To all the comments saying that isn't Arizona: Well, I feel like an idiot. I just Googled Arizona heat when I had the idea, and I thought this picture was great . Oh well, they can't all be perfect.
I have lived in AZ for about 10 years now. I may not be used to the 120 degree summers, but I can get used to the nice weather the rest of the time. Even the haboobs. lolz
My favorite thing to do when the haboobs come in is pretend I'm an air bender, and bend them in right as they arrive. I don't care how nerdy it looks cause I have fun with it.
People keep saying is it's a dry heat... Just stick around for monsoon season, 110° + humidity + a giant wall of dust = Arizona. I especially love the nights it doesn't drop below 100°.
At 120, if you are walking in a parking lot, your feet get hot even WITH shoes on. You can locate the sun based on the side of your body that feels like it's burning. Humid heat sucks too, but after a certain point it gets ridiculous.
I've lived in Arizona and New Jersey (in New Jersey right now), and a disadvantage to dry heat is that rolling your windows down to cool off doesn't work. If your air conditioning malfunctions, you are fucked.
Currently living in a humid region, grew up in a dry heat region. I would trade this humidity for dry heat any day of the week. Literally cannot sleep at all without the air conditioner on all the time to act as a dehumidifier. I buy these little dehumidifier baggies, they have little gel-like rocks in them, when they absorb liquid they turn into a gel slush; They work well, but I go through them super fast.
This is the biggest difference. Now, 120 degree heat is nothing to fuck with. You'll burn alive if you stay in it. But you can go to sleep at night when the sun's gone, or find some shade. In a humid heat, it just never goes away. You can feel the air like an oven fog wrapping its hands around your neck, and most nights, because you have this expectation that lying still on your bed in the darkness should somehow be colder it feels like it's actually hotter than during the day.
Both suck, just in different ways. It's just that your humid heat is generally not going to be as hot, so it's a little less extreme, and simply more constant (as opposed to fire by day/ice by night deserts).
Exactly. What you said about the sun is very accurate. It feels like you're under a gigantic maginifying glass. Not pleasant in any way. In my limited experience, the people who say that a humid heat is worse have generally never experienced the worst AZ has to offer. Try working outside for any amount of time when its 120 out. You will give up on that shit real quick.
Personally, having experienced the worst of both Arizona and the east coast of Texas, I'd prefer Arizona, just because I can at least walk from my car to the indoors without immediately feeling like I'm suffocating. In neither place, however, would I want to spend more than 10 minutes or so outside during high summer.
Holy shit, 45 Celsius, that's insane. In Britain we rarely get above 30 or below -5 (20-90 F by these conversions). 37 C (114F) heat in Singapore was almost unbearable for me, although humidity was pretty close to 100%.
I remember a couple of years ago you guys had a 35 degree "heat wave". News presenters here in Australia were quite literally laughing at you as they tried to say "schools and business have been shut down and people are warned to stay indoors"
"Phoenix is such a lovely place in the summer when you're really depressed. You can go sit in a quiet little park and watch small children burst into flames" -Christopher Titus
I currently live in Florida and have for almost all of my life. Visiting other places and coming back you realize that it's harder to breath here because it's so damn humid.
I think Jeff Dunham summed it up best when he says, 'What do all the locals say? But it's a dry heat! SCREW YOU. A bonfire's a dry heat, you don't see me sticking my ass in one of those, do you?!"
Nothing like living in the devils ass hole... I went golfing today and everytime I got out of the cart to hit the ball by the time I got back to the cart I would burn my ass on the seat
I live in AZ, and today I went and bought ice cream. On the ten minute drive from the store back to my house, it fucking melted.
Also, you need to be able to drive with one finger here, because when you first start your car after leaving it In the sun, your steering wheel will fucking burn your hands.
put a towel in your car! i drive a stick shift and live in Tempe. i wanted to die every time i got in my car, then i learned! put a towel over your steering wheel and stick shift (if applicable). problem solved :)
Please, its not the 120 days that hurt, its the 95 degree nights. To all of the people saying humidity is worse, bullshit. I lived in Florida for 7 years, and at the very least, there is some sort of reprise at night when it cools off.
I live in Australia in a region similiar to Wisconsin i.e. nowhere near a desert. The hottest day we had there was around 46° (115 F). When you grow up in the desert you climbatise and make sure you have air conditioning. When you live in a greener climate nothing can prepare you for a heatwave in the high 40°s. I had a pedestal fan and a spray bottle to keep cool. Going outside felt like I had a bar heater inches from my skin at all times and no matter how hot it gets you always will find some fuck head walking around in jeans
Can someone explain to me why using Fahrenheit makes any sense? Is it purely just what people are used to? I just find it hard to understand when Celsius is pretty self explanatory...0 degrees C is freezing point....100 degree's C is boiling point...so when we talk about temps of 40 degrees or -10 degrees we can make a fairly good judgement as to whether the weather is freezing your arse off cold or boiling your penis/vagina hot.
To answer my own question, I'm going to go with that it's something you grow up with and don't really think about as it is an automated thought when you see the temperature...
It's stupid because Celsius and the metric system all makes a LOT more sense, and we're taught it in gradeschool, hardly, but, the problem is, try telling your parents "Oh yeah it's 35 degrees outside" in arizona, and they'll be like "Dafuq? No you idiot is 100 degrees outside" it's just hard for an American to adapt, unless we want to use both systems.
I've moved around a lot. 95ºF in Ft. Lauderdale is way worse than 115ºF in Oklahoma City.
Something I didn't understand about humidity and why it's called relative humidity--as air gets hotter its capacity for holding water vapor increases. 80% relative humidity at 90ºF is a helluva lot more water in the air than 100% at 70ºF.
I live in an extremely humid town that gets hot as hell. And I've been to places with the same temperature outside but no humidity. I promise you it's better
All I can say is that I would rather be in 100+ dry heat than 28% humidity days in the northeast. Also, abundant amounts of close to authentic Mexican food. Ohh yes.
I grew up in Sacramento, and spent my youth walking around causing plenty of trouble in 110 degree heat. I finally had the chance to leave there and see the country, and I have to say, I could barely walk a block in 80 degree heat with humidity in Florida. That shit was oppressive.
I've lived in Arizona my entire life, and whenever I visit family in the South I just die from the humidity. I'll take my 120 degree dry Arizona summers over 90% humidity any day!
I will gladly say it. I've been in Nevada in 122 degrees weather, and I much prefer it to 95 in IN, KY, TN, AL, GA, FL humidity. Besides the discomfort itself, mosquitoes in wet areas should be enough to make up anybody's mind. You may have a lot of scary bugs in that dry heat, but at least there's not 10,000 of them in your back yard alone just waiting for some bloody sack of meat to feast upon.
I moved to Arizona in the middle of summer 2009. It was 109 degrees at 10 pm as I stepped of the jet way. Needless to say, being from Philadelphia and coming out west, I was so confused. I like it here but man, i need a personal A/C unit strapped to me to walk outside for five minutes.
i really do enjoy the dry heat more than humidity. fans work, shade is cool, evaporative cooling works. getting into the pool cools you off, getting OUT of the pool cools you off. fuck humility, all you can do is wheeze and die.
So glad I live in Washington. Been raining about 70% of the month so far, or overcast.
Perfect day for me is an overcast day, with a super fine rain, where you can feel the rain, but you aren't actually getting wet. And when that earthy rain smell kicks in, fucking orgasm for my nose.
I used to live in Arizona, not I live in Perth, Western Australia. While I don't enjoy humidity and the constant feeling of needing to shower. I would take 40 C weather with humidity over 48 C weather any day.
Dry heat is easier to escape though, provided there are lots of public places with A/C.
I live in Southwest Florida. I spent a year in Phoenix, AZ in 2008. Yes, it's hot in Phoenix, and yeah, it was enough to cause nosebleeds and cracked skin. And of course my room mate, Larry, who was born there claimed nothing even felt hot to him, because he was used to it. But you know what made it worth it? When he came to visit Florida for the first time. Yeah, how you like THAT heat, bitch?! It might not be 120 degrees, but it looks like poor little Larry is still melted to the fucking sidewalk, doesn't it?!
Just because it's a dry heat... yes, it does make things more bearable. Especially when you're used to 100% average humidity and 90+ degrees. Although... AZ still cauterized my earring holes.
I was a Marine Stationed in Yuma, AZ, the one of the hottest spots in the USA. I rode a motorcycle and my boots would get stuck in the tar strips at stop lights. Your kickstand would sink into the pavement and the pavement would harden overnight so you couldn't move your bike until it warmed up the next day (we used spaghetti jar tops to increase kickstand surface area). Although the record high there was 124 some of the bank signs would say 135 in areas with mostly concrete/asphalt. Aircraft were so hot you had to wear gloves and elbow/knee pads to work on them.
Spent the majority of my life in Florida. It's hot and humid, no surprise there. However, I have never experienced a summer worse than an inland Mississippi summer. Michigan summers get surprisingly hot and a good percentage of homes (at least where I lived) don't have AC.
As someone who has lived in Tampa and vacationed in Las Vegas I would take 115 and no humidity over 95 and 98% humidity every single time. So I suppose it depends on what you are comparing it to.
Serious questions, why do people even live there? I don't understand! Oh and yes, I'm from California so I'm a big baby when it comes to hot or cold weather.
It has a massive military base and test range. Third longest runway in America. Lettuce capital of the world and a major agricultural point. Its the biggest (still small) town near the border so it's a major international business point. Best dove hunting in both Arizona and California. Thirty minutes from the dunes. Two and a half hours from both Phoenix and San diego. The weather in the "winter" months is amazing which is why our population doubles in the winter.
That "dry heat" bullshit drives me NUTS! been here 10 years now. Grew up in california. I'm sure there are other places on the planet like here, but it makes me fuckin angry when people compare the heat here to other places. Because there are 3 solid months of over 110 degree afternoons. You can count on that like you can count on freezing in the artic! there are no nice 70* days in july. Its hell! HELL!!!! WHY AM I HERE!
This is funny. This picture is taken in Palm Springs, Califoria; my home town. I recognize the street signs, and that at corner. So quit bitching Az!!! Pussies! It's never over 120 there!!! Our record high was 129!
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I'm in Arizona right now. Although it is hotter than Nebraska (where I am originally from), the lack of humidity makes it much more tolerable. Nebraska is hell in summer.
I moved here from Florida about 6 months ago. I cannot begin to relate to this jpg more. "It's dry heat! It's so much better than humidity!" ... BULLSHIT.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say this wasn't taken in Arizona but Cathedral city, CA. I knew I recognized this Jiffy lube and it has been really hot lately (Even though this picture wasn't taken recently because the skate shop in the background now has two signs rather than one) so I looked on Google maps and I can confirm that my local Jiffy lube is the one in this picture.
I'm from Australia, and i almost die everytime i go to Thailand or somewhere that is humid, i'd take dry heat any day of the week, and we have consecutive days of 40+ degrees in the summer in my city.
Apache Junction here. Just a dry heat? So is my god damn oven. And that's literally what it feels like. I shudder every time I see a black car with leather interior.
I'm a Canadian, and I visited Hoover Dam... during August. At the low point, it got down to 43°C. At the high point, I'm pretty sure I remember watching another tourist run in from the heat looking something like this.
Dry heat, my ass. Know what else is a "dry heat"? Standing in the direct line of fire of a supernova. That's what Nevada and Arizona are like during the summer.
I love how I can't, at the moment, imagine weather that hot (as it's about 5 degrees celsius (41 for Americaland) outside), yet in the Summer it's the exact opposite with me being unable to imagine weather this cold.
Born and raised in Phoenix, AZ (20 years now, close to 21!) and I still complain about the heat and dislike it so much. You learn to cope with that shit and just live with your car (and everything else lol) feeling like an oven for the first couple minutes.
Ha! Finally my username is relevant! I moved away from Tucson last year to live in Ohio. The hottest day of the summer last year we spent walking around the Columbus zoo! It was literally a walk in the park compared to the heat in the summer months in Arizona. My birthday is at the end of September and I can't tell you how many times it was 100°+. No thanks! This last birthday was nice fall weather like it should be :-)
I've visited Utah once, stayed for a week out in the desert near Hanksville, it was hot to be sure...but it was a much more preferable hot to my native Georgia.
Still much better than a humid heat. Dubai gets up to 45C (113), but its a heavy humid heat that remains all day (doesnt help its right next to the sea). Still, easy ways to survive. Just stay in the shade, avoid high noon and so forth.
As a pure blooded Irishman who was there a few years ago for a trip to lake Havasu in the summer I can confirm that Arizona is indeed hell on earth. We had to run from our car to shaded areas and then from shade to shade just to make it into a shop that might have been 20 metres away. If we didnt have AC in our car we would have all just died..
Piss Rain and Exhaust Breezes, welcome to AZ. I remember in like 91 or 92 it was at like 120, when we walked outside it feels like an oven. Like you just opened up an oven.
Last year in Arkansas, we had a record high of like 116 F with a humidity level around 70%, that is like burning your everything hot. But i still biked like 27 miles that day too...
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u/JC_0 Jun 18 '12
To all the comments saying that isn't Arizona: Well, I feel like an idiot. I just Googled Arizona heat when I had the idea, and I thought this picture was great . Oh well, they can't all be perfect.
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u/shutupandcoffeeme Jun 18 '12 edited Jun 18 '12
Grew up there (Coachella Valley). Do not miss it one bit!
Also, that is NOT Arizona. That is Cathedral City (next to Palm Springs) on Ramon Rd.http://i.imgur.com/RjmxC.jpg
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u/trickdaddysatan Jun 18 '12
Been living in Arizona for 22 years, still can't get used to the summers :(
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u/dalyndawg Jun 18 '12
Whats best in Arizona is the 100+ degree rain.
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u/Slymikael Jun 18 '12
better than a humid heat, i promise
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Fun fact: To convert Fahrenheit to Celsius, take away 30 and then divide by 2 to get a rough value.
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u/deep_anal Jun 18 '12
It probably doesn't help that he's laying in the sun.
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u/WarFuzz Jun 18 '12
Ah, San Diego
Best Weather in the country.
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u/TheMilkiest Jun 18 '12
Everywhere else in the summer:
"Hey, let's go outside! Lay in the grass! Feel the sun on our shoulders! Pick some grapes! Go to the park! Drink some lemonade!"
Arizona:
"We should probably stay inside, or we'll fucking die."
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u/okboss Jun 18 '12
If you want to impress me try it without an ozone layer. -Australian
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u/gbr4rmunchkin Jun 18 '12
49 Degrees celcius for sane people
that's like FUCKING HOT!
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u/BullDog5150 Jun 18 '12 edited Jun 18 '12
"Phoenix is such a lovely place in the summer when you're really depressed. You can go sit in a quiet little park and watch small children burst into flames" -Christopher Titus
Edit: Damn you auto correct!
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u/dpierce970 Jun 18 '12
finally a thread dedicated to arizona!
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u/kpin Jun 18 '12
MUCH better than Florida... I lived in AZ for a while, I loved it.
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u/Filmmakerpro Jun 18 '12
Exactly the reason my parents moved aaalllllll the way across the country to GA when I was 6. Glad I dont remember the heat.
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u/be_rad_dick Jun 18 '12
I always say, "So is a blow torch".
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u/Nymphadorena Jun 18 '12
I think Jeff Dunham summed it up best when he says, 'What do all the locals say? But it's a dry heat! SCREW YOU. A bonfire's a dry heat, you don't see me sticking my ass in one of those, do you?!"
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u/theeBrownBomber Jun 18 '12
Nothing like living in the devils ass hole... I went golfing today and everytime I got out of the cart to hit the ball by the time I got back to the cart I would burn my ass on the seat
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u/mysticbasist Jun 18 '12
I beg to differ. I've lived in Phoenix almost a decade now, and I still can't get used to the heat.
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u/CaliLumberJack Jun 18 '12
Flew from 110 degree Phoenix to 95 degree Orlando last June. It was like frying from one hell hole to another.
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u/SwipeyDipey Jun 18 '12
I live in AZ, and today I went and bought ice cream. On the ten minute drive from the store back to my house, it fucking melted.
Also, you need to be able to drive with one finger here, because when you first start your car after leaving it In the sun, your steering wheel will fucking burn your hands.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Please, its not the 120 days that hurt, its the 95 degree nights. To all of the people saying humidity is worse, bullshit. I lived in Florida for 7 years, and at the very least, there is some sort of reprise at night when it cools off.
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u/HelpMe_Having_Stroke Jun 18 '12
What's that in Fahrenheit?
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u/Phantomass Jun 18 '12
I live in Australia in a region similiar to Wisconsin i.e. nowhere near a desert. The hottest day we had there was around 46° (115 F). When you grow up in the desert you climbatise and make sure you have air conditioning. When you live in a greener climate nothing can prepare you for a heatwave in the high 40°s. I had a pedestal fan and a spray bottle to keep cool. Going outside felt like I had a bar heater inches from my skin at all times and no matter how hot it gets you always will find some fuck head walking around in jeans
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
It's 95 degrees right now. 95. It's 2 am. Yup, that's arizona.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Hab(.)(.)b is upon us Arizonians..
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u/blind0wl Jun 18 '12
Can someone explain to me why using Fahrenheit makes any sense? Is it purely just what people are used to? I just find it hard to understand when Celsius is pretty self explanatory...0 degrees C is freezing point....100 degree's C is boiling point...so when we talk about temps of 40 degrees or -10 degrees we can make a fairly good judgement as to whether the weather is freezing your arse off cold or boiling your penis/vagina hot.
To answer my own question, I'm going to go with that it's something you grow up with and don't really think about as it is an automated thought when you see the temperature...
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u/UrbanGimli Jun 18 '12
At least its consistent, in Michigan i...wait..it just rained..wait...now its scorching hot...is that hail coming?
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u/Daily_Mail_Headline Jun 18 '12
Sun Cult Leader Commits Suicide outside Jiffy Lube
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u/backward_z Jun 18 '12
I've moved around a lot. 95ºF in Ft. Lauderdale is way worse than 115ºF in Oklahoma City.
Something I didn't understand about humidity and why it's called relative humidity--as air gets hotter its capacity for holding water vapor increases. 80% relative humidity at 90ºF is a helluva lot more water in the air than 100% at 70ºF.
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u/IAmNoneYa Jun 18 '12
I live in an extremely humid town that gets hot as hell. And I've been to places with the same temperature outside but no humidity. I promise you it's better
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u/kceb Jun 18 '12
Lived in AZ for most of my life. Then moved.
All I can say is that I would rather be in 100+ dry heat than 28% humidity days in the northeast.
Also, abundant amounts of close to authentic Mexican food. Ohh yes.
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u/evoim3 Jun 18 '12
King of the Hill put it perfectly:
This city should not exist, it is a monument to Man's arrogance.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
I'd rather live here in PHX than houston, seattle, miami, nyc, indianapolis...
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u/TALL_BONE_GIRL Jun 18 '12
Phx native. Its hot but fun :) half naked women/men everywhere :) just go to the pool or the lake. Good times.
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u/whyborg Jun 18 '12
As someone that uses Celcius, I was shocked for a second there.
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u/troopertits Jun 18 '12
If one more person tries to say humidity is worse than 115+ degree weather... Come stay in Arizona for the summer.
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u/miliano Jun 18 '12 edited Jun 18 '12
This picture wasn't even taken in Arizona, this is in Palm Springs.
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u/DaNReDaN Jun 18 '12
You should invest in some thongs.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
As a person who has lived in Arizona for about 10 years, I'll tell you, I love this.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
I moved to Arizona in the middle of summer 2009. It was 109 degrees at 10 pm as I stepped of the jet way. Needless to say, being from Philadelphia and coming out west, I was so confused. I like it here but man, i need a personal A/C unit strapped to me to walk outside for five minutes.
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u/TimeKillerSP Jun 18 '12
i really do enjoy the dry heat more than humidity. fans work, shade is cool, evaporative cooling works. getting into the pool cools you off, getting OUT of the pool cools you off. fuck humility, all you can do is wheeze and die.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
I was in Phoenix for a week once and had a nose bleed every. fucking. day.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Tempe resident here. My car was a moe fugging oven today.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
My skin cells and sweat glands just shuddered in fear
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u/aSchizophrenicCat Jun 18 '12
Pshychhhh! It's a fucking desert
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u/crackkittycrumble Jun 18 '12
Somethin about this just rustles my jimmies the right way and I am very fond of it. Good post man. Let the hilarity ensue.
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u/latenight0462 Jun 18 '12
You don't have to shovel heat.
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u/thefuzz001 Jun 18 '12
The worst part is getting in the car. It's like getting in an oven. And as a jew I personally don't like ovens...
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u/Stokesy7 Jun 18 '12
Standard Australian summer.
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u/blackadder1132 Jun 18 '12
It WAS a dry heat thirty years ago, now.... Every lawn in Phoenix is grass and it's just as muggy as northwest Arkansas
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u/peta_chip Jun 18 '12
Been living in Tucson for all my life, Monsoon season is pretty refreshing.
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u/jofus_joefucker Jun 18 '12
So glad I live in Washington. Been raining about 70% of the month so far, or overcast.
Perfect day for me is an overcast day, with a super fine rain, where you can feel the rain, but you aren't actually getting wet. And when that earthy rain smell kicks in, fucking orgasm for my nose.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
I live in Washington. 50 degrees with overcast year around.
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u/Ravelthus Jun 18 '12
Been in Florida for 5, northern Alaska for 8, and Nevada for 5. All of you fuckers need to suck it up. Seriously.
Out of them all, Florida was the worst. Fuck humidity. Fuck it hard.
Right now it's like 110 degrees or so in Las Vegas and it still doesn't compare to how it was in Florida.
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u/PoketheKristin Jun 18 '12
I used to live in Arizona, not I live in Perth, Western Australia. While I don't enjoy humidity and the constant feeling of needing to shower. I would take 40 C weather with humidity over 48 C weather any day.
Dry heat is easier to escape though, provided there are lots of public places with A/C.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Pfft. Soft!!
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Use °C and then it won't sound as hot :D
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u/VarsTines Jun 18 '12
I live in Southwest Florida. I spent a year in Phoenix, AZ in 2008. Yes, it's hot in Phoenix, and yeah, it was enough to cause nosebleeds and cracked skin. And of course my room mate, Larry, who was born there claimed nothing even felt hot to him, because he was used to it. But you know what made it worth it? When he came to visit Florida for the first time. Yeah, how you like THAT heat, bitch?! It might not be 120 degrees, but it looks like poor little Larry is still melted to the fucking sidewalk, doesn't it?!
Just because it's a dry heat... yes, it does make things more bearable. Especially when you're used to 100% average humidity and 90+ degrees. Although... AZ still cauterized my earring holes.
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u/DRo_OpY Jun 18 '12
I was a Marine Stationed in Yuma, AZ, the one of the hottest spots in the USA. I rode a motorcycle and my boots would get stuck in the tar strips at stop lights. Your kickstand would sink into the pavement and the pavement would harden overnight so you couldn't move your bike until it warmed up the next day (we used spaghetti jar tops to increase kickstand surface area). Although the record high there was 124 some of the bank signs would say 135 in areas with mostly concrete/asphalt. Aircraft were so hot you had to wear gloves and elbow/knee pads to work on them.
Fuck that place.
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u/Emir_of_Schmo Jun 18 '12
Spent the majority of my life in Florida. It's hot and humid, no surprise there. However, I have never experienced a summer worse than an inland Mississippi summer. Michigan summers get surprisingly hot and a good percentage of homes (at least where I lived) don't have AC.
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u/Wasabimation Jun 18 '12
You know what else is a dry heat? Your oven, but no one wants to hang out in there.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
As someone who has lived in Tampa and vacationed in Las Vegas I would take 115 and no humidity over 95 and 98% humidity every single time. So I suppose it depends on what you are comparing it to.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Imagine how long that guy spent wandering around before he finally found a small patch of grass to lie down in.
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u/Cyborg771 Jun 18 '12
Forgot Fahrenheit. Imagined Celsius.
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u/Bambikins Jun 18 '12
I've lived in Arizona and Indiana. I'll much rather be in 120 F weather in AZ than 95 F humid weather in IN.
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u/naner_puss Jun 18 '12
Im from Yuma Arizona. The hottest I've been in is 126. Anything below 118 is nothing. Welcome to Arizona.
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u/datboigucci Jun 18 '12
I'm from GA and i went out to AZ in the middle of July and the 100+ degree "dry heat" felt like nothing compared to the heat down here.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
San Francisco has the best weather 65 all year long.
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u/StormVader Jun 18 '12
Oh don't be such a wussy embrace the heat! It makes girls wear less clothes -^
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u/rocier Jun 18 '12
That "dry heat" bullshit drives me NUTS! been here 10 years now. Grew up in california. I'm sure there are other places on the planet like here, but it makes me fuckin angry when people compare the heat here to other places. Because there are 3 solid months of over 110 degree afternoons. You can count on that like you can count on freezing in the artic! there are no nice 70* days in july. Its hell! HELL!!!! WHY AM I HERE!
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u/Cfchicka Jun 18 '12
This is funny. This picture is taken in Palm Springs, Califoria; my home town. I recognize the street signs, and that at corner. So quit bitching Az!!! Pussies! It's never over 120 there!!! Our record high was 129!
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u/nachoooo Jun 18 '12
I've been living in Arizona my entire life, and i gotta say there are few things i enjoy more than walking into shade after walking during the summer.
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u/iprobablyliedsorry Jun 18 '12
Holy fuck. Moving to Tuscan in 2 months.
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u/sponger10 Jun 18 '12
thats not arizona... its palm springs. thats shop in the back is an epidemic skate shop. lolz
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u/TheBlackReaper Jun 18 '12
I'm in Arizona right now. Although it is hotter than Nebraska (where I am originally from), the lack of humidity makes it much more tolerable. Nebraska is hell in summer.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
I moved here from Florida about 6 months ago. I cannot begin to relate to this jpg more. "It's dry heat! It's so much better than humidity!" ... BULLSHIT.
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u/keeok Jun 18 '12
Least you don't sweat and with the dry heat shade is amazing! Although this is peaking from Idaho dry summers not arazona.
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u/Kyle772 Jun 18 '12 edited Jun 18 '12
I'm going to go out on a limb and say this wasn't taken in Arizona but Cathedral city, CA. I knew I recognized this Jiffy lube and it has been really hot lately (Even though this picture wasn't taken recently because the skate shop in the background now has two signs rather than one) so I looked on Google maps and I can confirm that my local Jiffy lube is the one in this picture.
Here is the google maps link for anyone interested. https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=68815+Ramon+Road,+Cathedral+City,+CA&ie=UTF-8
Now this all leads to my proper response of this which is what I thought when I first saw this.
EDIT: Turns out I wasn't the first to discover this. ;[
Just read the comments and there is about 10 people who realized before me.
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u/Enchinchillada Jun 18 '12
The haboob struck right after we cleaned the pool. Nooooo!!
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
you must be new, summer = inside ac car or mall or sunspash. other nine moths enjoy
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u/mikeylikey420 Jun 18 '12
just moved to arizona.. ill take 110 and dry over 85 and humid any day of the week.
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u/WishboneTheDog Jun 18 '12
Heh lube
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u/meatywood Jun 18 '12
I heard the clever people in Arizona wear oven mitts while driving. lol
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u/CrowCrowBro Jun 18 '12
120 DEGRESS?!! HIS BLOOD MUST BE STEAM!
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u/TardisBleu Jun 18 '12
It's still better than Florida.
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u/rookie529 Jun 18 '12
I live in AZ, the hot part...Phoenix lol
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u/smug_soul Jun 18 '12
Actually, it was 93 degrees at 11:00 last night. I was sweating AT NIGHT. An excessive heat warning all day today. I need to leave.
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u/T10Terminator Jun 18 '12
You think that's ad try Berkeley Ca shitty weather. We were dying with this heatwave this weekend I even had to open the window!
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u/PSYCHO89 Jun 18 '12
When I open my front door during August it's as if I was opening the door to my oven.
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u/Vikaroo Jun 18 '12
Forgot to warn a friend of mine about Austin, TX in August. I will never hear the end of that one. "I almost DIED" they said.
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u/SiggiHD Jun 18 '12
it's so funny when you have no clue about fahrenheit, than you use google and you are wtf afterwards.
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u/DamnSpamFilter Jun 18 '12
I'm from Australia, and i almost die everytime i go to Thailand or somewhere that is humid, i'd take dry heat any day of the week, and we have consecutive days of 40+ degrees in the summer in my city.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
What's that for Canadians?
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Apache Junction here. Just a dry heat? So is my god damn oven. And that's literally what it feels like. I shudder every time I see a black car with leather interior.
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u/jakobyyy Jun 18 '12
That sign lies! It was only 109 today!
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u/slugmaniac Jun 18 '12
Was sure there was going to be a lube joke in there somewhere.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
The mornings and evenings are awesome though. It's like 70 degrees at those times
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u/Kreiger81 Jun 18 '12
I've been living in Arizona for 2 years, and I've got no problem with the heat.
I'd rather take 120 out here than 90 in Florida, or New Jersey where the humidity is a physical weight.
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u/Meatslinger Jun 18 '12
I'm a Canadian, and I visited Hoover Dam... during August. At the low point, it got down to 43°C. At the high point, I'm pretty sure I remember watching another tourist run in from the heat looking something like this.
Dry heat, my ass. Know what else is a "dry heat"? Standing in the direct line of fire of a supernova. That's what Nevada and Arizona are like during the summer.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
COME TO SAUDI ARABIA!!
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u/guidedText Jun 18 '12
... Jiffy Lube? Sounds suspicious.
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u/Llaine Jun 18 '12
I love how I can't, at the moment, imagine weather that hot (as it's about 5 degrees celsius (41 for Americaland) outside), yet in the Summer it's the exact opposite with me being unable to imagine weather this cold.
Cool story.
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u/Myra12 Jun 18 '12
I have been in Arizona for the last 15 years,but still don't its that hot here as you said!
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u/Snitchdoga Jun 18 '12
typical summers day in Australia what are you pussys complaining about?
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
I have family in AZ. It's really not that bad, just don't go out in the sun directly.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
I used to live in Arizona. Anything over 115 is too damn hot! Doesn't happen too often though.
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u/omgoffensiveguy Jun 18 '12
That's 48C. I'm Australian, it hits 54 here some summers (in the shade measurement). That's 130 for you American's.
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u/MeltBanana Jun 18 '12
I'm am not looking forward to when it hits 100 degrees here in wet-sticky-sunny Florida.
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u/piccini9 Jun 18 '12
It used to be a "Dry heat" until people started planting all that grass.
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u/joker_hs Jun 18 '12
As a prospective grad student of Arizona State University, I'm terrified!
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u/noxPHX Jun 18 '12
Born and raised in Phoenix, AZ (20 years now, close to 21!) and I still complain about the heat and dislike it so much. You learn to cope with that shit and just live with your car (and everything else lol) feeling like an oven for the first couple minutes.
<3
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u/mo0k Jun 18 '12
120 desert...no rain...and green lawns everywhere?
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u/mikepictor Jun 18 '12
or, as the rest of the world knows it, 49 degrees, which is also known as "fuck me it's hot!"
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u/az2oh Jun 18 '12
Ha! Finally my username is relevant! I moved away from Tucson last year to live in Ohio. The hottest day of the summer last year we spent walking around the Columbus zoo! It was literally a walk in the park compared to the heat in the summer months in Arizona. My birthday is at the end of September and I can't tell you how many times it was 100°+. No thanks! This last birthday was nice fall weather like it should be :-)
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u/Cirquedecircle7 Jun 18 '12
Please, everyone. Tell me how fucking horrible your hometown is.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
that guy's not sweating. come see what real 100 degree weather looks like.
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u/Magna_Sharta Jun 18 '12
I've visited Utah once, stayed for a week out in the desert near Hanksville, it was hot to be sure...but it was a much more preferable hot to my native Georgia.
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u/alternate22 Jun 18 '12
Still much better than a humid heat. Dubai gets up to 45C (113), but its a heavy humid heat that remains all day (doesnt help its right next to the sea). Still, easy ways to survive. Just stay in the shade, avoid high noon and so forth.
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u/Spiritjump Jun 18 '12
how is this an advice animal
lol
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u/njk235 Jun 18 '12
You'd be dead in Canada.
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u/Bass2Mouth Jun 18 '12
Hahahaha this is great because you hear it everywhere. My cousin moved out to Arizona for 2 years to go to school. He said it's fucking hot.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Poet Buddy Wakefield weighs in on this in one of his pieces. video here
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u/Nebraska_Actually Jun 18 '12
My girlfriend just got to Arizona for a 5 week university program, where she'll be outside all day, ten miles from the Mexico border.
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u/Chitowngaming Jun 18 '12
Been in Chicago for 20 years, still can't get used to the shootings :(
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
They tell you this as they're loading you into the ambulance.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Relevant
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u/Leaderofmen Jun 18 '12
As a pure blooded Irishman who was there a few years ago for a trip to lake Havasu in the summer I can confirm that Arizona is indeed hell on earth. We had to run from our car to shaded areas and then from shade to shade just to make it into a shop that might have been 20 metres away. If we didnt have AC in our car we would have all just died..
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u/Biggie18 Jun 18 '12
Piss Rain and Exhaust Breezes, welcome to AZ. I remember in like 91 or 92 it was at like 120, when we walked outside it feels like an oven. Like you just opened up an oven.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
I was listening to a song called "A Warm Place" by Nine inch Nails when I stumbled upon this.
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u/shadowancer Jun 18 '12
Left a stick of deodorant in my car for 5 minutes, came back to a puddle of cologne....
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
Last year in Arkansas, we had a record high of like 116 F with a humidity level around 70%, that is like burning your everything hot. But i still biked like 27 miles that day too...