Official Arizona Weather Thread

[Linderbee]

Let's move to Seattle...all of us.

I'll lead the way.

Can I go to Portland instead? I love Portland.

 

[Ryanwb]

Can I go to Portland instead? I love Portland.

Me too! (Love Portland that is)

 

[Trey]

Call me crazy but I would think anything under about 105 maybe even 110ish would be tolorable there. Like abomb said, Phoenix averages about 10 days of 110+ per year. I'm not saying that it's not hot, I'm just saying I don't think its unlivable. I think anything under 90 is tolorable here (Louisville, KY) but it's also humid here. I hate the humidity. It's like trying to breathe through mud or something.

Considering the humidity is usually like 5% there, I personally don't think it would be all that bad. Summer has always been my favorite season and I like it when it's hot. I can't stand the cold. In the winter time here, it's always cloudy, cold, and just depressing. At least there, you can still enjoy a clear blue sky sunny day from inside the house while it's still grey and depressing inside the house here in the winter time. It's July, about as far away from winter as you're gonna get, and I still find myself dreading the cold days come November.

It's all about personal preference I guess.

As Mike was saying, it's not that 105 isn't livable. I did it for decades. It's just that summer in Phoenix is not a 3 month season, like other parts of the country. Phoenix has two seasons, summer and spring. I've witnessed both Easters and Halloweens that were well into the hundreds. A few weeks of hot is tolerable. But when you're hot from April to October, you get so worn out that you want to freaking scream.

As you mentioned, it's all about personal preferences. Me? I couldn't stand the heat, so I got out the kitchen.

And I'm actually frustrated by the sun and warmth (80's) were having. I want my rain!!

p.s. Seattle isn't even in the top 25 rainy cities in the country...

 

[Gaddabout]

p.s. Seattle isn't even in the top 25 rainy cities in the country...

But one stereotype of Seattle that does fit is drinking coffee. Seattle drinks so much coffee, city workers have measured high levels of caffeine in the beach waters. Not kidding! Caffeinated shark, anyone?

 

[Trey]

But one stereotype of Seattle that does fit is drinking coffee. Seattle drinks so much coffee, city workers have measured high levels of caffeine in the beach waters. Not kidding! Caffeinated shark, anyone?

Hadn't heard that, but not surprised. We're not the home of Starbuck's and Seattle's Best for nothing!

And it's so nice to live in a place that actually has beaches!

 

[Gaddabout]

Hadn't heard that, but not surprised. We're not the home of Starbuck's and Seattle's Best for nothing!

And it's so nice to live in a place that actually has beaches!

Talk to me after that tsunami bigger than the one in the Indian Ocean heats the Washington coast. There's a trade off.

For the most part, Phoenix is earthquake and tsunami proof. Same for the rest of Az. Except for Yuma. It's too close to Imperial Valley.

 

[Hollywood]

Talk to me after that tsunami bigger than the one in the Indian Ocean heats the Washington coast. There's a trade off.

For the most part, Phoenix is earthquake and tsunami proof.

At least untill California falls off into the ocean.

 

[Trey]

Talk to me after that tsunami bigger than the one in the Indian Ocean heats the Washington coast. There's a trade off.

For the most part, Phoenix is earthquake and tsunami proof. Same for the rest of Az. Except for Yuma. It's too close to Imperial Valley.

Actually, Seattle is tsunami proof thanks to the Olympic mountain range due west. Earthquake proof? Not so much.

 

[Gaddabout]

Actually, Seattle is tsunami proof thanks to the Olympic mountain range due west. Earthquake proof? Not so much.

Well, except for Elliot Bay and the river path inland.

 

[82CardsGrad]

Actually, Seattle is tsunami proof thanks to the Olympic mountain range due west. Earthquake proof? Not so much.

My brother & sister-in-law live in Seattle. I get up there at least 2-3 times a year on business and pleasure... I love the city and the surrounding areas. However, I could never live there...
While Seattle gets a bad rap on the rain topic, it is cloudy and often spitting at you more than it's not...
The humidity and steady dampness drives me nuts.

I'll have been in North Scottsdale for 6-plus years now. I work in central Phoenix and when I drive home from work (anywhere from 4:30pm to 6:30pm), the temp gauge on my car literally drops any average of 10 degrees by the time I get home (just north of Pinnacle Peak Rd.)!
I have never experienced a 90 degree easter or halloween?? I find the uncomfortable heat generally hits from mid to late June, through July and part of August. But when the monsoon comes in August, temps are generally pushed down into the high 90's and low 100's. No problem at all... AND, at night, it drops down into the mid to high 80's which for is wonderful.
I was born and raised in the NY area, went to college in RI, lived in Florida, Chicago and Texas, and spent time in virtually every state in the union (except OR, MT, ID, AR). I will take the weather in North Scottsdale over just about any other place in the country on an annual basis. With the lone exception being SoCal - San Diego to Laguna...

 

[Nasser22]

The only thing that bothers me is getting in a car after it's been out in the suns for a while. Besides that it's not too bad. I'm really starting to get used to this weather. I like it.

 

[Trey]

Well, except for Elliot Bay and the river path inland.

Yes, Seattle sits on Elliot Bay. But a tsunami would have to travel up the Straight of Juan de Fuca, make a hard right, travel 30 more miles, and then make a 90 degree left turn to hit Elliot Bay.

Tsunamis aren't a threat. Earthquakes, or a lateral eruption of Mt. Rainier (similar to how St. Helens blew) are threats.

 

[Trey]

I have never experienced a 90 degree easter or halloween??

Then you haven't lived there long enough.

According to weather.com, Halloween in 1988 hit 96 degrees. And there are 23 days in October with a record high of 100 degrees or more. April "only" has 20 days with records at 100 or more. But I got so sick of the heat, that anything over 90 was uncomfortable.

The scary part is what Phx will be like in 20+ years. Growth along the interstate corridors will see Phoenix merge with Tucson, Prescott Valley, and grow west out past Tonopah. The world has never before seen an urban heat island of that size. Daytime highs are going to get worse, and evening lows are also going to rise. I remember back a decade or so when we almost didn't get below 100 at night. With that much asphalt and concrete retaining heat, it's going to happen at some point.

 

[Mike Olbinski]

As Mike was saying, it's not that 105 isn't livable. I did it for decades. It's just that summer in Phoenix is not a 3 month season, like other parts of the country. Phoenix has two seasons, summer and spring. I've witnessed both Easters and Halloweens that were well into the hundreds. A few weeks of hot is tolerable. But when you're hot from April to October, you get so worn out that you want to freaking scream.

As you mentioned, it's all about personal preferences. Me? I couldn't stand the heat, so I got out the kitchen.

And I'm actually frustrated by the sun and warmth (80's) were having. I want my rain!!

p.s. Seattle isn't even in the top 25 rainy cities in the country...

You're making me more excited about moving there!

 

[Mike Olbinski]

I thought I already led the way, Mike.

You're already there...I guess I'm just following you, with hopefully others who have heat-induced psychosis thinking this place is so nice

 

[Mike Olbinski]

Talk to me after that tsunami bigger than the one in the Indian Ocean heats the Washington coast. There's a trade off.

For the most part, Phoenix is earthquake and tsunami proof. Same for the rest of Az. Except for Yuma. It's too close to Imperial Valley.

I think not living somewhere that has a slight worry of something like that happening is a bit too much

I'm not going to NOT movie there because of some random tsunami that could MAYBE come SOMEDAY.

 

[Mike Olbinski]

My brother & sister-in-law live in Seattle. I get up there at least 2-3 times a year on business and pleasure... I love the city and the surrounding areas. However, I could never live there...
While Seattle gets a bad rap on the rain topic, it is cloudy and often spitting at you more than it's not...
The humidity and steady dampness drives me nuts.

I'll have been in North Scottsdale for 6-plus years now. I work in central Phoenix and when I drive home from work (anywhere from 4:30pm to 6:30pm), the temp gauge on my car literally drops any average of 10 degrees by the time I get home (just north of Pinnacle Peak Rd.)!
I have never experienced a 90 degree easter or halloween?? I find the uncomfortable heat generally hits from mid to late June, through July and part of August. But when the monsoon comes in August, temps are generally pushed down into the high 90's and low 100's. No problem at all... AND, at night, it drops down into the mid to high 80's which for is wonderful.
I was born and raised in the NY area, went to college in RI, lived in Florida, Chicago and Texas, and spent time in virtually every state in the union (except OR, MT, ID, AR). I will take the weather in North Scottsdale over just about any other place in the country on an annual basis. With the lone exception being SoCal - San Diego to Laguna...

I don't know if it's just totally different where you live,but for about two months during monsoons, it rarely drops below 95 at night...it's sickening and brutal.

 

[Gaddabout]

Yes, Seattle sits on Elliot Bay. But a tsunami would have to travel up the Straight of Juan de Fuca, make a hard right, travel 30 more miles, and then make a 90 degree left turn to hit Elliot Bay.

Tsunamis aren't a threat. Earthquakes, or a lateral eruption of Mt. Rainier (similar to how St. Helens blew) are threats.

Heh! I'm not trying to argue here. My college buddy works for the NOAA. He said tsunamis are such a threat to the NW U.S. coast, DART spent much of their resources on buoys of the Washington coast line. The primary concern is a 7.3 earthquake from the Seatle fault line.

Tsunami would be disaster to Seattle

 

[Trey]

Heh! I'm not trying to argue here. My college buddy works for the NOAA. He said tsunamis are such a threat to the NW U.S. coast, DART spent much of their resources on buoys of the Washington coast line. The primary concern is a 7.3 earthquake from the Seatle fault line.

Tsunami would be disaster to Seattle

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No worries! I knew you weren't trying to pick a fight. We're just having a weather/natural disaster discussion.

And just to clarify, I thought you were saying an event out in the Pacific could devastate Seattle, with water meandering through the sound and taking out the city. That article clarifies your point quite a bit. And if you've been to Seattle, that map shows how little of the city would be damaged by a tsunami. A 7.3 earthquake on the other hand...

 

[Ryanwb]

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And if you've been to Seattle, that map shows how little of the city would be damaged by a tsunami.

Hopefully only Qwest Field

 

[Trey]

Hopefully only Qwest Field

Actually, it and Safeco would be damaged, though given their size, not totally destroyed...

 

[Ryanwb]

Actually, it and Safeco would be damaged, though given their size, not totally destroyed...

These are the sorts of things that need to happen to convince me there is a god

 

[NMCard]

It went from 100 degrees here to 62 degrees here in about 5 minutes. We had a quarter sized hail storm move trough. It's in the mid 70's now with a nice breeze. I had to turn of the swamp cooler burr it's chilly.

 

[Linderbee]

It went from 100 degrees here to 62 degrees here in about 5 minutes. We had a quarter sized hail storm move trough. It's in the mid 70's now with a nice breeze. I had to turn of the swamp cooler burr it's chilly.

:jealous:

3 more posts & you're at 1,000, btw. Good job!

 

[Mike Olbinski]

Salvation arrives today in the form of POSSIBLE BLOWING DUST IN THE PM!!!

Welcome in the 2007 Monsoon Season...

I hope and pray that it's a doozy...especially if it's the last one I experience.