Saturday’s temperature had triggered an excessive heat warning across Arizona as lows were expected to range between 80F and 86F

On Saturday afternoon, the National Weather Service announced that the temperature at Phoenix Sky Harbor international airport reached 110F, making it the 54th day this year with temperatures of at least 110F.

Saturday’s temperature breaks the previous record of 53 days that was set in 2020. From 1991 to 2020, the average consecutive days of 110F or above is 21 days, the NWS said.

An excessive heat warning has been issued for south central and south-west Arizona until 8pm on Sunday as weekend highs are expected to range between 108F and 114F. Meanwhile, lows are expected to range between 80F to 86F.

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    I believe the headline is wrong. It’s not 54 consecutive days, it’s 54 days this year total.

    In July, Phoenix broke it’s previous record of consecutive days above 110F with a 31-day streak. Previous record was 18 straight days 1974.

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    If there’s anyone here living in the region, remember to drink water! The best method to prevent heat exhaustion or worse is to drink small amounts of water frequently, like roughly once every 30 minutes or every time you feel thirsty (whichever happens first). When all said and done, the best indicator is the color of your urine. It should be a light yellow color.

    If you’re working outside, make sure you’re also drinking something with sodium electrolytes like liquid iv or Gatorade (other drinks like Prime aren’t suitable, they pad their electrolyte count will potassium).

    If at all possible, take a cold shower at the peak of the heat around noon to regulate your temperature and comfort. If you get heat exhaustion, STOP WHATEVER YOU’RE DOING AND GET INDOORS. Heat exhaustion is the first step towards heat stroke and death. You will die in heat like this if you don’t take care of yourself. Do not “tough it out” or wait “5 more minutes”.

    Stay safe out there

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      take a cold shower

      Well umm, that’s kinda the trick. In Phoenix in summertime, “cold” water is cold in name only. It’s more tepid than anything. That’s just another part of what makes it so oppressive living there in summer.

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        I haven’t used the hot water knob in the shower since May. Looks like it’s going to be at least another month till I do.

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        I have to put ice in my babies bathwater to cool it down to 98, it literally comes out at 103 degrees when it’s 115 out. FML

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        Yea, backyard pools are the norm in large swaths of the valley (Phoenix+). It’s the best way to avoid your kids burning to death if they don’t wanna go outside at midnight.

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        That’s fair. I live in the Midwest, so I’ve never had that problem and don’t have any solutions. These are things I learned while doing work like mowing, picking ragweed and rock, moving grain bins, and stuff like that

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      Also remember to eat something salty. Drinking a lot of water, drains the body salts, and lacking salt can be very bad too.

      If you drink 2 liters of water quickly, it can be lethal because it pushes your salt levels out of whack.

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          Ah yes, except it’s made more complicated than it has to be. The thing is to get salt. Sodium is a basic element not a salt. Also you don’t have to drink it, usually it’s easier and cheaper to find in foods.

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      Man this summer we were out and about, my eldest started talking like a zombie and I noticed she wasn’t sweating. Oh boy stage 1. Ok AC right now, no negotiations, no waiting.

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      Follow-up question: why make that city a car-dependent hellhole of McMansion suburbs larping as a city, seemingly designed to be as energy-intensive as possible?

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        It attracts older folks because dry heat feels good for aches and pains, arthritis, etc.

        Yeah summer sucks but the spring, fall, and winter is incredibly mild with many using neither heat nor AC. Arguably heat generation is more wasteful in places with even moderate to harsh winters.

        Phoenix sprung up because it’s actually a pretty stable location. No wild fires. No earthquakes. No tornados, hurricanes, etc. Good hub to the east / west, too.

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          Fyi, in Phx you’re using AC in Fall and Spring too. Quite common to hit 100F at some point in April and in October. It’s so sprawling too all the asphalt and concrete turn the “heat island” effect into something more like a “heat continent”

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            Fair point — I live here but I shouldn’t broadly include all of Spring and Fall but roughly a quarter-to-half of each depending on the year. Usually we don’t go over 99 until May and we don’t leave 100s until October (Mean).

            If you’ve got decent insulation it’s possible to regulate with some ventilation at night to make it through most of the day and barely any use of A/C. It’s when the nights start staying hot from that heat island effect that just destroys us.

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        Honestly this heat wave just makes me want to live there even more.

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          If you like mosquitos in the desert that are only there because idiots have grass lawns that they dump water into, it’s great.

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            I like being hot and I have severe allergies and asthma so deserts agree with me.

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              I’m just saying, there are other desert cities that are better than Phoenix because Phoenix folks love grass. Sante Fe is almost entirely xeriscaped, very few mosquitos.

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                Yeah that would be way more my speed. I have no interest in moving to the desert and having grass. That’s fuckin crazy.

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    If any city can survive this, it’s Phoenix. From this oppressive heat, they will rise once again from the smoldering ashes. Not like the phoenix after which they were named, but like any non-mythical bird. They will smolder and scatter like the ashes of an unplucked pigeon that got caught in the chimney, causing the homeowners to ask “what on earth is that smell? Did something die?”

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        Just make peace with it. The problem is just going to get worse so the best thing you can do is figure out what you are going to do for yourself. I invest heavily in air conditioner manufacturers and geared my career for infrastructure and automation. The world is going to be on fire and there is nothing I can do to stop it, but I can make sure that I will still have a job when we are all living in some subterranean bunkers.

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    Nothing to see here folks, just more of the China hoax on climate change.

    Believe what I tell you, not what you see.

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    I am going to need to see a breakdown on deaths by political affiliation to gauge how to feel about this.

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    I don’t think so. We had that “hurricane” in Calif that was mostly in Arizona. I have multiple friends there and I know the temps dropped that time a couple weeks ago. So it may have been 54 days this year, but not consecutive.

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    But who cares about the climate change? Today we have a new iPhone release, isn’t it?

    More cameras? More battery life? More workers rights?

    No! Just more greed of those old men sitting behind their desks and playing with our world as their little toy as Bob Dylan said in his song.

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    F stands for Flaffenfeit, and is a deprecated measurement system the world doesn’t use anymore, except some backwards parts of the world. 110F is equal to about 2.85 feet or 7.13 ounces if I remember correctly. For sure It’s a very clever system invented by an ancient master jokester, where nothing relates to anything in any sensible way.

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      it was based on mercury actually, and caught on because it came very precise instruction on how to build and test a F thermometer

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      You were close, but your math was a bit off. 110 Flaffenheit actually comes out to 2.87 feet and 7.47 ounces. It’s easy to make that mistake though. Not everyone understands Flaffenheit Freedom Units.

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        Ah yes, if you use the Freedom Units revised version the feet and ounces are smaller. I think those were measured after a new president to make him look more impressive on paper.

        Sorry to use the older scale, my mistake.

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      It makes sense if you think about it as a thermometer manufacturer. Dividing things in half with lines is easy to do, so the gap between freezing and quite hot is an exact power of 2. (32 -> 96). as is the gap between 0 and freezing

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        Yes because dividing the scale equally, is the biggest challenge of making a thermometer. Who came up with that lame argument?

        Oh I forgot, maybe using freedom units it is. 🤣🤣🤣

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          Celsius and Fahrenheit have nearly identical definitions.

          In Fahrenheit, 0 is the temp of a mixture of ice and a particular brine. In Celsius, it’s the temp of a mixture of ice and water.

          In Fahrenheit, there’s 180 degrees between boiling and freezing. In Celsius, it’s 100.

          It’s not like distance, where mile comes from the Latin “mille passus”, “thousand paces”. Originally, Roman legions would place mile markers on roads by literally counting out their steps and placing them appropriately.

          Meanwhile, a kilometer is a thousand meters, where a meter was originally defined as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a great circle.

          Mile and kilometer are defined based on competely different things - a human step vs the circumference of the earth.

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            All that may be true, but doesn’t account for the way metric allows for easy calculations between energy, weight, distance and temperature.

            Freedom units are not even consistent within one system, weights are all over the place, with ounces pounds stones, length is just as bad, with inches, feet and miles. Where none of it makes any sense.

            Metric is quite simply a way superior system to freedom units, that work as well as if it was made completely random. No actually it’s probably worth, because NOTHING works in freedom units, if they were random, there might actually have been a case or two where they did by accident.

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              All that may be true, but doesn’t account for the way metric allows for easy calculations between energy, weight, distance and temperature.

              How often do you do conversions like that.