Do you remember where you were during the infamous 122 degree day? (Phoenix: for sale, 2014)

[ELOrocks17]

It seems like so long ago...1990

I remember I was a Manager at Jack in the Box on Bell rd, and I was out there completely redoing the drive thru menueboard with all new slides/prices and pictures. The metal menuboard was positively sizzling and I burned my hands and arms from the heat.

Do you remember where you were?

[azdr0710]

June 26, 1990

6 + 26 + 90 = 122

we were up in Prescott where it got to 103 that day

[elcajones]

That was one day before I was born lol

[Colt AZ]

Do you remember where you were during the infamous 122 degree day?

No... but I'm glad I don't live where "the hottest air temperature ever recorded in Death Valley was 134 °F -- on July 10, 1913, at Furnace Creek -- and which is the hottest atmospheric temperature ever recorded on earth!"

[stevek64]

Wasn't around in Phoenix during that time but was in Death Valley in the summer when it was in the mid 120's, 126 once. Definitely felt like a different level of heat than what we sometimes peak out here in the valley in the summer in the 113-116 range.

[Ponderosa]

I was playing in an outdoor volleyball tournament that night. It had cooled down to 118 when we started play. It wasn't that bad - it's a dry heat.

There were t-shirts for sale around town after that day. I got one that said "I took the heat. Phoenix, Arizona, June 26 1990". I still have it! And, OP, it seems like yesterday.

[coolmib]

I was a student at ASU. Spent most of that day in classrooms and did not feel the heat. Only noticed that when I watched TV that night.

[Colt AZ]

Originally Posted by Ponderosa

It wasn't that bad - it's a dry heat.

[observer53]

I was at work. I remember walking across the street in midafternoon and feeling the softened asphalt under my feet.

[slowesthand]

I was working outside, doing construction work. We were building the apt. complex at 24th st. and Campbell.

Oh yeah...I remember it well !