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A couple summers ago near here in south Jersey where I was working,I think it was near 90 but with a huge heat index. Just walking outside I felt like I was near the equator
August 1971, San Felipe (Baja California) : 105°, very dry.
Sea of Cortez water felt like warm soup.
I LOVE that kind of weather.(I live in cold and damp Paris)
My thermometer only went up to 120 so I don't know. Africa in a remote village where going inside for some a/c or getting in a cool car was not an option. The days weren't bad--I got used to it--but the nights were tough. Really hard to sleep.
I have seen it hit 118 on the shores of Lake Mead near Hoover Dam back in 1961.
But the most memorable heat episode was a four day stretch of 100+ degree weather in the Willamette Valley two years ago July. The valley is no stranger to 100 degree weather but we had four of them consecutively, the coolest was 102 and on the second day of the sequence we had rain very nearly all day!
129º in Death Valley in July 2005. Never in my life do I want to endure that again - but at least I can say I know what 129º feels like!!!
It has hit 129 a few times in the last 15 years. I keep track of Death Valley temps during the summer. It's really funny when the overnight minimum is 100 or 102 degrees!
Last summer, I remember Death Valley having a reading of 1% humidity!
I forgot the exact air temp; it was 120 or 122 degrees.
According to books, the humidity at Death Valley in the summer can approach 0%.
Even where I live, 8-10% humidity is common during a strong Santa Ana wind.
1% humidity!!!
The lowest I ever heard of was like 5%.
I always liked some of those desert names like Death Valley, Furnance Creek and the Funeral Mountains. Conjures up images of skeletons being bleached in the relentless desert sun.
Having lived in the Phoenix area all my life, I know all about how hot (and long) the summers are. However, rarely does it rise above 118 degrees for the year's maximum temperature. The hottest it has ever been here was 122 degrees one day in the summer of 1990. I remember leaving work that afternoon. The air felt like the inside of a blast furnace ... or the inside of a crockpot on simmer!
Since then, it has been 120 degrees one other time, and that was in July, 1995. In most years, our highest temperature is about 115 or 116. But what really makes the summers more intolerable anymore is the urban heat island effect, which prevents the late night/early morning temperatures from dropping to comfortable levels like they used to.
I remember that July '95 day. Weren't airplanes grounded at Sky Harbor because the asphalt was too hot for them to land and take off?
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a long time ago
(I live in cold and damp Paris)
