. . . when the metal tubing etc. inside the shaded garage is getting warm and the dog is giving you dirty looks. And when you look at the welder he growls. I know it's not Phoenix, Yuma or other hot spots, but sum*****.... Laughlin, 30 miles down the hill and about 350' al***ude compared to Kingman's 3300' al***ude will probably hit 118 today. Sum*****....
NEVER could quite figure out WHY anyone would want to move to desert!!!! If it's any consolation, Jay, we've had 12 days in a row of above 95 degrees here... and that's in humidity-less ColoRODo...the lawns are dying...everything is burning up, including our forests... Get inside, turn the A/C on and take a siesta...work on the car after midnite!!! R-
Been sorta doing that. Start in the garage around 0700-0800 most mornings and get out by 1000-1100. Only 5% humidity here and that makes the heat index at 100 degrees when the temp gauge reads 108.
The local radio news said its 116 right now in Vegas... At least there's only 3 months of this, then 9 months of perfect weather.
that is insane. I remember being young and living in the mojave and not caring. It'd be that hot on a regular basis. I remember it getting into the high 120's a couple times. Still be outside in jeans, boots, t-shirt doing what had to be done. Watering the trees or feeding/riding the horses. But now...after spending the majority of the last 15 years in beach towns. redondo, santa cruz and in the bay area....working in SF....anything over 90 and I start to melt.
We are right at 100 with 5% humidity. I'll take the snow, I can bundle up, right now the customers dont like my nakedness
Nah, thats perfect Roadster weather... When the super heated air from your Radiator flows over your Engine, curves over the Windshield, and roasts your Eyeballs.
Sorry to hear that guys, it's only slightly hotter at work than at home (Malibu 69 degrees. Santa Monica-68 degress) Ha!! I will burn if I forget to put my sunblock on!!
I'm with you T, I'll deal with the snow we get here, at least we get four seasons...simply not hot and hotter and oh-MiGod!!!! R-
Wow, 116 degrees is crazy hot. Come to Jersey when it's 90 degrees with 95% humidity. You'll be sorry you left the desert.
Here in Vancouver,BC.It's been grey skies and wet.It would be OK if we didn't already go through 6 months of it.Makes it hard to work in the driveway.
Those westerners don't know how good they have it, even 85 degrees makes you want to die at 95% humidity (wich by the way is quite common) .
Ya ya ya 90 and 90, 85 and 85, sure they are bad. But you haven't lived till you've spent 45 days where the daytime high is over 110 and the nighttime low is 90.
Good point Don. What's interesting to me is how the difference between day and night temps gets bigger with al***ude. We're hitting 98 to 100 today and it was 48 when I came to work this morning. Looking on the bright side, the salt should be drying out nicely for Speedweek next month.
well i live in the city with arizonas record 128 ,, today it was about 123 ,, nice and hot AS HELL,, i dont mind it though nothing rusts but if you leave yoru tires in the sun SAY GOODBYE anything rubber here gets eatin up,, i like it thought, funny thing is , this is most peoples motorcycle weather time of the year , and its the time we stop ahahaha, and im redoing the frame on my 32 pickup right now outside on concrete,, and c9 if your ever down in havasu hit me up well go have a beer or something, i was in havasu heights yesterday at 3 ripping the rearend out of a mustang hahaha layin in the dirt and rocks sweating at 120 degrees,, that was lovely and oh yeah not even a breeze
So fatcaddi, tell me where those desert Scorpions live when it's so hot...under steel bodied Mustangs...or in them? R-
no ****. That's how it was when I was in kentucky. I took 4 showers a day. I hate humidity. I'll take a dry 100 over a wet 85 any day.
Here is ours at 3:15 PM and it's not even the hottest part of the day yet. Notice that my thermometer goes up to 140 degrees. It's called a Havasu Thermometer. ***Jay, The lake level of Lake Havasu is 450 feet above sea level. I'm sure Laughlin must be higher than 350 feet because I've never seen water run uphill. LOL........Today would be a great day for you to take a cruise in your roadster and it's OK to wear oven gloves to drive in Arizona.
Geez Bill . . . I had to look twice at your thermometer's max temp. Lak Havasu thermometer indeed. I showed the post to the girls and they cracked up. They liked your oven mitts as driving accessories too. Not sure where I got the Laughlin al***ude figure, but I've been using it for a while. Guess I need to drag out the old airplane driver maps and see just what it really is. Usually Kingman is 10-12 degrees cooler than Laughlin. And I'm afraid to look inside the car trailer and see what it's thermometer says. Speaking of roadster weather, a local cable TV channel did a half hour film on my roadster and a half hour on my friends full fendered 29 roadster. It was pleasant in the studio/car building shop, but I went first at 1100 and put the 32 outside in the sunshine about noon where it sat until about two o'clock. Then CK rolled his satin black roadster out and it sat in the sun for about an hour while we BS'd with the film crew etc. The show isn't a big deal - channel 77 on cable if you get it - sort of goes along the lines of the Tim the Toolman's cable show. Regardless it was a fun time once we got used to the camera's etc. It must have been 105+ when CK and I left. We went straight to the bowling alley for cheeseburgers and a pitcher of beer. Was probably 108 when we left there. Both of us wondering what the hell we were doing with black cars in the Dez. No wonder the locals do an 0800 Saturday morning doughnut run and then a Saturday night after dark deal at What A Burger. I'm not sure what they do during the day, but I bet hiding out is part of it. Sunshine be ok, but too much is too much....
I'm not surprised, bein from Visalia and all. Temps in the Central Valley are pretty similar to what we have most times. The high is gonna move out in a few days - I hope - and it looks like monsoon season may start. That's a cool time. We go up to CKs house, sit on the porch and sip wine while watching the lightning storms over the Pea**** mountains to the east. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bill, I dug out the Laughlin airport info. 695' mean sea level. it's probably 30-50' above the river, but Laughlin proper is about the same al***ude as the airport. Lake Mead looks to be 1201' al***ude, but I'm not sure if they're measuring from an average height lake level or not. Right now it looks to be at least 100' low. I did wander out to the car trailer and looked inside. The thermometer - exactly the same as the one in the pic above - was pegged at 120 degrees. Maybe I need to buy a 'Havasu' thermometer next time I'm down there. Are they a special order item or a normally stocked item? Last time I looked outside it was 111 degrees and now I see it trending down.
naw the scorpions werent bad ,, the blackwidows where psycho though they chased me , untill i started stompin and lighting them on fire,, its good to see some more western az people on here though
http://www.portablecoolers.com/ or do like I did, scrounge up a freebie old worn out swamp cooler and poke it thru the window in the shop. Works fine.
Jay, Have you considered a swamp cooler? The hotter and dryer the better they work. I had one in my house in Albuquerque. Worked gang busters. Steve
I had to reluctantly turn on the AC this week, after the hurricane dumped 9 inches of rain on us. The temps are in the mid 90's and the humidity is running in the 85-95% range. Just picking up an iced tea will break you out in sweat. Sure glad I don't have to work for a living - especially outside. And it'll be like this until October. Mutt
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