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.
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.