What is 100+ degree weather like? Is it too hot to handle?

[Selene10]

Imagine cooking a turkey all day and opening your oven to take it out with that turkey cooking at about 350. That heat flash you feel when you open the door is what it feels like. ~ about 4 -5 months out of the year. Your body adjusts to the heat and your clothing attire as well. You will swim more and have higher electric bills.

[Bummer]

Originally Posted by Kimballette

It does get humid during monsoon, and I love complaining about it, but, really, I don't think the humidity is comparable to the midwest or east coast. YMMV, though.

Great point, Kimballette.

No matter how bad it gets here in Arizona, it is much worse "back there"!

[LordBalfor]

Originally Posted by Bummer

Great point, Kimballette.

No matter how bad it gets here in Arizona, it is much worse "back there"!

Yes indeed. Having lived both on the East Coast and in the Midwest - and having been to Arizona in the midst of one of the stronger monsoons I can attest that "yes indeed, it's MUCH more humid and unpleasant in BOTH of those places than in Arizona during the monsoon."

Ken

[mosesmoses]

Originally Posted by .45acp

Stay in Indiana. You'll fry here. They named the place Phoenix 'cause 'Flaming Buzzard That Falls From The Sky Screaming For Water' (the original NDN name for the place) wouldn't fit on the road signs. It's registered 124 'couple days in a row here on the plateau 'tween the Silverbells and Tucsons. 108-111's for weeks at a time are not uncommon.

Santan Village is misspelled. It's really 'Satan Village'. Nothing grows in that frying pan area of the desert... not even cactus. 1st clue. Besides... we're all fat, uneducated and poor as church mice. (I read this forum and the transplant sniffy's tol' me so.) Besides that... 'got wolves. coyotes, rattlesnakes, 'n mountain lions wanderin' about. Oh... did I mention the scorpions and spiders?

Trick or Treaters out here get eaten. 'Just as well... they're overweight, stupid and poor. Did I mention 'illegal'? Pets disappear out of yards... things come out of the sky and carry them off. Yes... your darling little Foo-Foo is nothing more than lunch to the many types of raptors cruising around. Up north there's the bears. They'll eat you. This is why we carry guns to the grocery store... bear attacks in parking lots are up... unless you get kidnapped by Mexican drug cartels first. They just cut off your head 'n feed the rest to the bears... wolves, coyotes, mountain lions.

People vanish here in the desert all the time. Take a simple hike... 'poof'... GONE. 'Lot's of UFO sightings in this desert... I think there's a connection. They're the one's who never carry guns tho.

However, the global warming will be over soon, and as everybody is predicting, as of Dec 21 2012 the ice age will began, and most of North America will be covered with a mile high ice, and Arizona will be a perfect place to live. The Government, the White House, Obama, and Michelle will be moving to Arizona. Maybe Tombstone?