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Bill Goodykoontz
Arizona Republic
A quick glance at the weather app on my phone — this becomes an obsession about five minutes after you move to Arizona — is not promising.
Looks like we’ll be getting up in the 115-degree range again soon, after a veritable cold snap of highs around 108. My eyes didn’t tear up, but it’s not welcome news, particularly after the heat we’ve had lately.
That’s what it’s like around here. You take the bad with the worse in the summer.
Perhaps you’ve heard that Phoenix in July was like hell on a hot day. Of course, you’ve heard — Phoenix heat is a national obsession, making the front page of the New York Times, the nightly national news, dominating local news. You watch and read and listen to enough of those stories and see TikTok posts of people frying eggs on sidewalks or whatever, and the question becomes obvious.
Why do people live in Phoenix?