Eight times so far this month the LOW temperature in Phoenix has been 90º or higher.
On the 17th the official high was 114º and the low was 93º. The AVERAGE temperature in Phoenix that day was 104º. In the shade.
Albuquerque’s official high Sunday was 100º. It’s only the second day since 2003 that we’ve hit 100 officially.
Oh, my God, you have no freakin’ idea.
When I wake up at 5am, it’s about a thousand degrees, and it only goes downhill from there. The heat NEVER abates. Even worse, the wind has been blowing like crazy in the afternoon, which, in PHX, makes it exponentially worse. I’s like stepping into a blast furnace.
People will say to you, “Well, that’s what it’s like living in the desert!” Um, no. This is not a desert climate; it may have been 15-20 years ago, but it’s not any more.
40 more hours, and I’m gone, daddy, gone. Whew.
Just to brag …
If I read the tables correctly, Santa Fe has NEVER had an officially recorded temperature of 100 degrees or more. We did have a 99 just a week or so ago, and we have been in the 90s for most of this recent hot spell, but not a 100.
This is why, when people die in Phoenix, they put a sweater in the coffin with them. Just in case they end up on Hell!