Arizona community hits 110 degrees F, the highest March temperature recorded in the US

I’m in my festival pants already and I was severely tempted to go fishing today - and I am not a cold weather fishing person. It’s damned near hot enough to bust out my kayak. Hell, it’s not even 11 am… I might just do it anyway. *username checks out*

I know someone who lived there and turned their ac off in the summer before a trip so they could save money. They came home to a melted mattress.

Vulnerable people would die. Generally though Phoenix doesn’t have the humidity required to reach dangerous wet bulb temperatures.

I moved out of Phoenix because of the state of Arizona's absolutely insane water mismanagement that lets farmers grow some of the most water intensive crops in the middle of insanely dry deserts. It's only a matter of time before those water wells can't drill any deeper to find water

> When it’s 120 degrees out, without ac it takes like an hour before your house will be 90 plus degrees inside A few years ago when it hit 115F in Seattle (where 80-something% of people don't have A/C) my little window unit was doing the best it could, got the bedroom down to 87F. Woke up the next day frozen solid as the temp had dropped to 59F by sunrise.

I grew up in the Phoenix suburbs in a house that only had an evap cooler. Worked just fine until the water got too warm, but we’d spend July- September with the house over 90 degrees. Spent most of my summer breaks at the library or the c**** second run movie theater.

I too moved out of a place that isn’t even as hot as Phoenix for the same reasons. When its that hot at 2am, you begin ruminating on the calculus of a no-air conditioning situation and it gives you the heebie jeebies.

Oh, wow. I never watched this episode but I totally thought Bobby said that from the meme.

That bit always got me, I mean they're from Texas...no strangers to heat themselves yes? It got above 100 regularly in San Antonio/Lackland when I was going through basic (June/July/August)

Went to vegas last July. It was 108° when the plane landed. They opened the plane door and you could literally watch the wave of heat hit row after row as it swept to the back of the plane. If I ever go back to Vegas it will be in f****** January. 

Vegas was like 94 yesterday

Yep. Nothing like growing alfalfa (one of the most water intensive crops on earth) in the f****** desert. And they use most of it to feed their cows.

At least the state government is finally taking action against those (in spite of rabid protests from Republicans in the state legislature). They’ll never curtail golf course constructions, of course, which use almost as much water and also give you Parkinson’s disease.

I don’t remember living in Phoenix in the 80s (I never lived there & also wasn’t born yet). It was never that hot in March.

Relax, they were just using their anecdote as to help verify the existence of climate change

I am thankful for both. The attempt to make light of the present horrible situation you Americans seem to have found / put yourself in. And? The person that states the obvious because, for everyone that voted for your Orange Goon o' Goons, looks like the Obvious just 'taint Obvious enough for ye. Bless All Yer Cotton Socks, i say. Americans, i met lots of ye. None of you deserve this sh!t. It is brutal on everyone except the 0.0001% who just think they love the suffering of everyone else.

Exactly. They are preparing for it, not averting it.

a handful of corporations are responsible for very disproportionate amounts of carbon pollution but the lives of regular western people will also be required to change drastically to avert catastrophe

Well said

Decisions are made every step of the way. Our individual behaviours can steer consumption in greener directions, industry regulations can address the things in manufacturing that are opaque to us, and taxation can dissuade emissive consumption and account for environmental externalities. The individual carbon footprint isn't a lie, it's the part of the overall solution that encourages awareness and conscientious consumption so that people don't have to be dragged kicking and screaming toward a future with a planet that's actually habitable for us.

I reinforce mine with plastic packing tape. Works a treat.

That's climate change, significantly increases extreme weather, both hot and cold, along with intense rain, etc

> My seasonal affective disorder was way worse in the summer I get this pretty bad living in the south and everyone always looks at me like I have two heads when I say my seasonal affective disorder flares up in the summer. "But how?? summer is the best season!" Not for me it isn't. Just brutal and overwhelming heat/humidity making even the short trip to the mailbox absolutely miserable, having the blinds/curtains drawn all day every day to keep the house cool, having to shuttle around from A/C building to A/C building like some post-apocalyptic world with radioactive air because even 5 minutes out in the heat makes me sweat enough to need a towel, never being able to feel 'clean' because of the layers and layers of sweat drying on your skin throughout the day...good thing it only lasts 7-8 months of the year though! Honestly, summer itself can be especially brutal, but it's this specific time of the year that hits me the hardest. Something about feeling the joy of a brisk afternoon fading away into these muggy, oppressive days (and knowing there is absolutely zero reprieve until like October) makes spring incredibly depressing to me. At least by peak summer time the reality has set in and I can focus on the fact that fall is getting closer and closer every day. There are a lot of things I really, really love about North Carolina, but the weather is *absolutely* not one of them. I've been trying to convince my partner to move somewhere colder for years, but she was raised in Boston and specifically moved down here to get away from the cold, so it's a pretty tricky compromise to strike. Maybe one day...

All the old fucks in congress don't care either because they know they will be dead soon.

Apart from launching nuclear weapons he appears to be doing as much as possible to kill us all. Luckily, venal graft occasionally gets in the way, but all the Dark Enlightenment chucklefucks greasing around under the bleachers can't wait for 3/4 of the USA to get killed so they can replace us with copies of their favorite science fiction novels. I tell ya back in the 80s we knew what to do with nerds.

They build data centers for AI that people don’t want, on borrowed money, with inadequate energy infrastructure. 

You... had your door open when it was 105 out? Me thinks your concept of "nice" is vastly different than literally everyone I have ever talked to.

Oh sorry! I meant Arcata! They went to the college there, friends I worked in the forest service with. Beautiful area up there (and back in 2013 they literally brought a gallon ziplock bag of weed for the whole field crew to smoke for free).

Predig some graves so the frozen ground isn't a problem :-)