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.
For people who live in like Arizona, I checked the 7 day forecast and it's like 105-115 every single day. How can you live like that??? Seems completely bonkers to me. Is that typical for this time of year?
My sister lived in Arizona for a few years and there are week long stretches where it consistently reaches 110-120. She said the summers there are basically like winters for more temperate climates because no one goes outside and workers are told to stay home because there's going to be no business anyways.
I remember living in Phoenix without a car, barely enough money to travel by bus and in the end traveling by bus was about as fast as walking. I ended up walking like 15 miles in a day to get some basic shit which in the Arizona heat is ungodly. During the winter the walks weren't that bad, but once summer hit, it was awful. I did eventually get a bike that was stolen almost immediately. So my reading is, fuck that city. While it's easy to navigate a giant grid of stroads when you're going somewhere, holy shit it's not made for any sort of human life.
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Worked landscaping and conservation in AZ for years and never had a day off for heat fwiw. Ghouls gonna ghoul
I did landscaping for a summer, that shit is brutal. Got a sun burn across my neck that scabbed over because I was facing the same direction for several days that I occasionally sorta joke will be where the melanoma forms.
oh, we face those temps here in the tropics too. and its worse because its humid heat so your sweat doesn't even evaporate.
43ºC is like average in rio de janeiro's summer.
I would be dead in less than 24hrs. I've only been in 40+ a handful of times and it was always a super dry desert area
yeah i've had people come here from egypt or even from brazil's own savannah and deserts and say that this is a hellish place. its all in the humidity, yo.
Id kill myself if i was there, no joke
Mfw i settle in an inhospitable wasteland and then make the wasteland worse, and now the wasteland is worse?!?
If you want to live in Arizona, why not live in the mountains where the climate is reasonable?
It's a big destination for "snow birds" because it's actually kinda nice in the winter
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Why not reappropriate that property in a people's uprising?
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https://youtu.be/4PYt0SDnrBE
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Yeah, it's doable if you work in an air conditioned office, but Arizona still needs roofers, road pavers, construction workers, and all the other jobs conducted outdoors under direct sunlight. And while wearing a stuffy uniform and safety equipment no less! Do they at least get better pay than comparable workers from states with milder climates?>