Temperatures in Phoenix could break 129-year record

Sweltering heat is gripping parts of the country, putting 29 million people under alerts from California to Texas. Temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona, could hit 113 degrees, breaking a 129-year record. TODAY’s Dylan Dreyer tracks the latest forecast.
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[@PaulStevens-se9lc]

the California transplants are going to be packing up and heading back home.

[@TheRealGrayman]

We can only hope

[@DesertRascal]

Yeah, but the rent in Cali is hotter than PHX's weather. Not to mention they won't be able to find their homes now that they are buried under Fentanyl shanty towns.

[@PaulStevens-se9lc]

@@DesertRascal liberal policies at work... they are getting exactly what they've been voting for... they just fail to understand the connection so they continue voting blue. Then when it gets too bad, they run like refuges to red states.

[@garyt3hsna1l82]

I bought 3 rental properties in flagstaff for the cost of a studio apartment in rent in LA. _The rest of the country is like easy mode after making my bones in so cal I could retire anywhere i just like to golf and 4x4 in AZ, it doesn't really matter where i live ive already done my part, thanks for being good tenants.

[@PaulStevens-se9lc]

@@garyt3hsna1l82 in other words you couldnt afford to buy a house in california.

[@frankpeletz1818]

Make sure that thermometer is located between a solar farm and a large black top parking lot to take full advantage of the heat.

[@keithlewis4250]

Arizona is a desert state.

[@onlylettersand0to9]

And now it's an even hotter desert state. It's pretty amazing how much effort people put into NOT THINKING. We're seeing one heat record broken after another but people still brush all the facts away with stupid stuff like "Arizona is a desert state."

[@formerlyfromthefuton8171]

​@@onlylettersand0to9We've also seen records for cold and early snowfall in recent years. I guess we should be worried that the climate is getting colder!

[@almitrahopkins1873]

I live in Arizona. I also know how to cut some of the heat. The problem is that people don’t understand what radiant heat is. I dump a couple of gallons of water on my driveway every hour or so. If it takes 30 second to fully evaporate, I do it again right away. What I’m doing is using the heat trapped in the driveway to evaporate the water. That keeps the driveway cooler than my neighbor’s driveway, so it isn’t radiating heat all through the day. It creates a small pocket of cooler, denser air on my property. If the cities with canals running through them would crack the canals every 30’ or so to let water seep into the surrounding soil, the vegetation that would grow would convert solar energy into chemical energy for growth, preventing radiant heat energy from collecting and contribute to cloud cover through the respiration of the plants. It would turn those canals into natural river valleys, cooling the entire area around them by several degrees. That would also prevent water from evaporating from the canals, because they would be flowing through natural cool pockets. That simple bit of knowledge from 10th grade science electives in high school is why my neighbors suffer in the heat and I can sit out in my garage at 120 degrees and be perfectly comfortable.

[@onlylettersand0to9]

@@formerlyfromthefuton8171 You could guess--or you could run the numbers. If you ran the numbers, you'd see that the record heat numbers greatly exceed the record cold numbers. If you need even more research, you'd know that the record cold numbers have been caused by strong winds blowing arctic heat where it just doesn't belong.

[@formerlyfromthefuton8171]

@@onlylettersand0to9 Yeah, because you've "run the numbers." 🙄 The simple fact is that temperatures fluctuate. This "news" article itself confirms that it was hotter 129 years ago. It's no coincidence that the people who push the climate change narrative are the same people who push the _🏳️‍🌈_ agenda. They just can't think straight on anything.

[@funzflo9029]

So global warming is not a thing if we are barely breaking a record from 129 years ago.

[@PaulStevens-se9lc]

first comment on the video said basically the same thing, and that comment has since been deleted by youtube lol.

[@jeffreygunn3530]

This just in: It gets hot in the desert in the summer.

[@tterb777]

In 120 + years buddy That’s a little different

[@userG5447]

Only 112° here in SE AZ but yes! It's a dry heat! 🥵🥵

[@DeffoZappo]

113° is normal for Phoenix. They act like this never happened before and then proceeded to say it happened 129 years ago

[@TuckFinn831]

..and 129 years ago could have been their first reading. My guess is, because it's a freaking desert, is that it has been dry and super hot for hundreds of years.. perhaps even more dramatic because it's A DESERT. lol

[@the_real_life_bondgirl]

Yup lived here since 22.. and 117 plus common in dry June. In fact, have had the coolest October-May on record.. every month has been way below normal for 7 months plus. We barely hit 100 just a week ago. This is not a record. Nor is it excessive. Normal highs for today are 106. All a scam

[@Xx-po1fu]

If the heat breaks a record, than it has never been this hot before.

[@DeffoZappo]

@@Xx-po1fu title of video even says "could".

[@TuckFinn831]

@@Xx-po1fu Duke Archibald Cunningham III first recorded Arizona heat in the year of our lord 725

[@65tjomo]

This is totally normal for Phoenix every year.

[@OrangeGuyBlows]

Apparently not this early ...once in the last 129....hardly normal.

[@the_real_life_bondgirl]

@@OrangeGuyBlows Lived here 30 years.. 113 happened on June 8 in 2020 and 114 on June 9 in 2021. So its off by a day.. no biggie. They are sensationalizing this to promote their climate change garbage. Normal high her eis 106 right now. Being 5-7 degrees over is normal range!! We averaged 10 degrees cooler than normal all Jan, Feb, March, April and May.

[@michaelellringer5600]

In Beijing, China, 2 million people live underground in old bomb shelters, 20 degrees cooler. Unfortunately, Phoenix doesn't have underground bomb shelters.

[@bucktooth002]

We have underground two lane highways.

[@UVJ_Scott]

It’s what happens when you create sprawling cities of concrete and asphalt. They become heat sinks. Tell us what the temperatures are in the country.

[@erictheisen3203]

I can feel the heat for those states California, Arizona and others.

[@eddiew2325]

Don’t forget North Dakota

[@brucewayne-ej3cx]

Sweet guess I'll hop in the pool then .

[@almitrahopkins1873]

The heat isn’t that bad. You can cut some of it by spraying down your driveway to evaporate the water and cause cloud formation. If 100,000 people in Phoenix do it, the temperature will drop as clouds form over the city. If it’s just you, the heat being absorbed by your driveway will be burned off by evaporating water, making your property just a touch cooler.

[@bucktooth002]

That only happens in Gilbert, they all turn on thier water at 8PM, temperature drops 10°.

[@almitrahopkins1873]

@@bucktooth002 Do you think the two might be related? It’s just basic science after all.

[@bucktooth002]

@@almitrahopkins1873 yes, cool lawns are best. I want to get misters, I have zero shade. Two retractable awnings would be nice.

[@TuckFinn831]

It's hot in the desert you say? WEIRD.

[@susannyysti869]

113 yesterday, 112 today in Phoenix...we arent usually this hot this soon

[@katekurosky2042]

Is it like walking into a sauna I bet?!😂 80 degrees in Minnesota feels like that

[@LumiOlpero]

So it was hotter 129 years ago. Interesting

[@PaulStevens-se9lc]

imagine that... it was hotter 13 years BEFORE the Model-T was first invented. Wonder what was causing all that global warming since it clearly wasnt the cars.

[@rushfortacos]

​@@PaulStevens-se9lcLarge scale industries have been around a long time but climate change isn't just breaking records, it's rare event happening more often. So in a world without massive human pollution a heatwave would not be happening again so soon.

[@UGALEE1]

@@rushfortacos a shame that core samples are showing that the Earth historically has been much hotter than we are currently and are calling it a temporary hypothermic period.

[@rushfortacos]

@@UGALEE1 yeah, who's disputing that? Climate change isn't implying the climate never changes or that it's never been worse, There was an ice age not that long ago. It's the unnaturally accelerated change brought by us.

[@PaulStevens-se9lc]

@@rushfortacos feel free to be the first to take a stand and go reduce your carbon footprint to zero.

[@mopthermopther]

The heat wave is punishment for sin

[@TuckFinn831]

CARBON SIN

[@the_real_life_bondgirl]

No it is haarp and chemical spraying causing high pressure heat domes courtesy of your gubmint

[@mopthermopther]

😆😁😄😃😀

[@NerooScott]

Texas gets to 110 degrees lol phoenix is a desert state should’nt be shocking

[@craigcolby895]

OMG ! You mean it gets hot in Arizona in the summer ? Who could have predicted that ? Been in Az for 50+ years in the hottest place in the state. Trust me, there’s nothing new here. They are just gaslighting…. Again

[@Just4AZ1]

News flash: We live in the desert. It's hot. Very, very hot.

[@SuperVideowatcher01]

Didn't Phoenix hit 121 back in 1990? It's ben on average like 115 there for years now

[@intimidate2161]

I was in Pheonix 15 years ago on vacation and it was 107, 3 days in a row. Every day now weather records are broken. Their made to break. I don't want a weather record to stand for 5,000 years.

[@redhammer1917]

It’s early June this usually happens in July August

[@martindavis9930]

Rats love heat. The rats at the Phoenix VA are bigger than cats.

[@SoySauceFilms]

This has to be made man heat

[@theconqueringram5295]

"This town should not exist, Bobby! It is a monument to man's arrogance!" -Peggy Hill

[@user-dx7ki6ck5h]

HOW CAN WE BLAME TRUMP?

[@annacurransmotherofmeghanc1841]

Simple, he obviously did it. There I just blamed him.

[@marg22az]

WEgot this AZ

[@upsguppy520]

HOW IS IT PUMPING HEAT FROM THE SOUTH IF ITS COOLER IN THE SOUTH

[@bucktooth002]

Lower sea level.

[@tterb777]

129 years

[@dealpha3698]

I'm Glad summer is done in here.

[@aarone9000]

I'm goung to move into a desert; what could possibly go wrong? 😅

[@russellamaru5175]

Remember folks, we came out of an ice age 10,000 years ago and have thus, been warming ever since. And we humans did NOT create this warming trend because of industrialization. The Anasazi Indians, AKA Puebloans, lived in the four corners area of the USA about 1,000 years ago but eventually moved out of that area due to drought!! Climate Change!!

[@formerlyfromthefuton8171]

There was no ice age. One guy floated that theory and the so-called scientific community picked up the ball and ran with it. The best evidence points to a worldwide flood, but people insist on dismissing that evidence out of hand because they hate the other implications of that evidence.

[@thehaywire8889]

It's summer!

[@efitchpatric]

Not yet, June 20th.

[@emiliobello2538]

Mystery heatwave scorches through Arizona I am currently taking online classes at Arizona State University

[@CCs.p.i]

How are you liking that desert heat? I used to rough wire houses, pulling home runs in the rafters at 123 degrees when I lived out there in the early 2000s

[@the_real_life_bondgirl]

Mystery? It is mid June. Our average temp is 106 in June. Being 5-10 degrees more than that is normal

[@jeffreygunn3530]

@@the_real_life_bondgirl Exactly. That's the meaning of "average." Some days are a few degrees warmer. Some are a few degrees cooler.

[@user-mb6ty7ti5k]

This is just the beginning. Expect 130s.

[@tomsimpson5317]

The world is a nightmare

[@annacurransmotherofmeghanc1841]

Naive people don't realize that they changed the location of where they take their temp readings from, the last few years they have been getting the official readouts from the same temp gauges that measure the tarmac at whatever major airport is nearest you. They've always taken the temp readings from the airports but they changed which thermometer they used at the airports.

[@DesertRascal]

You are a meteorologist? Maybe you should tell the scientists that they made a booboo.

[@jabreck1934]

@@DesertRascal I hope you listened to the “ scientist“ And got vaccinated.😂🤣☠️

[@bucktooth002]

Apache Junction hit 106°, yesterday. Before that 102°, 100°.

[@annacurransmotherofmeghanc1841]

​@@jabreck1934Don't forget the top off's or else your immune system might recover and they can't be having that now.

[@elleaubry3772]

All the fools on here denying what an additional 20° heat will do to people, plant life and animals.

[@TuckFinn831]

Imagine how hot it was when it originally turned into a desert.. whom shall we blame? Aztecs? Myans? ... the Jurassic 5? I want reparations.

[@earbunnyisgloomy9613]

Yay!! This is awesome!!

Think they can add even more deep red, purple, and other scary colors to represent hot weather on the summer maps? These idiots are gaslighting as usual.

[@MoniqueVillegas-dg4cj]

It's hot here😂😂😂 Ive been here my whole life this don't be HAPPENING

[@constantineDemonkiller-wy8ts]

Shadow gov doing this with sun reflection

[@djmouseshadow4735]

Keep in mind: it takes nearly 4 decades before CO2 begins to “greenhouse”. The temperatures we have now are from 1980 emissions.

[@aarone9000]

Maybe thise bright, cimmie-red; caps will keep people cool!

[@mattburrito]

its very hot in las vegas too its what happens when you live in the desert with a lack of parkland

[@GoingOffMyMeds]

Enjoy, Dems.

[@michaelt3308]

I blame Trump

[@CurrentlyUnidentified]

Maybe if people learn to stop being selfish, careless and adding on to the problem of climate change then things won't be getting worse everyday. This world is overpopulated it doesn't need anymore people end of story. Etc.

[@Jacksontrooper777]

How do you suggest we stop it?

[@CurrentlyUnidentified]

@@Jacksontrooper777 The reason why climate change exist is because of humanity themselves. A way to fix things without any destruction is for everyone to come together as one to make a change, for an example the MAIN REAON the climate is changing is because of overpopulation so ppl need to stop reproducing, if they want a kid so bad they can adopt or just get a pet. Too much carbon dioxide stuck in the earth's atmosphere is another reason why the climate is changing. Imagine 8 billion people breathing out carbon every second and 8 billion people using fossil fuels such as generating electricity and heat every single day. In my opinion to solve this without destruction is to make an agreement together to stop adding people to this unorganized world and find a way to realease the trapped carbon out into outer space. Realistically the only way to solve all of this is to proceed with the Blue Beam Project. Destroy everything and rebuild it back up because if the president were to go on the podium right now and say something like "This planet doesn't need anymore ppl, almost 9 billion. No more reproducing and doing whatever you want when you want, this is not a free state anymore there will be more order, we must work together to keep things maintained." Do you know how many riots might break out just bc of that -_- this planet is doomed. Etc.