Toasty

[CaveCreekRay]

Ike,

I feel your pain. When it was 478 degrees here last week a friend in Lake Tahoe sent me pictures of a fresh three inch snowfall. I told him he knew how to piss off his buddies down south. I told him it was only fair that he should ship a few thousand boxes of snow out our way to cool us down. LOL! He said he'd get right on it.

Reminds me of a thought experiment I came up with during a winter in Illinois...

Imagine dividing the atmosphere up in one-meter cubes from the ground to space. Say its 20F outside... what if you flipped a switch and instantly every other cube was 98F... What would happen?

 

[Lil Foot]

This was actually broadcast in Arizona on January 27th, 2014!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQuVOQwRvQ8

 

[CaveCreekRay]

There are currently over 40 fires burning in Arizona. Listen to the wind on this video...

https://www.facebook.com/AZDOT/videos/vb.117553941649651/1548785598526471/?type=2&theater

A shot of the fire line up by Prescott...

https://www.facebook.com/AZDOT/videos/pcb.1548709868534044/1548708208534210/?type=3&theater

 

[BAP]

I would send you some rain and cool weather if I could. We have had about 12-14" of rain since beginning of June and a lot of days temperatures are running in the upper 60's and low 70's and damp. Nothing like waking up and walking on carpet that feels damp and the hard floors feel sticky. My lawn has mushrooms growing in it in places and my garden has been under water several times. Last summer you couldn't buy a cool day and any rain.

 

[Lil Foot]

Not often, but every now & then, it's worth enduring the heat. Completely unaltered pic the wife shot from our front yard.