Ryan Fish is KGUN 9's Midtown and Downtown Tucson reporter. Send your story ideas to Ryan at [email protected].
There have been 112 days where Tucson hit 100 degrees or hotter this year, the most since the National Weather Service started keeping track in 1895.And people aren’t the only ones who have been feeling the heat; desert plants are wilting around town.The Tucson Botanical Gardens, located in Midtown near Grant and Alvernon, has a dedicated staff that cares for diverse plant life. But even those plants have been affected by the heat.
He says heat stress can come from extreme high temperatures, or as is the case this year, huge temperature swings. He says the cooler weather that briefly arrived last month triggered plants to prepare for fall, only for this historic heat wave to change the Garden’s watering plans.“ a break from that high heat in order to metabolize and photosynthesize and all that good stuff that plants do,” he explained.
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