Phoenix #2 here: If your health permits, try to drink three quarts of water per day in this kind of weather. One while you’re sitting on the toilet just having woken up. A second after you’ve been awake for about 20 minutes and the third one around noon. Later in the day, go for quart #4 via sips vs. chugging. Also avoid the caffeine. Wear loose clothing and a hat. Forget about jogging. And keep you pets indoors: the pads on their paws can easily burn.
Our dry heat gives us a proverbial leg up. Much easier to handle 110º here than when I lived in Manhattan or a small town in Connecticut. Stay cool and safe..!!
OK, Phoenix here. Hard to get excited about 105, even if it feels like 111. Today’s high in my backyard was108, fairly cool for July! We’ve regularly had 117, and a few 119 days, with the record at 122. Hot, yes. Dry heat? Not during monsoon, when we’re 115 AND 80% humidity. Best PR anywhere on the dry heat fallacy! Stay cool US! I’m going in the pool!
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Ozy Fest is the 2019 Frye Fest?
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@Darren lol you were proven correct almost 2years later.
Thank God OZY Fest was cancelled. I really cannot stand having so many so-called influencers all gathered in one place to blather on about nothing. It's like a series of TED Talks, but with twice the feel-good platitudes and none of the educational content.
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Re the heatwave story, what is considered "Upper Manhattan"? Does it include the Upper West Side and Morningside Heights?
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"OZY Fest" - come on, everybody showed restraint on this? No one said anything about an "Azi-Fest." The theater review commenters lately would have had five people on that in the first hour. if I have to be the first...
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Give me winter all the time!
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“There are too many parking spaces in New York, the City Council speaker, Corey Johnson, said.”
Sometimes his being Mayor looks inevitable, that we'll have our very own Mayor Pete - then he just blurts out something and we all go "Huh?" He likes to dance, so maybe we can use a subliminal disco song to get the Speaker to keep, um, “controversial” ideas from leaving his mouth until he’s elected?
Tune of "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car"
(car owners)
Hey, you, don’t mess with our cars!
Yes, you, don’t mess with our cars!
Shush now, Speaker -
Watch what thoughts you share
(Hush now, Speaker)
Chance looks weaker
To become our Mayor, yes we care.
You looked strong since the parade
But what you’re saying makes ‘em throw shade.
If you’ve got crazy notions there in your head.
Maybe leave a few thoughts unsaid.
Hey, Mayor of our dreams -
Don’t mess with their cars
Gay Mayor of our dreams - don’t mess it up now!
Don’t mess with their cars
You’re out of the race
If you go that far.
So watch it, hey, whoa!
Don’t mess with their -
Heck, no - Don’t mess with their - cars.
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Fyre Festival all over again
So embarrassing for NYC
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A thought....
I remember many brutal heatwaves past. Is this REALLY any different,? Can this feeling stem from a bombardment of weather news from our increased connectivity? Could it also be that we are highly sensitive to any extreme weather b/c of the recent glut of climate change publicity?
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@megachulo, I think Kellyanne Conway calls it "Fake heat." :)
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I remember one early June weekend sitting both days at my kitchen table with my bare feet in a bucket of cold water while correcting final exams.
It was mighty hot in the 1980s. If I did have an air conditioner in my bedroom in those days, I guess -- as now -- I wasn't putting it on in the daytime. Doing so seems decadent.
But I do believe that our climate is changing, not because the days are hot but because our growing seasons are different. Trees are flowering earlier.
And cicadas are calling right now instead of waiting for August.
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Glut? So we shouldn’t pay too much attention to climate change because it’s just pr
please note that most of the cooling centers are closed on the weekend!
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"It’s going to be so hot that Mayor de Blasio canceled his presidential campaign events to stay in the city."
Thoughts and prayers.
"Mt. Vernon has two mayors and a police chief who was arrested by his own officers."
Something is rotten in the city of Mt. Vernon.
“I’m 30-something years old, I’m putting stuff on my credit card, I’m not rich like Chelsea Clinton, I don’t have it,” he said. “I’m a poor kid from the South Side of Mount Vernon, so I used everything I had.”
Chelsea Clinton is the go-to scapegoat for everyone these days. On Twitter, people were blaming HER for Trump's racist remarks about the "squad," including Ilhan Omar.
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I hope I don't sound naive, but can someone tell me WHY we would want to land on the moon?
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@lucky13
Resources. Other celestial bodies are potentially packed with materials we can use on earth. And/or colonization (?). Traveling to the moon is a way to test the journey. It’s much closer.
My opinion ....
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Because some people still cherish things of the mind?
Or, more practical, because everyone benefits from new technology?
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@lucky13 Bragging rights.
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Also remember to ask yourself “Do I Really want to move to Phoenix?”.
It is 110-120 degrees every single day from July to mid-September. Instead of using your furnace from October to May you will use your air conditioner from April to October.
But it’s a dry heat.
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@Anonymously - I remember how everyone was over the moon about an actress' dedication when the great actress Victoria Clark decided to do research by spending a week or so in Phoenix before playing Sally who was literally as the big doing went "losing my mind" in the show "Follies." (Her first lines are "Now folks we bring you direct from Phoenix live and in person Sally Durant."). Then I had a chance to spend some time there, and even with the heat, it was just lovely. So next time anyone calls a week in Phoenix a sacrifice for her art, I'll say it sure wasn't like spending a week behind enemy lines overseas! Ms. Clark was perfect, though, in the show both times she did the role - and I guess her CPA felt Ok deducting her Phoenix vacation, LOL.
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And I hope I didn't miss anyone seeking my autograph when I left.
I couldn't get to everyone due to crowd size.
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Human nature is funny. People like to hear extreme weather forecasts. In the winter if it is 20 deg, we are told it is 5 deg with the wind chill. Same in the summer, if it is going to be 98 deg, we are told the heat index is 110 deg.
But never a milder prediction. A winter 20 deg is never given a 30 deg when it is a sunny day with no wind, nor is a summer 98 deg given a 85 deg heat index if the day will be overcast with a breeze.
98 deg F is hot enough thank you. Yikes! The actual temp alone is worrisome, No need to add on, we got the message!.
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@Billy from Brooklyn, I've always felt if it FEELS like 105 degrees then why should any of us care if anyone calls it anything other than 105 degrees; if it FEELS like minus 2, then whatever they call it, it IS minus 2. Anything else is public relations.
It's like if I like a show, it's good. If I'm bored, it can be worthy until the cows come home. That's why I didn't like trying to be a theater critic for two weeks for the college paper, despite loving the free tickets. "Sugar Babies" with Mickey Rooney had me floating on air, while "Evita" the same season had me shaking my head. :)
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@Billy from Brooklyn
I don't know anyone who welcomes bad weather, which is uncomfortable, inconvenient, and sometimes dangerous. The wind chill and heat factors are important because they tell a story the temperature alone doesn't.
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I'm sure some form of heat index goes back to the cavemen and fire, but what did we do before Wind Chill?
I have wondered if anyone else used to think of "It's WindChill Mahoney Time" for the Winchell-Mahoney Time. (My folks are almost pretty sure when Walter Winchell was reporting, no one really talked about wind chill yet, so no one thought Walter WindChill.)
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