Phoenix Rising

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And so it begins. Someday I will move. I hope. The hottest day ever recorded here was 122ºF (50ºC). This Saturday we'll be about 10 degrees away from that. And it's only June. And not even officially summer. Counting the days until fall. 🍁

But it's a dry heat!
People who've never lived here
simply can't say that. 🔥

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ChaoticMissAdventures Oregons biggest coffee shop last year hired a CEO from Phoenix, and they announced yesterday they are moving everyone from Oregon to Phoenix so they can all work "together in person". I am sure the Oregon people are going to love this weather..... 1d

JenlovesJT47 I say to people who say that — hot is hot is hot! Speaking as a Floridian. ☀️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 🌊 1d

TEArificbooks Do they get what a dry heat feels like. Image thousands of hair dryers placed directly on your skin on every inch of your body on full blast. That‘s what it feels like when it is 120+ outside. We had our air conditioner serviced today to make sure it is in top form for the summer. We are at the point of do not shop or leave the house in the afternoon. Shopping is done before 8 am or after 8 pm. 1d

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JenReadsAlot Gross 1d

AmyG I‘m sorry. Dry heat or not…that‘s brutal. 1d

AnneCecilie I can‘t even imagine this. I start complaining about heat when it‘s a little of half of that temperature 1d

Hooked_on_books Sticking your head in the oven is a dry heat, too, but I don‘t recommend it. I lived in Phoenix for a couple years and wowza, the heat there is something else! 1d

IriDas There is a difference between dry and humid, yes. But they both suck so I‘m not sure what their point is. 1d

julieclair We lived in Dallas for several years, and while the temps didn‘t rise as high as yours, it was a dry heat. And I remember walking outside and feeling like I‘d slammed into a wall. The heat felt like a solid, physical thing. Here in South Carolina, the humid heat feels more like a smothering, clinging hug. It envelopes you. But as @JenlovesJT47 says, #HotisHotisHot and extreme heat is miserable. 1d

Susanita I always think of the comedian John Pinette talking about going to Las Vegas in the summer: “But it‘s a dry heat, Mr. Pinette,” they told me as they loaded me into the ambulance. 1d

TheSpineView @julieclair A perfect description of humidity. Hot is hot and I don't want to try out 110. 1d

TheSpineView Dry is still hot. 💛🐝💛 1d

Amor4Libros At least you have fall to look forward to. It's just hot all the time in the Dominican Republic 😂 24h

MommyOfTwo I don‘t want temps that high but warm enough to go in the pool. It‘s been cooler here than usual. We got in the pool yesterday when it was 82° but now we are back to low 70‘s and 60‘s ? 23h

Eggs Dry 112: like opening the oven door set at 400 degrees and stepping in 🔥 crisp…I feel ya 22h

ShelleyBooksie Wow - such opposites- I'm grumpy because it's June and only 15 Celsius here and rainy. That heat is intense! 19h

dabbe @ChaoticMissAdventures Would that be Dutch Bros? They won't know what hit 'em! 🔥 19h

dabbe @JenlovesJT47 I grant you, though, that 100+ º+ humidity over 50% is just soup boiling on the stove. 😅🔥😅 19h

dabbe @TEArificbooks 🎯🩵🎯 If we don't get the dogs out for their walk before 7 AM, #fuhgeddaboudit
19h

dabbe @JenReadsAlot 🎯🩵🎯 19h

dabbe @AmyG I know it's Phoenix, and that's what to expect, but every damn year I still go through sticker shock. 😳 19h

dabbe @AnneCecilie It's a true desert out here. 19h

dabbe @Hooked_on_books #iyktyk, right? 🎯🩵🎯 19h

dabbe @IriDas “Their point“ as in my point in this haiku? I've had enough folks in my life from out of state who like to tell us Arizonans that we should be grateful it's only a “dry“ heat and not a humid one. Of course, they've never truly lived here for an entire summer (where we do have a monsoon season where it will be 110+ degrees AND 60%+ humidity) to experience the entire spectrum of heat. That's what got on my nerves today and had me write this. 19h

dabbe @julieclair 🎯🩵🎯 19h

dabbe @Susanita OMG! 🤣😅🤣 19h

dabbe @TheSpineView Not with the % of humidity you get there! 😅🔥😅 19h

dabbe @TheSpineView TY! 🖤🐝🖤 19h

dabbe @Amor4Libros Oh, no, is it? 😳 What's the lowest it gets there? I am so sorry you have to experience that! I'd say 80º + 80% humidity is equal to 110º here with less than 10% humidity. Both are tough, aren't they? 🔥😅🔥 19h

dabbe @MommyOfTwo Do you have a spare bedroom? I'm on my way! 🤣😅🔥 19h

dabbe @Eggs I know I speak for the Texans, too, right? #ifktyk🔥 19h

dabbe @ShelleyBooksie I seriously teared up reading this. Is there any chance it'll be that cold at the end of July? #agirlcandream 😅🔥😅 19h

IriDas @dabbe No, I got the haiku and groaned when I saw your temps, what‘s the point in them saying it in the first place. I‘ve heard it too, having lived in SoCal‘s desert. My ex mil once claimed that after 105F, all heat felt the same. 😂 She had never lived inland. People are so weird about the weather. Why can‘t folks just empathize? 19h

dabbe @IriDas I'm super weird about it because I have lived here most of my life, and I know how horrible it gets. And yet I still can't stop bitching when that first week of that 105+-you-know-will-be-here-until-the-end-of-September season starts.

P.S. I lived in Escondido and understand that inner climate perfectly; it's basically Phoenix! 🔥 Yet the ocean is a hell of a lot closer for you! 🤣 19h

AnnCrystal Crazy, just crazy 🐝🙏🏼🏜️🌤️⛅🌥️🐝💝. 19h

IriDas @dabbe Really? It‘s worse there? I used to console myself by saying “well, at least I don‘t live in Arizona.” 😂 🥵 19h

dabbe @IriDas Now THAT'S funny. 🤣😍🤣 19h

JenlovesJT47 Yes, so true! Just got back from the grocery store at 9 pm and I‘m sweating 🥵 it‘s 90 something here and so humid. 19h

Leftcoastzen Wish I could be gone May 15th to the beginning of October 18h

MemoirsForMe Oh my! Time to stock up on ice cream and popsicles! 🍦 18h

Eggs @dabbe 🙌🏻🙌🏻 17h

bellabella Humidity for us. 😖 6h

lil1inblue Yikes! Just reading that temp makes me hot! Maybe we should have a haiku hive retreat near me - our forecast for the next week has highs in the 50s and 60s! 😂 😉 5h

dabbe @JenlovesJT47 I feel your pain as we just got back from our dog walk. I hate when my head sweats! 🤣🔥 2h

dabbe @Leftcoastzen That's about the right amount of time, isn't it? 🤣 2h

dabbe @MemoirsForMe Excellent idea! 😍 2h

dabbe @bellabella Yikes. 🥵🔥🥵 2h

dabbe @lil1inblue Where do you live? Cuz I'm now living vicariously through you! 🤩 2h

Leftcoastzen @dabbe though honestly, we had an extra hot October last year . 2h

lil1inblue @dabbe Michigan's Upper Peninsula - near Mama Superior. It's 50 and chilly today. 😊 2h

dabbe @Leftcoastzen I was going to write that, but I didn't trust my senile memory. It didn't seem to finally get cool until Thanksgiving! 🤣 2h

dabbe @lil1inblue Oh, what a lovely place! My whole family is from Grand Rapids, and Matt's from Port Huron. We spent our honeymoon on Mackinac Island. But that upper peninsula ... wow! 😍 2h

lil1inblue @dabbe I do love it here! 😍 My family is from Illinois, but I came here for college and couldn't leave! My husband's (Kevin) family is from the Detroit area. 36m

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