STORM2K

This is FRIGGIN' INSANE I'm tellin' ya's...it's NEVER, EVER been this hot up here in Pinetop. I took this photo inside my unit as I arrived at home at 1445 hours today.....this is NUTZ!!

But it's a dry heat... Aren't you glad your not down with the flatlanders..I saw 115+ forecasted for Phoenix. I'll have 2 squad car hood eggs over easy and wheat toast please.

Aquawind wrote:But it's a dry heat... Aren't you glad your not down with the flatlanders..I saw 115+ forecasted for Phoenix. I'll have 2 squad car hood eggs over easy and wheat toast please.

LOL! Hey, no need for hot fresh donuts fresh from the bakery, I'll juse leave 'em inside my unit

Yeah...all them dam flatlanders are UP HERE, can ya' blame 'em? Gesus...I saw on the news at noon that Lake Havasu is apposed to hit 120° I mean I can't IMAGINE!!

Yep, a dry heat-kinda of like an oven set to 450 Degrees. Because of the high Solar angle and especially above 4000' in Arizona, that dry heat makes one feel like an entree in a microwave oven set on HIGH. Of course, once the monsoon kicks in (which we are expecting later this week) then the heat ain't so dry anymore.

Steve

I'm one of them thar' flatlanders Dennis (at about 1700' asl), and no doubt about it, it's sizzlin' down here. Topped out at 112. I think this makes 13 days above 110 for us here. I saw a reading of 122 posted in western Arizona on another board, so I'm basking in the cool breezes compared to that!

I think conditions are made worse by the heat generated from those electric meters as they spin around ferociously! And next month, when those electric bills arrive, the temperature will shoot up again as those who live here have to "deal with it" with real dollars.

Worst part for you pardner' is that you'll be not only dealing with the heat tomorrow, but some of those flatlanders drinking too much cold beer to cool off!

Can't win for losin'!!

Be safe.

For Needles California

Independence Day: Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 121. Northeast wind 5 to 7 mph becoming west southwest.

Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 85. West southwest wind between 6 and 11 mph.

Thursday: Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 121. Light wind becoming south between 11 and 14 mph. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph.

Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 87. South southwest wind between 6 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.

Friday: Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 117. Southwest wind 6 to 13 mph becoming southeast. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph.

Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 90.

Saturday: Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 112.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 87.

Sunday: Partly cloudy and hot, with a high near 112.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 87.

Monday: Partly cloudy and hot, with a high near 110.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 85.

Tuesday: Partly cloudy and hot, with a high near 111.

Death Valley

Independence Day: Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 124. Light and variable wind.

Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 93. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm.

Thursday: Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 126. Calm wind becoming south southeast between 6 and 9 mph.

Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 94. South southwest wind at 9 mph becoming north northeast.

Friday: Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 123. North northeast wind at 8 mph becoming south.

Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 96.

Saturday: Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 123.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 92.

Sunday: Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 119.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 90.

Monday: Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 120.

Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 90.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 120.

I had 116 for this Fourth of July, but I see a fellow observer in Bullhead City made mention of an "official" 126 there today. I will be anxious to see if that holds up as an official high temperature!

Glad that sun has decided to set!!

Some of those lows are pushing 100 degrees! That's just insane. I can't imagine going for a midnight walk and it's 100 degrees outside.

crazycajuncane wrote:Some of those lows are pushing 100 degrees! That's just insane. I can't imagine going for a midnight walk and it's 100 degrees outside.

I hear that.

I wouldn't be able to sleep ether.

Category 5 wrote:

crazycajuncane wrote:Some of those lows are pushing 100 degrees! That's just insane. I can't imagine going for a midnight walk and it's 100 degrees outside.

I hear that.

I wouldn't be able to sleep ether.

When I was in Vegas back in July 1999, it was 101 degrees at midnight...with a sandstorm...unreal...

The humidity is 3% in Vegas right now!

I was just wondering if the heat was dry or humid in Death Valley, California? The low is over 100F and the high tomorrow I think is suppose to reach 128F which is close to the nation's all time high record (8F away from worldwide high record).

A morning low of 88 here in Scottsdale this morning as humidity is on the increase from a little low level outflow from mountain thunderstorms yesterday. Humidiites are up too, with 23% here and a dew point about 46 degrees.

Looks like Death Valley has very low relative humidity and dewpoints...

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=vef&sid=CQ162&num=48

Dewpoint in the 60's is DRY? That's what we had at FHU earlier. Something to remember-Arizona Dry heat-kinda of like an oven set to 450 degrees.
Try being outside in AZ heat at 115F plus and you'll feel like an entree in a microwave set to HIGH and if you don't drink any water you'll be dead in hours.

Steve

Geesh and I feel like I am drowning in this juicy air. Well we can all hope the monsoon comes and cools things down for you folks. I would not wanna work outside in your neck of the woods. No doubt a dry heat is a killer..

The mountain storms the last few days have translated into some late afternoon downslope winds across our part of town. This morning, though, the breezes were from the west (upslope) and the low overnight hovered around 88-90 degrees as a result.

Heat continues here as the official readings in Phoenix passed the 110-degree mark for the 16th time thus far.

The local APS (our electric company) meter man was making the rounds in the neighborhood yesterday checking power usage at each home. Last I saw, he was being chased away by one fiesty neighbor with a broom!

One feisty neighbor could have their power cut if they don't let the meter man read the meters. IFand it's a big if given the shift in the Upper High position, we can get an evening boomer or outflow boundary we can call the start of the monsoon for Sierra Vista (actually Cochise County). Meteorologically speaking, it started on the 5th as we got the windshift, moisture influx, classical monsoon weather pattern, monsoon thunderstorms and cooler temperatures but officially we can't for 7 more hours because of the idiotic dewpoint criterion which the Faculty at the UofA thinks is the most stupid thing ever thought of by Man (or the NWS).

Steve