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 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.