It's predicted to be 120 degrees here by Tuesday.

[Coventina]

Here's my local forecast via Weather Underground:

Tomorrow: 109
Saturday: 110
Sunday: 113
Monday: 118
Tuesday: 120
Wednesday: 117

Sigh.

I hate Phoenix. Most especially this time of year.

Can I bunk with one of you guys for the next week or so?

[LisaM]

1. Wow, we aren't even at 60 (Seattle) and it's raining.

We have a new person in our office who just came from Arizona and she is loving our weather. I, however, wish we could split the difference with you.

[Coventina]

7. That's funny because I was born in and spent my early childhood in Seattle.

We moved here to Phoenix (during the summer!) when I was 11.

I felt like I'd been transported from heaven to hell.

I spent most of my early adult life trying to leave Phoenix for the PNW. It just never worked out.

I've tried to accept that for some reason the universe wants me here. But I hate almost every minute of it.

60 degrees and raining. You're making me cry!!!

[LisaM]

10. Sorry!

I actually dithered before posting it because I knew it would sound very tempting to someone baking in the SW oven. It was so cold this morning that I had to close the window when I was baking cookies.

[Coventina]

13. Hahaha! Baking cookies!

We don't even dream of firing up our ovens this time of year.

[underpants]

2. It's so hot, I saw a fire hydrant chasing a dog

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

8. good one

[DemKittyNC]

3. OMFG!

How do you manage that? It's 90 here in north carolina today and I am melting. Yes, I know but I am a proud snowflake! =)

[Coventina]

9. The truth? I don't manage it very well.

My husband can attest to that!

I get really, really crabby.

[DemKittyNC]

19. I don't blame you

I would also.

Plus I am extremely pale so I would just totally melt anyways. I doubt I would be able to go outside at all.

[Coventina]

24. I, as well. I like to use the old Woody Allen joke: I don't tan, I stroke!

[customerserviceguy]

35. But it's a dry hell

I will admit, my time in AZ was preferable to the summers here in NY. We were out of town for a few days starting Sunday, and it was hotter in the NYC area than it was in Myrtle Beach, SC. Caught up with a few of my friends today, on the first day back, and they confirmed it was really nasty Sun-Tues.

[Lebam in LA]

4. So Cal is supposed to be getting a heat wave too but I am so close to the coast

we stay pretty cool. Come on out and enjoy our ocean breeze

[Coventina]

11. I am going to be in San Diego in late July (for a week)

I am practically counting the minutes until then.....

[Lebam in LA]

14. San Diego has better weather than we do

Enjoy your visit.
Why people retire to warmer places is beyond me. The older I get the harder it is for me to tolerate heat.

[Coventina]

16. I don't get it either. (And I have arthritis!)

Granted, my long-term experience is with Seattle and Phoenix, so I've never lived in bitter cold, so I don't know how that would affect my arthritis.

[beachbum bob]

5. It's Phoenix az. No surprise. It hit 100 when I

Was there in March.

[Coventina]

17. Yes, the heat came early and often this year.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

6. Several years ago friends moved to Phoenix

On a visit back (Philly area) they invited us to visit. I said that when it get really miserable here, they give the heat index as being 105 to 115. However, in Phoenix, it really is 105 to 115. His response was that it was a "dry heat". I said that the devil probably gets folks into hell by telling them that too.

[Coventina]

15. Actually, I do (now) have to admit that there is a difference.

Last summer, for the first time in my life, I was in Florida. In June.

Miami (I don't know how different north Florida might be).

It was actually worse than Phoenix. I NEVER thought I would EVER visit a place that would make me want to go back to Phoenix. Turns out, South Florida is worse than Phoenix.

We left Miami to go to Cuba. Even Cuba wasn't as bad as Florida was.

We went to Miami Beach, and it was just miserable. Even the actual BEACH was hot!

And, it's not like I've never been to tropical beaches. I've been to Hawaii a number of times and the beach is glorious!
Even on the hottest of summer days!

Miami Beach? Worst place I have ever been. And it's where millionaires CHOOSE to live. I don't get it at all!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

23. I don't (and have never) seen the Miami attraction

Maybe if you're one of those folks who are always cold...

[Coventina]

25. Haha! One of my brother's friends (I guess I should call him a friend as well-

-since I've socialized with him for about 20 years now) is actually waiting to move someplace WARMER once his kid graduates high school.

I kid you not!!!

[MattP]

12. I live in Palm Springs yearround wish i was a snowbird

[Coventina]

18. I feel your pain.

[Yavin4]

20. "But it's a dry heat?" I hate that line when people say that.

It's still fucking hot.

[LisaM]

21. I find dry heat far more unbearable than humid heat.

From what I hear, that's considered weird, but my skin and hair really appreciate the drink of water they get with humid air.

[Coventina]

27. I have to agree about the hair and skin part.

My hair and skin LOVED Cuba!

(as long as I stayed out of the sun)

[Coventina]

26. I hate that as well. It can be as humid as it wants....if the temp is reasonable!!

Heat is heat is heat.

And, it's the number one weather related killer.

[byronius]

22. I used to work drywall and frame houses in Phoenix.

Digging postholes by hand all day every day in the full sun for a truly bad boss, dreaming of working in an A/C office with a desk and a water cooler.

Dream accomplished. And so long, Phoenix. California is the place you want to be.

[Coventina]

28. Now you've made me feel like a whiner.

My heart honestly hurts for those who have to work outdoors in this.

I do have an office job (no water cooler, though).

And, I have a car with working a/c.

Back in my young adulthood, my old Datsun didn't have a/c. I almost killed myself once, driving across town when it was 118.

Coastal and Northern Ca. is lovely. I'd love to live there, if I could put food on my family.

[byronius]

41. Most of my friends left because of Evan Meacham. Intel fled, all of the engineers panicked.

Three years minimum in the state penitentiary for resin on a pipe. The entire tech industry vacated within two years.

Property seizure. Car seizure. House seizure. For joints. Twelve thousand dollar legal fees and a permanent record.

I had a girlfriend who was strip-searched. Permanently traumatized. She was nineteen.

I know it's better now, but you can see why I left.

[Coventina]

42. Jeepers!!! Yes! I'm so sorry that happened to you.

And your girlfriend.

I have no words.

I'm just so, so sorry.

[Coventina]

29. Just checked in with my Grandma. 93 and living alone.

I'll be keeping close tabs on her over the next week(s).

I always do, but I'm going to be extra vigilant.

I always hear horror stories of elderly left alone during weather events like this.

Not my grandma!!

[TeapotInATempest]

30. Come to Chicago!

It's been awful here this week - in the 90s, which is unseasonably warm for June - but next week we'll have highs of about 80.

I feel for you; i hate the heat with a passion. I also burn if you look at me wrong and the dry desert air is hell on my skin (lol, I may be a literal snowflake).

I don't know how you manage.

[Coventina]

32. Thanks sweetie!!

It's funny, I actually have a vitamin D deficiency.

It's actually very common here in Phoenix, because everyone avoids the sun so much!!

I have to take a daily supplement!

[red dog 1]

31. Thanks for posting this thread...I don't feel so bad now.

We live 3 & 1/2 hours north of San Francisco - (Inland, not on the coast) - and it's predicted to be in the triple digits by tomorrow....I HATE the damn heat!

But I guess it could be worse - We could live in Arizona, like you do.

If I lived there, I'd buy a season ticket for the D-Backs & go see a very good baseball team play at Chase Field - where it's nice & cool.

The Diamondbacks are 41-26 and only a half game out of 1st place in the NL West.
(unlike the SF Giants, the team I grew up with, who're unable to beat anyone this year)

[Coventina]

33. hahahaha! The Diamondbacks were their own kind of torture last year!!!

A colleague of mine who is an avid baseball fan, with two young boys who are also avid baseball fans, moved here a few years ago.

He had always promised them season tickets if they were ever in an MLB market. About halfway through last season, one of his kids asked, "Daddy, do we have to go to many more games?"



I guess it's not so bad this year.....

[underpants]

34. My wife - the world's sick. It has a temperature.

[Coventina]

40. Seriously!

[sdfernando]

36. Come to San Diego along with all the other Zonies....

Friday 81
Sat 79
Sun 79
Mon 80
Tues 78
Wed 77
Thu 74
Fri 73

[Coventina]

38. We have our trip booked for late July!

Can't come soon enough!!!

[sdfernando]

48. Great! Hope you have an awesome time.

I rarely get to Phoenix although I do have family there...just too HOT for me (I'm spoiled in SD).

If you go out to the clubs you may be familiar with one of my Nephews...He is D.J. Diesel. Pretty well known in the club circuit.

[procon]

37. I went to ASU and remember those 117 degree days.

I'd walk out of my air conditioned dorm and instantly go from 75 degrees to blast furnace heat. That sudden 40 temperature charge was enough to drop you in you tracks, and some kids did collapse. I've always lived in deserts, but damn, when it's that hot its rough.

I live in the Mojave desert now and we're into the 105-109 range all week. Thank gawd for air conditioning!

[Coventina]

39. Yes, I plan on daily offerings to my Goddess of Frost.

Flowers, fruits, whatever she desires.....

[TexasBushwhacker]

43. It's supposed to get to 96 in Houston Monday

But the heat index will be 111! The city opens cooling centers around town and provides free bus rides to get to them.

[Generic Brad]

44. Sure, but my air-conditioning is broke

And the condensation from it dripped onto my hot water heater and shorted it out. So, no air conditioning, but I can make up for it with cold water.

[rurallib]

45. good grief - bet there is not even a tree to seek refuge under.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

46. That must be unbearable.

Being that I am from Maine, I think 80 is hot and 85 - 100 is really hot. I've never experienced temperatures over much over 100 and I don't want to.

[Leith]

47. Come On Up to Vegas!

We're supposed to get to only 109 or so. Also, we don't get the dust storms you seem to get once in a while.

I grew up in Michigan. Shoveled driveways and sidewalks. Got frostbite. Did unplanned 360s while driving.

We moved here BECAUSE of the weather.

Sorry you don't like it. I acclimated quite nicely.

[DFW]

49. Here, and over the border two hours west of here, it was about 60 F all day

I'd be receptive to taking the average between the two.

Yesterday, over in Sprout City, it was almost 30° and very humid. I was sweating like a pig, but that vanished overnight, and we haven't even made it to 20° all day today.

[panader0]

50. 105 in Sierra Vista on Tuesday.

I'm at 4700 feet. This next week will be the hottest I can recall in the
nearly 40 years I've been here.

[malchickiwick]

51. Even hotter than that here in BHC/Laughlin by a couple degrees, and I LOVE it!!

Spozed to hit 114 today and up to 123 by Tuesday, but I'll take 125 in the desert over 95 in the Deep South any day of the week (but people tell me I'm a weirdo).

[Thirties Child]

52. I hate, hate, hate Georgia humidity.

We lived in the SW corner of NM for ten years, 70 miles from Mexico, 200 miles from Tucson. We were at almost 7,000 feet, wonderful weather all year. Some snow in the winter and pure heaven in July and August. Because of broken duct work, we were able to manage for an entire year with neither heat nor air. No air was easy, never really needed it. When it got really cold, down to nine below one time, I stayed up until 2 to put a log into our wood-burning stove, husband got up at 6 to keep it going. Every section of the country--heat in Arizona, tornadoes in Oklahoma, Katrina in Louisiana.

[Shrike47]

53. It's 72.9 degrees according to our outdoor thermometer in Eugene, Oregon.

It's been grey and drizzling for weeks, or maybe months. I love this.

We went to Utah and Arizona a couple of weeks ago. So damned dry the skin on my heels cracked. No thank you.

[samnsara]

54. my neice just sent me a pix from lake mead..112! I have a sweatshirt on! yeah...

...im from the Pacific Northwest

[Mosby]

55. It's dry though

With my evap I can keep inside temps below 75 in high heat.

If I wanted to I could get the inside temps down into the 60s at night.

[Wawannabe]

56. We are looking for

A fourth roommate here in the Pacific NW.
When I get cold I just get in the hot tub!

[IrishEyes]

57. Sorry. I've got the flu.

You wouldn't want to stay with me.