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Phoenix is trying everything to provide relief in America's hottest city

submitted by paul_neri to America 1.8 yearsAug 5, 2023 23:56:29 ago (+3/-2)     (www.abc.net.au)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-06/phoenix-offers-solutions-on-how-to-live-in-a-hot-city/102668794

Phoenix has just ended a record-breaking streak of 31 consecutive days where the highest temperature has topped 43.3 degrees Celsius.

Early last week it dropped slightly to a mere 42C before shooting right back up to hit the mid-40s by the week's end.


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[ - ] Joe_McCarthy 1 point 1.8 yearsAug 6, 2023 01:35:46 ago (+1/-0)

There is a reason I've been in Flagstaff most of the week.

[ - ] paul_neri [op] 1 point 1.8 yearsAug 6, 2023 02:01:42 ago (+1/-0)

Flagstaff (/ˈflæɡ.stæf/ FLAG-staf) is a city in, and the county seat of Coconino County, Arizona, in the southwestern United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 76,831.

Flagstaff is the principal city of the Flagstaff metropolitan area, which includes all of Coconino County, and has a population of 145,101. It lies near the southwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau and within the San Francisco volcanic field, along the western side of the largest contiguous ponderosa pine forest in the continental United States. The city sits at about 7,000 feet (2,100 m) and is next to Mount Elden, just south of the San Francisco Peaks, the highest mountain range in the state of Arizona.[Library Service]

[ - ] Joe_McCarthy 0 points 1.8 yearsAug 6, 2023 02:06:10 ago (+0/-0)*

Yeah. Pine country. Not desert. College town. Lots of pretty girls. Higher elevation than Denver. And it has been said that in winter the snow and storms are the worst in the US. Go any further north and you're at the gateway to the Grand Canyon. And about 35 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than Phoenix right now.

It is considered part of the Mormon corridor.

This joint isn't all desert.

https://youtu.be/BkFHRMqNdqI

[ - ] chrimony 3 points 1.8 yearsAug 6, 2023 00:44:04 ago (+3/-0)

Don't live in a desert and complain about the heat.

[ - ] paul_neri [op] 0 points 1.8 yearsAug 6, 2023 01:32:10 ago (+0/-0)

But that's like saying to an Aussie: "don't live in the bush and complain about bushfires!"

[ - ] Sector7 1 point 1.8 yearsAug 6, 2023 02:31:14 ago (+1/-0)

That'd be like saying to a Californian: "Don't live on the coast and complain about the lack of substandard weather."