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Yep...record heat in areas of California...over 100 degrees at 10pm and a record high 123 degrees in Palm Springs a few days ago...not even summer yet.
121 degrees
Temperatures in one part of Los Angeles County surged to 121 degrees Sunday, the highest reading ever recorded in that county, as the West Coast grapples with a dangerous heat wave.
I seem to remember when I started scanning weather pages in1969 seeing lots of 110+ readings in Tucson and Phoenix. Nothing new here. More panic and alarmism.
Someday you should leave NYC and check out the West. I hear Rhode Island is lovely this time of year.
There is much more to the West than the deserts in Arizona, Nevada, and Southern California. There is far more to the West than what you may realize. I bet you don't even know that states like Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana exist. Triple digit temps are unusual in all of these states. Part of this is due to a phenomenon called the "Rocky Mountains." These mountains raise the general elevation of the Western States by a considerable amount. Colorado alone has 53 peaks over 14,000 feet and the higher you go, the lower the temperature.
In my part of Colorado we just hit 101 degrees - a new all time record high for us here at 6,567 feet in elevation. Normally, our highs for this time of year are 90 or 91 degrees. The land and the soils are baking in the heat. I've never seen so many fields filled with dead or dying crops in my life.
If you conservatives had so much as an ounce of common sense, you'd stop posting in this thread. I've never seen so many smugly ignorant replies in my life.
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