How Hot is Arizona? Warning

I asked in an earlier post about how hot it is in Arizona. I'm now
posting to anyone else who thinks they want to "feel the heat" in
Arizona or anyone other places that experience temperatures over 100F.
I recently spent time in 95 degree heat and later that day I literally
thought I might die. You hear about people who die in heat waves and
you think it can't happen to you? That's what I thought. Think of what
100F+ could do to you. I will never go to Arizona or anywhere else when
the temperatures are over 100F. Just the thought of doing so gives me
chills. This is a warning for all those curious.

wrote:

I recently spent time in 95 degree heat and later that day
I literally thought I might die.

We were in Texas last week (Houston, South Padre Island,
San Antonio) and the intense sun, heat and humidity were
just killer. We enjoyed the trip and folks were wonderful
but we came away with an appreciation for air conditioning.

gld

On 7 Aug 2005 22:09:30 -0700, wrote:

I asked in an earlier post about how hot it is in Arizona. I'm now
posting to anyone else who thinks they want to "feel the heat" in
Arizona or anyone other places that experience temperatures over 100F.
I recently spent time in 95 degree heat and later that day I literally
thought I might die. You hear about people who die in heat waves and
you think it can't happen to you? That's what I thought. Think of what
100F+ could do to you. I will never go to Arizona or anywhere else when
the temperatures are over 100F. Just the thought of doing so gives me
chills. This is a warning for all those curious.

Hi

I am from the UK and overweight - I really do not like our summers
when the temperature can reach a blistering 75 degrees!!! 8^)

However, my wife and I regularly visit Arizona (we are doing so again
in a couple of weeks) and I find the temperature - even in the high
90s, quite pleasant and bearable. I have done a full days walk in
over 95 degree heat and thoroughly enjoyed it, staying quite
comfortable. The reason is that the heat in the desert is a DRY heat
with little or no humidity. However, we make sure that we drink a lot
of Gatorade whilst in those temperatures.

Having said that, we once tried to camp at "Painted Rocks Campground"
in Southern Arizona in a temperature of 109 degrees (this was
according to the campground host who had a thermometer in the shade
outside his trailer). We had pitched our tent under some trees in the
only shade we could find and later, when we crawled into the tent to
go to sleep, we just looked at each other and without saying a word
crawled out again dragging our sleeping bags with us - we slept
outside on a couple of picnic tables.

Regards

KGB

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I will never go to Arizona or anywhere else when the temperatures
are over 100F. Just the thought of doing so gives me chills.

Interestng turn of phrase.
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wrote:
I will never go to Arizona or anywhere else when
the temperatures are over 100F. Just the thought of doing so gives me
chills.

Well, that's just what you need on the spot, isn't it? :-)

You hear about people who die in heat waves
and you think it can't happen to you? That's what
I thought. Think of what 100F+ could do to you

Different people have different levels of tolerance for heat, but it
definitely can kill. The low humidity makes the heat feel more
tolerable, but you lose a lot of water through perspiration and it's
easy to get dehydrated very quickly.

In Death Valley, for example, a ranger told me they average 1 or 2
tourist deaths a year due to heat/dehydration, and in some cases it
happens in a matter of hours.

Lots of factors though -- amount of shade, whether or not there's a
breeze, how much water you're drinking, etc.

Jim

wrote:
You hear about people who die in heat waves
and you think it can't happen to you? That's what
I thought. Think of what 100F+ could do to you

Different people have different levels of tolerance for heat, but it
definitely can kill. The low humidity makes the heat feel more
tolerable, but you lose a lot of water through perspiration and it's
easy to get dehydrated very quickly.


Of course Phoenix and other parts of Arizona are just coming out of their
yearly monsoonal-flow period when the humidity becomes unbearable. My body
hates a humid 90 a lot more than a dry 105. But yes, Always drink water, and
then some. Nex

Gary L. Dare wrote:
wrote:

I recently spent time in 95 degree heat and later that day
I literally thought I might die.

We were in Texas last week (Houston, South Padre Island,
San Antonio) and the intense sun, heat and humidity were
just killer. We enjoyed the trip and folks were wonderful
but we came away with an appreciation for air conditioning.


I live in Sacramento and visited Houston about a month ago. Sacto is
less humid, but 105 is 105. We usually stay home during the hottest
time of the day, close all blinds and turn on the fan.


gld

Gary L. Dare wrote:
wrote:

I recently spent time in 95 degree heat and later that day
I literally thought I might die.

We were in Texas last week (Houston, South Padre Island,
San Antonio) and the intense sun, heat and humidity were
just killer. We enjoyed the trip and folks were wonderful
but we came away with an appreciation for air conditioning.


I live in Sacramento and visited Houston about a month ago. Sacto is
less humid, but 105 is 105. We usually stay home during the hottest
time of the day, close all blinds and turn on the fan.


gld

On 7 Aug 2005 22:09:30 -0700, wrote:

I asked in an earlier post about how hot it is in Arizona. I'm now
posting to anyone else who thinks they want to "feel the heat" in
Arizona or anyone other places that experience temperatures over 100F.
I recently spent time in 95 degree heat and later that day I literally
thought I might die. You hear about people who die in heat waves and
you think it can't happen to you? That's what I thought. Think of what
100F+ could do to you. I will never go to Arizona or anywhere else when
the temperatures are over 100F. Just the thought of doing so gives me
chills. This is a warning for all those curious.

And we Arizonans thank you for not coming, since we'd just as
soon not be bothered with disposing of your body next summer..

High temps recently have been in the mid-90s here in Tucson and
we've had some astounding monsoon rains. Humidity's up around a
muggy 30%, though. That stretch of 34 days of 100+ highs was
getting tiresome, and it only tied the record for consecutive
triple digit highs; one more day and we'd at least have had a
record.

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