How do I know when Phoenix is having a heatwave?

[azmouse]

It's supposed to reach 112 degrees here today.

Would that count as a heatwave or just be a typical summer day on the desert? :7

[KamaAina]

1. But it's a dry heat!

:P

Favorite AZ weather story has to be from a rare rainfall: "But it's a dry rain!" Seriesly!

[azmouse]

2. I've got to remember to use that

when the monsoon starts next month. :)

[TZ]

3. The rejoiner to that from my mother who lived in Phoenix for a year..

So's an oven.....;)

[Kali]

12. it has a name

virga

[jobycom]

4. He turns red in the face.

[azmouse]

5. omg! Is he going for a ZZTop look there?!

[jobycom]

6. Who knows anymore?

I thought it was all an act, and now I can't tell anymore. :shrug:

[HopeHoops]

7. The A/C unit commits suicide.

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. That's a really good question

:D

[Swede]

9. When your shoes stick to the pavement?

I can't stand the heat.

[pitohui]

10. far as i know that's a typical summer day in phoenix

but it's a dry heat, can't say it bothers me much, i still tell the story of how it was 115 degrees as we drove thru the valley and i told my (v. concerned) traveling companion it was a joke, it just wasn't hot to me (i'm from louisiana)

yah by the end of the trip he had heat exhaustion, i'm still feeling guilty abt it to this day but to me IT JUST WASN'T HOT

[Flaxbee]

11. as a native of Palm Springs, Ca., I'd say that's a typical

summer day in the desert.

Unfortunately, PS doesn't have monsoons :( A sister and brother in law lived in Flagstaff for little more than a decade, and I *loved* the summer monsoons.

[AsahinaKimi]

13. I once saw in Scottsdale Az

A man spray pam on the hood of his black Mercedes..and drop an egg on it. It cooked! That was on a 115 degree day.