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
#4
When It's So Hot In Phoenix, Even The Street Signs Are Melting
#7
Took Advantage Of The Heat In Scottsdale And Baked Cookies In The Car
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#11
Scorpions Get Hot Too! Woman Finds Desert Critter Taking A Dip In Her Pool
Tim Morris 6 years ago
It may have just fallen it, or it may have been drying out and needed to re-hydrate its book lungs.
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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 😕
Blue Cicada 6 years ago
Kudos to you for appreciating the sound of vinyl! Hope you can get that replaced.
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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!
Sakolwan Ouypornlertsri yes
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)
Those pictures are not real. Well, they're real, but not caused by heat. The mailbox was obviously installed by an idiot who thought it would stand up without a wooden post inside, and the fence must have been melted by a fire. These were meant as jokes I think.
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. :/
Stuff doesn't actually melt in Phoenix. These were all jokes that everyone in Phoenix knew were jokes (like a melting cactus??? They wouldn't melt!) but Bored Panda apparently thought were real. I lived there for two years. It takes HOURS to bake cookies in your car window, and you can't go out without shoes or your feet burn. But plastic doesn't melt.
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.
Michael Kaiser good
They called it Phoenix for a good reason.
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!
Sakolwan Ouypornlertsri yes
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)
Those pictures are not real. Well, they're real, but not caused by heat. The mailbox was obviously installed by an idiot who thought it would stand up without a wooden post inside, and the fence must have been melted by a fire. These were meant as jokes I think.
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. :/
Stuff doesn't actually melt in Phoenix. These were all jokes that everyone in Phoenix knew were jokes (like a melting cactus??? They wouldn't melt!) but Bored Panda apparently thought were real. I lived there for two years. It takes HOURS to bake cookies in your car window, and you can't go out without shoes or your feet burn. But plastic doesn't melt.
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.
Michael Kaiser good
They called it Phoenix for a good reason.