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.
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My Neighbors Put Up This Fake Rock Plastic Wall Over The Winter. It's Slowly Melting Away In The Heat
As Good As Oven
Why Complain When You Can Just Use Gloves?
When It's So Hot In Phoenix, Even The Street Signs Are Melting
Puppy Feet Are Frying
This Plastic Mailbox Melted Due To The Heat In Mesa, Arizona
Took Advantage Of The Heat In Scottsdale And Baked Cookies In The Car
Arizona So Hot Weather Map Almost Runs Out Of Colors
It's So Hot In Arizona Our Cactus Melted
Airplanes Can't Fly Because It's Too Hot
Air is a fluid, and it's density fluctuates with temperature. The higher the temperature is, lower the air density.
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Those temperatures are common in Middle East countries. Never heard of them cancelling flights because of that.
It all comes down to the fuel systems, just like trucks their diesel engines don't like hot air, and just like me I cannot stand heat above 15 degrees C, live in the UK.
That's not true at all, jet turbine engines have to actually heat the air up very high before to fuel is even injected, this is done with compression to around 200c
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Las Vegas McCarran airport temps always seem to be suspiciously cooler than the rest of the valley. Got to keep the planes in the air
I guess the good thing is that it's a Dry Heat,,,, what are all the snowbirds chirping about now that winter is over
Snowbirds are those who live in the southwest in the winter and return to the north during summer. They're even here right now.
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Also the tilt of the Earth, the state of the atmosphere, the amount of heat-capturing concrete that's been poured over the desert in the previous decades, etc.
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ONE MODEL PLANE, a small stretched corporate jet that is not rated to fly in temps exceeding 118 degrees because it doesn't have sufficient lift characteristics to fly in such hot, thin air. No other plane is grounded, especially planes like the one seen in the pic....
Scorpions Get Hot Too! Woman Finds Desert Critter Taking A Dip In Her Pool
It may have just fallen it, or it may have been drying out and needed to re-hydrate its book lungs.
It's So Hot In Phoenix, The New @jasonisbell Record Was Delivered Today And Sat In The Mailbox For Only An Hour, And Got This Badly Warped 😕
Kudos to you for appreciating the sound of vinyl! Hope you can get that replaced.
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.
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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.
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Phoenix is a very big city, lots of concrete and asphalt that soaks up the heat. As a southern neighbor of Phoenix, we are usually a little cooler in temps, but still have had our share of very hot days. We learn to adjust to the heat by staying indoors and running our air conditioners when we absolutely have to. I can handle the heat up to 100 degrees, anything over 100 feels like an oven when you first open the door.
And never leave lipstick or anything you value in your car because it will melt or otherwise be destroyed.
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As an Arizona native we were tough to respect the heat. after all we live in a desert. What fool would install plastic outside in this environment? 40 years ago we hit 134 and all the streets melted, auto tires were exploding, and yes even the biggest jet planes could not fly.
Woah! That's crazy. I bet a lot of people are cooking things in their cars--or eating salad! I hope there are centres open for people to keep cool.
Wow, this is a total eye opener! Thanks to all for sharing - stay safe!
I'm in Mesa, AZ and I tell ya this time of year I am sooooo thankful that A/C exists. It's hell on electrical bill but that and plenty of water for me and my cat and we're alright.
I live in Saudi and I thought we had it the hottest! It's 41 and I can't step a foot outside! But seems like Arizona is even hotter.
The mailbox looks like it didn't melt completely, just weaken and the bending moment caused by the mailbox caused the bend we see. I don't think the garbage can was due to just the 50C temps. The melting is too localized for that. Perhaps a mirror or something was intensifying the heat. Another possibility (the one I am inclined to believe) is that someone put something burning inside. I'd also expect some of the items, particularly the juice box and beer case, to exhibit some damage.
Yes, But if their was a fire, You would see black charring around it !!
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The SW gets this hot EVERY YEAR. It's not global warming, it's life in the Mojave Desert.
Hello, I live here in Phoenix and YES it's HOT, it's a dry heat so 122' is like 106' in the east with humidity. We are night owls, we do grocery shopping at midnight (thank god walmart is open 24/7 and people do their daily runs at 11pm at night. 4am is like 89' but we drink lots of water and survive. Lots of tires are blown and car batteries dies every year to every other year due to the heat. As a 16yr Michigan resident, I would still after 9 yrs living here rather be here in the heat paying 300.00 a month for a/c for 3 months then 5-600.00 a month for heat for 5 months. it's just a adjustment or we move out and I see more and more ppl moving from the snow to here especially see every month for my 9 yrs here michigan plates all the time. it's funny we have a future here as we don't in michigan. I dont known nothing about out of the usa this is just my experience here.
I live in Phoenix. I have never had a recycle or trash bin melt. And they are in full sun all day.
it can happen maybe unless this was taken from a fire? melted-tra...4d4b0c.jpg 
Oh for cripes sake, we here in NV. especially down here in Green Valley(Henderson) are at 117 regularly now. We are lucky if the asphalt doesn't melt beneath our feet.
When I was a kid I used to dig my toes into the hot melty asphalt they gets used to repair cracks because that totally does get melty in Las Vegas summers, and you can pull it like taffy.
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the water coming out of the pipes is so hot - you cant take a cold shower - literally. One store was offering for a purchase - you could have 10 minutes in their walk in freezer - seriously
Motivation and passion can be strong things when it comes to achieving your goals. If you have both, then even setbacks won’t stop you from continuing to strive for what you want. Here is a great book you must read: How Bad Do You Want It?: Mastering the Pshchology of Mind over Muscle: https://goo.gl/2HQss5 This book is about the psychology of athletic competition and maximizing the potential of any athlete's ability. Mr. Fitzgerald expresses this idea with several analogies about athletes who either succeeded or failed based on attitude and mindset. While this book is aimed at athletes, the lessons can be applied to all aspects of life, if you want it bad enough.
Well I would rather have winter with some snow that that c**p. None of my Arizona friends are laughing now!
I know it is kind of normal to be so hot at this time in year in Arizona... but still what comes first to my mind are the ridiculous statements of Trump, that we are still having snow and it was too cold to believe in the "global warming s**t".....
Because there can't be global warming if some places are still cold sometimes, right?
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i am in Indonesia and we always get same weather every year. so, 42°C doesn't matter with us
Come and visit Nagpur or any village in Vidarbha, Maharashtra, India in April-May. The temperatures easily touch 45 degrees and yet nobody has seen anything melt like that. Stop joking AND FACE THE CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL WARMING!!
disappointed no one tried to fry an egg, but cookies are good too
Summer in Ireland, today is 06/29/2017 and outside we have only 10 Celsius o_O
I'm in S/E Wales UK, we had temps of 34 last week....practically unheard of here! What's going on with this crazy weather?
The heat is the one thing that killed living in Arizona for me--maybe accept for living up in the hills in Prescott. Imagine what is going to happen with climate change when the temperatures rise to 150 degrees.
Welcome to Arizona!!! And just for those wondering it does snow in Arizona too!!!
We have up to 50 celsius where I live and nothing melts, what are these people's things made of?!
Who in Mesa puts up a plastic mailbox? ROFL...I'm dying here. Yes, it gets hot. I keep my chocolate chips in the freezer just so they don't partially melt in the pantry. But I'd still rather deal with this for a short period of time than shovel snow all Winter. #choices
66 degrees in the San Francisco bay area..........that I will take every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
in algeria it is +50 but the f*****g govrement didn't annonceit always say 45-47 so it wont be emorgency case
Let send Scott Pruitt, Jim Inhofe, Don. J. Trump there so that they will see it first hands.
Yanks and fahrenheit...I will never get uses to that. Just like yanks never want to adjust to the rest of the world. No wonder someone above has decided to give them a hard time...with a crappy president, and all kinds of crappy weather. Good luck uncle sam...
I live In Rajasthan, India (Thar dessert), temperature went 46-48 deg cel this Summer. Nothing melted, nothing faded.
Funny I was actually there on that June 26th 1990 112 degree record day. I flew in the night before arriving at midnight (when it was 90 degrees) to drive a friend's car back to L.A. as she was leaving Phoenix. It was actually 118 in downtown Phoenix but it was 122 at a gas station about 5 miles outside downtown. Funny thing is? It was so dry it didn't feel as bad as 95 degree heat with humidity that I've seen right in L.A. It is crazy that the air is too thin at ground level to provide lift for planes at that temperature.
I live here in Phoenix, I've never tried to bake cookies in the car window, but I'm sure you can. It's hot, but because you get used to 95 at midnight it just doesn't seem that hot. I was out today, it's 116, would I want to stay out there for any length of time? No, but if you get in the swimming pool, you actually feel chilly when you get out. I would rather have the hot of Phoenix in the summer than the cold of the northern states in the winter.
The very first picture is 100% false. I live 4 houses away from this home and upon seeing this photos, wanted to see if it was real and it is not. There is no smaller wall that is melting by this home.
Have lived in Phoenix for 10 years now after 40 years in NY. Humidity in NY is FAR worse than the hotter dry heat here. Yes, of course, you have to be smart - just like one must be during NY winters. Except you don't have to shovel sunshine! I walk my dog at night and we just went out for a potty break at 4:00 pm (118 F) and it's ok in the shade. Bought those booties for my pup too but they're too small. Yes, the water comes out hot - I cuddle with ice and wear wet scarves (so nice, dry fast). For 3/4 of the year the weather here is amazing. I miss the varying verdant green of cooler climes and I miss snow but it's awesome me here...
Today here, in Bulgaria, was 40 degrees and it was quite normal. If you leave a car outside, probably in the end of the day you will have the perfect dinner, but we don't have a "melting" problems.
I was born and lived in Palm Springs for 8 Years.I've never seen any signs melt,but I FEEL YOUR PAIN!
HEHEHEHE, sorry dudes but I live in Australia, even in Sydney we have 3 or 4 days over 45 cent, we just laugh it off. I lived through a 52 degree centigrade day a few years ago.
It's 8:00am, sunny, and 68 degrees Fahrenheit in Maine right now. Beautiful. But then again - the south and mid-west doesn't have 6 months of sub-freezing temps either! Global warming is our friend! Ha! :-D welcome-to...d834e1.jpg 
I live in South Africa, where the Northern Cape province reach summer max of 51°C. And nothing melts.
Florida is hot because of the humidity, I did roofing for 3 years down there.
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I was in high school at gilbert high when it hit 122F in phoenix...its a dry heat, but when it gets that hot, dry heat means nothing!
We say that, but now that I've lived somewhere that gets hot AND humid I can say that is an absolute lie we tell ourselves. 100+ with humidity is worse than 115 without it. The humidity makes heat miserable. It doesn't matter now because I moved again and Michigan will never be as hot as Texas or Las Vegas but would absolutely take the South West's dry heat over hot and humid.
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I don't know how a human can survive is such an atmosphere! In NYC, I feel like I'm being tortured when it reaches 80. I am definitely a winter person!
this is every summer in the part of Australia where i live, so i feel for you. Drink plenty of water, stay in the shade, Slip, Slop, Slap, look out for the elderly, the young and the ill, be kind to your four legged friends DO NOT LEAVE BELONGINGS, PETS OR CHILDREN IN THE CAR EVEN WITH THE WINDOW DOWN!!!!. Good luck to all
It's like that here in Australia at times. I've thought of cooking in the car but never actually done it lol!
Glad I live in Tucson, about 120 miles SE of Phoenix...Tucson is the "cooler" city by around 5 degrees.. still hot as hell though
and I cant believe how 1 degree makes a HUGE difference but you're right
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Global warming. Ya can't argue that global warming isn't working it's way here. I learned it in third grade.
Here in Argentina there is a province where temperature reaches up to 50C. Jajaja so you don't really know what hell is if you've never been in Santiago Del Estero or Santa Fe province. We're in winter now but temperature was 30 today!. Weather is crazyyyyy. Ja
*Tsunami. I'm sorry im usually not a grammar Nazi it just bugged my o.c.d.
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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.
Load More Replies... 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.
Load More Replies... Phoenix is a very big city, lots of concrete and asphalt that soaks up the heat. As a southern neighbor of Phoenix, we are usually a little cooler in temps, but still have had our share of very hot days. We learn to adjust to the heat by staying indoors and running our air conditioners when we absolutely have to. I can handle the heat up to 100 degrees, anything over 100 feels like an oven when you first open the door.
And never leave lipstick or anything you value in your car because it will melt or otherwise be destroyed.
Load More Replies... As an Arizona native we were tough to respect the heat. after all we live in a desert. What fool would install plastic outside in this environment? 40 years ago we hit 134 and all the streets melted, auto tires were exploding, and yes even the biggest jet planes could not fly.
Woah! That's crazy. I bet a lot of people are cooking things in their cars--or eating salad! I hope there are centres open for people to keep cool.
Wow, this is a total eye opener! Thanks to all for sharing - stay safe!
I'm in Mesa, AZ and I tell ya this time of year I am sooooo thankful that A/C exists. It's hell on electrical bill but that and plenty of water for me and my cat and we're alright.
I live in Saudi and I thought we had it the hottest! It's 41 and I can't step a foot outside! But seems like Arizona is even hotter.
The mailbox looks like it didn't melt completely, just weaken and the bending moment caused by the mailbox caused the bend we see. I don't think the garbage can was due to just the 50C temps. The melting is too localized for that. Perhaps a mirror or something was intensifying the heat. Another possibility (the one I am inclined to believe) is that someone put something burning inside. I'd also expect some of the items, particularly the juice box and beer case, to exhibit some damage.
Yes, But if their was a fire, You would see black charring around it !!
Load More Replies... The SW gets this hot EVERY YEAR. It's not global warming, it's life in the Mojave Desert.
Hello, I live here in Phoenix and YES it's HOT, it's a dry heat so 122' is like 106' in the east with humidity. We are night owls, we do grocery shopping at midnight (thank god walmart is open 24/7 and people do their daily runs at 11pm at night. 4am is like 89' but we drink lots of water and survive. Lots of tires are blown and car batteries dies every year to every other year due to the heat. As a 16yr Michigan resident, I would still after 9 yrs living here rather be here in the heat paying 300.00 a month for a/c for 3 months then 5-600.00 a month for heat for 5 months. it's just a adjustment or we move out and I see more and more ppl moving from the snow to here especially see every month for my 9 yrs here michigan plates all the time. it's funny we have a future here as we don't in michigan. I dont known nothing about out of the usa this is just my experience here.
I live in Phoenix. I have never had a recycle or trash bin melt. And they are in full sun all day.
it can happen maybe unless this was taken from a fire? melted-tra...4d4b0c.jpg
Oh for cripes sake, we here in NV. especially down here in Green Valley(Henderson) are at 117 regularly now. We are lucky if the asphalt doesn't melt beneath our feet.
When I was a kid I used to dig my toes into the hot melty asphalt they gets used to repair cracks because that totally does get melty in Las Vegas summers, and you can pull it like taffy.
Load More Replies... the water coming out of the pipes is so hot - you cant take a cold shower - literally. One store was offering for a purchase - you could have 10 minutes in their walk in freezer - seriously
Motivation and passion can be strong things when it comes to achieving your goals. If you have both, then even setbacks won’t stop you from continuing to strive for what you want. Here is a great book you must read: How Bad Do You Want It?: Mastering the Pshchology of Mind over Muscle: https://goo.gl/2HQss5 This book is about the psychology of athletic competition and maximizing the potential of any athlete's ability. Mr. Fitzgerald expresses this idea with several analogies about athletes who either succeeded or failed based on attitude and mindset. While this book is aimed at athletes, the lessons can be applied to all aspects of life, if you want it bad enough.
Well I would rather have winter with some snow that that c**p. None of my Arizona friends are laughing now!
I know it is kind of normal to be so hot at this time in year in Arizona... but still what comes first to my mind are the ridiculous statements of Trump, that we are still having snow and it was too cold to believe in the "global warming s**t".....
Because there can't be global warming if some places are still cold sometimes, right?
Load More Replies... i am in Indonesia and we always get same weather every year. so, 42°C doesn't matter with us
Come and visit Nagpur or any village in Vidarbha, Maharashtra, India in April-May. The temperatures easily touch 45 degrees and yet nobody has seen anything melt like that. Stop joking AND FACE THE CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL WARMING!!
disappointed no one tried to fry an egg, but cookies are good too
Summer in Ireland, today is 06/29/2017 and outside we have only 10 Celsius o_O
I'm in S/E Wales UK, we had temps of 34 last week....practically unheard of here! What's going on with this crazy weather?
The heat is the one thing that killed living in Arizona for me--maybe accept for living up in the hills in Prescott. Imagine what is going to happen with climate change when the temperatures rise to 150 degrees.
Welcome to Arizona!!! And just for those wondering it does snow in Arizona too!!!
We have up to 50 celsius where I live and nothing melts, what are these people's things made of?!
Who in Mesa puts up a plastic mailbox? ROFL...I'm dying here. Yes, it gets hot. I keep my chocolate chips in the freezer just so they don't partially melt in the pantry. But I'd still rather deal with this for a short period of time than shovel snow all Winter. #choices
66 degrees in the San Francisco bay area..........that I will take every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
in algeria it is +50 but the f*****g govrement didn't annonceit always say 45-47 so it wont be emorgency case
Let send Scott Pruitt, Jim Inhofe, Don. J. Trump there so that they will see it first hands.
Yanks and fahrenheit...I will never get uses to that. Just like yanks never want to adjust to the rest of the world. No wonder someone above has decided to give them a hard time...with a crappy president, and all kinds of crappy weather. Good luck uncle sam...
I live In Rajasthan, India (Thar dessert), temperature went 46-48 deg cel this Summer. Nothing melted, nothing faded.
Funny I was actually there on that June 26th 1990 112 degree record day. I flew in the night before arriving at midnight (when it was 90 degrees) to drive a friend's car back to L.A. as she was leaving Phoenix. It was actually 118 in downtown Phoenix but it was 122 at a gas station about 5 miles outside downtown. Funny thing is? It was so dry it didn't feel as bad as 95 degree heat with humidity that I've seen right in L.A. It is crazy that the air is too thin at ground level to provide lift for planes at that temperature.
I live here in Phoenix, I've never tried to bake cookies in the car window, but I'm sure you can. It's hot, but because you get used to 95 at midnight it just doesn't seem that hot. I was out today, it's 116, would I want to stay out there for any length of time? No, but if you get in the swimming pool, you actually feel chilly when you get out. I would rather have the hot of Phoenix in the summer than the cold of the northern states in the winter.
The very first picture is 100% false. I live 4 houses away from this home and upon seeing this photos, wanted to see if it was real and it is not. There is no smaller wall that is melting by this home.
Have lived in Phoenix for 10 years now after 40 years in NY. Humidity in NY is FAR worse than the hotter dry heat here. Yes, of course, you have to be smart - just like one must be during NY winters. Except you don't have to shovel sunshine! I walk my dog at night and we just went out for a potty break at 4:00 pm (118 F) and it's ok in the shade. Bought those booties for my pup too but they're too small. Yes, the water comes out hot - I cuddle with ice and wear wet scarves (so nice, dry fast). For 3/4 of the year the weather here is amazing. I miss the varying verdant green of cooler climes and I miss snow but it's awesome me here...
Today here, in Bulgaria, was 40 degrees and it was quite normal. If you leave a car outside, probably in the end of the day you will have the perfect dinner, but we don't have a "melting" problems.
I was born and lived in Palm Springs for 8 Years.I've never seen any signs melt,but I FEEL YOUR PAIN!
HEHEHEHE, sorry dudes but I live in Australia, even in Sydney we have 3 or 4 days over 45 cent, we just laugh it off. I lived through a 52 degree centigrade day a few years ago.
It's 8:00am, sunny, and 68 degrees Fahrenheit in Maine right now. Beautiful. But then again - the south and mid-west doesn't have 6 months of sub-freezing temps either! Global warming is our friend! Ha! :-D welcome-to...d834e1.jpg
I live in South Africa, where the Northern Cape province reach summer max of 51°C. And nothing melts.
Florida is hot because of the humidity, I did roofing for 3 years down there.
Load More Replies... I was in high school at gilbert high when it hit 122F in phoenix...its a dry heat, but when it gets that hot, dry heat means nothing!
We say that, but now that I've lived somewhere that gets hot AND humid I can say that is an absolute lie we tell ourselves. 100+ with humidity is worse than 115 without it. The humidity makes heat miserable. It doesn't matter now because I moved again and Michigan will never be as hot as Texas or Las Vegas but would absolutely take the South West's dry heat over hot and humid.
Load More Replies... I don't know how a human can survive is such an atmosphere! In NYC, I feel like I'm being tortured when it reaches 80. I am definitely a winter person!
this is every summer in the part of Australia where i live, so i feel for you. Drink plenty of water, stay in the shade, Slip, Slop, Slap, look out for the elderly, the young and the ill, be kind to your four legged friends DO NOT LEAVE BELONGINGS, PETS OR CHILDREN IN THE CAR EVEN WITH THE WINDOW DOWN!!!!. Good luck to all
It's like that here in Australia at times. I've thought of cooking in the car but never actually done it lol!
Glad I live in Tucson, about 120 miles SE of Phoenix...Tucson is the "cooler" city by around 5 degrees.. still hot as hell though
and I cant believe how 1 degree makes a HUGE difference but you're right
Load More Replies... Global warming. Ya can't argue that global warming isn't working it's way here. I learned it in third grade.
Here in Argentina there is a province where temperature reaches up to 50C. Jajaja so you don't really know what hell is if you've never been in Santiago Del Estero or Santa Fe province. We're in winter now but temperature was 30 today!. Weather is crazyyyyy. Ja
*Tsunami. I'm sorry im usually not a grammar Nazi it just bugged my o.c.d.
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