Title is a little misleading as they are referring to Death Valley - but it looks like records could be broken in a lot of areas of the southwest US with temperatures approaching 120 degrees.
We are entering the "find out" phase a lot sooner and quicker than even my pessimistic self could have predicted.
I'm basically not leaving my apartment because I'm in one of these areas rn, it's too hot to be in the sun at all during the day. I feel so bad for people who are working in this shit
Same, SoCal is a misery right now. Thank god I got fired from my miserable warehouse job earlier this year. A fella could drop dead of heat stroke in that concrete oven.
When I worked at Amazon I was regularly soaked in sweat until around midnight and people would fight over work stations that caught any kind of breeze from fans.
We had fans in our stock room where I worked, thank god, but when it got busy (which was often) we'd either be out in the storefront (which had no cooling at all save for some swamp coolers that were useless if you weren't standing in front of them) or outside loading heavy shit like boxed ceiling fans, big light fixtures, or full sized sofas into peoples' vehicles. We'd get pretty drenched as well, needless to say. And of course if you stood around in front of the coolers to allay the misery, our prick manager would hassle us back to work.
Got to be nearly 100 degrees in there at times! I hydrated well and I'm used to the heat from all the time I spend out in the desert, and even I came close to heat sickness a few times. Fuck that place, and fuck Amazon too while I'm at it!
Really? Where I am it seems like the weather has been really temperate this year, and the 10 day looks like low 90s which isn't horrible for this part of the year.
I've not checked on what it looks like inland though
Inland is where I be. It's not like Indio hot around here or anything, but it's been just under 100 all this week, and it's due to be over 100 all next week.
I guess when looking at averages for July it's pretty high. I think I'm just so ready for miserable 100+ days in the summer that I assume it's all normal until it reaches peak miserable
(Also I was sad about June gloom but knew it would suck once it passed and yeah, here we are)
It's all peak miserable when your car has no A/C 🫠
just looked up the weather for Bakersfield. holy shit
Same here, it's too hot to go outside where I live. Which is super unfortunate because I could really use some dopamine these days and I can't go for a run or cycling or even just walking. Big sad