It is so hot in Maricopa County, Arizona, that people are being brought into the emergency room with significant, sometimes life-threatening burns. For the past three or four weeks of this record heatwave, people have been burned just by falling on the ground.
  • PlasmaDistortionEnglish
    9•1 year ago

    This is not the game of “The floor is lava” that I thought we would be playing.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝English
    3•1 year ago

    Global warming is just cranking up and parts of the globe are already becoming hostile to human life. We face some “interesting” years ahead.

  • @agent_flounderEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Having lived in southern Arizona it doesn’t sound like the temperatures are higher than when I was a kid. Every summer on the hot days you could easily get burned touching metal seat belt buckles or have asphalt melt onto your shoes in parking lots.

    But I guess the number of days it was above 110 is the unusual part. You would get a few days here and there but not so many days in a row as we are seeing.

    Clearly the weather is going to seem weirder and weirder to older people. More extremes and less predictable patterns (e.g. it has not rained so many days in may in Colorado in the 30 years I’ve been here).