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Desert_Captain
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Jun 27, 2013

Summer arrives in Arizona

The next 4 days are forecast to be brutal in terms of the heat. Phoenix could see as high as 120 on Saturday and Tucson is looking at 113. We live at 3400' about 25 miles north of Tucson so we won't get the worst of it, probably around 106 or so. The good news is that as the major high that is bringing the heat moves up over the four corners it should jumpstart our Monsoon pulling tropical moisture up from the south.

I am going to go to the trailer and open the windows and vents just to let a little air flow through. Other than that there's not much else to do (except close them again before the rains come early next week). :S If i wasn't still in the rehab/recovery mode from my knee surgery we would simply head up to the White Mountains as it is delightful at 9,000'. if you are coming to Arizona anytime soon watch the temps but know that relief is just a few hours and several thousand feet up, up and away. :C
  • I lived in Phoenix when it hit 122 degrees back in the '90's! They shut down Sky Harbor airport for a few hours as the pilots had no flap settings for temperatures that high and had to wait for the info to be relayed from Saudi Arabia before they could resume operations. I was out getting shocks put on my pickup truck that day! One of the local tv reporters "fried" an egg on the sidewalk although it was still pretty runny! But it was a dry heat!
  • L.A. is getting hit...at lunch the outside temp was 89° and we are only 6 miles from the ocean.

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