Records tumbled across the Southwest United States on Thursday as temperatures soared past 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) from southeast California to Arizona, where the region’s first heat wave of the year was expected to maintain its grip for at least another day.
Although the official start of summer is still two weeks away, roughly half of Arizona and Nevada were under an excessive heat alert, which the National Weather Service said it was extending until Friday evening. The heat alert for Las Vegas was extended through Saturday.
Building massive cities in deserts was a stupid idea before climate change became an issue.
I’m sad that way too many people are going to find that out this summer.
Man, I’m so glad climate change is a hoax. This would suck so bad 🙄
Just turn up the air-conditioner. Problem solved. Technology defeats nature again! /s
Just moved from PHX. The politics are just as hostile as the environment. The heat and sun are oppressive.
How can a place named Death Valley not be a safe place to live?
I don’t think anyone lives there, except maybe a few native Americans. It’s a national park.
Only place I’ve ever been where the wind made me hotter.
Why would the records “tumble”, though? That doesn’t make sense. We are setting record highs every day. Where in the world are the records “tumbling” or even falling? Is this an AI headline? We need human journalists to be a thing again.
They mean the old records were broken (“tumbled”) that existed before the new ones. I think the use of tumble is meant to pay homage to tumbleweeds since it’s the southwest
