prescott, the guy said it was a heat wave and we would get 117 that day.   Good God!
    We rode out the next day, that was the hottest weather I ever had seen by about 15 degrees.   We had developed this trick back in Tennessee, pull in to a gas station and hose ourselves down with water, from head to foot.  As you drive down the road the water evaporates and you get cool.   Back in Tennessee it worked great, stayed cool about an hour.

    Here is the irony of Arizona.  It was so dry, we hosed down at the gas station, and out on the road, we almose froze.  That water just evaporated in the hyper dry air.  Froze for five minutes and then the water was gone.  And then we roasted.

    Thank God for being, at the time, a 34 year old soccer player I was in pretty good shape.
    If you start at 113 degrees indoors, almost never based on current technology. :s
    Generally we get it up to speed for the temperature we desire then never turn it off. It might take most of one day to get the regulated temp to stabilize. We might turn it up (warmer) in the evening then turn it down (cooler) in the morning. I've turned it off 3 times in the last 40 days when it got down to the mid-80s so I could air out the house.

    rufe-snow is mostly correct in that up here there is about a 15 degree difference between Phoenix and mid-state. Unfortunately, this year is the exceptions and we have been running in low 100's most of the time. Yes we do drop below 100 on occasion but this run of weather has been very consistent, HOT!

    Great story about your ride! :)
    Best.


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  • kimikimi Member Posts: 44,719 ✭✭✭

    When people complain of heat and they have not experienced Satan's Oven (southern Cal and Arizona). People that have never experienced such extreme weather don't have the slightest idea of what extreme hot weather is. Add to this 115-117 degree heat a steady 35 mph wind or better with not a drop of humidity with 100 square miles, and I'll guarantee you, you'll

    never complain of heat and high humidity again.

    What's next?
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,708 ✭✭✭✭
    I must have been watching Phoenix tv, because I see that the hottest temp ever in Prescott was 105.
    Still it was real hot for a Georgia Boy in Prescott.
    So with a temp of 113 you are doing well to get down to 85 inside?
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  • NeoBlackdogNeoBlackdog Member Posts: 17,301 ✭✭✭✭
    We got up to a whopping 73 degrees yesterday with a projected high of 77 today. 
    Still too hot for me!  I don't know how you folks can live where it is over 100 for a month or more.  That'd kill me dead!
    I'd be quite happy if it never got over 65.
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  • chollagardenschollagardens Member Posts: 4,614 ✭✭✭
    SCOUT5 posted;
     What I noticed that was a huge use of energy was the casinos etc. having the doors open and spilling cool air out onto the sidewalks. 

    Automatic door openers may become normal. Depending on if scientists/politicians determines they will help stop covid19.

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