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A typical summer day there will be 105F. Many days will get to 110F though. The hottest days will be 115-120F and you'll feel your skin roast a bit out in the sun. Nights won't feature any serious relief from the heat, usually staying between 80 and 90 due to the massive UHI of the Phoenix area.
I sure as hell won't be retiring in a Southern climate. Give me 10 degrees and 2 feet of snow any day over that. Then again I'm not close to retirement age and I don't know what it feels like to be old and cold. At my current age, the cold and snow feels nice and I always want more of it.
A few years ago when I was doing a bit of long-distance cycling, I did a little summer challenge on Saturdays. The goal was to start cycling early, end at noon and have more miles than the temperature, in F, at noon.
It’s demoralizing to wake up and realize you’re 85 miles in the hole. Good times. Lol
So 115 or 120. What the Hell difference does it make?
Absolutely a huge difference. Even the more typical 110 to 113 is very noticeable with 113 definitely noticeable as on the hot side. I lived in Phoenix 4 years and the hottest I experienced was 116. That was staggering compared with 110 or even 113.
Currently the high temps in the Phoenix area are in the low 100 degree range with very low humidity. Once I was acclimated that was about perfect weather. Beautiful sunshine and with low humidity, very nice in the shade and not too bad in the mid day sun. Next week it is supposed to be warmer with temps just over 110. That will be noticeably warmer but still not bad with the low humidity. There should be 2-3 more weeks of nice weather until the monsoons roll in and the humidity climbs. July and August are typically hot and humid but that is it. The rest of the year the weather is great. A couple of hot months sure beats snow, bad driving conditions, not being able to walk without concern about ice, and needing to bundle up just to get the mail.
I visited Sedona in June 1973 (I think). The coldest it got was 116.
Couldn't even go outside. No point in being there except I learned I didn't want to be there.
That is a story with no facts to back it up. Sedona is relatively cool at over 4000' elevation. The record high temperature is 110 degrees, certainly not 116.
That is a story with no facts to back it up. Sedona is relatively cool at over 4000' elevation. The record high temperature is 110 degrees, certainly not 116.
On June 25, 1981. It is surprising how many record highs in Arizona are older (1970s-1990s). The way people talk about heat around here, you would think that they were all set in the pst five years.
I have friends who moved there over 20 years ago and would not live anywhere else. The desert has never appealed to me, other than for a visit. The heat is insane in summer. Scottsdale has always struck me as very much a sterile, “planned” community lacking a distinct personality. But then, I have never spent more than a couple of weeks at a time there. It is more scenic than many other desert areas but I actually prefer Taos to Scottsdale. But again, I would never choose to live in a desert.
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Good times. Lol
