Arizona Weather

[steveh]

Hi all

Spare a thought for the folks of Arizona as the temperatures rise

As you all probably know talking about the weather in the UK is a national pastime, especially if you are caught in that intimidating situation of being in a queue with somebody making eye contact and you are obliged to say something, for example "looks like rain today". But the last 2 weeks it has been even worse because you have had everybody complaining in these situations of the cold and the rain etc. and then you get 2 weeks of reasonable weather and they all moan it is too hot!!

Go to blooming Arizona I will tell them then you will know what heat is!!

[HansV]

50°C (122°F) is incredibly hot - it's the kind of temperature you'd expect in Death Valley.

[John Gray]

I thought that they'd now installed air-conditioning in Death Valley, powered by solar panels?

[Rudi]

Wow!!

[BobH]

I experienced similar temps in Madrid in July '91. On one afternoon I saw a time and temperature clock with 55° (Celsius) displayed at 6:00PM.

[ChrisGreaves]

I experienced similar temps in Madrid in July '91. On one afternoon I saw a time and temperature clock with 55° (Celsius) displayed at 6:00PM.

So was the thermometer five minutes slow, or was the clock five degrees fast?
Cheers
Chris

[Rudi]

    
Meteorologists are running out of colors to map extreme heat in Arizona

...the hottest temperature on the spectrum is oddly denoted by a cool green.
Green for hot? The irony didn’t escape meteorologist Mark Torregrossa, who elaborated on the color conundrum in an article for the Michigan news channel MLive. “All of the orange and red shades are used. The next stage of heat, depicted by what I would call violet colors, is blown right through on this temperature map. I guess finally you get so hot you turn green,” he wrote.

[viking33]

So, it's 122 degrees F! Doesn't matter, it's DRY heat. Doesn't that make you feel cooler?