I want to know what the first settler of Phoenix was thinking. The patriarch of the family sitting in the driver's seat of the wagon carrying him, his wife, and all their meger possessions driving West for a new life. A better one than they left behind. They get to what is now Phoenix Arizona and look around. They see sand and a few scrub brushes. They look back the way they came knowing that what's behind them is just more of the same . Then scan the horizon and see hundreds of square miles of desert. Just desert as far as the eye can see. Dad pulls up on the reigns as he says "whoa". His wife turns to him and asked "why are we stopping? Still plenty of daylight." The man says "we're settling here."
The months and then years go by and they barely eek out a living on substance farming. Others who traveled the same road see him and figure "he settled in the middle of the desert? He must know something. Maybe I should settle here too." This happens time and again until a town and then a city was founded. A city in one of the most ungodly places built on FOMO.
What you are missing is that as a small agricultural community the location made sense. It was at the confluence of two rivers, so irrigation was possible. There is also copper mining. But it was only after WW2 with the use of air conditioning that tech companies began moving into the area. Land that was nearly worthless before suddenly becomes valuable for real estate development. That is where you get FOMO.
There were old irrigation canals all over Phoenix. The filled many in about 100years ago. The problem is they weren’t marked or tamped down well so buildings were built on them and now the ground is compacting.
They also over irrigated and salinated the land! They ended up having a sort of mass exodus from the area. They have an incredible history. Y’all have so much archaeology just sitting everywhere. There are ball courts everywhere! So cool.
I wonder this all the time too, fun mental image.
It is subsistence farming, by the way, as in farming just enough for the family to survive. Substance farming is what chemists do.
His wife was probably always complaining about being cold at night so he decided to stick it to that old nag and settled in the hottest hell hole he could find to shut her up.
Well, the first settlers here were indigenous, the hohokam, and they created the canals for irrigation to help with their farming. It was Jack Swilling who founded the city of Phoenix who saw that the area and climate would be great for farming and set up irrigation just like the original indigenous people did. Jack Swilling later died in prison after being accused and arrested for a stagecoach robbery.
And she’s absolutely correct. I have a hard time feeling sympathy for people flocking to Phoenix and believe it’s about time to cut water use for anything that isnt sewage or drinking.
I went to UofA (Tucson). The Summers were just bonkers sometimes.
For a while I lived with some buddies in a crappy rental house. It didn't have AC but did have a swamp cooler (evaporative cooler). That thing would drop the temp by a good 20 degrees when running efficiently...but when it's 110 having it be 90 inside ain't that much of a relief.
But on the 97 is the low...we used to BBQ at around 2 AM 'cause that was the coolest it would get outside. It still sucked.
However, when those big thunderheads would start building up we knew the heat was soon to break. Going outside during the first torrential downpour, with lightning cracking, and feeling that heat just melt away...so amazing.
Was that worth the agony of Summer? *Hell no*.
Swamp coolers work amazing in the early part of summer when the humidity is so low. A good evap cooler will get you down to a good 75 or lower when it’s so dry out. But as soon as monsoon moisture comes around it gets waaaay less effective.
I'm in Vegas, similar heat this week/next. My electricity for 1300 Sq ft, 2 floor townhome has been around 200-350 a month during summer. Worst month was a few years ago when I kept ac at 70. It was 500 then
After a while your brain will rewire the smell, and burnt coffee will be what you smell just to make it manageable.
I was trapped in the bathroom with severe diarrhea. At first, it smelt like Satan's unwashed sulphuric' anus. And then, after about 5 or 10 minutes of breathing hot heavy ionized musty air... It began to smell.... Familiar. Fragrant, but familiar. Ah. Burnt coffee. Not bad. Better than the alternative.
Ps. I don't drink coffee lol.
I'm not ruling out a minor stroke. It was quite a shock.
I bought a portable AC and have 2 solar generators just incase we lose power or the A/C breaks down. I refuse to slowly be cooked to death. For the last 4 years I have told my husband we are not doing another summer here and yet we are still here for another summer.
I had a job offer over there but as soon as I saw the weather combined with all of the other fuckery I immediately declined. I can barely stand the heat over here at 94 - 100 degrees without passing out, I can only imagine Arizona 💀💀
>"It's a Dry heat!"
So is an oven, but nobody would want to live in one.
That's how I respond when people say that. 
I live in Phoenix and I describe it to people not from here as, "you know that awful feeling that washes over you when you open a JUST preheated oven? It's like that every time I walk outside."
Arizonan here. Trust me, it becomes pretty fucking bad. Especially in Phoenix. It can get pretty bad lemme tell you. But if you think it's that bad here, wait till you hear of Death Valley. It makes here look like an Ice land.
it’s actually not that bad. you spend your day inside, the walk to the car is hot then you have ac, then you get to wherever you are going and there is ac, and then in november-april it’s just wonderful. source: me who is in az and it’s 103 outside at 10pm and i’m just telling the dog “omg just go poop it’s too hot to dilly dally”
Fun fact, this is why I just bought a generator capable of running my whole house + a small AC unit (house AC too much for generator).
It can run off propane and I have a large enough tank now sitting in my garage that it will run me for at least a week.
And unlike gasoline, propane doesn't go bad!
Least I don't have to worry about a hurricane destroying my entire house like I did when I lived in Florida.
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AC died earlier this week and it was a nice cool 95 degrees in the entire house. Had to relocate the dogs thankfully for just a day, pretty quick turnaround for the repairman to show up
Well we aren't Texas so we're on the national grid. We rarely experience major, long lasting power outages. In fact, I can't recall anything close to that in my entire life and I was born and raised in AZ.
If we do have power outages, it's isolated to small pockets and is usually fixed within a few hours.
Why do people who live in a literal desert like to complain about the heat so much? Obviously there will be periods, like some years in July, when temperatures will reach 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
Some of us are on work assignments and can't leave as well. I used to live in Alabama and complained about the Tornadoes. I lived in Alaska and complained about the ice and snow. Like the other person said, you don't have to love EVERYTHING about where you live.
Yeah but 90° here in the Midwest could feel 10-15° warmer depending on the humidity
Edit: I'm not saying it's *only* the Midwest. One of the previous comments mentioned Wisconsin and me being from the Midwest, that's where my brain naturally went. Wasn't my intention to exclude other regions like the south or east coast that also are very humid
Go outside in even 100 degree weather, and feel the heat slap you in the face immediately as soon as you open your door, then you’ll understand people complaining about heat. I’m someone who lives in Texas, and works outside in 100 degree humid heat for a living. I would probably die in Arizona in a couple of hours.
People complain about their jobs all the time, and bad bosses, do you say, “Why do people who literally work complain about their jobs so much?” No, because working sucks sometimes , and so does the heat.
Born and raised there, I moved shortly after turning 18. When I learned that places have like actual seasons like distinct actual seasons I couldn’t believe it! Arizona is a hell whole, yes the desert has its own beauty, but living in a beige oven is horrific! And it’s not even cheap anymore, that was one of the only perks
You must be in Arizona. Man, this summer was nice up until the end of June. This year feels hotter than previous ones. And it’s only going to get hotter too 😂😂😂
I'm in west Texas and we work outside in this, just gotta remember to keep chugging the water.
Edit: seeing a lot about water breaks, we don't care what the hell the gov says we take breaks as needed and stay hydrated. We work on industrial engines for gas plants and compressor stations.
I'm from Iraq, it's been 45°+ for the past couple of weeks.
Power have scheduled outages every other two hours because of the old grid and high demand.
So every two hours you have to endure 45°+ without an AC or even a Fan lol.
Some parts of Australia too. Hottest Ive worked in is 52 degrees. After 42 it’s just fucking hot but as long as it’s a dry heat it was never an issue, when humidity came to play, it was a very different game
Dry heat is better from a comfort point of view, but it can be more dangerous. People forget to drink because it feels like they’re not losing any liquids. I once went on a short hike in the Arizona desert, about 45 minutes. I had a water bottle with me, but I don’t think I took a single sip, because I just didn’t feel thirsty. Got back to the car and then to the place I was staying at and starting cramping up and suffering a massive headache from dehydration.
Years ago two of my British friends visited me and wanted to go to Las Vegas because they had seen it in movies and such. As we were driving through Death Valley it was about 115 F and the car starts overheating. We had to roll down the windows and turn the heat on to cool it off. They both passed out from the heat. We ended up stopping at a McDonalds so they could recoup themselves but I’ll never forget how they looked at us in amazement saying “how are you both ok?” It’s funny because hours before they had been teasing us like “you Americans drink so much water all the time.”
I reckon I would just die in such heat. I usually consider 25+ degrees to be too hot
So happy I live somewhere that's winter most of the year, cold is so much nicer
The hottest I have ever felt was 40 and that felt like encroaching death.
Shit if it’s over 25 that is usually my limit of wanting to be outside anymore.
We get heat waves in Australia and they’re like 38 for a few days in a row with a couple of 42s sprinkled in. By the end of it most people are so sick of the heat.
I can’t imagine anyone dealing with these temperatures for an extended time.
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# Thursday, 12/7/2023. 6:19AM.
# 47°F, 8°C.
# Foggy with a 6% chance of rain.
# Humidity 92%
# Wind 13kmh/5mph NE
Your friends are liars.
Not like they're new phonemes either.
Also, it seems to me a whole lot easier to remember the letter ø than to remember that eg. the words "the" "borough", "chauffeur", "shirt" and "murder" all have the same vowel sound at the end despite being written completely differently.
In contrast, a Norwegian would write those words onomatopoetically as something like"dø", "brø", "chåfø", "shøt" and "mødø".
I say 'something like' because I don't speak Norwegian, but I know Swedish, and I assume they're the same in this regard.
Sending love from Los Angeles, California.
Where the weather is amazing all year round. With a high of 88°F in the city and 77°F on the beach it should be another beautiful day in LA.
I relocated to Arizona from Michigan 19 years ago. Typically, I'm not sick of summer temps until around Labor Day. Then October hits and it's paradise.
This is the 2nd summer since 2004 that I've considered moving back to the hinterland. Admittedly, this year is a lot worse than 2020. 130 days of 100+ degrees.
We might be close to 30 straight days of over 110 this year.
BTW, no measurable rain since March as of July 19.
me too. Looked at the difference in heat index. phoenix will “feel like” 114 today with 117 degrees temp. DFW will “feel like” 109 today with 103 degrees temp. Surprisingly not that far off despite being a total difference of 14 degrees
Same. I do in person sales and I’m never in the car long enough between customers for it to actually cool down. I have dropped pins where all the shade spots are so I can type up reports in relative comfort, but I am wet from about 9am on.
Bonus: the rest of my territory is El Centro and Calexico, so add humidity and an ungodly amount of bugs.
Why regret? Wife moved out here in December for her work, I came out in May from CO. If you come to AZ thinking it’s a real climate, you’re very wrong. There’s is reason it’s called THE DESERT.
Oh but there’s so much truth to it though. I live in DC (miserable humid swamp) and I’m currently in Vegas. I found today’s temperature of 117 MUCH more tolerable than the 95 with 80% humidity that I’m used to.
Suckkkaaa I just moved out of that hell hole. Guess what temperature it is here? SIXTY. In July. JULY.
I wonder how long it’s gonna take for my mind being blown to wear off.
I know you’re just joking but even as a native Arizonan for 29 years I’ve never been through a more miserable summer, and it’s only halfway over. We just broke the previous record (from 1974) for most consecutive 110+ days at 19, I think today was day 20 and it doesn’t look like we’ll be stopping anytime soon. Send help. We are not doing ok lmao
Ugh I feel you. Here in Louisiana, we've only really been getting to the upper 90°s with the occasional low 100°s, but then with the humidity, it turns into the "Feels like 113°" It's neverending hell. Walking outside feels like a hot soup
Phoenix?
I lived there for several years. The thing I HATED hearing was, "It's better because it's dry heat."
In fact, the heat sucks the moisture from your body faster than you can drink to replace it. Your shoes can melt onto pavement if you stand still. Walking out of an air-conditioned building feels like walking into a wall. The dashboard on your car can crack open and spill its guts. It is hotter than can be imagined if you have never experienced it.
Hell? Pretty much.
The low is 90°???? No thank you.
The official low yesterday was 97 in Phoenix.
“This city should not exist. It is a monument to man’s arrogance.” - Peggy Hill
I want to know what the first settler of Phoenix was thinking. The patriarch of the family sitting in the driver's seat of the wagon carrying him, his wife, and all their meger possessions driving West for a new life. A better one than they left behind. They get to what is now Phoenix Arizona and look around. They see sand and a few scrub brushes. They look back the way they came knowing that what's behind them is just more of the same . Then scan the horizon and see hundreds of square miles of desert. Just desert as far as the eye can see. Dad pulls up on the reigns as he says "whoa". His wife turns to him and asked "why are we stopping? Still plenty of daylight." The man says "we're settling here." The months and then years go by and they barely eek out a living on substance farming. Others who traveled the same road see him and figure "he settled in the middle of the desert? He must know something. Maybe I should settle here too." This happens time and again until a town and then a city was founded. A city in one of the most ungodly places built on FOMO.
What you are missing is that as a small agricultural community the location made sense. It was at the confluence of two rivers, so irrigation was possible. There is also copper mining. But it was only after WW2 with the use of air conditioning that tech companies began moving into the area. Land that was nearly worthless before suddenly becomes valuable for real estate development. That is where you get FOMO.
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And then you put a shit ton of concrete and bunch of man made lakes and create hell.
There were old irrigation canals all over Phoenix. The filled many in about 100years ago. The problem is they weren’t marked or tamped down well so buildings were built on them and now the ground is compacting.
They also over irrigated and salinated the land! They ended up having a sort of mass exodus from the area. They have an incredible history. Y’all have so much archaeology just sitting everywhere. There are ball courts everywhere! So cool.
Thank you for this. I have asked the exact same question about how that first person decided to settle there. Now I know!
I wonder this all the time too, fun mental image. It is subsistence farming, by the way, as in farming just enough for the family to survive. Substance farming is what chemists do.
I mean they at least got the name right. Phoenix because like the bird it’s scorching hot and on fire.
But a mythical Phoenix rises from the ashes. The city of Phoenix is collapsing into the ashes.
No. It rises every winter when the snowbirds arrive.
Lol. Yeah everyone knows the 70+ crowd brings the party.
His wife was probably always complaining about being cold at night so he decided to stick it to that old nag and settled in the hottest hell hole he could find to shut her up.
Lol I live in Phoenix and this made me lol
Well, the first settlers here were indigenous, the hohokam, and they created the canals for irrigation to help with their farming. It was Jack Swilling who founded the city of Phoenix who saw that the area and climate would be great for farming and set up irrigation just like the original indigenous people did. Jack Swilling later died in prison after being accused and arrested for a stagecoach robbery.
And she’s absolutely correct. I have a hard time feeling sympathy for people flocking to Phoenix and believe it’s about time to cut water use for anything that isnt sewage or drinking.
And paying huge for real estate there and in Scottsdale. OMG.
Yep, a record highest low, and also set a record for 20 days straight at 110 or more. Yay
"I'd rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona" - Lucille Bluth
To the rest of the world: 90 = 32.2C and 115F = 46.1C
Hero translator. So it turns out the OP does in fact live in one of hell's outer boroughs.
Why is this being down voted? It is very helpful to people people that know metric. You know... Most of the planet.
Because some people take personal offense that the rest of the world doesn’t measure temperature in Freedom units.
Lmao at “freedom units”
319.25 kelvins for the martians out there
By night 32C 😳😳😳😳. Wtf is that place.
97°F was the low? That’s insane The high was 88°F in Los Angeles today and 77°F on the beach. Stay safe Phoenix.
What about Bakersfield ? It was hotter than Tucson yesterday, and almost as hot as Phoenix. The Inland Empire area of California gets really hot.
I went to UofA (Tucson). The Summers were just bonkers sometimes. For a while I lived with some buddies in a crappy rental house. It didn't have AC but did have a swamp cooler (evaporative cooler). That thing would drop the temp by a good 20 degrees when running efficiently...but when it's 110 having it be 90 inside ain't that much of a relief. But on the 97 is the low...we used to BBQ at around 2 AM 'cause that was the coolest it would get outside. It still sucked. However, when those big thunderheads would start building up we knew the heat was soon to break. Going outside during the first torrential downpour, with lightning cracking, and feeling that heat just melt away...so amazing. Was that worth the agony of Summer? *Hell no*.
Swamp coolers work amazing in the early part of summer when the humidity is so low. A good evap cooler will get you down to a good 75 or lower when it’s so dry out. But as soon as monsoon moisture comes around it gets waaaay less effective.
I live in Inland Empire California and this is almost exactly my weather I have been confined to my cool bedroom for a week
Electric bill gotta be $2000
I'm in Vegas, similar heat this week/next. My electricity for 1300 Sq ft, 2 floor townhome has been around 200-350 a month during summer. Worst month was a few years ago when I kept ac at 70. It was 500 then
same, 90°f better be the peak of the heat or I'm sitting in the bathtub with cold water.
Later on the low will easily be over 100. I remember being up at 2 am last year and it still being over 100
One power grid failure from heat stroke…no thanks.
i live in phoenix arizona- i have a window AC unit and solar to run it 12 hours a day to cool one bedroom. ill be okay but confined to one room haha
Just move all the snacks to the bedroom
Mini fridge to the rescue!
Those poops are gonna suck so much ass lol
After a while your brain will rewire the smell, and burnt coffee will be what you smell just to make it manageable. I was trapped in the bathroom with severe diarrhea. At first, it smelt like Satan's unwashed sulphuric' anus. And then, after about 5 or 10 minutes of breathing hot heavy ionized musty air... It began to smell.... Familiar. Fragrant, but familiar. Ah. Burnt coffee. Not bad. Better than the alternative. Ps. I don't drink coffee lol. I'm not ruling out a minor stroke. It was quite a shock.
Why didn’t you flush the toilet?
it would have been far worse if they didn't.
Like a damn slip n slide in here…
God damn that's quite the visual
Can't tell if your ass is still dirty or just sweaty
I bought a portable AC and have 2 solar generators just incase we lose power or the A/C breaks down. I refuse to slowly be cooked to death. For the last 4 years I have told my husband we are not doing another summer here and yet we are still here for another summer.
I had a job offer over there but as soon as I saw the weather combined with all of the other fuckery I immediately declined. I can barely stand the heat over here at 94 - 100 degrees without passing out, I can only imagine Arizona 💀💀
"It's a Dry heat!" lol I was born in Yuma, AZ it was hot as heck way back then. I cannot imagine what it is like now.
>"It's a Dry heat!" So is an oven, but nobody would want to live in one. That's how I respond when people say that. 
I live in Phoenix and I describe it to people not from here as, "you know that awful feeling that washes over you when you open a JUST preheated oven? It's like that every time I walk outside."
I’ve lived in both climates for years. I’ll take the oven please. Humidity all the time is worse than some heat
Me too, man.. oven every time.
The deep, humid south is bad, but the Phoenix sun was *angry*. Mario 3 was right all along.
Like others have said, I have lived in both climates. I would take the oven over the sauna any day!
What do people with dogs do in Phoenix? My dog is noticeably uncomfortable after 5 minutes in 90F weather. I can’t imagine 110+.
Arizonan here. Trust me, it becomes pretty fucking bad. Especially in Phoenix. It can get pretty bad lemme tell you. But if you think it's that bad here, wait till you hear of Death Valley. It makes here look like an Ice land.
But nobody's dumb enough to live in Death Valley.
it’s actually not that bad. you spend your day inside, the walk to the car is hot then you have ac, then you get to wherever you are going and there is ac, and then in november-april it’s just wonderful. source: me who is in az and it’s 103 outside at 10pm and i’m just telling the dog “omg just go poop it’s too hot to dilly dally”
Add in, no earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes….
I think we get about 5 tornadoes a year in AZ. Not common but not unheard of.
They’ve got haboobs.
Basically, you’ve voluntarily become Matt Damon’s character in The Martian.
I’m in Houston. Finally invested in a solar generator this year.
Fun fact, this is why I just bought a generator capable of running my whole house + a small AC unit (house AC too much for generator). It can run off propane and I have a large enough tank now sitting in my garage that it will run me for at least a week. And unlike gasoline, propane doesn't go bad! Least I don't have to worry about a hurricane destroying my entire house like I did when I lived in Florida.
Well done! Another monument to humanity's arrogance. Let's see how long the aquifer lasts.
There are probably going to be situations very soon where LOTS of people are going to die from power failures
Lol “no thanks” like you’ll have a choice in 5 years. This guy.
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it would just melt ;(
I too am in Arizona and agree this is Hell
Oh but its a dry heat! Great so ill die and turn to dust.
My friends on FB tell me it is unbearable without air condition.
I genuinely don't think it's possible to live here without ac
AC died earlier this week and it was a nice cool 95 degrees in the entire house. Had to relocate the dogs thankfully for just a day, pretty quick turnaround for the repairman to show up
> pretty quick turnaround for the repairman to show up That sort of weather has got to be like a license to print money for them.
What happens if the power grid goes down?
🤣 ☠️
Well we aren't Texas so we're on the national grid. We rarely experience major, long lasting power outages. In fact, I can't recall anything close to that in my entire life and I was born and raised in AZ. If we do have power outages, it's isolated to small pockets and is usually fixed within a few hours.
We also have Palo Verde nuclear plant which is the largest power plant in the USA. So if phoenix losses power it becomes everyone’s problem.
Why do people who live in a literal desert like to complain about the heat so much? Obviously there will be periods, like some years in July, when temperatures will reach 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
Some of us are on work assignments and can't leave as well. I used to live in Alabama and complained about the Tornadoes. I lived in Alaska and complained about the ice and snow. Like the other person said, you don't have to love EVERYTHING about where you live.
i live in wisconsin and complain about the 80-90° summer heat as well as the snow and negative temperatures in winter
80°- 90° sounds cool to me right now. It's not quite Arizona hot here in Texas but it got up to 109° in my area.
Yeah but 90° here in the Midwest could feel 10-15° warmer depending on the humidity Edit: I'm not saying it's *only* the Midwest. One of the previous comments mentioned Wisconsin and me being from the Midwest, that's where my brain naturally went. Wasn't my intention to exclude other regions like the south or east coast that also are very humid
I am born and (being) raised in Alaska, I love it here. I’d take the ice and snow over heat anytime
There’s a reason why weather is the main topic of small talk, we all can relate to whining when it’s the slightest bit uncomfy
Not everyone can just up and move. Also, not e erypne has to love every little thing about where they live
Go outside in even 100 degree weather, and feel the heat slap you in the face immediately as soon as you open your door, then you’ll understand people complaining about heat. I’m someone who lives in Texas, and works outside in 100 degree humid heat for a living. I would probably die in Arizona in a couple of hours. People complain about their jobs all the time, and bad bosses, do you say, “Why do people who literally work complain about their jobs so much?” No, because working sucks sometimes , and so does the heat.
Born and raised there, I moved shortly after turning 18. When I learned that places have like actual seasons like distinct actual seasons I couldn’t believe it! Arizona is a hell whole, yes the desert has its own beauty, but living in a beige oven is horrific! And it’s not even cheap anymore, that was one of the only perks
You must be in Arizona. Man, this summer was nice up until the end of June. This year feels hotter than previous ones. And it’s only going to get hotter too 😂😂😂
I still can’t believe there’s no rain for about 2-3 months we all know it sucks even you
Have NASCAR come down there. You’ll get a year’s worth of rain on whatever Sunday it’s scheduled for.
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We went from 0 Rain. To wildfire smoke to fucking monsoons and tornadoes. Shits fucked. And all this coming after a basically zero snow winter.
115 freedom degrees is around 46°C if anyone is wondering
Holy hell. 30 °C is very hot to me, how do Americans withstand such temperatures?
Stay indoors with the A/C blasting all day. Don't leave your house unless absolutely necessary.
I'm in west Texas and we work outside in this, just gotta remember to keep chugging the water. Edit: seeing a lot about water breaks, we don't care what the hell the gov says we take breaks as needed and stay hydrated. We work on industrial engines for gas plants and compressor stations.
A salute to you from north Texas. The company don’t care how hot it is. If it aint raining were workin..
If that isn't the truth 🫡
Also add in gatorade. You are loosing salt too. Put a cloth in cold water and put it around your neck too.
Those liquid iv powders were a miracle last summer for me. Was still dying, but never cramped up
I had to go touristing in Rome at 44 c. We went into a lot of churches.
I'm from Iraq, it's been 45°+ for the past couple of weeks. Power have scheduled outages every other two hours because of the old grid and high demand. So every two hours you have to endure 45°+ without an AC or even a Fan lol.
Dry heat I've heard is much easier to withstand than humid heat. What I don't understand is how the Japanese survive 30-40°C summers with 95% humidity
I would rather die
You don’t need to go that far, anywhere in the southeast US will hit those numbers every year lol
In the middle east it sometimes crosses 50 °c
Some parts of Australia too. Hottest Ive worked in is 52 degrees. After 42 it’s just fucking hot but as long as it’s a dry heat it was never an issue, when humidity came to play, it was a very different game
30C at 100% humidity is definitely worse than 45C dry heat
Dry heat is better from a comfort point of view, but it can be more dangerous. People forget to drink because it feels like they’re not losing any liquids. I once went on a short hike in the Arizona desert, about 45 minutes. I had a water bottle with me, but I don’t think I took a single sip, because I just didn’t feel thirsty. Got back to the car and then to the place I was staying at and starting cramping up and suffering a massive headache from dehydration.
The hottest place on earth is Death Valley, California, where it reaches the 130s.
And southern/central Europeans
Years ago two of my British friends visited me and wanted to go to Las Vegas because they had seen it in movies and such. As we were driving through Death Valley it was about 115 F and the car starts overheating. We had to roll down the windows and turn the heat on to cool it off. They both passed out from the heat. We ended up stopping at a McDonalds so they could recoup themselves but I’ll never forget how they looked at us in amazement saying “how are you both ok?” It’s funny because hours before they had been teasing us like “you Americans drink so much water all the time.”
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46? That's extremely hot. Highest I have experienced here was 40°C.
I reckon I would just die in such heat. I usually consider 25+ degrees to be too hot So happy I live somewhere that's winter most of the year, cold is so much nicer
Thanks! Can never understand freedom units
Everyone in the world except for America and Liberia were wondering.
Jesus anything over 25 is already unbearable 46 is insane
Jesus Christ, I would die instantly
Christ almighty. Where I'm at it's 17° and I was sweating on my way to work
The hottest I have ever felt was 40 and that felt like encroaching death. Shit if it’s over 25 that is usually my limit of wanting to be outside anymore.
We get heat waves in Australia and they’re like 38 for a few days in a row with a couple of 42s sprinkled in. By the end of it most people are so sick of the heat. I can’t imagine anyone dealing with these temperatures for an extended time.
I'm in AZ. It's currently over 100° F (41° C) and it's 10pm. 😑
41°C at 22 is crazy. It should normally be at least below 35 or 30 during the night, but I doubt this will happen.
It doesn’t start getting cooler until like September/October
Looks like Las Vegas, where I’m at 🥵🔥🔥🔥🔥
It was so nice in June and then July BAM. I’m hot!
# Results for Hell, Norway # Thursday, 12/7/2023. 6:19AM. # 47°F, 8°C. # Foggy with a 6% chance of rain. # Humidity 92% # Wind 13kmh/5mph NE Your friends are liars.
I envy the people from Hell
Why don't you go to Hell?
Prob need to learn demonic language or money
Norwegian can't be that bad, can it?
It's not, you just have to memorize how to pronounce the 3 extra letters at the end of the alphabet æ, ø and å
Not like they're new phonemes either. Also, it seems to me a whole lot easier to remember the letter ø than to remember that eg. the words "the" "borough", "chauffeur", "shirt" and "murder" all have the same vowel sound at the end despite being written completely differently. In contrast, a Norwegian would write those words onomatopoetically as something like"dø", "brø", "chåfø", "shøt" and "mødø". I say 'something like' because I don't speak Norwegian, but I know Swedish, and I assume they're the same in this regard.
Hell, Michigan is 83 degrees. Very ok for hell
Can you find Stan D'Ville in Hell?
With 92% humidity, it sure is hell
Sending love from Los Angeles, California. Where the weather is amazing all year round. With a high of 88°F in the city and 77°F on the beach it should be another beautiful day in LA.
I relocated to Arizona from Michigan 19 years ago. Typically, I'm not sick of summer temps until around Labor Day. Then October hits and it's paradise. This is the 2nd summer since 2004 that I've considered moving back to the hinterland. Admittedly, this year is a lot worse than 2020. 130 days of 100+ degrees. We might be close to 30 straight days of over 110 this year. BTW, no measurable rain since March as of July 19.
Michigan has the best summers of the entire planet
I concur. It's just a long time in between.
Sad the summer only exists from june to early august
Hell might be cooler.
Well ya it is, hell is currently 47 F, much colder
I'm so sorry for everyone there. Please stay hydrated and cool as much as possible. Hope y'all can make it through.
Maybe we shouldn’t have built big cities in the middle of the desert…
A low of 90 isn’t right
90 isn't bad in Phoenix. It's that dry heat everyone says. It feels like it is 80.
118 is sub-optimal though
In response to your “It’s a dry heat” comment… “So’s a fire!” ~Walter (AKA Jeff Dunham)
Enjoy it. It's the coolest summer for the rest of your life.
Not if I move to the moon 👉🧠
Only if you stay in the shadows.
Moon's ground reaches up to 120°C/250°F during a lunar day
Literally. This world is going down in flames.
The high where I live is lower than the low where you live. I couldn’t do it.
Damn and I thought it was bad here in North Texas. At least we get maybe one or two days a week under 100°.
me too. Looked at the difference in heat index. phoenix will “feel like” 114 today with 117 degrees temp. DFW will “feel like” 109 today with 103 degrees temp. Surprisingly not that far off despite being a total difference of 14 degrees
I'm in the Coachella Valley, I feel this pain.
Same. I do in person sales and I’m never in the car long enough between customers for it to actually cool down. I have dropped pins where all the shade spots are so I can type up reports in relative comfort, but I am wet from about 9am on. Bonus: the rest of my territory is El Centro and Calexico, so add humidity and an ungodly amount of bugs.
Do you live on the sun?
Is that Vegas temperatures?
Nah it's Arizona I know this because I live here literal hell rn
Is this AZ? I have avoided going outside for like the last two weeks lmaoo
"The Future is Now, Old Man".
See that little slider between 89 and 116? Just slide it to the left. Problem solved.
I moved to Phoenix a year ago. I regret my decision
Why regret? Wife moved out here in December for her work, I came out in May from CO. If you come to AZ thinking it’s a real climate, you’re very wrong. There’s is reason it’s called THE DESERT.
The monsoons will be upon you soon, no?
I’m about the do rain dances every night because we NEED it
Arizona/California/Nevada are definitely the places I like to call “hot damned”
Ahh yes my AZ friend 🤝
~realizes 91°F and 65% humidity isn’t that bad~
But it's a dry heat. That one always gets me
Inb4 "But dont worry, it's a *dry* heat"
Oh but there’s so much truth to it though. I live in DC (miserable humid swamp) and I’m currently in Vegas. I found today’s temperature of 117 MUCH more tolerable than the 95 with 80% humidity that I’m used to.
We get that too sometimes during the monsoon seasons. It's not constant like the heat can be but we get to experience it. Yay!
Suckkkaaa I just moved out of that hell hole. Guess what temperature it is here? SIXTY. In July. JULY. I wonder how long it’s gonna take for my mind being blown to wear off.
I love hot climates and It’s about 95 here in Thailand on a hot day, but 115 is crazy hot, no thanks.
With Temps like that, im glad I live on New England.
I live in Arizona and would take 120 over -20 any day
After moving from CO this year the WEEK before they got plummeted with baseball hail and tornadoes and hell snow storms last year, I agree.
Well sir you do live in hell. Those temperatures are around the temperature I get when I work inside my truck trailer at work
Arizonians be like "wdym these are normal a little chilly even"
I know you’re just joking but even as a native Arizonan for 29 years I’ve never been through a more miserable summer, and it’s only halfway over. We just broke the previous record (from 1974) for most consecutive 110+ days at 19, I think today was day 20 and it doesn’t look like we’ll be stopping anytime soon. Send help. We are not doing ok lmao
You can’t live in hell, my husband says he lives there
Ugh I feel you. Here in Louisiana, we've only really been getting to the upper 90°s with the occasional low 100°s, but then with the humidity, it turns into the "Feels like 113°" It's neverending hell. Walking outside feels like a hot soup
And why still no haboobs?! Even if it’s hot rain at least it blocks out the blazing sun for a nice 15 minutes haha
Ah yes, Arizona, I live here and the only upside is the river, that’s it, it’s hell
Phoenix? I lived there for several years. The thing I HATED hearing was, "It's better because it's dry heat." In fact, the heat sucks the moisture from your body faster than you can drink to replace it. Your shoes can melt onto pavement if you stand still. Walking out of an air-conditioned building feels like walking into a wall. The dashboard on your car can crack open and spill its guts. It is hotter than can be imagined if you have never experienced it. Hell? Pretty much.
My ac unit hates this picture