Big Jim: 'It's so hot... how hot is it?'

[Ptah]

100° F today in Tucson.

Winter is over!

[1StrongBlackMan]

1. And, it'll be 110 by the weekend. A lesson I learned early ...

when parking your car, don't concern yourself where the shade IS ... park your car where the shade is going to be when you're headed home!

[Ptah]

3. Oven mitts are in my desert survival kit for when the steering wheel has been in the sun.

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. And, a towel for the seat! And, don't forget to leave the windows open ...

just enough for the heat to escape but not enough for a lot of dust to get in.

BTW, A friend sent me one of those, "You know you've been in Arizona too long when ..." books. One struck me as particularly funny ...

"You know you've been in Arizona too long when ... you no longer associate the word 'River' with water!"

I read that, and thought, "Damn, the Santa Cruz ... dry as a toast of stale toast!"

[Ptah]

7. October 1983 was a very wet month.

Photos: Devastating floods of 1983

Homes crumble into the Rillito River in October Flood.

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One of many bridges destroyed by flooding on the Santa Cruz and Rillito rivers.

http://tucson.com/news/photos-devastating-floods-of/collection_472816ff-1fc4-5571-8acb-05772936a760.html

[Cirque du So-What]

2. ''ot enough to boil a monkey's bum, yer Majesty,' 'e said

an' she smoiled quoietly to'erself.

[JayhawkSD]

5. But it's a dry heat.

So is an oven, but it still cooks things.

[marybourg]

6. Yes. My WeatherUnderground app

says right now: "111 feels like103".