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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIts past 11pm and it's still 95 degrees outside.
The daytime high was 107 degrees, sure this is the Mojave desert, but that's only a 12 degree difference. We usually get a significant temperature drop at night, sometimes a 40 - 50 degree change, but over the years the temperatures are steadily getting a bit hotter, the they are staying hot for longer periods. I can only attribute these high nighttime temperatures to climate change. No doubt my air conditioner will run throughout the night, but I sure couldn't live here without it. There are poor families and elderly folks who live in old houses out here with nothing but an evaporative cooler, and I know they must be mighty uncomfortable tonight.
Any other desert dwellers out there? How's your thermometer looking?
MLAA
(17,277 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)And that is in North West Vegas. Had to make a pick up on the Strip at 4:30,117degrees. Got home still 111 at 5.
Blame this heat on what is known as the Yuma Low. This Sucker seems to form more often since 2000. And yes it is Climate Change.
VigilantG
(374 posts)kentuck
(111,078 posts)In Colorado.
I told my wife that we had a very short summer (2 days) and we were now going into winter.
Those high temperatures in Phoenix, Las Vegas, and parts of California are unbelievable! When does it become uninhabitable?