Temperatures In Arizona Are So High Right Now That People Are Posting Pics Of Things Melting
The temperature in Pheonix has almost reached a record-breaking 122 °F (50 °C) recorded on June 26, 1990, and it's becoming harder and harder to escape the insane heat. The flights are being cancelled, and things are literally melting.
Today it's up to 116 °F (47 °C), and 168 °F (76°C) on the concrete. To illustrate just how bad the situation is we have collected some shocking images of things melting in Arizona.
Do you live there? Tells us how you deal with such high temperatures.
#1 My Neighbors Put Up This Fake Rock Plastic Wall Over The Winter. It's Slowly Melting Away In The Heat
#4 When It's So Hot In Phoenix, Even The Street Signs Are Melting
#5 Puppy Feet Are Frying
#7 Took Advantage Of The Heat In Scottsdale And Baked Cookies In The Car
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And here I am in Zurich, Switzerland, diying with 32 degrees (i have every day migraine headache because of the heat) and you all have to live in the hell.
I'm in Seattle and it's the same. Heat wave at 32; the news advises people to stay indoors.
That's normal summer temperature in South Africa. Most days it goes up to 38C.
My cousin lives in Seattle and he texted me a while ago complaining about the heat, I look up the weather in Seattle and see the 30's and I'm over here in the 100's like don't talk about the heat, go play in the rain.
Lol Seattle too, and omg it was brutal yesterday.
Slovakia. 32 degrees C now ..comfortable for me yet :) the summer temperature which fulfills my expectations :) :)
Same in Italy. :( Today is 34.
Same in "the Kaiserstuhl" in Germany. Yesterday 36 degees and 31 at midnight...
lol here in belgium it's finally calming down to 22 degrees
Here in Canada it's 14°C currently. I couldn't cook anything in my car.
I'm in Bangkok, Thailand and 32C is not too hot for me as the hottest period in April , the temperature is about 42C. However, Arizona is hot as hell!
42-44 degree Celsius ... Rajasthan, India
Same here in Wyoming. I feel like I need to move north a state.
Stay hydrated, people. Plain old water and lots of it does the trick.
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I live in Dubai where temperatures easily reach 50 degrees Celsius. I've never seen anything melt like that
Zena, Dubai is at sea level, and Phoenix Arizona is 1,086 ft (331 m) higher, which means it has a less normal dense atmosphere. The denser the atmosphere, the more light is reflected back into space. In Phoenix morning and afternoon light can be more easily 'refracted', or concentrated by the sun's rays. This is less a problem at sea level where the atmosphere is denser. You can accomplish the same thing by using an automobile's glass, or a magnifying glass.
1000 ft doesn't make the atmosphere considerably thinner. Correct explanation but not applicable in the case of Phoenix, but for true high elevation cities such as Denver.
I thought all these are fake.............u put in some logic...........
Yeah, I'm slightly surprised too. Many plastics can withstand temperatures of 100C. (212F for those who just can't)
I just got photos from Dubai (my friend has to work there for couple of months). In every pic something else is melting. :) Maybe you just used to it? I don't know. :/
In Dubai it REGULARLY gets that hot, so you don't build stuff out of things that will melt. Phoenix typically maxes out at high 90'sF (36-ish C) so they've been less careful about what they build stuff out of.
Michael Kaiser 'Phoenix typically maxes out at high 90'sF...'? Maybe at the end of May! By first week of June it's not uncommon to be over 100F everyday. By mid to late June 110F -115F is not uncommon. You do not want to leave coins on the car seats and get in wearing shorts. Don't grab the metal part of the seatbelt and cover steering wheel. One cannot leave any tools in the sun and then try and use them.
That makes me cringe. I have a hard time with heat in the south!
This is not unusual in the SW. That area is dry, and we in the South live with humidity. Consequently, with a less dense atmosphere the sun's rays can cause more problems than it can with us. And note that almost all of this damage is caused during the morning, or late afternoon, when the sun's rays do not have a dense atmosphere which can reflect them back into space. Someone is pushing an agenda here, because this occurs almost every summer in the SW.
Yeah, these sorts of high temps occur regularly in the summer, but this year is notable because of the duration (many days in a row topping 110+) and how early it is. Normally these sorts of heatwaves don't show up until July/August (basically getting superhot and then breaking when monsoon season arrives), but this year it's starting mid-June, which is like a month earlier than normal. So yes, these temperatures DO occur almost every summer, especially in Phoenix, but this year is still notably different than most.
And has been occuring for decades...even over centuries . Many want to shout CLIMATE CHANGE DUE TO CARBON EMISSIONS. I think it has more to do with celestial mechanics and particularly the precession of the earth on its axis, and the inevitable changing of the earth's path, perihelion and aphelion, around the sun. At some point in time, precession of the earths axis is going to bring the Northern hemisphere to a point of minimum distance from the sun in its annual orbit. It that were to coincide with the perihelion of the earth, being at it's minimum distance from the sun, well that would be one hot period of time. We'de have climate change, alright.
Agenda or not, it's hot. Your planes aren't flying a month earlier than last year. Since you're not concerned, we won't be either.
Morning and late afternoon is when the sun has MORE (denser) atmosphere to pass through.
You realise that the latest weather event is tied for the hottest weather ever in Arizona, right? And that record isn't set every year?
Oh ok. No climate change here! 😛😛😛
And here I am in Zurich, Switzerland, diying with 32 degrees (i have every day migraine headache because of the heat) and you all have to live in the hell.
I'm in Seattle and it's the same. Heat wave at 32; the news advises people to stay indoors.
That's normal summer temperature in South Africa. Most days it goes up to 38C.
My cousin lives in Seattle and he texted me a while ago complaining about the heat, I look up the weather in Seattle and see the 30's and I'm over here in the 100's like don't talk about the heat, go play in the rain.
Lol Seattle too, and omg it was brutal yesterday.
Slovakia. 32 degrees C now ..comfortable for me yet :) the summer temperature which fulfills my expectations :) :)
Same in Italy. :( Today is 34.
Same in "the Kaiserstuhl" in Germany. Yesterday 36 degees and 31 at midnight...
lol here in belgium it's finally calming down to 22 degrees
Here in Canada it's 14°C currently. I couldn't cook anything in my car.
I'm in Bangkok, Thailand and 32C is not too hot for me as the hottest period in April , the temperature is about 42C. However, Arizona is hot as hell!
42-44 degree Celsius ... Rajasthan, India
Same here in Wyoming. I feel like I need to move north a state.
Stay hydrated, people. Plain old water and lots of it does the trick.
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I live in Dubai where temperatures easily reach 50 degrees Celsius. I've never seen anything melt like that
Zena, Dubai is at sea level, and Phoenix Arizona is 1,086 ft (331 m) higher, which means it has a less normal dense atmosphere. The denser the atmosphere, the more light is reflected back into space. In Phoenix morning and afternoon light can be more easily 'refracted', or concentrated by the sun's rays. This is less a problem at sea level where the atmosphere is denser. You can accomplish the same thing by using an automobile's glass, or a magnifying glass.
1000 ft doesn't make the atmosphere considerably thinner. Correct explanation but not applicable in the case of Phoenix, but for true high elevation cities such as Denver.
I thought all these are fake.............u put in some logic...........
Yeah, I'm slightly surprised too. Many plastics can withstand temperatures of 100C. (212F for those who just can't)
I just got photos from Dubai (my friend has to work there for couple of months). In every pic something else is melting. :) Maybe you just used to it? I don't know. :/
In Dubai it REGULARLY gets that hot, so you don't build stuff out of things that will melt. Phoenix typically maxes out at high 90'sF (36-ish C) so they've been less careful about what they build stuff out of.
Michael Kaiser 'Phoenix typically maxes out at high 90'sF...'? Maybe at the end of May! By first week of June it's not uncommon to be over 100F everyday. By mid to late June 110F -115F is not uncommon. You do not want to leave coins on the car seats and get in wearing shorts. Don't grab the metal part of the seatbelt and cover steering wheel. One cannot leave any tools in the sun and then try and use them.
That makes me cringe. I have a hard time with heat in the south!
This is not unusual in the SW. That area is dry, and we in the South live with humidity. Consequently, with a less dense atmosphere the sun's rays can cause more problems than it can with us. And note that almost all of this damage is caused during the morning, or late afternoon, when the sun's rays do not have a dense atmosphere which can reflect them back into space. Someone is pushing an agenda here, because this occurs almost every summer in the SW.
Yeah, these sorts of high temps occur regularly in the summer, but this year is notable because of the duration (many days in a row topping 110+) and how early it is. Normally these sorts of heatwaves don't show up until July/August (basically getting superhot and then breaking when monsoon season arrives), but this year it's starting mid-June, which is like a month earlier than normal. So yes, these temperatures DO occur almost every summer, especially in Phoenix, but this year is still notably different than most.
And has been occuring for decades...even over centuries . Many want to shout CLIMATE CHANGE DUE TO CARBON EMISSIONS. I think it has more to do with celestial mechanics and particularly the precession of the earth on its axis, and the inevitable changing of the earth's path, perihelion and aphelion, around the sun. At some point in time, precession of the earths axis is going to bring the Northern hemisphere to a point of minimum distance from the sun in its annual orbit. It that were to coincide with the perihelion of the earth, being at it's minimum distance from the sun, well that would be one hot period of time. We'de have climate change, alright.
Agenda or not, it's hot. Your planes aren't flying a month earlier than last year. Since you're not concerned, we won't be either.
Morning and late afternoon is when the sun has MORE (denser) atmosphere to pass through.
You realise that the latest weather event is tied for the hottest weather ever in Arizona, right? And that record isn't set every year?
Oh ok. No climate change here! 😛😛😛