“A lot of these people aren’t drinking water.” “It gets super hot out here and sometimes we have to take care of the public,” said Galindo, adding he sometimes find people passed out on the grass. Phoenix City Parks and Recreation workers Joseph Garcia, 48, and Roy Galindo, 28, tried to stay cool as they trimmed shrubs. “Our goal is for that not to be the case.” “This will likely be one of the most notable periods in our health record in terms of deaths and illness,” said David Hondula, chief heat officer for the city. The record of 18 days above 110 that was tied Monday was first set in 1974. The last time Phoenix didn’t reach 110 F (43.3 C) was June 29, when it hit 108 (42.2 C). Death Valley has had an 84-day streak of 110-degree temperatures. In addition to Phoenix, Vose and others found less populous places such as Death Valley and Needles, California and Casa Grande, Arizona, with longer hot streaks, but none in locations where many people live.
Catalonia smashed records reaching 113 (45 Celsius), according to global weather record keeper Maximiliano Herrera.Īnd if that’s not enough, smoke from wildfires, floods and droughts have caused problems globally. Rome reached an all-time high of 109 (42.9 degrees Celsius), with record heat reported throughout Italy, France, Spain and parts of China.
weather stations have broken more than 860 heat records in the past seven days, according to NOAA. Nearly every day of this month, the global average temperature has been warmer than the unofficial hottest day recorded before 2023, according to University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer. The entire globe has simmered to record heat both in June and July. Some 200 cooling and hydration centers have been set up across the metro area, but most shut down between 4 p.m. This last week has been the hottest I ever remember.” “When it’s like this, you just have to get into the shade. “I’ve been out here a long time and homeless for about three years,” said Miccichi. In the hours before the new record was set, rivers of sweat streamed down the sunburned face of Lori Miccichi, 38, as she pushed a shopping cart filled with her belongings through downtown Phoenix, looking for a place to get out of the heat. The city’s Desert Botanical Garden, a vast outdoor collection of cactus and other desert plants, over the weekend began shutting down at 2 p.m. During the day, the heat built up so early that the city hit the 110 mark a couple minutes before noon.ĭog parks emptied out by the mid-morning and evening concerts and other outdoor events were cancelled to protect performers and attendees. On Monday, the city also set a record for the hottest overnight low temperature: 95 F (35 C). With Tuesday’s low of 94 F (34.4 C), the city has had nine straight days of temperatures that didn’t go below 90 F (32.2 C) at night, breaking another record there, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Matt Salerno, who called it “pretty miserable when you don’t have any recovery overnight.” The lack of a nighttime cooldown can rob people without access to air conditioning of the break their bodies need to function properly. For Phoenix, it’s not only the brutal daytime highs that are deadly.
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