The globe is baking and extreme weather events are spreading, but in Tucson what we have is familiar to anyone who has lived here. A draining summer hot spell that we know how to face.
Arizona Daily Star The last few days, some national outlets, like the Washington Post and The New York Times, caught on to the news that it’s hot in Tucson.
People are also reading… It has to get extremely hot — like 115 degrees — for most of us to think the weather is really out of whack. Otherwise, we are used to it, and we adapt, even in a heating world that hit the highest recorded average temperature on July 4. Clara Faust has owned the trailer where she lives since 1967, she told me, though she’s only lived there steadily since 1992. She’s convinced that summers are getting hotter. In fact, weather data shows this is the case: Arizona’s average temperature has increased by 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit since 1900, the state climatology office reports.
Around the corner at an adjacent business, Alberto Cruz was welding corrugated metal panels into place. He had the uniform of an outdoors workers in Arizona’s summer: Boots, long pants, a cotton long-sleeve shirt, plus a baseball cap and welding helmet. “It is what it is, and we’ve got to live with it,” Carolyn said. “I’m not gonna sit around and worry about it.”
It was just another one in the series of once in a century storms that come more and more frequently these days. The last time they had one there was in 2011, with Hurricane Irene.
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