Heat Weary!Will summer never end!

[GeorgAZ]

Is anyone else getting worn down by this heat? Maybe I'm turning into a wimp, but this heat and rotten air has killed me this year.... I am exhausted by it.!Seems like the loooongest summer ever! 102 this weekend? Yuck!

[GeorgAZ]

Is this just an extremely hot summer historically or is it the beginnig of Global warming? For any of you natives,has this happened before and is it cyclical ,or the feared "warming"? Any thoughts or opinions on this? :

[Trishness]

In response to GeorgAZ's reply:

There was a recent article in either the Republic or the Tribune about this very same issue. I can't remember it verbatim but I think I recall it stating that between the way air masses are moving off the Pacific and the ever expanding "concrete jungle" of the metro-Phoenix area are all relative to the drought and recent high temps. It's keeping us a a virtual "terrarium".

I'm ready for lower temps but they're predicting triple digits this weekend.

I'll see if I can locate the article...it was pretty interesting


Trish

[Abe]

For any of you natives,has this happened before and is it cyclical ,or the feared "warming"? Any thoughts or opinions on this? :

Hey GeorgAz, I do remember my days as a teen growing up in the Prescott area, I was born in Phoenix, when winters were fun and cold and we could set our watches to the summer monsoons. This was during the early 70's.

Of late however; I can say we have hotter, dryer summers and mild, dryer winters. I cannot help but wonder if we are experiencing global warming, created by man. I believe the balance between mankind and nature is lost.

A simple example would be the cancerous growth of Phoenix and towns crowding in around it and growing out across the desert. Consider the blacktop, concrete, towering building jungle of progress collecting the heat of the summer sun during the day, storing the heat, rather than reflecting the heat, and Phoenix cooling down very slowly when the sun sets. And of course, those things we throw in the air in the form of pollution. Phoenix, I believe, has created it own weather system.

Imagine now, if we add Tucson, Yuma, Abuquerque, L.A., Las Vegas, Flagstaff, Prescott, San Diego, the whole cancerous growth of progress for the sake of mankinds growth, it adds up. Then of course, we can consider the whole world a trash receptacle, slowly but surely destroying itself with the filth on the ground and in the air.

Before the industrial age, I would say that mankind and nature hung in the balance, perhaps with some slight problems, the extinction of the Do Do birds as an example. But with the advent of industries and man's desires to improve mankinds lifestyle, we began to loose the balance.

Opps, enough.

My disclosure statement: My opinions only, I am not a scientist.[/u]

[GeorgAZ]

I moved here in'74,lived in Tempe(O Hippie Days)and don't rremember a summer lasting this long with this kind of constant heat!I think mankind is in for a rude awakening with all the growth, pollution, etc. My thoughts pretty much echo yours.

[Dschur]

In response to GeorgAZ's reply: There was a summer awhile back I can't remember how long ago. But there was the most 110 days and over in a row.