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[KatieB]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

On Sunday, Death Valley recorded the hottest temperature on earth at 130°.  If verified, it could be the hottest temperature recorded in the world in the past 100+ years.

The all-time world hireegh of 134° was recorded  in 1913, in Death Valley.

And you thought Phoenix was hot.

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@Kachina624   I don't know how ya'll stand it..  Or how you can afford to A/C your home with those temps.  It can get to the upper 90's here in central NC and once in a while it will get over 100 degrees..  It is unbearable with the high humity values.  Global warming maybe - I know it was not always this hot in the summertime.

[Desertdi]

@Kachina624  7:27pm    HARK!    I hear THUNDER !!!!!!!!

[Kachina624]

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@KatieB wrote:

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@Kachina624 wrote:

On Sunday, Death Valley recorded the hottest temperature on earth at 130°.  If verified, it could be the hottest temperature recorded in the world in the past 100+ years.

The all-time world hireegh of 134° was recorded  in 1913, in Death Valley.

And you thought Phoenix was hot.

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@Kachina624   I don't know how ya'll stand it..  Or how you can afford to A/C your home with those temps.  It can get to the upper 90's here in central NC and once in a while it will get over 100 degrees..  It is unbearable with the high humity values.  Global warming maybe - I know it was not always this hot in the summertime.

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@KatieB   It's not so hot in Albuquerque because our altitude is over 5200 ft.  I cool my house with an evaporative cooler, which just uses water and a fan but is very effective.  My electric bill for July was $84.  House during the day stays at about 72°.  It has been over 100° 4 times this summer but is 96-98° most days.

[Kachina624]

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@Desertdi wrote:

@Kachina624  7:27pm    HARK!    I hear THUNDER !!!!!!!!

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@Desertdi   Well, did it or not?

[Desertdi]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

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@Desertdi wrote:

@Kachina624  7:27pm    HARK!    I hear THUNDER !!!!!!!!

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@Desertdi   Well, did it or not?

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@Kachina624   7: 54 Not yet.........but the wind is starting to blow pretty hard.

[Kachina624]

@Desertdi   Downdrafts from distant storms probably in the mountains.

[patbz]

The town(Ridgecrest CA) in Mojave Desert where I worked for 23 years prior to retirement was told by SCE (power) that tonight they must turn off everything, except coolers, or risk crashing the grid!!! It was 116 today for third day in a row!!!!!! I'm sure that there are many other cities in CA facing the same.

[Desertdi]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

@Desertdi   Downdrafts from distant storms probably in the mountains.

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@Kachina624     Still dry.....I think Mother Nature just played a joke on us.  di

[Kachina624]

@Desertdi    That happens here a couple times a week.  Lots of bluster and thunder, then nothing.

[Lindsays Grandma]

@Kachina624 ...I lived in California, Los Angeles to be exact, from 1964 until 1004 when we moved to Arizona.  I never had the AC on at night in CA, nor did I experience the temperatures we have in Arizona.  I don't know how hot it is in CA now but I'll still take theirs over ours.

My daughter keeps setting the AC on 68 degrees and I keep jacking it up to 72.  In the middle of the night suddenly I am freezing because she gets up and lowers the temperature, we are now playing Russian roulette with the thermostat.