“Only one year we can find had a cooler July 4th: 1912,” says meteorologist.
“They recorded the high just after midnight!” says reader Dan Welch. “It was in the 70s during the day! Some reports are calling this the coolest on record.”
In response to weather.com saying climate scientists suggest the heat in the east is what global warming looks like; yesterday in Phoenix is what global cooling looks like!
“One more thing,” says Dan. “Considering 1912 was before the advent of asphalt, a record cool 4th of July in Phoenix is REALLY saying something. I live there. I went for a 3 mile run at 3 o’clock in the afternoon yesterday, and it was remarkably nice.”
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I live in az. I will tell you that was due to rain storm. The days before Phoenix was in 110-113.
Has Phoenix had no rainstorms during the past 100 years?
Usually when it rains it’s still over 100 degrees though. We normally get no relief from a rain storm.
Seeing how Phoenix has grown in population since 1912, makes this record even more amazing. I made a trip to surfacestations.org to see if the Phoenix station had been surveyed yet. No such luck.
The urban heat island strikes again – I lived in Phoenix 13 years watching the asphalt spread and the temperatures rise. The artificial lakes and excessive greenery increased the humidity as well making it an awful place to live – like Los Angeles – too many people and too little water.
I looked out east a couple days ago and saw lenticular Alto Cu, it was hard to believe it was summer.
I live in the foothills of Lane County Oregon. This has been the longest winter since I moved here 23 yrs. ago. At 6 AM three days ago on the 4th of July it was 38 degrees. We haven’t had a summer for the last 2 years. We set a 150 year record for snowfall for the month of March all in one day on March 20th. I recorded over 12″. My tomatoes are outside but all my peppers are still in the greenhouse. This has got to be Al Gore’s fault.
When I lived in Phoenix I was told that Phoenix and Seattle had approximately the same amount of rainfall per year – Seattle has it year around in small amounts and Phoenix has it during the summer monsoons.
You’re probably thinking of Phoenix vs Sequim. Seattle is more like Flagstaff in terms of precip.
Sort of cool nursery web site out of Sequim:
http://www.desertnorthwest.com/index.html