Sept 5 in Phoenix - Another temp record?

[Astro14]

Warnings about "climate change" debate? I haven't seen any debating about that topic. All I see is people talking about the desert heat.

You can’t see deleted posts.

There are several.

Hence the warning.

 

[c502cid]

Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

Funny I'm reading that, again, at the moment.

 

[dishdude]

Could you live without AC?

No way! We have quite a few heat related deaths each summer and some are from people with non-working A/C in their homes.

 

[Nick1994]

I suspect the urbanization of the area has raised temperatures considerably. Pavement and buildings absorb more heat than desert. The amount of new construction in and around Phoenix has been amazing.

My dad lives out in the middle of the desert about 100 miles west of Phoenix, and it's just as hot during the day. The difference is at night time it tends to cool off more out there.

I have a coworker who just moved there. I was asking if the central AC can still drop the home to 75F, when it's 115F....he was saying yes at night the house can reach 75F (it's not 115F at that time). How hard does an HVAC work out there? It would take a LOT of work to start at 115F, and reach 75F, if it could even do that. Not possible with the way our AC is sized in the northeast.

They work during the summer as hard as everywhere else, they’re just sized larger. A 2,000 square foot house up North probably has a little 2 ton A/C unit, where here it’s 4+ tons. Though they are running in the spring and fall too.

In the afternoons they run and run and run, if properly sized, and can keep a steady temperature. If you had it set at 78 and turned it to 74 at 4pm, it isn’t going to move the needle down much until probably 10pm.

 

[billt460]

Could you live without AC?

A lot easier than I could have lived without heat in January in the Midwest.

 

[billt460]

No way! We have quite a few heat related deaths each summer and some are from people with non-working A/C in their homes.

It's all relative. High humidity and dew point are what make it unbearable. And you have far more of that in the Midwest.

A week of 100 degree weather in Chicago, and the elderly are dropping dead. Out here they're playing golf in it.

 

[Nick1994]

No way! We have quite a few heat related deaths each summer and some are from people with non-working A/C in their homes.

And from people on vacation from places where they say “It’s a dry heat” and go hiking in July.

 

[andrewg]

You can’t see deleted posts.

There are several.

Hence the warning.

Oh....okay. I get it.

 

[dishdude]

And from people on vacation from places where they say “It’s a dry heat” and go hiking in July.

And heading out with a 16 oz bottle of water!

 

[Dave Hess]

I’m guessing lots of houses have pools in Arizona.

 

[gfh77665]

TX has had a relatively cool summer. Very cool July, then hot August, but now a cool September under way.

 

[Snagglefoot]

Looks like it was 1 degree off the record.

 

[Nick1994]

We hit 100 straight days over 100 degrees

https://weather.com/news/weather/news/2024-09-03-phoenix-record-heat-100-degrees-100-days

 

[dishdude]

I don't know how many Phoenix summers I have left in me.

 

[2strokeNorthstar]

Wasn't any better in Southern California today. Showed 115 degrees where I live. Has to be a record or close to it

 

[Snagglefoot]

This weather channel confirms 115 F at noon. It ties the existing record for Sept 5.

 

[c502cid]

Pikes Peak had snow on it this morning. We hit a high of 55*... and it's a dry cool

 

[andrew_j]

I walked .5 mile to American school in Kuwait 3rd-5th grade with I believe 120f+ temps which felt like open oven.

 

[spackard]

I got 115F on the dash and 115.9V on the KillAWatt (normally 121, but there’s 6 active power outages in the city).
It’s hot when the temp matches the wall socket voltage number.

 

[Snagglefoot]

This weather channel confirms 115 F at noon. It ties the existing record for Sept 5.


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This was a from a website called Time and Date. It displays the numerical info as a graph and breaks up the intervals into 4 sections with a high and low for each of the 6 hour sections.