Hottest Day, Think You Know?

[digitS']

On average, how far out is your highest temperatures for the year?

If you live in southern Arizona, it is right now! The monsoon weeks will be here soon. That means that, when much of the US is really cookin', southern AZ will be cooler on average.

Yes, just averages but what a lot of difference! Look how long you'd have to wait on the Pacific coast!

Warmest Day of the Year (link).

Steve

 

[journey11]

If I'm looking at the right shade of orange, mine would be July 6-10th. We hit 104 after that derecho in summer 2012...with the power out for 8 days here. Hope to never see those digits again! It's too humid here and much over 90 feels like you're suffocating, the air is so thick. 108 in Central TX was downright toasty by comparison, it's so dry there.

 

[buckabucka]

You always find cool (or should I say hot?) weather information, Steve!

 

[digitS']

Here's the WS page where that map came from:
(LINK)

You can use their link at the bottom to find graphs of your normal temperatures.

Years ago, I thought that everyone's hottest days were likely to be the last few days of July. To show what an idiot I was about other locations, I moved here from the California coast where I knew full well that the real warmth of summer never showed up until fall, or very nearly. I must have thought that this was just personal and a plague on my efforts to have a garden there. Persecution complex.

Steve

 

[Smart Red]

I would have guessed the last half of July and I see I would have been right. While August has the most sustained hot days in a row, they are not the hottest -- just seem so.

@journey11 is right, though. Once the humidity climbs, the high temperature makes even breathing hard for someone with CHF.

 

[City farm]

On average, how far out is your highest temperatures for the year?

If you live in southern Arizona, it is right now! The monsoon weeks will be here soon. That means that, when much of the US is really cookin', southern AZ will be cooler on average.

Yes, just averages but what a lot of difference! Look how long you'd have to wait on the Pacific coast!

Warmest Day of the Year (link).

Steve

We are hitting 108 this week. However we are hoping no more haboob's.. Crazy dust, no fun cleaning.. Our plants don't enjoy it either.we are having a big party tonight, everything will be dust free for about 1 minute..

 

[City farm]

If I'm looking at the right shade of orange, mine would be July 6-10th. We hit 104 after that derecho in summer 2012...with the power out for 8 days here. Hope to never see those digits again! It's too humid here and much over 90 feels like you're suffocating, the air is so thick. 108 in Central TX was downright toasty by comparison, it's so dry there.

Remember 118' ?

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

We were consumed by a small dust storm in Phx in late July when we were staying at Ft. McDowell Park. It was amazing to see it coming and the resulting winds that came with it.

Here, we've hit 107 this year and just went on mandatory watering rationing this week. Altho I've been collecting all my sink water for months to water the pots and garden. And turning off the shower (every other day now for showers) when I wash my hair.

 

[City farm]

We do the same with collecting rain water.. Not dish water.. However, it is so hot durring the sumer,we pan on putting a shower out in the back yard.. We can use the gray water for our yard that way..already bought the shower faucet.. On that long list of things to do!! Have you watched the documentary " Blue Gold?"

 

[freedhardwoods]

We've had a very cool year from January until now. Relatively few days in the 90's. I'm glad because I can't take the heat like I used to. Getting old sucks and I'm not even old yet.

My son laughs when we talk about hot weather. He spent a year in Iraq. 130*+ every day in the summer.