Don’t let anybody fool you Arizona is very very hot get the heck out if you still can!
118 degrees F☀️ earlier this week. 104 F now.
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You mean tropic?
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I was in Phoenix one summer and it was 90 degrees at midnight.
shareYou know it's the real deal when it's more comfortable to wear long sleeves and trousers. That said, I'll take a dry 110ºF over a muggy 80ºF. "But it's a dry heat" isn't a meme for nothing...
shareWhen visiting Arizona, my uniform is a lightweight, breathable, loose cotton shirt, loose linen pants, and a hat with a wide brim and a crown that allows air flow. Plus good solid hiking boots to wear, any place I might meet a snake, a scorpion, or sand deep enough to get in my shoes.
Of course if you aren't prone to 3rd-degree sunburns, you might dress differently...
Otters are clever creatures. Being of Celt and Slav descent, I like to borrow the George Carlin line, I don't tan, I just "try to neutralize the blue." When I'm to spend the day in the desert, you better be prepared to be seen with a Lawrence of Arabia-looking mf. Protip: if ever on salt flats or similar light-colored UV reflecting ground surface, there are parts of you you don't want sunburned, so no cargo shorts, especially commando style.
shareA relative who's just as pasty as I am went to Hawaii, and applied sunblock over her entire body when she went to the beaches. But once, she wore a swimsuit with a round neckline and didn't account for the angle of the tropical sun, so she got a C-shaped sunburn on her boobs... below the neckline! The noonday sun had shone straight down!
So if I ever move to Arizona in the future, which is possible, it won't be for the fashion.
Rookie mistake. :D The one that got me more than once was the backs of the knees. The moving parts tend to keep reminding you...
shareI may move to Tucson in the future, I like the place and visit frequently.
But I really do need to visit during a summer heat wave before I make official plans.
Remember, water is scarce there and only going to get worse. I lived in the Phoenix area for eight years (quite a few years ago), and although I enjoyed the abundant sunshine and the desert landscape, dealing with the heat became unbearable. It affects every outdoor activity for at least six months out of the year. I was happy to head back to the upper midwest and enjoy all four seasons again.
shareI'm very aware of that, and also aware that some places in Arizona have handled their water supply more sensibly than Phoenix. Moving is probably 10 years off or more, we'll see how things sort out in the meantime.
I have a friend who's parents moved back to Wisconsin after a couple of years out there. They'd rather deal with Wisconsin winters than the Arizona heat. They would have to go out early in the morning to take care of their shopping and other business to avoid the worst of it.
shareI can identify with this. You live going from one air-conditioned place to another. It's just no fun being outside much of the day.
shareHopefully we'll get another heavy monsoon season. We're the only state that looks forward to massive thunderstorms.
Monsoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtYCR5AJOtM
All my life I've loved thunderstorms. My dad taught me the lightning/thunder counting trick featured in Poltergeist at an early age. Hardly claiming fearlessness, just that thunderstorms were always thrilling and fun events to me in New England. Just a few years ago got caught in an AZ summer storm one night on a lonely two lane road where traffic had come to a stop due to a ~200' wide piece of road had been replaced by a raging river of unknown depth. The thunder and lightning were immediate and deafening and it wasn't so fun in the moment. Made me realize how early gods and mythology were an obvious conclusion. Shit was no joke.
share☀️ Phoenix Arizona on Saturday June 18, 2022
85º F at 5 AM
95º F at noon
101º F expected at 2:00 PM
☀️ Phoenix, Arizona on Saturday June 25, 2022
96º F at 8 PM
103º F expected Sunday late afternoon