Derailment and Fire on UP bridge in Tempe, AZ

[Jbub]

I'll take a 2 month summer before a 6 month winter anytime.

Average number of day's at 100 deg or above is 92 in Phoenix. The record was in 1989 at 143. So average of 3 months at deg up to an extreme of 4 months and 3 weeks

[Chris333]

My statement has to do with the days I run my AC vs. The days my furnace is on. Anything below 55 degrees is a waste of a day. Yet there has been just a few days my whole life where it felt too hot. In Ohio anyways.

[wcfn100]

I'll take a 2 month summer before a 6 month winter anytime.

In 2017 there were 192 days aver 90.  It plain sucks there, unless you're in your 20's and single and don't have day job, then it's awesome.


Jason

[wazzou]

It's a dry heat.

[Peavine]

Well, it’s 10:55 pm right now, and my thermometer says it’s 102 out...

[reinhardtjh]

In Saginaw, TX at 2:20AM CDT it's still 82 degrees with a relative humidity of 70%.  The high today was only 95. Tomorrow it's supposed to be near 100.  Hurricane whatever has driven our humidity up, normally it's around 30-40%.

Both my boys (34 and 31) live in Chandler.  My daughter (26) lives in Tucson.  They all moved there from SW Ohio because they didn't like the "cold" weather.  It's been nearly 3 years and I still can't believe I moved to Texas.  I was looking up north for a job.  Cleveland or Buffalo.  Someplace that has a real winter.  I end up sweating in the winter in Texas. 

[MK]

I end up sweating in the winter in Texas. 

Now right there is the punch line! 

[Jbub]

I lived in the Dallas area in '98. It was the hottest summer in 20 years and I remember day time temps of 105ish with a heat index of 115. I did a lot of walking and seriously melted through a pair of shoes that summer. People talk about dry vs wet heat, I'll take the dry heat 115 over the wet heat 105 any day. You can't cool down with all that humidity.

[johnb]

Still yuck! Wasn't there a week last year of where the low didn't get below 95. Winters are awesome there hence the doubling of the population in October but summers are straight up brutal.

I think so. My AC is currently out, the repair men should be here within the hour. It has been a brutal week, and my hobby slush fund was destroyed.  I have a package to send Max and one for Shipsure, but I just about to start converting to dcc...

[C855B]

Sorry about the AC, John. That sucks. Good luck.

Yeah, the "dry heat" thing. Growing up in the Mojave desert, I was explaining to my wife the other day that when things get to 5-10%RH you still sweat, but never enough to notice the wetness since it evaporates so quickly. Sometimes you even get a little bit of a salt crust. I never, ever remember sweating on 110-120° days like I get soaked here in Illinois at 95 and 95, needing to change clothes three or four times a day if I'm working outside.

But that dry heat can be especially deceiving, even when you're accustomed to it. I was hiking in Afton Canyon many years ago, hadn't packed enough to drink, and ended up with a serious episode of heat prostration. Fortunately my friends noticed the dry heaves in time to grab me before I fell over, marching me to the river pond to cool off before it turned into heatstroke. Not far off, apparently, because ever since, the heat gets to me sooner and leaves me exhausted longer.

Winter cold vs. summer heat? Summer wins every time in this household. We are not four-season people; my wife runs for her burrow of blankets at first frost and basically hibernates until mid-April. Plus you don't have to shovel sunshine. 

EDIT: For $#!+s and giggles I looked up today's forecast for my hometown, Mojave - 102°... not so bad, considering... but RH at 7%. Just a little dry.

[Chris333]

Yeah to me the cold weather equivalent to 100 degrees would be 40 degrees. During 100 degrees I was outside sanding VW fenders. I was sweating all over them, but was still out there doing it. If it was 40 outside I wouldn't even want to go get my mail from the box. And it gets to 0 every year, sometimes 15 below. That would be like 155 degrees heat to me.

Plus my skin is dried out all winter. After just a few min outside snot starts literally running out of my nose and I have to use my mouth to breathe. When it's 95 out I can breathe just fine. Below 55 I can't even ride a bike. My lungs feel like they are freezing trying to breathe all that cold air.

And in the winter getting warmed up doesn't really make me feel any better, but in the summer cooling off feels good. A furnace is needed to survive and AC is just a luxury. At work I have never wasted vacation time when it's cold outside.

And this all seems to get worse the older I get. I can totally see why folks move to FL when they retire. Dunno I wish I just bury into a hole for half of the year, the cold half. 

[CRL]

Fixed it for you...

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[DKS]

Dunno, been to both Florida and Arizona during the summer multiple times to visit family, and I was totally wiped out every time--you couldn't pay me to live in either state. People in Phoenix say, "oh, but it's dry heat," and I reply, "doesn't matter, too hot is still too hot!" Walking down the sidewalk in Phoenix, it always felt like my eyeballs were going to melt and run down my face. I'm no fan of cold weather, either, but at least you can put more clothes on. Doesn't work the other way 'round--you run out of clothes to take off, and it's still brutal. Ah well, I won't have to worry about it much longer.

[johnb]

Dunno, been to both Florida and Arizona during the summer multiple times to visit family, and I was totally wiped out every time--you couldn't pay me to live in either state. People in Phoenix say, "oh, but it's dry heat," and I reply, "doesn't matter, too hot is still too hot!" Walking down the sidewalk in Phoenix, it always felt like my eyeballs were going to melt and run down my face. I'm no fan of cold weather, either, but at least you can put more clothes on. Doesn't work the other way 'round--you run out of clothes to take off, and it's still brutal. Ah well, I won't have to worry about it much longer.

105 in AZ is typically fine for me....hell of a lot better than 95 in FL....but 110+ is just damn hot, especially for days

[johnb]

Sorry about the AC, John. That sucks. Good luck.

Thanks, they showed up late, said that it will take 3 hours, it's already 106° at 11:30...I can't wait to drop the temp inside 40°