Went to phoenix, it was less of a question to me as to why it existed, rather why it was built like every other city in America instead of a truly desert adapted one.
@@x8jason8x I’m an Arborist and I work in landscaping, and yeah the West Valley is the biggest affront to nature, though the Queen Creek / San Tan area looks like it might take the crown…
It just blows my mind how much of human history is "this place is inhospitable, so we are flocking to it because the easy to live places are too crowded"
As an arizona resident. It honestly really pisses me off when I see green grass in a desert. YOU LIVE IN A DESERT. DONT PLANT GRASS. That's why they consume so much water because you have to water your freaking grass all the time.
I loved that old SRP commercial telling people to save water. They show a house with grass front yard. As it gets closer and zooms in you see each blade of grass is really a straw to drink water. ETA-- also, it's repeatedly proven that it is NOT residential usage that is the problem. It is industrial corporate complexes and farming that take 80+% of all Arizona's water. Look into how much water Honeywell and Intel use. They are major employers so it is overlooked. Same with agricultural. Southern Arizona produces most of the lettuce consumed west of the Mississippi. Nestle uses city of Phoenix municipal water supply. It's stupid what the state gives away to corporations in the pursuit of "growth".
@TwistedRootsMelody I don't think I ever saw that. I am mew to Arizona. The Flagstaff area. I'm not from Cali but from the Midwest. I'm just as annoyed with al the Californians trust me. But yes it doesn't make sense to me. That's why lake mead is drying up.
@@levistokes3960 It was an old ad. 20 years at least. My family has been in Phoenix and rural NM for generations. I don't get all the animosity to the recent California transplants. That's what all of Phoenix's growth has historically been, transplants moving here for work. Most people here didn't grow up here. Actually I haven't looked that up so might be exaggerating, but it's very common. Are you in Flagstaff for school? My brother went to NAU.
Go to Astrakhan-Kalmykia, it's no less hot there in summer. In Elista, when I was vacationing there, I ordered large bottles of water at home. Salt water was coming out of the tap . Yes, that territory is the bottom of a long-dried sea, the underground water sources are quite salty. And it's still Europe. This thick, fragrant smell of wormwood. Getting out of the car in the steppe . For a Muscovite, it was all exotic.
Snowy winters? I've lived in Phoenix for 30 years. I've seen snow exactly one time and it evaporated as soon as it hit the ground. Hail? Sure, that happens often and not always in the winter because of what hail actually is and how it's formed in the atmosphere -having less to do with requiring frigid temps. But it definitely doesn't snow in Phoenix.
@@sarahcampassi Where in Phoenix and on what date? Let's hear it. Because it certainly did not. Since 1838 there have been 8 recorded times of snow in Phoenix of over 0.1 inches. And none were in 2024
@@B-Th-Change Same for me. I've lived in Arizona for 67 years. It used to cool down at night in the summer. Last year it had so many days of 124 degress there was a propane refill company that spontaneously blew up sending hundreds of smaller propane containers 100s of feet into the air. I moved north back in 2004 to a higher elevation. I had to get out of the high pollution. I'd had Valley Fever in my 30s that left scar tissue in both lungs. The high pollution levels were killing me.
@@basantpanigrahi583 Now why on earth would I move to Wyoming when I only had to move to northern Arizona at an elevation of about 5,000 feet where there are four mild seasons and clean air. I'm retired. I paid my dues. You're just jealous. LOL
The most important aspect of Phoenix’s population boom is the same reason behind the population boom in Texas and Florida: the invention of air conditioning. Living there in 1930 meant hellish summers.
As a person who was born and still live in phoenix, I have asked some people why they moved here and usually it is from snowbirds and their response typically is that it "beats being cold up north"
It beats the outrageous prices and traffic in CA for sure even though nothing beats the SoCal weather! Arizonans complain about Californians moving here but we've been Arizonans for about 7 yrs now. We help boost the economy by paying taxes and patronizing businesses, being conservative and mindful of our natural resources, and preserving the environment by maintaining an organic backyard with water-saving edible trees and plants. Many "native" Arizonans don't even care how they treat the environment and just live here like "there's more where it came from."
My sister lived in Phoenix for several years. I'm from coastal Texas where we deal with heat and humidity but the summers in Phoenix are unreal. It was like 8:30 at night and we got out of our car to go into a restaurant and the heat was just radiating off the pavement into your face. It was literally like the feeling you get when opening an oven. My other comment is that the Phoenix metro is just enormous - bigger than you'd think and that is saying a lot coming from me having grown up in Houston.
The Phoenix Metro area covers two counties (Maricopa and Pinal) and contains 9 of the 10 largest cities or towns in Arizona, with only Tucson, at number 2, not being part of the metroplex, although even Tucson effectively borders the metro area's southern border. All of the top 10 cities contain over 100,000 residents, with Phoenix proper having a population over 1.6 million, and Mesa (3rd in the state) having over 500,000. It also covers over 14.5 thousand square miles. The Phoenix area is HUGE.
My parents moved to that area a few years ago. Honestly, it's a nightmare for kids. Summertime temperatures are too hot to go outside between 9am and ~8:30pm. We walked with a seven-year-old to a playground around lunchtime and the poor girl was dealing with heat exhaustion within twenty minutes of getting there. Beyond that, the lots are all concrete, and gravel. My parents got a house that's quadruple the price and 2.5x the floorspace of our house, but it doesn't feel anywhere near as useable, as you are always in everyone's auditory and visual range, bumping up against each other all the time in the wide-open floorplan on vogue. There are some nice outdoor patio areas but, again, you can only use it early in the morning or late at night. I will happily take my small, older, midwestern house where the kids can play outside pretty much any day of the year, even if they're bundled up in snowsuits.
At 830 at night its still 100% bright and sunny out too 🤣 gets dark at about 10ish or 11pm during summers here in AZ. Even our winter sees days into about 7pm pretty averagely aside from directly around the winter solstice. It does however get pretty cool in night probably the low 80s after it was 115° is a drastic difference and it feels very cold after a day of that magnitude.
100F without humidity is actually kinda pleasant, *but only in the shade.* Anyone who prefers that godforsaken desert sun to East Coast humidity has worms in their brain or something
I'm from San Francisco. Spent 5 weeks in India where it was just over 100 degrees and 100% humidity. So miserable. My friend and I flew back into Phoenix where it was like 112 with no humidity. Ohh how nice the blazing hot dry weather without the humidity was.
I’m good to about 105 in Phoenix due to humidity from the green growth. In Havasu, which is dryer and in the Mohave Desert, 115 is a nice feel. I was in Phoenix in 1990 when it hit 122. Dry heat or not, it was hot! Heat and temperature are two different measurements in thermodynamics but for us, it’s very subjective. I’ll take 100-115 in the desert over 85+ on the Olympic Peninsula, home of a rain forest, any day.
Came to Phoenix 14 years ago. I don't think I'll be retiring here. We already broke 3 temperature records this summer, and it will only get worse if we don't start getting smart about changing water consumption and planting more trees.
@@misaelgomez2941 omg I've always hated that! I remember the first time I saw a giant lawn flooded and thought to myself. This wasn't done on purpose, right? Who would waste all that water? Then Every now and then I remember how we have sooo many golf courses and I scream internally!
@@annaeeee7516 it really upsets me especially when Arizona was running low on water. Hopefully some change can come soon. And yes especially all those golf courses . Grass would be all yellow either way. Well Take care.
@@misaelgomez2941 I swear you and the others moved here sometime during the last 3 decades. If you don't like how things work here, why not go back to where you moved from, or to somewhere that isn't a desert and doesn't have the same issues with water and its usage? I've lived here since 1970. Even I want to move away now. There are way too many people here and people keep coming. I'd rather go somewhere there are fewer people.
From what i could gather it's the opposite when built in the desert. The heat island effect comes from replacing vegetation with buildings, concrete and asphalt. Meanwhile in the desert the cities tend to have more vegetation so it's actually more chill
Ever wonder why all the buildings on Greek islands are painted white? Not only is it beautiful. It reflects the heat. But I guess invading migrants from Northern and central Europe couldn't figure that simple logic out despite all the "free stuff" they were given by the government. An an authoritative source that I've seen ( most of the westerns from the 1950s and 60s that were on TV and in movies) revealed that these European migrants brought alcoholic drugs crime and gun violence. But some of them are good people
As someone who lives in AZ and has lived here all my life, it’s crazy how many people are moving here now it has become so crowded and populated in PHX
My friend lives in Phoenix, and when I visited a few years back I had to take the bus across town and it was 115 degrees out. Literally had to use my umbrella to keep the sun off. Straight up deadly. It was 90 that night and I was genuinely relieved that it cooled down
Born in Phoenix. Lived there for many years. Hot 24/7 for close to half the year now. Often over 110 degrees. Projections are it will get higher. You can go out at 3 am and it's still too hot. On top of that, the housing has gotten stupendously expensive. God help them if the electric grid ever goes out.
@QuarioQuario54321 Compassion and concern for others has become less fashionable. I would guess at half-assed emergency services followed by diminishing coverage of heat-related fatalities
As a lifetime Arizona resident, I have never seen water in the Gila river even once in my life. The river is completely dry by the time it reaches Phoenix.
I wonder if all the dams upstream have anything to do with it.... And the fact that they had to dam the rivers because of the yearly monsoon floods that would destroy buildings and bridges.... I wonder if that's the reason why
It’s because the Salt River project swoops all the water from getting to the Gila watershed and the Verde watershed (above the Gila). This also means less flow into the Colorado as the Gila flows into the Colorado. Groundwater is also fucked over there too, overdrafted a bit.
They need to run a pumping station from the Rio Grande, across the hills, and into the Gila near it's origin. Would make the dams more efficient, could be shut off for flood rains, and would leave more for downstream irrigation... All while propping up the dwindling Colorado. Might be able to get Mexico to pitch in on some of the project for a healthier Colorado, which they also use.
9 months of summer, scarce water supplies, endless suburban sprawl, little rain, few trees, California level prices for everything. Sounds like an actual prison.
ill never understand why mid and east coasts get hype to live in the desert. i never had an issue with ice and snow on roads and some crazy winters, atleast you can make yourself warm, its impossible to make yourself cool without technology it sucks. so many old people are going to fry in their apartments when they have alzheimers/dementia and thats really sad. freezing to death is much preferable.
Frozen human popcycles or warm weather with air conditioning and pools. Some people can't take the cold and some the heat. At least everyone has a choice. I've lived in Phx 66-1/2 years and I will probably breathe my last here too. This city has been good to me for the most part.
Fun fact: Occasionally, flights at Phoenix's airport get weather delays and cancellations. Not because of blizzards or normal things like that. But because sometimes it gets _too hot_ to fly. You mention the hottest single day record in Phoenix as being 113, set last year, but that was only for that particular day. 2023 set several record highs for particular days, and a few other heat records, too; however, the all-time recorded high is 122 Fahrenheit in 1990. It's routinely hotter than 113 every year on various days in the summer :)
I was going to post something quite similar. 113 is hot but far from the hottest ever in Phoenix. We get 113 sometimes were I live but it's rare and I live in southern Arizona.
@@jangamecuber the dryness gets us 10-20°F leeway. Also it's still terrible. Want to go for a walk? Do it before dawn. AC needs fixing? Pay through the nose.
We breed puppies. People ask us to ship them by air instead of coming to get them, which we refuse to do because shipping puppies all alone in cargo compartments in cruel. We explain that we couldn't even if we wanted to, because whenever it's cool enough here not to violate airline regs on animal shipments, it's too cold at the buyer's end to comply with those same regs. Win-win for us (and the puppies).
If you want an example of how Southwestern cities have adapted to water shortage, look at Tucson. We have been a model of water conservation and desert landscaping. Grass lawns are very uncommon here, and native plants flourish in people’s yards. It’s beautiful, when it isn’t blazing hot at least.
Yes as an AZ resident who frequents Tucson, seeing all the lawn and golf courses in Phoenix truly disgusts me. It's vanity and lack of consideration for where you actually live
What about all the agriculture still happening? Subsidized by the federal government. Growing water intensive crops like alfalfa (to ship to Saudi Arabia) and cattle ranching don't make sense. It reminds me of the disaster the Soviets did with the Aral Sea. Growing cotton in the desert. Ranching and farming in the South West is a thing of the past. Time to let it go.
@@DSTKO-w7z Most of the alfalfa grown is used for domestic meat and dairy production. And it's grown in the desert southwest because it can be grown 12 months out of the year whereas in most places in the US it can be grown for less than 6 months per year.
I guess you would appreciate if i made a documentary about the Egyptian Pyramids and talking about the history and how it became all while showing photos of Machu Pichu. 👍🏻
I was born in Phoenix, in 1959. And except for 4 years in the military, I have lived in Maricopa County my entire life. Right now, July 24, 2024, it is 111 degrees F. It will be that hot for 4-5 months of the year. I retired earlier this year, and I'm divorced, and I'd like to leave for some place cooler, but I own a home here, which is part of a trust for my kids, who are also here. So I will just stick it out. I pay around $500 a month to keep my home at 70 degrees F. I have an A/C unit twice as big as what a house the size of mine would normally have.
@@WakandaleezaRazz First of all, you don't know all the details. I am a 65 year old disabled veteran (Desert Storm 1991) and do not have normal tolerance for heat. I don't even use the heater in the winter, not even in a car. While it starts out pretty dry in early summer, when the monsoon season hits in mid July, the humidity goes way up. Not as much as places like Florida, but high enough to make it hard for me to breath. A/C also acts as a dehumidifier.
@@mchristr Yes. In the middle of winter the bills go down to well below $100. I don't use heat. Don't need it here. What I pay a fortune for in the summer is free in the winter.
F Humidity. The moment you step outside when it's insanely hot you don't even feel wet you just feel as if you instantly got covered in sticky stuff. It's extremely uncomfortable.
I've lived in Phoenix for 30 years. All you have to do is add water and boom, a subdivision full of houses will pop up within 6 months. I like to think the game "Sim City" was inspired by Phoenix.
If you think living in Phoenix would be bad during the summer, try being homeless in Phoenix. We had about 300 unsheltered people die this year due to heat related causes. It's so bad there are cooling stations (places with AC that people can go to cool off), emergency cooling stations (buses that are parked and run their AC), and water cooling stations (places where you can get water and shade and relief from the heat).
I have a cousin who I recently chatted with who lived in a Phoenix suburb for a few years (Buckeye) and said he loved living there and would move back if he could. According to him the summers aren’t so bad with AC and a swimming pool and you don’t have to deal with the cold/snow/and grey rainy weather that can happen in the Pacific Northwest. The older I get the more that perspective sounds good to me. Snowy and icy roads and shoveling snow are for the birds.
it probably was when he lived here, but it has changed in the last 4ish years. We had an straight month of 110° days last year, with much of those being over 115°. I moved here in 2010 and the heat wasn't as bad as it is now. It is definitely nice in the winter and spring though. I'll probably become a "snow bird" in my retirement years like millions of people are.
Oh yeah no, Buckeye's great but that's only because it's an hour drive from the city and right next door to beautiful moutain trails and calming farm land.
As someone in Phoenix, this place still confuses me. It’s over 110 in the summer and almost freezing in the winter. It’s one of the largest cities in the country, yet you still feel like you’re in the middle of nowhere. Edit: Ok fine I get it. I’m sorry that 35 degrees Fahrenheit during the morning is way too hot for you for it to be considered “almost freezing”, and that I have absolutely no idea that Phoenix is generally warmer than most places. Since it’s so very clear that I shouldn’t be living here since I apparently can’t put up with a little weather, I guess I should find a way to magically move somewhere else on a whim. I also apologize for having an opinion, which stupid me should have realized is not allowed.
@@mohammed44_ most of Saudi doesn't get cold in the winter though. You thinking it's cold doesn't make it so. Riyadh can easily hit over 20C in the winter, as can Dammam. Jeddah is even hotter. These are not 'extreme cold' by any definition. The only cold places -- Arar, Abha, Sakakah -- are sparsely populated. The average person in Saudi experiences hot winters by global standards
@@seadkolasinac7220 Well, I am not from riyadh or dammam or jeddah. The closest out of these is dammam and its still like 300km away from me. Now its february at night and its 15C°, but at early january, it can get as low as -10°C or even lower here next to the empty quarter.
I have lived here for a long time, and while I've had my fill of it and am planning to move away, that sounds like a you problem. There's so much to do and see here every day.
Because your local government is renting your agriculture land to Saudi for alfalfa to feed their cattle in the middle east thus running your aquaphor dry. Do research.
oh don't get me wrong, all the old people and rich people who NEED green grass in their yards are part of the problem. But as someone who has lived in this state for my entire life, I can tell you the real issue is that local officials have time and time again sold the integrity of the community out for a bigger and bigger paycheck. The latest scam is that we have huge companies like TSMC moving to AZ because the officials would rather focus on making more capital than fix the homeless or drug problem.
@Valorince right? Why on earth would they not build these in, say, Minneapolis, Milwaukee or Chicago, some of the most sustainable cities in the nation?
I had lived there from November of 2004 to December of 2013. We (my son and I) missed it so much that we planned to move back after he had graduated high school (2023). He was born there, I was born in Minneapolis. I miss the heat, the mountains, the Palm Trees, working at ASU Tempe Campus, and most of all, the very kind people.
I live in the Phoenix area and last summer year during our "heat wave" I went to visit my sister in Houston during their heat wave of 90+ degrees. I have never sweated so quickly and thoroughly through my clothes than when I was there. Just the walk from the front door was taking me down. The humidity was horrible and it quickly impacted my asthma. I will happily take 115+ degree desert southwest days over the humid days in Texas.
We lived in San Antonio, heck, the whole Midwest is humid. It's all of the rivers, lakes, ponds, and ground water. Plus the heat. I grew up in Corrientes, Argentina 🇦🇷. It can get humid there too since we're close to the Paraná River (big river that branches off the Amazon). Lived in South Florida too. I think 🤔 one just gets used to the climate, at least I do.
Come to the deep south, where it may not be as hot, but thanks to the humidity the heat index is routinely still in the high 80s and low 90s at night. New Orleans and Miami in particular
Gotta love when the 10 o'clock news shows the temperature is still 110+. Even better when it's 0200 and still that high. That has happened more times than I can count over the last decade and it's only going to get worse.
- I'm bored... - Hey, what if we take the most water consuming industries and try to develop them in a literal desert? - Sounds like a nice challenge, let's get to it.
The water is mostly run on a closed-loop circuit. It's true that you need a lot of water at first. But once you put the billion gallons of water into the internal system, it recycles itself indefinitely. You do need to, every now and then, add some new water or replace some old, but for the most part the system runs continuously and there's not much additional water needed.
@@bl-nb8fo no. the amount mentioned at 41:20 is the total consumption rate their system needs to operate. They recycle absolutely everything they can, but they still need enormous amounts of water. There's a lot of waste product that builds up, and it becomes increasingly impracticable to filter the water at higher percentages. But then again they have special needs; not everyone needs 99.99999% percent clean water in order to clean their machinery :d
@@bl-nb8fouhm. No. You gave the impression that once running it basically "recycles itself indefinitely", which isn't the case. Water input will still be huge. Just not astronomically huge.
I am from Phoenix , when growing up we did not have green yards grass , we had desert landscaping . it is when the individuals from back East and Midwest came to Phoenix that is when we started having green grass and non natural trees and bushes brought to Phoenix . you cannot change mother nature and not expect to have problems .
See, it should be illegal in places like that for plants to be introduced that have a high water demand. They should have regulated it and said native species only or other species that simply don't need much water to survive.
@@NazriBuang-w9v look here no brains if you were old enough to lived back then around the Early sixtys you would know what I am talking about 70 percent of Phoenix had no lush green yards and Bethany home was the last road and baseline was the last road south and 51 Ave was the last road west and 56 st was the last road east . I would not expect you to know this because most likely you are a Democrat .
It's way too packed here now I grew up in the upper middle class of Chandler and it used to be like a faraway second thought town, now it's like Tempe everywhere.
I was a kid in 50's Tempe, a part of the Phoenix complex. It was a sleeply little one horse college town then. Now it has high rises and is amazingly expensive. It is very strange.
Beautifully put. I watched it changed so much, my family are native americans out on the pima and tohono oodham reservation my mother was a german i watched it grow in the 2000s and i remember when chandler and mesa were fairly rural. Chandler was all farmland less than 10 years later its a city sprawl with apartments and high rises everywhere. Cant imagine what it looked like in the 1950s. Wow.
I grew up in phx. I remember one summer it was cruising at like 115 degrees for over a month and when it dropped back down to 100 we considered it to be “a cool day” 🤣🤣
I live in North phoenix, and im particularly close to the TSMC fab . It's literally 2 miles away from me and the speed at which their building entire neighborhoods is mindboggling I drive past a development everyday and have been watching like 40 houses getting built within 3 months
I am in the exact same area and you are so right! Tons and tons of new apartment developments going up as well. Sad because I moved to this side of town because it was less crowded.
Im a truck driver here delivering the materials and am blown away how quick everythings being built. Been to tsmc many times; now solar in tonopah like crazy. Gilbert has almost no more farmland
The highest temperature ever recorded in Phoenix Arizona is 122 degrees Fahrenheit. This was set in June of 1990. I remember that day very well because our air conditioner broke.
@@TheJoshestWhiteTemperature varies greatly depending on where you measure it. If you measure 1” above an asphalt surface is going to be over 140f all day, every day.
I remember well. There was 2 days of it. 122-122.5. My kids kept insisting they wanted to fry an egg. I let them didn’t work lol Experience is the best teacher.
As someone who has only lived in the valley my whole life, I am thoroughly surprised at how often we got rain in the last few weeks. I am less surprised at the heat following the next day despite it all.
Almost felt manipulated or artificially contrived. Then again the weather gods could be messing with us. Need to see if Farmers Almanac is still a thing!
Fun fact: Phoenix 's latitude (33.4°N) runs through North Texas, Central Georgia, the northernmost parts of Africa, the Tibetan Plateau (not too far away from Mount Everest!) and south Japan.
Phoenix needs to do what Las Vegas did. Cover up the pools and only allow native plants. Palm trees and grass don't grow here. Cacti, palo verdes and aloe does. Also despite the heat, you ain't gotta shovel.
WE DO HAVE NATIVE PLANTS. THERE IS A MOVEMENT TO GET RID OF GRASS & CROPS WHICH TAKE UP THE MOST WATER. 126 DEGREE HEAT? 110+ FOR 7 MONTHS? ELECTRIC BILL IS THE TRADE OFF
I would rather shovel than live in a desert. But it really should be a policy that your "lawn" should have to sustain itself from the rain. In NY parts of my lawn are made of moss, the only maintenance is rakeing leaves and mowing the grass.
@@jasonreed7522From rain?? Even native plants would die. The heat bubble effect and surrounding mountains means it rains even less inside the city than elsewhere in AZ. It's not uncommon to go multiple months without a drop of rain.
@@henryward5457 Native plants only need irrigation for the first few years when they are getting established and growing out their root system. Once they are mature they don't need additional irrigation. You can also build swales and use mulch to increase water availability without using any additional water.
Actually this keeps the superficial people that don't think deep, from our cities up north. You can have all those people and suburban sprawl that comes with it
@@idk-99114 Eh-Comments can often be similar without copying. You commented: “the thumbnail 😭 bro has personal problems with Phoenix 💀” and he commented: “Bro has history with Phoenix 😂”
I’ve lived in phoenix for 27 years and I love it. One year my AC broke in July and I had to wait 3 weeks to get it repaired and that’s when I realized how inhospitable this desert really is. But AC is what makes it possible to live here as everywhere you go is nice and cool.
Most people in the Phoenix area didn't get air conditioning until the mid-1960's. My family used an evaporative cooler which worked great until the Dog Days of August, when the higher humidity reduces the cooling effect of evaporation of water. The best thing though, was when my high school burned down, and we had to "make do" with other available buildings with air conditioning instead of fans! 😂
Thank you for informing the youth! Every 10 seconds I was learning something new. This video needs to be shown to every American, so they understand the importance of protecting our planet!
I lived in Phoenix, AZ for 20 years and I just remember how much money I spent on A/C in the Summer the bill would go over $500 a month. I kept my house temp in the Summer at 80 degree's for my house in Phoenix. 80 degree's actually felt cool to us and when the temp dropped to even 70 degrees people would have to put on jackets.
As an Arizonan, I've always found it interesting that Phoenix and the surrounding cities actually have way better water conservation and quality standards than other cities where fresh water is an abundant resource, i.e. Chicago, Milwaukee, and Cleveland. Arizona's an odd place, but it hosts some of the most extraordinary and diverse ecosystems on Earth and I'm grateful I get to explore them.
@@raineob4996 I feel like I once read somewhere that the Bellagio fountains have an enormous reverse osmosis system and actually use far less water than the golf course that came before it- which itself offers a compelling argument against the one consumer use in AZ that I think does use way too much water: golf courses.
Phoenix absolutely does not have way better water conservation and quality standards. What are you on about ? Born and raised in Phoenix and if you want an actual city that conserves water well, look at Las Vegas. We are nowhere near that and the politicians in this state have their heads so far up their rear ends that they still think climate change is a hoax. Not sure where you even got that impression really....
I absolutely love the desert, especially more around Tucson where I live. Granted, the summer months mean I don't explore it as much, but every weekend I hop into my car to find somewhere new to take photos and hike around. It's endless fascinating to me.
Nothing good about leaving in a hell hole in a city that is hostile 9months of the year only for the remaining 3 months to be occupied by snowbirds and tourists. Also phoenix only knows how to build ugly sprawling prison suburbs, no thanks!
If I could give advice to the people who do Phoenix’s city planning, it would be “stop building out and start building up”. Urban sprawl is the number one culprit for the heat island effect, and being in the desert, only makes the heat even more unbearable. Also Phoenix you can literally walk out at 7 am and it’d be 90 degrees. Not because it got to 90 degrees that fast, but because it’s STILL 90 degrees from LAST NIGHT.
@@Br3ttM Or, if they rethink enough, it might instead spark a population influx from people who want to live in a more convenient and less car dependent city.
Which is why you're not a city planner. The heat is why they build across a large area, heat rises and in buildings that means every floor you go up, the hotter it gets. The only way to counteract that is with AC, transferring the heat from inside, to outside.
Drove through Phoenix on my way to visiting Death Valley. My car's outside temp reported that Costco parking lot temp was 122. and it was the same temp in death valley 122 One day Phoenix will be the next Detroit...
I think they’re referencing the private, for-profit University of Phoenix. As a Phoenician myself who works in higher education, University of Phoenix can fuck right off. They just co-opted the name after headquartering here decades ago-likely for the same reason as Intel and others. But they are pretty vile with their spammy marketing tactics.
Depends on our cloud cover. Clear day and no clouds at night, then is will drop 30 F. But our hottest days attract clouds because it keeps humidity in the air and they collect as the sun sets, making a blanket holding the heat in
I can tell you, when I moved here in 1989: it was 122 degrees two years after, it did rain back then, it was one of the most beautiful places I’ve seen. The ridiculous overdevelopment has made it more unlivable than the temperatures!
@@mertm.99543 dry is more tolerable than 33 with 70% humidity though. As a Moroccan born in similar climate, I know how it feels. The issue is that the temperature doesn't fall at night and stays hot while in humid areas with air breeze it cools down at night for a walk. So yeah Phoenix is a human anomaly
EXCELLENT WORK OF JOURNALISM AND FILMOGRAPHY. I was involved as a City Manager and later as a County Manager in water resource planning in Arizona. You have done an outstanding review and analysis.
san diegan here, i visited phoenix last summer for the first time in July & when i tell you that place is HELL on earth. it actually felt like i was in a hot oven. no cool air whatsoever, blazing sun, AND THE BUGS. don't get me started on the bugs, i felt like i was experiencing one of the ten plagues with the amount of locusts i tried to avoid
lol what bugs. the bugs here are nonexistent compared to places like san Antonio Texas. I've live here 30 years now and have never once thought there was a bug problem. There is a month long period where grasshoppers come out just before summer but thats it. As for the heat. stay inside or stay in the water. Theres a reason that everyone has a pool.
@@Ladwick532 yeah that’s you buddy. from what i’ve experienced, yall def have a bug problem. i had to be carried to & from my car after one flying near my face the first night, i could not walk without being within two feet of one bc i hate bugs esp when they’re huge. pool or not, that heat is unpleasant & why millions wanna live there is beyond me, respectfully. even our summers don’t get that bad, i’m a cali girl all the way 💅🏼
@@LumaToyeah let me be born anywhere else in the americas and make 99% less money with no opportunity for growth to make 6 figures. Lmao fuck out of here
@stark5353 USA school system dumb, obesity and you actually have to pay for hospital. Nordic europe is often much better with free hospitals, the highest ranking in happiness and slightly less obesity. USA is A tier though
I actually live in phoenix and I’m just gonna be honest you can’t keep your dogs out side during the summer and dogs have to wear shoes when going on a walk or they will not want to walk on the hot concrete, but….. for some reason it’s actually bearable…. Idk how but I feel like humans are just good at adjusting to your environment, because 70 Fahrenheit is really cold and need a jacket to go outside here in Arizona.
I moved here last August. Labor Day my wife and I went to Prescott -- I got out of the car and was like OMG i shoulda brought a jacket its cold! It was 74 degrees lmao
I'd say it's bearable only because of AC. We had ours go out in the middle of summer and had to wait 1.5 days for it to be replaced. The temp slowly climbed in the house up to 90. That was an uncomfortable (almost unbearable) night sleep. 🥵
i lived in havasu for some years. havasu is pretty much always 5-15 degrees hotter than phoenix. my observation is that some people are born able to cope with the heat, and other people literally can't function. like, on a genetic level, lol. they just bonk tf out and can't do anything without needing a two-hour nap in ac if they even go outside to the car and back.
As a tour guide for the Arizona Guide association, he’s got the rivers wrong. Phoenix, Arizona is 😊feed by the Verde and the salt River, which together has a total of seven major dams - Roosevelt Dam being the largest The Gale River flows well south of the metro Phoenix area - and it’s not included as a water source for Phoenix. The Colorado river flows well (150 miles) west of Phoenix however, there is the central Arizona project which brings water to the Phoenix, Metro and Tucson via a 300+ mile canal system
PS it’s like omitting the Hudson River when including New York City it’s a major major flaw in this video. I’m not sure what research this person did or did not do?
I lived in Scottsdale adjacent to Phoenix for 20 years. On June 26th 1990, The temperature was recorded at Sky Harbor Airport was 122.3F. They had to shut down all flights because the planes were only rated for 120F max takeoff temperature. They had to wait until it cooled down to 120F so the planes could takeoff. Great motorcycle riding weather. I miss those days. I now live in Western Washington for the past 30 years.
@@shea5542 It is a beautiful State especially on the Western side. Lots of green and nice cooling rain. Down sides...Everything is expense and this side of the Cascade Mountains is WAY too Liberal for this Conservative Man. I want out as fast as I can. If you're into firearms...look elsewhere. I'm thinking Idaho? Red State. Hope I answered your question?
@rickh8380 You speak facts here. I have lived here in the "Valley" for 55 years. I was in downtown Phoenix (worked a few miles away) that day at a conference, so you're talking even hotter ambient what with all the concrete, asphalt and steel. Out-of-town attendees couldn't believe it. Heck, WE couldn't believe it. That day my recollection is that it wasn't "just" a matter of the planes not being able to take off, but that they didn't have the data/ operating manual info to reliably base flap and thrust settings on. Bad enough! Many of us here have categories - Past May 1, over 90° up to 100° "not worth a mention." any time after mid May, 100° even an occasional 105° "seasonably hot," anytime after June 1 100°-110° "kinda hot today, especially 105°+, but normal summer, not worth much mention," 110°-112° "really hot today, wish it'd cool down, still not out-of-normal, but nevertheless warranting complaints," 112°-115° "too damn hot, not unheard of but TV news full of health warnings especially for challenged...," 115°+ just plain hot, 'unacceptably so," regardless of humidity - no more caveat/excuses like "but it's a dry heat." Rare (even here) 120°+ goes without (much) saying, just looks of bewilderment on people's faces. Generally speaking these ultra high temperatures don't carry with them a lot of humidity, but there have been occasions in the low to mid-hundred 'teens when the two have somehow defied meteorological norms and combined, and it's brutal. The main difference between June and July is the latter doesn't cool down as much at night, particularly in the last few decades due to the "urban heat dome effect" from all the concrete and asphalt, meaning carry over to the next day and you don't get a break. Early to mid July through August there is an uptick in humidity, by our standards, and that's when anything over 105° gets particularly unpleasant. The temperature used to drop off more than it does now in Septembar, but at least there is a drying out.
I went to Phoenix, Sedona, Flagstaff in October and it was the best time to visit. The weather was pleasant and the upper part of the state was getting colder, enough for a sweater during the day. It’s a beautiful state when you leave the immediate Phoenix surroundings.
@@JeanClaudeCOCO Yeah I too love Northern Arizona. March and April are beautiful when the desert is in bloom. North Eastern Arizona is beautiful also up on the rim.
I lived in Phoenix from 72-82, there were not any freeways back then, the 17 was a dirt road in some places. Today when I visit it's hardly recognizable. Regarding the heat, you just "get used to it".
Welcome to every other state and city in the US today. Pretty soon it’s all going to be one giant megalopolis with no natural areas left. Why do you think that is ?
20 year resident of Gilbert ( suburb of Phoenix) Arizona here. Actually it’s a lovely place to live except July and August are absolutely brutal because of high heat and humidity. June has very high temperatures, but no humidity, so it’s actually bearable and by September it’s almost over . We have a great economy, great shopping, schools, restaurants etc and people are very friendly.
I'm a phoenician, and I want to let all of you know about the city's awful design. It's almost designed to capture heat, it's like a dutch oven. In lower income areas there is no vegetation, no trees no shade. Some areas near the suburb of Chandler have massive artificial lakes inside neighborhoods, wasting precious water. It's like a dutch oven. The city itself is massive. Say you live in Scottsdale and work in Gilbert. (both core suburbs of phoenix). You're driving at least 30-45 minutes to get to work, meaning you're spending more time in your hot car. Despite all of these problems, almost 5 million of us are still here.
the awful design is in the highway structure. the 10 is thew only way to get around, and houses the entire national transportation. we have east to west movement with hardly any north and south lanes. 17 and 101 are a joke. thank God at least now we have 303. which eventually will be become over crowded. the entire valleys is too large for only 4 highways.
My family lived there prior to the late pleistocene. They watched it grow from a cool boreal environment to a hot desert. They all liked it better when it was colder.
My family lived there 4 billion years ago. They watched Earth's transformation from the beginning of life to it being humid and lush. They liked it better when it was barren and devoid of life.
@@SaintKrees yes twice moved back after I finished my job. Loved it here. People lived here before air conditioning . Now everyone making a big deal on the homeless.
To understand how bad things are in this region, I lived in Page, Arizona in the 90s. Page is literally a stone throw's distance from the Glen Canyon Dam. Back then, the water level was so high, the dam was almost overflowing. Go there now, and it's a completely different story. You can tell how far the water level has fallen by looking at the high level water mark on the sides of the cliffs in Lake Powell. I've been of the belief that Phoenix, and probably other parts of Arizona, are going to eventually suffer a similar fate as the Detroit area eventually, due to water scarcity.
Actually, the "high level marks" just show you what flood stage is, not it's normal average elevation, don't get confused by that. Also, water isn't "scarce", water has just become an issue because of it's over use producing agriculture, feed the world.
@@ericmalanowski5547 With respect, good luck with that. The people using the water are the ones who actually own the water. Who's going to make them change?
As a northwestern Mexican we hate Phoenix golf courses and Californian almond and alfalfa fields. No water has reached baja from the colorado for years
As an Arizonan that lives in Chandler, I am very impressed you mentioned Intel's effect on my city, and the greater Phoenix area! When Intel first came here in the late 70's, Chandler was still mostly a farming community, but by the late 90s and going into the 2000's, Chandler was and still is the tech hub for companies, as more tech and aerospace companies were moving into the suburb. Intel is currently doing major construction on Fab 52 and 62 that can be seen from miles away.
That’s why I don’t understand all these out of state people who keep saying “Phoenix won’t last because of the heat and water shortage” …… all whole billion sure investors are currently building high rises like crazy, tech companies like meta and apple have built data centers, Taiwan just built the Taiwan semi conductor factory in north Phoenix… I have a hard time believing these huge corporations investors and bankers are investing billions in Phoenix without doing their research to see if Phoenix will go instinct in 15 years… I think half the people who say that are people who are bothered Phoenix is the 5th largest city.. they see movies being filmed in other cities, and they hear famous rappers talk about other cities, Phoenix doesn’t have an ocean or get snow , so they can’t wrap their head around why anyone would move to Phoenix, they are insulted people are leaving their state for Arizona so they feel the need ti find something wrong with Arizona. Btw they are also building movie studios, so movies are gonna start being filmed in Arizona again now they their is a tax break for films being produced here. Breaking bad was supposed to be filmed here and only brave should of been filmed here, but they went to New Mexico instead.
Buckeye, AZ just 30 minutes from phoenix is the hottest place I’ve ever visited. It literally felt like the sun was still out at night. whenever the wind blows its a hot breeze. I don’t understand how people can tolerate living there.
I moved out to AZ from the east coast a couple years ago, and I love it. Granted, I don't live in the Phx area, but I still love going down every so often to visit either for games, shows, etc. I live in Northern AZ so the climate is a lot more what I'm used to from back east.
I mean this in the most respectful way. But you and everyone else who love these extremely hot summers are absolutely insane lol. This heat is unlike anything I've ever seen or experienced. It's just not normal.
I grew up in Tucson and live in Phoenix now. I bought my house in 2013 for $300,000, it’s now worth over $1,500,000 - the growth in Phoenix over the last 20 years has been unreal.
I've lived in AZ for more than 40 years now, mostly in metro Phoenix but also in Yuma and now in the White Mountains. For years, I jokingly referred to Phoenix as the "Land of the Midnight Sunburn". With all of that concrete and asphalt the Phoenix area holds it's heat well into the night. In Yuma, where it actually gets hotter during the summer, it cools off quickly once the sun goes down. That simply cannot be said of Phoenix. Phoenix has become a gigantic heat island. One of the modern challenges I've seen in the Phoenix area has been traffic. While mass transit exists, it is and has always been woefully inadequate. Everyone drives. Street and highway traffic in Phoenix has become ludicrously bad. In a lot of ways Phoenix traffic reminds me a lot of Los Angeles, where rush hour lasts for most, if not all, of the day.
This nation be so much better off if he won the POTUS. Crazy how the media was upset with him when he said” we could lob a nuke into Moscow” I wonder what changed their minds from Being pro communist to anti Russian
As a native Phoenician, whose relatives have lived here since the 1920's, I think I can answer as well as anyone. Much of our country has very difficult winters and humid summers (ick). Phoenix has very difficult summers (unless you spend a lot of time in the pool) and glorious winters. It is also a short drive to beautiful wild desert mountains and lovely cool forests. I don't see the problem, but of course, the weather is wonderful right now!
As a fairly new Phoenix resident it has been kinda funny to me how everything became nice and green over the winter. I’m used to the desert, being from NM, but Phoenix is a whole new level
As a Phoenix native who wrote his master's thesis about Phoenix's plan to adapt to the our sustainable future... I appreciate the detail that went into this video without completely writing this city off. Phoenix has a tough road ahead, but it is possible given modern technology and how we can adapt to our climate.
I was born and raised in Phoenix. I remember as a child in the summertime me and my friends would rarely go outside and stayed indoors to play Nintendo or went swimming in the evening and played with super soakers. I would have never imagined it being as hot as it is now this consistently through the Summers. When I was a kid (40 now) We had a few 112° days in July and August but nothing like now.
@@DavidKroff I was the same way, but in the Dallas area. My family moved from north of Pittsburgh to Texas in 1965. In my small little town in Pennsylvania we played outside all day almost every day. In that small town in Texas most kids stayed inside during the summers, but not me and my brothers. We were still outside even though it was like an oven. We just drank a lot of water and Kool Aid.
It's all the roads and concrete that absorbs the heat at night so it can't cool down like it used to. It's like a sponge that can't cool off. But still better than humidity!
I think of Phoenix in just one word: Why? It's so hot there, not only do a huge portion of residents have pools, but for a large fraction of the year the water is too warm to swim in comfortably. It's 110, and you want to cool off, but jumping in the pool is the last thing you want to do. I live in Albuquerque, and i couldn't face the Phoenix heat.
Having lived in Phoenix my entire life, I don't understand your phrase "too hot to swim in," honestly. Like... what range of temperatures are we talking? 'Cause I would still find like 85-88 degrees in a pool pretty refreshing. Hell, if the water was hitting 66-70 degrees, we would start saying "Alright, guess the pool's too cold, now," haha
It depends on the size and depth of pool. I have a big diving pool, 12 feet deep in AZ. It stays cool all summer. But those little play pools, that are like 4 feet deep. Yea, the water gets hot. Like a warm bath. Yea u need a pool that is at least 10 feet deep in AZ or you are just wasting your time
@@mimivistaverde5030 I don't know personally, I just know what people have told me who live there. They were definitely talking about a standard in-ground residential pool, the kind that most people have. What you have, a pool 12' deep, is very rare, and is probably an exception. Even 10' is deeper than most pools, which I think are usually 6'-8' at most. Most in ground pools are deeper than 4' I think. It seems bizarre that you would go to the expense of getting an in ground pool dug out, and only get it 4' deep. If nothing else it would be difficult to sell. So you are bringing up exceptions to what most people have. These people say it's so hot here. I say, It's good you have a pool that you can cool off in. They say, Not really, the water gets so warm it's not even refreshing or cooling to get into, getting into the pool doesn't make you feel cooler, so it's not worth it. And this is from maybe 20 years ago, when it was cooler. I guess it can vary, but the point is maybe that, unlike in other places, you can't just assume that having a pool will cool you down. My comment was really meant to address common situations, not explain every possibility. I guess it goes without saying that if you have a special pool it might be cooler. But if you have a pool like 90% of the pools, the water warms up. It's not that the water gets hot, it's just too warm to cool you off. If you're already hot, jumping in a warm pool isn't appealing. But thanks for pointing out the rare exception, I'm sure people find that very useful to know.
Even more of a question, why are the pools outdoors? Keeping them indoors would certainly cut down on evaporation losses, not to mention acting as a massive heat sink
We broke the heat record again this year. It's not cheap to live here anymore. All the business and people coming from CA is pricing the native residence to not be able to afford a one bed room atp. We can't afford a house. ( That's those of us who grew up here that are none native American.)
Born in Tucson. It seems hot with all these large numbers like 120°. However, if you look at the wet-bulb temperature, Southern Arizona is actually a lot cooler than many large urban areas in countries like Pakistan and India, or even the Southeast United States. As kids we used to play basketball in the summer in 100+F° and it was not a big problem.
Love Tucson and were thinking of retiring from rainy Tacoma...maybe even look at Oro Valley or Marana...it's going to happen and hopefully soon....my dream is to start up a drive-in theater.
@@airforceveteran71getting around Tucson is 100% easier than Tacoma. Plus cloudy, stormy Tucson, or Tucson at golden hour, is beautiful. Oh, and you'll get to see so many stunning sunsets.
We have been to Tombstone 3-4 times now and the wife loves the Old West history...looking over homes right now in the Tucson area...gray Tacoma with gray people...my last utility bill $995 for two months...had enough of that crap.@@jelyfisher
I was born and raised in Phoenix, still live here to this day. It's really an amazing place with lots of adjacent cities, the entire metropolitan area is huge. The weather is amazing 8 months out of the year and during the extremely hot summers most people have access to pools, and air conditioning is mandatory in every home. We just don't do outdoor activities unless it involves water, however there's a lot to do in the city and every place has AC pumping so you really don't notice the heat until you leave your house to get in your car. (and your ac bill goes up in summer) Other than that, the area is absolutely beautiful, it's very diverse, and the food is amazing. You can meet people from all walks of life here. And if you want snow just drive up north a few hours to Flagstaff or the grand canyon. Not to mention we don't deal with daylight saving time.
Huge but still very rural and not filled in. Lacks culture people rude racist or just plain dumb. Got some pretty neighborhoods though they look sterile and cookie cutter
comments like this just make it clear how oblivious humans are in our short existence on this planet, it's almost like we want to kill ourselves off with this mentality
Some years it is actually 6-7 months from with temps of at least the 90s from May to November into what is known as an Indian Summer and it's still very warm all the way until Thanksgiving. It is rediculous.
I'm not sure where that idea that it's only 3 months of heat followed by perfect weather comes from. I hear it frequently. 2020 had 145 days of 100+ degree highs, 2023 had 133 (and 12 of those days were in October! It usually starts in early May, sometimes late April and doesnt get truly nice until mid-November). That doesn't even count all the days it was in the 90s. So, at best its at least half the year that it's really hot.
@@BadgerCheese94 Stay away it's terrible. That's why everyone is moving here. Even Cheeseheads. I've been to Wisconsin. You can have your humidity and mosquitoes. It's terrible.
Arizona resident, easy to tell you why. No hurricanes, earthquakes are a joke, no tornadoes, occasional dust storm and rain, great weather for 8 months a year, and obviously cooking an egg on the sidewalk
This is is right here. The heat isn't so bad, its not like Natives had AC back in the day and they've been here for centuries. But why anyone would want to live in a land where the sky could suck you up and throw you around... no thanks.
Phoenix is the hottest city based on its consistently high average temperatures throughout the year. Phoenix frequently has daily highs above 100°F (38°C) for an extended period during the summer, making it one of the hottest cities in terms of average temperature. However, when considering recorded extreme temperatures, Lake Havasu City holds the record for Arizona with 128°F (53.3°C), which makes it a strong contender for the title of the hottest city in terms of peak temperatures. Both cities are extremely hot, but the distinction depends on whether we're talking about average temperatures or record-breaking heat.
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Went to phoenix, it was less of a question to me as to why it existed, rather why it was built like every other city in America instead of a truly desert adapted one.
Cause we don't know how to build different
Cause cheap and fast got the job done and other voices with better long term plans failed to influence the processes.
Because its cheaper and the only thing that matters in america is profits
@@lolmao500 and there's nothing wrong with that
THIS. Yes, why can't we build stuff to be adapted to the local environment??
As a lifelong Phoenix resident; I concur that “Phoenix is a monument to man’s arrogance.” -Peggy Hill
Tucson boyo -- strongly agree.
The arrogance is increasing daily in the west valley. 😂 I think I might cash out all the equity and finally leave.
Lol he put the actual clip in about two minutes after I commented this - that quote just lives rent free in my mind at all times
@@x8jason8xall the west coasters on the road
@@x8jason8x I’m an Arborist and I work in landscaping, and yeah the West Valley is the biggest affront to nature, though the Queen Creek / San Tan area looks like it might take the crown…
It just blows my mind how much of human history is "this place is inhospitable, so we are flocking to it because the easy to live places are too crowded"
Too crowded or too expensive.
Mars.
Closest thing to mars
Government causes failures in all markets
Because there are too many people.
As an arizona resident. It honestly really pisses me off when I see green grass in a desert. YOU LIVE IN A DESERT. DONT PLANT GRASS. That's why they consume so much water because you have to water your freaking grass all the time.
I loved that old SRP commercial telling people to save water. They show a house with grass front yard. As it gets closer and zooms in you see each blade of grass is really a straw to drink water.
ETA-- also, it's repeatedly proven that it is NOT residential usage that is the problem. It is industrial corporate complexes and farming that take 80+% of all Arizona's water. Look into how much water Honeywell and Intel use. They are major employers so it is overlooked. Same with agricultural. Southern Arizona produces most of the lettuce consumed west of the Mississippi. Nestle uses city of Phoenix municipal water supply. It's stupid what the state gives away to corporations in the pursuit of "growth".
@TwistedRootsMelody I don't think I ever saw that. I am mew to Arizona. The Flagstaff area. I'm not from Cali but from the Midwest. I'm just as annoyed with al the Californians trust me. But yes it doesn't make sense to me. That's why lake mead is drying up.
@@levistokes3960 It was an old ad. 20 years at least. My family has been in Phoenix and rural NM for generations. I don't get all the animosity to the recent California transplants. That's what all of Phoenix's growth has historically been, transplants moving here for work. Most people here didn't grow up here. Actually I haven't looked that up so might be exaggerating, but it's very common.
Are you in Flagstaff for school? My brother went to NAU.
Especially with those giant ass golf courses.
not to mention the mansions. slap in the face to the desert.
As a german i sometimes forget that there so huge countries with multiple climate zones while we are united in grey and rainy days
Go to Astrakhan-Kalmykia, it's no less hot there in summer. In Elista, when I was vacationing there, I ordered large bottles of water at home. Salt water was coming out of the tap . Yes, that territory is the bottom of a long-dried sea, the underground water sources are quite salty. And it's still Europe. This thick, fragrant smell of wormwood. Getting out of the car in the steppe . For a Muscovite, it was all exotic.
The funny thing is that phoenix can get snowy winters despite being so hot in summer, so you get a taste of everything.
Snowy winters? I've lived in Phoenix for 30 years. I've seen snow exactly one time and it evaporated as soon as it hit the ground. Hail? Sure, that happens often and not always in the winter because of what hail actually is and how it's formed in the atmosphere -having less to do with requiring frigid temps. But it definitely doesn't snow in Phoenix.
@@LeviBulgerit snowed literally one month ago 😂
@@sarahcampassi Where in Phoenix and on what date? Let's hear it. Because it certainly did not. Since 1838 there have been 8 recorded times of snow in Phoenix of over 0.1 inches. And none were in 2024
my grandma was born here in 1940 and is now 84. still blows my mind thinking about how different the city was for her as a kid compared to me now.
Same, when I was a kid we literally played in the dessert behind my neighborhood. There was nothing, now it’s all developed.
@@B-Th-Change Same for me. I've lived in Arizona for 67 years. It used to cool down at night in the summer. Last year it had so many days of 124 degress there was a propane refill company that spontaneously blew up sending hundreds of smaller propane containers 100s of feet into the air. I moved north back in 2004 to a higher elevation. I had to get out of the high pollution. I'd had Valley Fever in my 30s that left scar tissue in both lungs. The high pollution levels were killing me.
@@longwayaround7767Move to Wyoming ❤
@@basantpanigrahi583 No. I've lived my whole life in Arizona. I plan on dying here. Why don't you move to Wyoming you petty jerk. 💙💙💙
@@basantpanigrahi583 Now why on earth would I move to Wyoming when I only had to move to northern Arizona at an elevation of about 5,000 feet where there are four mild seasons and clean air. I'm retired. I paid my dues. You're just jealous. LOL
The most important aspect of Phoenix’s population boom is the same reason behind the population boom in Texas and Florida: the invention of air conditioning. Living there in 1930 meant hellish summers.
Exactly
They're still hell tbh
Summers were cooler back then
@@narc-kq3blno they weren’t, lmao I swear you climate doomers overreact to hot temperatures. 🤣
@@narc-kq3bl That is factually untrue, the Earth is cooler today than it was during the Roman Empire's reign
As a person who was born and still live in phoenix, I have asked some people why they moved here and usually it is from snowbirds and their response typically is that it "beats being cold up north"
It beats the outrageous prices and traffic in CA for sure even though nothing beats the SoCal weather!
Arizonans complain about Californians moving here but we've been Arizonans for about 7 yrs now. We help boost the economy by paying taxes and patronizing businesses, being conservative and mindful of our natural resources, and preserving the environment by maintaining an organic backyard with water-saving edible trees and plants.
Many "native" Arizonans don't even care how they treat the environment and just live here like "there's more where it came from."
My sister lived in Phoenix for several years. I'm from coastal Texas where we deal with heat and humidity but the summers in Phoenix are unreal. It was like 8:30 at night and we got out of our car to go into a restaurant and the heat was just radiating off the pavement into your face. It was literally like the feeling you get when opening an oven. My other comment is that the Phoenix metro is just enormous - bigger than you'd think and that is saying a lot coming from me having grown up in Houston.
The Phoenix Metro area covers two counties (Maricopa and Pinal) and contains 9 of the 10 largest cities or towns in Arizona, with only Tucson, at number 2, not being part of the metroplex, although even Tucson effectively borders the metro area's southern border. All of the top 10 cities contain over 100,000 residents, with Phoenix proper having a population over 1.6 million, and Mesa (3rd in the state) having over 500,000. It also covers over 14.5 thousand square miles. The Phoenix area is HUGE.
My parents moved to that area a few years ago. Honestly, it's a nightmare for kids. Summertime temperatures are too hot to go outside between 9am and ~8:30pm. We walked with a seven-year-old to a playground around lunchtime and the poor girl was dealing with heat exhaustion within twenty minutes of getting there.
Beyond that, the lots are all concrete, and gravel. My parents got a house that's quadruple the price and 2.5x the floorspace of our house, but it doesn't feel anywhere near as useable, as you are always in everyone's auditory and visual range, bumping up against each other all the time in the wide-open floorplan on vogue. There are some nice outdoor patio areas but, again, you can only use it early in the morning or late at night. I will happily take my small, older, midwestern house where the kids can play outside pretty much any day of the year, even if they're bundled up in snowsuits.
At 830 at night its still 100% bright and sunny out too 🤣 gets dark at about 10ish or 11pm during summers here in AZ. Even our winter sees days into about 7pm pretty averagely aside from directly around the winter solstice. It does however get pretty cool in night probably the low 80s after it was 115° is a drastic difference and it feels very cold after a day of that magnitude.
IT GETS COLD HERE TOO. MOST DONT KNOW DECEMBER THRU MID FEB FROST WARNINGS
Meh. You get used to. After 5 years I couldn’t even tell the difference between 100 and 120 degrees.
"Where the temperature is routinely higher than 100F"
Bro, 100F is a NICE day in summer PHX. Should've said above 110F.
But it's a dry heat, skeletons love it
Dudes will literally exaggerate the heat under any circumstances
Honestly even 110 isn't that bad, once it hits 115 or higher is my will to live melt point.
@@hieronymusbutts7349 😂 Idk why anyone says that, it gets plenty humid with the monsoons.
100F without humidity is actually kinda pleasant, *but only in the shade.* Anyone who prefers that godforsaken desert sun to East Coast humidity has worms in their brain or something
I'm from San Francisco. Spent 5 weeks in India where it was just over 100 degrees and 100% humidity. So miserable. My friend and I flew back into Phoenix where it was like 112 with no humidity. Ohh how nice the blazing hot dry weather without the humidity was.
Bruh I can’t imagine this. Suffocating
That's why it's called a ...Dry Heat
When it’s 80 I need a jacket!
@@jimmycline4778 hahaha. Do you miss humidity?
I’m good to about 105 in Phoenix due to humidity from the green growth. In Havasu, which is dryer and in the Mohave Desert, 115 is a nice feel. I was in Phoenix in 1990 when it hit 122. Dry heat or not, it was hot! Heat and temperature are two different measurements in thermodynamics but for us, it’s very subjective. I’ll take 100-115 in the desert over 85+ on the Olympic Peninsula, home of a rain forest, any day.
Came to Phoenix 14 years ago. I don't think I'll be retiring here. We already broke 3 temperature records this summer, and it will only get worse if we don't start getting smart about changing water consumption and planting more trees.
When people flood their yards always got me. Why not mandate artificial grass for front yards.
@@misaelgomez2941 omg I've always hated that! I remember the first time I saw a giant lawn flooded and thought to myself. This wasn't done on purpose, right? Who would waste all that water? Then Every now and then I remember how we have sooo many golf courses and I scream internally!
@@annaeeee7516 it really upsets me especially when Arizona was running low on water. Hopefully some change can come soon. And yes especially all those golf courses . Grass would be all yellow either way. Well Take care.
If the government wants to go half and half on removing my lawn to small rocks, I’ll do it.
@@misaelgomez2941 I swear you and the others moved here sometime during the last 3 decades. If you don't like how things work here, why not go back to where you moved from, or to somewhere that isn't a desert and doesn't have the same issues with water and its usage? I've lived here since 1970. Even I want to move away now. There are way too many people here and people keep coming. I'd rather go somewhere there are fewer people.
*The Urban Heat Island Effect.*
If you take an already hot desert and build a city on it, it's gonna get even hotter.
That’s why it’s a little cooler down here in Tucson.
@@user-ej9nl1ng9d there's a lot more to it than that lol.
The entire city absorbs and re-emits heat. Blacktop included.
From what i could gather it's the opposite when built in the desert. The heat island effect comes from replacing vegetation with buildings, concrete and asphalt. Meanwhile in the desert the cities tend to have more vegetation so it's actually more chill
@@user-ej9nl1ng9d there are studies about it
Ever wonder why all the buildings on Greek islands are painted white? Not only is it beautiful. It reflects the heat. But I guess invading migrants from Northern and central Europe couldn't figure that simple logic out despite all the "free stuff" they were given by the government. An an authoritative source that I've seen ( most of the westerns from the 1950s and 60s that were on TV and in movies) revealed that these European migrants brought alcoholic drugs crime and gun violence. But some of them are good people
As someone who lives in AZ and has lived here all my life, it’s crazy how many people are moving here now it has become so crowded and populated in PHX
Don't forget the snowbirds
Must be talking about all the foreigners here illegally.
Californians and snowbirds coming here making it impossible to buy houses. Saying this as a Phoenix native. 😣
@@j_S0VEREIGNI agree I miss the old phoniex😢
@@j_S0VEREIGN meanwhile prices are skyrocketing and good paying jobs are nowhere to be found and 120 degrees summer is right around the corner
20% of comments: Man, I love living in Phoenix
80% of comments: Phoenix is too darn hot
I’m here. It’s nice but hot as fuq. So I can see both
I luv me some Phoenix
STOP MOVING HERE! It sucks. The 5million here are just crazy. It’s super super hot and it’s not fun. Stop moving here. ;)
Those 80% are the non natives
Hell with phoenix. Only go there in winter and it's still hot to me.
My friend lives in Phoenix, and when I visited a few years back I had to take the bus across town and it was 115 degrees out. Literally had to use my umbrella to keep the sun off. Straight up deadly. It was 90 that night and I was genuinely relieved that it cooled down
Born in Phoenix. Lived there for many years. Hot 24/7 for close to half the year now. Often over 110 degrees. Projections are it will get higher. You can go out at 3 am and it's still too hot. On top of that, the housing has gotten stupendously expensive. God help them if the electric grid ever goes out.
And what will happen when it’s dried up? Mass evacuation?
@QuarioQuario54321 Compassion and concern for others has become less fashionable. I would guess at half-assed emergency services followed by diminishing coverage of heat-related fatalities
What about the fresh water issues as the city of Phoenix increases-???🤔.
Right the water situation is tenuous as best and the building FAB's that require millions of gallons of fresh water daily😂😂😂
That last sentence 👏
They call it Phoenix because it's about to burst into flames any second now
And a better City will be reborn from the ashes LOL
Sounds about right
Its what you see when you look outside the window because its that hot
@@angelcanez4426Can't get much worse than it already is, it's a low bar lol
I hope ppl would start believing that so they would stop coming here.
As a lifetime Arizona resident, I have never seen water in the Gila river even once in my life. The river is completely dry by the time it reaches Phoenix.
I wonder if all the dams upstream have anything to do with it.... And the fact that they had to dam the rivers because of the yearly monsoon floods that would destroy buildings and bridges.... I wonder if that's the reason why
Seen it wet a few times, but only from flash floods. It goes underground from what I've been told. Don't quote me though. 😂
It’s because the Salt River project swoops all the water from getting to the Gila watershed and the Verde watershed (above the Gila). This also means less flow into the Colorado as the Gila flows into the Colorado. Groundwater is also fucked over there too, overdrafted a bit.
@@samuelblack1687
nope. canals to agriculture
They need to run a pumping station from the Rio Grande, across the hills, and into the Gila near it's origin. Would make the dams more efficient, could be shut off for flood rains, and would leave more for downstream irrigation... All while propping up the dwindling Colorado. Might be able to get Mexico to pitch in on some of the project for a healthier Colorado, which they also use.
9 months of summer, scarce water supplies, endless suburban sprawl, little rain, few trees, California level prices for everything. Sounds like an actual prison.
It is don’t come here 😢
@@Charles-yf7kc yeah man this place totally blows don't come here at all
ill never understand why mid and east coasts get hype to live in the desert. i never had an issue with ice and snow on roads and some crazy winters, atleast you can make yourself warm, its impossible to make yourself cool without technology it sucks.
so many old people are going to fry in their apartments when they have alzheimers/dementia and thats really sad. freezing to death is much preferable.
Frozen human popcycles or warm weather with air conditioning and pools. Some people can't take the cold and some the heat. At least everyone has a choice. I've lived in Phx 66-1/2 years and I will probably breathe my last here too. This city has been good to me for the most part.
you obviously don't know how our water system works.
Fun fact: Occasionally, flights at Phoenix's airport get weather delays and cancellations. Not because of blizzards or normal things like that. But because sometimes it gets _too hot_ to fly.
You mention the hottest single day record in Phoenix as being 113, set last year, but that was only for that particular day. 2023 set several record highs for particular days, and a few other heat records, too; however, the all-time recorded high is 122 Fahrenheit in 1990.
It's routinely hotter than 113 every year on various days in the summer :)
I was going to post something quite similar. 113 is hot but far from the hottest ever in Phoenix. We get 113 sometimes were I live but it's rare and I live in southern Arizona.
I live in GA, and can barely go outside when temps hit 95°, how do you survive that?
@@jangamecuber"It's a dry heat"
@@jangamecuber the dryness gets us 10-20°F leeway. Also it's still terrible. Want to go for a walk? Do it before dawn. AC needs fixing? Pay through the nose.
We breed puppies. People ask us to ship them by air instead of coming to get them, which we refuse to do because shipping puppies all alone in cargo compartments in cruel. We explain that we couldn't even if we wanted to, because whenever it's cool enough here not to violate airline regs on animal shipments, it's too cold at the buyer's end to comply with those same regs. Win-win for us (and the puppies).
If you want an example of how Southwestern cities have adapted to water shortage, look at Tucson. We have been a model of water conservation and desert landscaping. Grass lawns are very uncommon here, and native plants flourish in people’s yards. It’s beautiful, when it isn’t blazing hot at least.
Yes as an AZ resident who frequents Tucson, seeing all the lawn and golf courses in Phoenix truly disgusts me. It's vanity and lack of consideration for where you actually live
What about all the agriculture still happening? Subsidized by the federal government. Growing water intensive crops like alfalfa (to ship to Saudi Arabia) and cattle ranching don't make sense. It reminds me of the disaster the Soviets did with the Aral Sea. Growing cotton in the desert. Ranching and farming in the South West is a thing of the past. Time to let it go.
Vegas too, they reuse almost all of their water
@@DSTKO-w7z Most of the alfalfa grown is used for domestic meat and dairy production. And it's grown in the desert southwest because it can be grown 12 months out of the year whereas in most places in the US it can be grown for less than 6 months per year.
They canceled the Saudis lease. They are getting wise to the good ole boys club. @@DSTKO-w7z
One minor critique is that he's talking about Phoenix while showing old footage of Sedona. I know that because that's my home town.
FR!!!
He’s showing footage of every city in AZ.
@@goddamndog Which is nice. More documentaries should highlight Arizona as a whole, not just Phoenix.
@@SecretAgentBartFargobut he's literally talking about Phoenix
I guess you would appreciate if i made a documentary about the Egyptian Pyramids and talking about the history and how it became all while showing photos of Machu Pichu. 👍🏻
I was born in Phoenix, in 1959. And except for 4 years in the military, I have lived in Maricopa County my entire life. Right now, July 24, 2024, it is 111 degrees F. It will be that hot for 4-5 months of the year. I retired earlier this year, and I'm divorced, and I'd like to leave for some place cooler, but I own a home here, which is part of a trust for my kids, who are also here. So I will just stick it out. I pay around $500 a month to keep my home at 70 degrees F. I have an A/C unit twice as big as what a house the size of mine would normally have.
70 degrees is ABSURD.
70 is wild lmao. Even in humid Houston, 74-75 is enough, 72 if you really need an ice box. Don’t yall always say “it’s a dry heat” lmfao 😂😂😂😂
@@WakandaleezaRazz First of all, you don't know all the details. I am a 65 year old disabled veteran (Desert Storm 1991) and do not have normal tolerance for heat. I don't even use the heater in the winter, not even in a car. While it starts out pretty dry in early summer, when the monsoon season hits in mid July, the humidity goes way up. Not as much as places like Florida, but high enough to make it hard for me to breath. A/C also acts as a dehumidifier.
When you say $500/month, can I assume that is your summer cost and not a yearly average?
@@mchristr Yes. In the middle of winter the bills go down to well below $100. I don't use heat. Don't need it here. What I pay a fortune for in the summer is free in the winter.
I live in Arizona and still prefer 115 degree dry heat then 95 degrees with 100% humidity
i hate u so much
Oh ya! definitely!
F Humidity. The moment you step outside when it's insanely hot you don't even feel wet you just feel as if you instantly got covered in sticky stuff. It's extremely uncomfortable.
As a Floridian, I completely agree.
I live in Phoenix. I went to Austin Texas in July. It was 90. I nearly passed out.
I've lived in Phoenix for 30 years. All you have to do is add water and boom, a subdivision full of houses will pop up within 6 months. I like to think the game "Sim City" was inspired by Phoenix.
I remember Sim City 3000
Yea I’ve seen buildings go up in just under a month!
lol
I chose the heat of Houston instead of the cold and snow of Buffalo
Or pheonix based on sim city lol
If you think living in Phoenix would be bad during the summer, try being homeless in Phoenix. We had about 300 unsheltered people die this year due to heat related causes.
It's so bad there are cooling stations (places with AC that people can go to cool off), emergency cooling stations (buses that are parked and run their AC), and water cooling stations (places where you can get water and shade and relief from the heat).
A cool room might be useful plopped here and there in a place like that. Who cares if its 110 out of everywhere else is chilly
Unsheltered HA
lets run the buses all day real smart
Makes you think Arppaio was trying to turn his jail into a death camp.
Free bus rides to California for all homeless!
I have a cousin who I recently chatted with who lived in a Phoenix suburb for a few years (Buckeye) and said he loved living there and would move back if he could. According to him the summers aren’t so bad with AC and a swimming pool and you don’t have to deal with the cold/snow/and grey rainy weather that can happen in the Pacific Northwest. The older I get the more that perspective sounds good to me. Snowy and icy roads and shoveling snow are for the birds.
it probably was when he lived here, but it has changed in the last 4ish years. We had an straight month of 110° days last year, with much of those being over 115°. I moved here in 2010 and the heat wasn't as bad as it is now. It is definitely nice in the winter and spring though. I'll probably become a "snow bird" in my retirement years like millions of people are.
Oh yeah no, Buckeye's great but that's only because it's an hour drive from the city and right next door to beautiful moutain trails and calming farm land.
As someone in Phoenix, this place still confuses me. It’s over 110 in the summer and almost freezing in the winter. It’s one of the largest cities in the country, yet you still feel like you’re in the middle of nowhere.
Edit: Ok fine I get it. I’m sorry that 35 degrees Fahrenheit during the morning is way too hot for you for it to be considered “almost freezing”, and that I have absolutely no idea that Phoenix is generally warmer than most places. Since it’s so very clear that I shouldn’t be living here since I apparently can’t put up with a little weather, I guess I should find a way to magically move somewhere else on a whim. I also apologize for having an opinion, which stupid me should have realized is not allowed.
Is Rainwater-Collection in Parts of America still Illegall?
Extreme heat and cold?
Sounds normal for me as saudi💀
@@mohammed44_ most of Saudi doesn't get cold in the winter though. You thinking it's cold doesn't make it so. Riyadh can easily hit over 20C in the winter, as can Dammam. Jeddah is even hotter. These are not 'extreme cold' by any definition.
The only cold places -- Arar, Abha, Sakakah -- are sparsely populated. The average person in Saudi experiences hot winters by global standards
@@seadkolasinac7220
Well, I am not from riyadh or dammam or jeddah.
The closest out of these is dammam and its still like 300km away from me.
Now its february at night and its 15C°, but at early january, it can get as low as -10°C or even lower here next to the empty quarter.
I have lived here for a long time, and while I've had my fill of it and am planning to move away, that sounds like a you problem. There's so much to do and see here every day.
After watching this video, I still refuse to believe Phoenix exists.
No one likes u
First reply
like australia
As a Texan i can conform that phoenix is not hot at all
@@AlexMuseMatrixas a Phoenician, I can confirm you’ve never been
“Why are we running out of water?” Turns around and looks at lakefront property in the middle of the desert. “A true mystery.”
bro failed to watch the video
Because your local government is renting your agriculture land to Saudi for alfalfa to feed their cattle in the middle east thus running your aquaphor dry. Do research.
oh don't get me wrong, all the old people and rich people who NEED green grass in their yards are part of the problem. But as someone who has lived in this state for my entire life, I can tell you the real issue is that local officials have time and time again sold the integrity of the community out for a bigger and bigger paycheck. The latest scam is that we have huge companies like TSMC moving to AZ because the officials would rather focus on making more capital than fix the homeless or drug problem.
Did you not watch the video
@Valorince right? Why on earth would they not build these in, say, Minneapolis, Milwaukee or Chicago, some of the most sustainable cities in the nation?
I had lived there from November of 2004 to December of 2013. We (my son and I) missed it so much that we planned to move back after he had graduated high school (2023). He was born there, I was born in Minneapolis. I miss the heat, the mountains, the Palm Trees, working at ASU Tempe Campus, and most of all, the very kind people.
The people are awesome.
@@davidkruse4030 no way as a person who lives in az everyone is sooooooo mean
@@TutleePerhaps it's the heat?
Clearly you haven’t been there in a while. Good luck, I escaped 2 years ago, don’t need to ever go back.
This area no longer has the charm it had back in 2013. A lot has changed.
I live in the Phoenix area and last summer year during our "heat wave" I went to visit my sister in Houston during their heat wave of 90+ degrees.
I have never sweated so quickly and thoroughly through my clothes than when I was there. Just the walk from the front door was taking me down. The humidity was horrible and it quickly impacted my asthma.
I will happily take 115+ degree desert southwest days over the humid days in Texas.
I lived in Houston for 15 years. I don’t think any city on Earth has a worse climate and more biting insects, venomous snakes and flying roaches
Ditto🤣
We lived in San Antonio, heck, the whole Midwest is humid. It's all of the rivers, lakes, ponds, and ground water. Plus the heat. I grew up in Corrientes, Argentina 🇦🇷. It can get humid there too since we're close to the Paraná River (big river that branches off the Amazon). Lived in South Florida too. I think 🤔 one just gets used to the climate, at least I do.
I had the same experience in Orlando. Yuk!
It's gonna burn when global warming really kicks in. Any minute.
Got off a plane in Phoenix at 9PM once, and that's when I learned it was possible for it to be _hot_ when the sun isn't even out
Come to the deep south, where it may not be as hot, but thanks to the humidity the heat index is routinely still in the high 80s and low 90s at night. New Orleans and Miami in particular
Gotta love when the 10 o'clock news shows the temperature is still 110+. Even better when it's 0200 and still that high.
That has happened more times than I can count over the last decade and it's only going to get worse.
At night (around 8/9) it has been 105, AC never catches a break. I feel horrible for all the homeless animals here. 😢
@@S-a-m-24 late May in Washington DC felt like July in Rome.
I love going out on hot summer nights when I can enjoy the warm air without direct sunlight hitting me.
- I'm bored...
- Hey, what if we take the most water consuming industries and try to develop them in a literal desert?
- Sounds like a nice challenge, let's get to it.
The water is mostly run on a closed-loop circuit. It's true that you need a lot of water at first. But once you put the billion gallons of water into the internal system, it recycles itself indefinitely. You do need to, every now and then, add some new water or replace some old, but for the most part the system runs continuously and there's not much additional water needed.
@@bl-nb8fo no. the amount mentioned at 41:20 is the total consumption rate their system needs to operate. They recycle absolutely everything they can, but they still need enormous amounts of water. There's a lot of waste product that builds up, and it becomes increasingly impracticable to filter the water at higher percentages. But then again they have special needs; not everyone needs 99.99999% percent clean water in order to clean their machinery :d
I'm still baffled at this decision
@@megalonoobiacinc4863 You basically repeated everything I said as if it was a counterpoint smh
@@bl-nb8fouhm. No. You gave the impression that once running it basically "recycles itself indefinitely", which isn't the case. Water input will still be huge. Just not astronomically huge.
I am from Phoenix , when growing up we did not have green yards grass , we had desert landscaping . it is when the individuals from back East and Midwest came to Phoenix that is when we started having green grass and non natural trees and bushes brought to Phoenix . you cannot change mother nature and not expect to have problems .
See, it should be illegal in places like that for plants to be introduced that have a high water demand. They should have regulated it and said native species only or other species that simply don't need much water to survive.
For real like why is PHX so obsessed with their green grass golf courses??? 😭😭
@@Vidasinvida Yea they should turn Golf courses into Motorcycle race tracks. Lol.
Lies again? High Intelligence Central Intelligence
@@NazriBuang-w9v look here no brains if you were old enough to lived back then around the Early sixtys you would know what I am talking about 70 percent of Phoenix had no lush green yards and Bethany home was the last road and baseline was the last road south and 51 Ave was the last road west and 56 st was the last road east . I would not expect you to know this because most likely you are a Democrat .
Was born and raised in Arizona and moved to Oregon 7 years ago and recently moved back and wow is it crowded now... Its so packed now.
Thank god u left Oregon planning to go soon too
It's way too packed here now
I grew up in the upper middle class of Chandler and it used to be like a faraway second thought town, now it's like Tempe everywhere.
AND THEYRE ALL FREELOADING DEMOCRAT DRUG ADDICTS AND SCHIZOS
I live in Phoenix and we appreciate people like you who discourage people from moving here.
Truth!
I must be going too heaven because I already live in hell Phoenix
As long as we don't have to bail you out when you run out of water. Don't think it can't happen.
You can have the $h!thole city!
Exactly
I was a kid in 50's Tempe, a part of the Phoenix complex. It was a sleeply little one horse college town then. Now it has high rises and is amazingly expensive. It is very strange.
How is that strange?
One of the country’s largest universities are there?
@@bperez8656It’s strange how it can change in a short time period
Beautifully put. I watched it changed so much, my family are native americans out on the pima and tohono oodham reservation my mother was a german i watched it grow in the 2000s and i remember when chandler and mesa were fairly rural. Chandler was all farmland less than 10 years later its a city sprawl with apartments and high rises everywhere.
Cant imagine what it looked like in the 1950s. Wow.
I grew up in phx. I remember one summer it was cruising at like 115 degrees for over a month and when it dropped back down to 100 we considered it to be “a cool day” 🤣🤣
I live in North phoenix, and im particularly close to the TSMC fab . It's literally 2 miles away from me and the speed at which their building entire neighborhoods is mindboggling I drive past a development everyday and have been watching like 40 houses getting built within 3 months
Yeah I saw that too going up there
And most of them are built like crap
same bro 😞
I am in the exact same area and you are so right! Tons and tons of new apartment developments going up as well. Sad because I moved to this side of town because it was less crowded.
Im a truck driver here delivering the materials and am blown away how quick everythings being built. Been to tsmc many times; now solar in tonopah like crazy. Gilbert has almost no more farmland
The highest temperature ever recorded in Phoenix Arizona is 122 degrees Fahrenheit. This was set in June of 1990. I remember that day very well because our air conditioner broke.
I saw 128 about 20 years ago
I was born in 1990 on June 9th in Tucson lol
@@TheJoshestWhiteTemperature varies greatly depending on where you measure it. If you measure 1” above an asphalt surface is going to be over 140f all day, every day.
@@JimJohnson-cf3wt I saw it on the news. I think they get their data from the Airport
I remember well. There was 2 days of it. 122-122.5. My kids kept insisting they wanted to fry an egg. I let them didn’t work lol
Experience is the best teacher.
As someone who has only lived in the valley my whole life, I am thoroughly surprised at how often we got rain in the last few weeks. I am less surprised at the heat following the next day despite it all.
Oro valley ?
Almost felt manipulated or artificially contrived. Then again the weather gods could be messing with us. Need to see if Farmers Almanac is still a thing!
Now what will happen when the city truly dries up?
@@Travelers_chosen_damaged valley aka greater phoenix area
@@mlnags2829no that’s just how weather works lol
Fun fact: Phoenix 's latitude (33.4°N) runs through North Texas, Central Georgia, the northernmost parts of Africa, the Tibetan Plateau (not too far away from Mount Everest!) and south Japan.
Phoenix needs to do what Las Vegas did. Cover up the pools and only allow native plants. Palm trees and grass don't grow here. Cacti, palo verdes and aloe does. Also despite the heat, you ain't gotta shovel.
WE DO HAVE NATIVE PLANTS. THERE IS A MOVEMENT TO GET RID OF GRASS & CROPS WHICH TAKE UP THE MOST WATER. 126 DEGREE HEAT? 110+ FOR 7 MONTHS? ELECTRIC BILL IS THE TRADE OFF
I would rather shovel than live in a desert.
But it really should be a policy that your "lawn" should have to sustain itself from the rain. In NY parts of my lawn are made of moss, the only maintenance is rakeing leaves and mowing the grass.
@@lovly2cu725Is your caps lock broken?
@@jasonreed7522From rain?? Even native plants would die. The heat bubble effect and surrounding mountains means it rains even less inside the city than elsewhere in AZ.
It's not uncommon to go multiple months without a drop of rain.
@@henryward5457 Native plants only need irrigation for the first few years when they are getting established and growing out their root system. Once they are mature they don't need additional irrigation. You can also build swales and use mulch to increase water availability without using any additional water.
I love these types of videos. Anything that gets people to stop moving here has my full support.
True that
Feel that. Fk California. They destroy their state just to come here and still vote blue. Reap what you sow and stay your ahh there
Actually this keeps the superficial people that don't think deep, from our cities up north. You can have all those people and suburban sprawl that comes with it
All the human locusts.
@@Electrodexify This has got to be one of the most shallow comments on the internet. Congrats!
Bro has history with Phoenix 😂
You stole my comment💀
@@idk-99114mad?
@@idk-99114 Eh-Comments can often be similar without copying. You commented:
“the thumbnail 😭 bro has personal problems with Phoenix 💀”
and he commented:
“Bro has history with Phoenix 😂”
Just in case he changes the title it says “Why the hell does Pheonix actually exist”
@@SAMIAMFNX yh
I’ve lived in phoenix for 27 years and I love it. One year my AC broke in July and I had to wait 3 weeks to get it repaired and that’s when I realized how inhospitable this desert really is. But AC is what makes it possible to live here as everywhere you go is nice and cool.
Most people in the Phoenix area didn't get air conditioning until the mid-1960's. My family used an evaporative cooler which worked great until the Dog Days of August, when the higher humidity reduces the cooling effect of evaporation of water.
The best thing though, was when my high school burned down, and we had to "make do" with other available buildings with air conditioning instead of fans! 😂
Thank you for informing the youth! Every 10 seconds I was learning something new. This video needs to be shown to every American, so they understand the importance of protecting our planet!
I lived in Phoenix, AZ for 20 years and I just remember how much money I spent on A/C in the Summer the bill would go over $500 a month. I kept my house temp in the Summer at 80 degree's for my house in Phoenix. 80 degree's actually felt cool to us and when the temp dropped to even 70 degrees people would have to put on jackets.
@@BlueOvals24same here. I probably gonna go with window unit and not use AC at all in the summer
@@BlueOvals24maybe invest more on solar panels for sure
Can’t imagine how long this took to research, really well done
Thanks!
As an Arizonan, I've always found it interesting that Phoenix and the surrounding cities actually have way better water conservation and quality standards than other cities where fresh water is an abundant resource, i.e. Chicago, Milwaukee, and Cleveland. Arizona's an odd place, but it hosts some of the most extraordinary and diverse ecosystems on Earth and I'm grateful I get to explore them.
One of the best water conserving cities is Vegas - you know, the place with the giant jumping fountain.
@@raineob4996 I feel like I once read somewhere that the Bellagio fountains have an enormous reverse osmosis system and actually use far less water than the golf course that came before it- which itself offers a compelling argument against the one consumer use in AZ that I think does use way too much water: golf courses.
@@Wilderness-WillYou are absolutely right. Pools and fountains are FAR more efficient in water use than lawns and golf courses.
Phoenix absolutely does not have way better water conservation and quality standards. What are you on about ? Born and raised in Phoenix and if you want an actual city that conserves water well, look at Las Vegas. We are nowhere near that and the politicians in this state have their heads so far up their rear ends that they still think climate change is a hoax. Not sure where you even got that impression really....
I absolutely love the desert, especially more around Tucson where I live. Granted, the summer months mean I don't explore it as much, but every weekend I hop into my car to find somewhere new to take photos and hike around. It's endless fascinating to me.
I love Phoenix. It gets nice and quiet in the summer when all the snowbirds hightail it outa here.
My Dad had a bumper sticker. "God made Phoenix Summers to tell the Snowbirds to go home."
Agreed also is that a doc Holliday profile picture
8-9 MONTHS of incredible weather… so we suffer a bit for 60-70 days in our AC homes/malls/restaurants/cars..
We’re fine.
Nothing good about leaving in a hell hole in a city that is hostile 9months of the year only for the remaining 3 months to be occupied by snowbirds and tourists.
Also phoenix only knows how to build ugly sprawling prison suburbs, no thanks!
@@USCTrojan2013That's gonna change for the rest of your life with hotter and longer summers. Have fun and good luck.
If I could give advice to the people who do Phoenix’s city planning, it would be “stop building out and start building up”. Urban sprawl is the number one culprit for the heat island effect, and being in the desert, only makes the heat even more unbearable.
Also Phoenix you can literally walk out at 7 am and it’d be 90 degrees. Not because it got to 90 degrees that fast, but because it’s STILL 90 degrees from LAST NIGHT.
It's hard to convince them to build up when half the reason it grew so much was cheap land to sprawl over.
@@Br3ttM Time for a rethink, then.
If they rethink too much, they might move somewhere else, and the city doesn't want to lose its population.@@guydreamr
@@Br3ttM Or, if they rethink enough, it might instead spark a population influx from people who want to live in a more convenient and less car dependent city.
Which is why you're not a city planner. The heat is why they build across a large area, heat rises and in buildings that means every floor you go up, the hotter it gets. The only way to counteract that is with AC, transferring the heat from inside, to outside.
Drove through Phoenix on my way to visiting Death Valley.
My car's outside temp reported that Costco parking lot temp was 122. and it was the same temp in death valley 122
One day Phoenix will be the next Detroit...
The king of the hill clip really brought it all together.
So their online University can spam the whole world to death with advertising emails.
fr, you get into 4th grade and the process already starts
Is Rainwater-Collection in Parts of America still Illegall? If so, f them
I live in Phoenix and didn't realize this was a thing. Does ASU really advertise outside the state that much?
I think they’re referencing the private, for-profit University of Phoenix. As a Phoenician myself who works in higher education, University of Phoenix can fuck right off. They just co-opted the name after headquartering here decades ago-likely for the same reason as Intel and others. But they are pretty vile with their spammy marketing tactics.
Lol everyone here just goes to ASU, university of Phoenix is kinda a joke
It can still be over 100F at midnight in Phoenix, summer temperatures don't cool down that much. Early morning low can be 95F.
Depends on our cloud cover. Clear day and no clouds at night, then is will drop 30 F. But our hottest days attract clouds because it keeps humidity in the air and they collect as the sun sets, making a blanket holding the heat in
I can tell you, when I moved here in 1989: it was 122 degrees two years after, it did rain back then, it was one of the most beautiful places I’ve seen. The ridiculous overdevelopment has made it more unlivable than the temperatures!
For non-US viewer, 110°F is around 43°C.
Holy shit
@@mertm.99543 dry is more tolerable than 33 with 70% humidity though. As a Moroccan born in similar climate, I know how it feels. The issue is that the temperature doesn't fall at night and stays hot while in humid areas with air breeze it cools down at night for a walk. So yeah Phoenix is a human anomaly
@@MoorishAlliance Your tolerance doesn't matter at 45°C cells start to die
@@MoorishAlliance For real. 43 dry is way better than 30 with 70% humidity. Humidity makes things worse.
@@MoorishAllianceDry heat is horrible, I’d rather it be wet and hot then dry and hot
I'm a 30 year old az native. Even looking back how different it was 3 decades ago is crazy
EXCELLENT WORK OF JOURNALISM AND FILMOGRAPHY. I was involved as a City Manager and later as a County Manager in water resource planning in Arizona. You have done an outstanding review and analysis.
san diegan here, i visited phoenix last summer for the first time in July & when i tell you that place is HELL on earth. it actually felt like i was in a hot oven. no cool air whatsoever, blazing sun, AND THE BUGS. don't get me started on the bugs, i felt like i was experiencing one of the ten plagues with the amount of locusts i tried to avoid
lol what bugs. the bugs here are nonexistent compared to places like san Antonio Texas. I've live here 30 years now and have never once thought there was a bug problem. There is a month long period where grasshoppers come out just before summer but thats it. As for the heat. stay inside or stay in the water. Theres a reason that everyone has a pool.
@@Ladwick532 yeah that’s you buddy. from what i’ve experienced, yall def have a bug problem. i had to be carried to & from my car after one flying near my face the first night, i could not walk without being within two feet of one bc i hate bugs esp when they’re huge. pool or not, that heat is unpleasant & why millions wanna live there is beyond me, respectfully. even our summers don’t get that bad, i’m a cali girl all the way 💅🏼
We hired the bugs to keep cali girls out
Having your Spawn point be in Phoenix Arizona gotta be terrible RNG
Spawning in the US is S-tier RNG, what are you talking about lol. At 18 years old you can leave if you want to.
@@stark5353 S Tier depends on a lot of factors. Family and racial modifiers can be pretty strong and vary by location.
@@LumaToreally??
Try being born in f*cking india
@@LumaToyeah let me be born anywhere else in the americas and make 99% less money with no opportunity for growth to make 6 figures.
Lmao fuck out of here
@stark5353 USA school system dumb, obesity and you actually have to pay for hospital. Nordic europe is often much better with free hospitals, the highest ranking in happiness and slightly less obesity. USA is A tier though
I lived in Phoenix for 12 years, and now I'm living in Taipei. . . I still haven't rehydrated. 😂
Did you work for TSMC?
Yeah I live in bhc down near tristate went to tapei last year for the first time and yeah it's got a difference but I still say az is hotter
Usa to taiwan is so random
Damn imagine being worried about being invaded any time soon 😬
@@joanfrias2267I think their fine given how f’ed up the PLA is
I actually live in phoenix and I’m just gonna be honest you can’t keep your dogs out side during the summer and dogs have to wear shoes when going on a walk or they will not want to walk on the hot concrete, but….. for some reason it’s actually bearable…. Idk how but I feel like humans are just good at adjusting to your environment, because 70 Fahrenheit is really cold and need a jacket to go outside here in Arizona.
I moved here last August.
Labor Day my wife and I went to Prescott -- I got out of the car and was like OMG i shoulda brought a jacket its cold!
It was 74 degrees lmao
70 is not cold here 😂 the heat is relatively bearable because of the dryness but it is not comfortable.
I'd say it's bearable only because of AC. We had ours go out in the middle of summer and had to wait 1.5 days for it to be replaced. The temp slowly climbed in the house up to 90. That was an uncomfortable (almost unbearable) night sleep. 🥵
@@spicychicken2 90 is not uncomfortable for me to sleep.
i lived in havasu for some years. havasu is pretty much always 5-15 degrees hotter than phoenix. my observation is that some people are born able to cope with the heat, and other people literally can't function.
like, on a genetic level, lol. they just bonk tf out and can't do anything without needing a two-hour nap in ac if they even go outside to the car and back.
As a tour guide for the Arizona Guide association, he’s got the rivers wrong.
Phoenix, Arizona is 😊feed by the Verde and the salt River, which together has a total of seven major dams - Roosevelt Dam being the largest
The Gale River flows well south of the metro Phoenix area - and it’s not included as a water source for Phoenix.
The Colorado river flows well (150 miles) west of Phoenix however, there is the central Arizona project which brings water to the Phoenix, Metro and Tucson via a 300+ mile canal system
PS it’s like omitting the Hudson River when including New York City it’s a major major flaw in this video. I’m not sure what research this person did or did not do?
You meant "Gila" River.
Gila River (missed type 😂)
I lived in Scottsdale adjacent to Phoenix for 20 years. On June 26th 1990, The temperature was recorded at Sky Harbor Airport was 122.3F. They had to shut down all flights because the planes were only rated for 120F max takeoff temperature. They had to wait until it cooled down to 120F so the planes could takeoff. Great motorcycle riding weather. I miss those days. I now live in Western Washington for the past 30 years.
Do you like Washington? I heard it was beautiful.
@@shea5542 It is a beautiful State especially on the Western side. Lots of green and nice cooling rain. Down sides...Everything is expense and this side of the Cascade Mountains is WAY too Liberal for this Conservative Man. I want out as fast as I can. If you're into firearms...look elsewhere. I'm thinking Idaho? Red State. Hope I answered your question?
@rickh8380 You speak facts here. I have lived here in the "Valley" for 55 years. I was in downtown Phoenix (worked a few miles away) that day at a conference, so you're talking even hotter ambient what with all the concrete, asphalt and steel. Out-of-town attendees couldn't believe it. Heck, WE couldn't believe it. That day my recollection is that it wasn't "just" a matter of the planes not being able to take off, but that they didn't have the data/ operating manual info to reliably base flap and thrust settings on. Bad enough!
Many of us here have categories - Past May 1, over 90° up to 100° "not worth a mention." any time after mid May, 100° even an occasional 105° "seasonably hot," anytime after June 1 100°-110° "kinda hot today, especially 105°+, but normal summer, not worth much mention," 110°-112° "really hot today, wish it'd cool down, still not out-of-normal, but nevertheless warranting complaints," 112°-115° "too damn hot, not unheard of but TV news full of health warnings especially for challenged...," 115°+ just plain hot, 'unacceptably so," regardless of humidity - no more caveat/excuses like "but it's a dry heat." Rare (even here) 120°+ goes without (much) saying, just looks of bewilderment on people's faces. Generally speaking these ultra high temperatures don't carry with them a lot of humidity, but there have been occasions in the low to mid-hundred 'teens when the two have somehow defied meteorological norms and combined, and it's brutal. The main difference between June and July is the latter doesn't cool down as much at night, particularly in the last few decades due to the "urban heat dome effect" from all the concrete and asphalt, meaning carry over to the next day and you don't get a break. Early to mid July through August there is an uptick in humidity, by our standards, and that's when anything over 105° gets particularly unpleasant. The temperature used to drop off more than it does now in Septembar, but at least there is a drying out.
I went to Phoenix, Sedona, Flagstaff in October and it was the best time to visit. The weather was pleasant and the upper part of the state was getting colder, enough for a sweater during the day. It’s a beautiful state when you leave the immediate Phoenix surroundings.
@@JeanClaudeCOCO Yeah I too love Northern Arizona. March and April are beautiful when the desert is in bloom. North Eastern Arizona is beautiful also up on the rim.
As a northern Arizona citizen, I’ve been asking the same question. 😂
I lived in Phoenix from 72-82, there were not any freeways back then, the 17 was a dirt road in some places. Today when I visit it's hardly recognizable. Regarding the heat, you just "get used to it".
Welcome to every other state and city in the US today. Pretty soon it’s all going to be one giant megalopolis with no natural areas left. Why do you think that is ?
20 year resident of Gilbert ( suburb of Phoenix) Arizona here. Actually it’s a lovely place to live except July and August are absolutely brutal because of high heat and humidity. June has very high temperatures, but no humidity, so it’s actually bearable and by September it’s almost over . We have a great economy, great shopping, schools, restaurants etc and people are very friendly.
I'm a phoenician, and I want to let all of you know about the city's awful design. It's almost designed to capture heat, it's like a dutch oven. In lower income areas there is no vegetation, no trees no shade. Some areas near the suburb of Chandler have massive artificial lakes inside neighborhoods, wasting precious water. It's like a dutch oven. The city itself is massive. Say you live in Scottsdale and work in Gilbert. (both core suburbs of phoenix). You're driving at least 30-45 minutes to get to work, meaning you're spending more time in your hot car. Despite all of these problems, almost 5 million of us are still here.
Fun fact in Tucson they have not planed any road building since 2001
@@Travelers_chosen_damagedthey are quite literally building as we speak, yes they have.
@@Travelers_chosen_damaged Fun fact: You’re wrong.
the awful design is in the highway structure. the 10 is thew only way to get around, and houses the entire national transportation. we have east to west movement with hardly any north and south lanes. 17 and 101 are a joke. thank God at least now we have 303. which eventually will be become over crowded. the entire valleys is too large for only 4 highways.
Is it like a Dutch oven?
My family lived there prior to 1900. They saw Phoenix grow from an agricultural town to a large city. They all liked it better when it was small.
My family lived there prior to 1800. They saw Phoenix grow from a colonial outpost to an agricultural town. They all liked it better when it was tiny.
My family lived there prior to the late pleistocene. They watched it grow from a cool boreal environment to a hot desert. They all liked it better when it was colder.
My family lived there 4 billion years ago. They watched Earth's transformation from the beginning of life to it being humid and lush. They liked it better when it was barren and devoid of life.
My family was there at the big bang. None of you know anything about hot!
Rural farmers liking a city when it was rural before becoming a massive city? Color me shocked.
I live in a city where it reaches over 115f at least 100 days a year.
Let us all praise the air conditioner inventor
lol does not reach 115 for a 100 days. BS💩
So you live in phoenix too?😂
@@SaintKrees yes twice moved back after I finished my job. Loved it here. People lived here before air conditioning . Now everyone making a big deal on the homeless.
@@chipcook6646the climate was cooler in those days, the climate has warmed up
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To understand how bad things are in this region, I lived in Page, Arizona in the 90s. Page is literally a stone throw's distance from the Glen Canyon Dam. Back then, the water level was so high, the dam was almost overflowing. Go there now, and it's a completely different story. You can tell how far the water level has fallen by looking at the high level water mark on the sides of the cliffs in Lake Powell. I've been of the belief that Phoenix, and probably other parts of Arizona, are going to eventually suffer a similar fate as the Detroit area eventually, due to water scarcity.
Nope. We will eventually decide enough is enough and obliterate our agriculture sector and redo the water rights.
Actually, the "high level marks" just show you what flood stage is, not it's normal average elevation, don't get confused by that. Also, water isn't "scarce", water has just become an issue because of it's over use producing agriculture, feed the world.
@@ericmalanowski5547 With respect, good luck with that. The people using the water are the ones who actually own the water. Who's going to make them change?
Original Title: "Why the Hell Does Phoenix Actually Exist"
Changed to: "Why America's Hottest City Exist"
Also some other titles
Because it is hell.
....LEGIT
....HEHE
i seen the title bro lmaooooo
He just changed it back (without the actually)
@@DSGaming40 OMG I see that. I'm dead. That's hilarious
As a northwestern Mexican we hate Phoenix golf courses and Californian almond and alfalfa fields. No water has reached baja from the colorado for years
That is sad!
To me the best food is from California
Mexico too 😘
@@tvismyonlyfriendnot sure how that’s relevant but okay
We don’t care 😂
As an Arizonan that lives in Chandler, I am very impressed you mentioned Intel's effect on my city, and the greater Phoenix area! When Intel first came here in the late 70's, Chandler was still mostly a farming community, but by the late 90s and going into the 2000's, Chandler was and still is the tech hub for companies, as more tech and aerospace companies were moving into the suburb. Intel is currently doing major construction on Fab 52 and 62 that can be seen from miles away.
I live in Chandler now and can't wait for this place to grow even richer. Good news for those of us who own a place.
We even have self driving cars unlike the rest of the nation
Too bad bashes isn’t booming anymore
Lesss go my fellow Arizonan
That’s why I don’t understand all these out of state people who keep saying “Phoenix won’t last because of the heat and water shortage” …… all whole billion sure investors are currently building high rises like crazy, tech companies like meta and apple have built data centers, Taiwan just built the Taiwan semi conductor factory in north Phoenix… I have a hard time believing these huge corporations investors and bankers are investing billions in Phoenix without doing their research to see if Phoenix will go instinct in 15 years… I think half the people who say that are people who are bothered Phoenix is the 5th largest city.. they see movies being filmed in other cities, and they hear famous rappers talk about other cities, Phoenix doesn’t have an ocean or get snow , so they can’t wrap their head around why anyone would move to Phoenix, they are insulted people are leaving their state for Arizona so they feel the need ti find something wrong with Arizona. Btw they are also building movie studios, so movies are gonna start being filmed in Arizona again now they their is a tax break for films being produced here. Breaking bad was supposed to be filmed here and only brave should of been filmed here, but they went to New Mexico instead.
@@crowdedveins9210Shhhh...let's keep the nation's best kept secret a secret, for however long that is.
Buckeye, AZ just 30 minutes from phoenix is the hottest place I’ve ever visited. It literally felt like the sun was still out at night. whenever the wind blows its a hot breeze. I don’t understand how people can tolerate living there.
I moved out to AZ from the east coast a couple years ago, and I love it. Granted, I don't live in the Phx area, but I still love going down every so often to visit either for games, shows, etc. I live in Northern AZ so the climate is a lot more what I'm used to from back east.
I've lived in phoenix my whole life, I love it here for some ungodly reason
I mean this in the most respectful way. But you and everyone else who love these extremely hot summers are absolutely insane lol. This heat is unlike anything I've ever seen or experienced. It's just not normal.
@@crwnofenlightenmentit’s not bad at all. The people who complain about it are usually overweight.
@@dude4173
Skinny people complain to. Heat doesn't discriminate on a person's weight.
I grew up in Tucson and live in Phoenix now. I bought my house in 2013 for $300,000, it’s now worth over $1,500,000 - the growth in Phoenix over the last 20 years has been unreal.
Yeah it’s like that here in Tucson too inflation is also a huge player
Where in phx do you live?
BS 😂
YOU sir are a liar. I also bought in 2013 and it was 330,000 its now worth 600,000. No way what you are claiming is true
And ? When taking about heat not homes
I've lived in AZ for more than 40 years now, mostly in metro Phoenix but also in Yuma and now in the White Mountains. For years, I jokingly referred to Phoenix as the "Land of the Midnight Sunburn". With all of that concrete and asphalt the Phoenix area holds it's heat well into the night. In Yuma, where it actually gets hotter during the summer, it cools off quickly once the sun goes down. That simply cannot be said of Phoenix. Phoenix has become a gigantic heat island.
One of the modern challenges I've seen in the Phoenix area has been traffic. While mass transit exists, it is and has always been woefully inadequate. Everyone drives. Street and highway traffic in Phoenix has become ludicrously bad. In a lot of ways Phoenix traffic reminds me a lot of Los Angeles, where rush hour lasts for most, if not all, of the day.
My great grandfather migrated from Wisconsin in 1905 and became the chief territorial surgeon. His wife and family were very close to the Goldwaters
This nation be so much better off if he won the POTUS.
Crazy how the media was upset with him when he said” we could lob a nuke into Moscow”
I wonder what changed their minds from
Being pro communist to anti Russian
As a native Phoenician, whose relatives have lived here since the 1920's, I think I can answer as well as anyone. Much of our country has very difficult winters and humid summers (ick). Phoenix has very difficult summers (unless you spend a lot of time in the pool) and glorious winters. It is also a short drive to beautiful wild desert mountains and lovely cool forests. I don't see the problem, but of course, the weather is wonderful right now!
Beautiful things in every direction but the city itself is dismal.
"As long as you don't need water, or thermo-regulation, ITS GREAT"
I agree. It's funny people are fine with staying in because of snow but staying in because of heat is the reason many say they wouldn't live there
As a fairly new Phoenix resident it has been kinda funny to me how everything became nice and green over the winter. I’m used to the desert, being from NM, but Phoenix is a whole new level
Summers in Canada are lovely. Snowbirding goes both ways, even for the capable young.
I have family down there, and I live in western Washington state. I absolutely love the desert!
As a Phoenix native who wrote his master's thesis about Phoenix's plan to adapt to the our sustainable future... I appreciate the detail that went into this video without completely writing this city off.
Phoenix has a tough road ahead, but it is possible given modern technology and how we can adapt to our climate.
Bro really said “and I took it personally” when they made Phoenix
It is an affront to nature! 😅
KD loves it here at least 😂
I was born and raised in Phoenix. I remember as a child in the summertime me and my friends would rarely go outside and stayed indoors to play Nintendo or went swimming in the evening and played with super soakers. I would have never imagined it being as hot as it is now this consistently through the Summers. When I was a kid (40 now) We had a few 112° days in July and August but nothing like now.
I was born and raised in Phoenix. 20 years before you. We were never inside. We were outside playing. Or swimming down the canals. It was hot then.
Yeah but the climate change deniers of Phoenix would rather die of heat stroke pretending it's cold than admit the climate has gotten warmer
@@DavidKroff I was the same way, but in the Dallas area. My family moved from north of Pittsburgh to Texas in 1965. In my small little town in Pennsylvania we played outside all day almost every day. In that small town in Texas most kids stayed inside during the summers, but not me and my brothers. We were still outside even though it was like an oven. We just drank a lot of water and Kool Aid.
It's all the roads and concrete that absorbs the heat at night so it can't cool down like it used to. It's like a sponge that can't cool off. But still better than humidity!
You grew up here close to the time I did! Remember water balloon fights in the summer…when our parents would kick us out of the houses 🫠
I think of Phoenix in just one word: Why?
It's so hot there, not only do a huge portion of residents have pools, but for a large fraction of the year the water is too warm to swim in comfortably.
It's 110, and you want to cool off, but jumping in the pool is the last thing you want to do.
I live in Albuquerque, and i couldn't face the Phoenix heat.
Having lived in Phoenix my entire life, I don't understand your phrase "too hot to swim in," honestly. Like... what range of temperatures are we talking? 'Cause I would still find like 85-88 degrees in a pool pretty refreshing. Hell, if the water was hitting 66-70 degrees, we would start saying "Alright, guess the pool's too cold, now," haha
It depends on the size and depth of pool. I have a big diving pool, 12 feet deep in AZ. It stays cool all summer. But those little play pools, that are like 4 feet deep. Yea, the water gets hot. Like a warm bath. Yea u need a pool that is at least 10 feet deep in AZ or you are just wasting your time
It's never too hot to swim in. What are you talking about?
@@mimivistaverde5030 I don't know personally, I just know what people have told me who live there.
They were definitely talking about a standard in-ground residential pool, the kind that most people have.
What you have, a pool 12' deep, is very rare, and is probably an exception. Even 10' is deeper than most pools, which I think are usually 6'-8' at most.
Most in ground pools are deeper than 4' I think. It seems bizarre that you would go to the expense of getting an in ground pool dug out, and only get it 4' deep. If nothing else it would be difficult to sell.
So you are bringing up exceptions to what most people have.
These people say it's so hot here. I say, It's good you have a pool that you can cool off in.
They say, Not really, the water gets so warm it's not even refreshing or cooling to get into, getting into the pool doesn't make you feel cooler, so it's not worth it.
And this is from maybe 20 years ago, when it was cooler.
I guess it can vary, but the point is maybe that, unlike in other places, you can't just assume that having a pool will cool you down.
My comment was really meant to address common situations, not explain every possibility.
I guess it goes without saying that if you have a special pool it might be cooler.
But if you have a pool like 90% of the pools, the water warms up. It's not that the water gets hot, it's just too warm to cool you off. If you're already hot, jumping in a warm pool isn't appealing.
But thanks for pointing out the rare exception, I'm sure people find that very useful to know.
Even more of a question, why are the pools outdoors? Keeping them indoors would certainly cut down on evaporation losses, not to mention acting as a massive heat sink
We broke the heat record again this year. It's not cheap to live here anymore. All the business and people coming from CA is pricing the native residence to not be able to afford a one bed room atp. We can't afford a house. ( That's those of us who grew up here that are none native American.)
Born in Tucson. It seems hot with all these large numbers like 120°. However, if you look at the wet-bulb temperature, Southern Arizona is actually a lot cooler than many large urban areas in countries like Pakistan and India, or even the Southeast United States. As kids we used to play basketball in the summer in 100+F° and it was not a big problem.
Love Tucson and were thinking of retiring from rainy Tacoma...maybe even look at Oro Valley or Marana...it's going to happen and hopefully soon....my dream is to start up a drive-in theater.
Tucson is great. There's a ton to do. The only reason to go to Phoenix is Ikea. Imho😂
@@airforceveteran71getting around Tucson is 100% easier than Tacoma. Plus cloudy, stormy Tucson, or Tucson at golden hour, is beautiful. Oh, and you'll get to see so many stunning sunsets.
We have been to Tombstone 3-4 times now and the wife loves the Old West history...looking over homes right now in the Tucson area...gray Tacoma with gray people...my last utility bill $995 for two months...had enough of that crap.@@jelyfisher
Ive lived in Arizona my entire life, and the summers here are brutal. The temperatures were close to 120 degrees last year
I was born and raised in Phoenix, still live here to this day. It's really an amazing place with lots of adjacent cities, the entire metropolitan area is huge. The weather is amazing 8 months out of the year and during the extremely hot summers most people have access to pools, and air conditioning is mandatory in every home. We just don't do outdoor activities unless it involves water, however there's a lot to do in the city and every place has AC pumping so you really don't notice the heat until you leave your house to get in your car. (and your ac bill goes up in summer) Other than that, the area is absolutely beautiful, it's very diverse, and the food is amazing. You can meet people from all walks of life here. And if you want snow just drive up north a few hours to Flagstaff or the grand canyon. Not to mention we don't deal with daylight saving time.
Yeah, and if you want to cool off you can drive up for camping up around flagstaff or payson. Love it here
Huge but still very rural and not filled in. Lacks culture people rude racist or just plain dumb. Got some pretty neighborhoods though they look sterile and cookie cutter
Shhh we don't need anyone else moving here
comments like this just make it clear how oblivious humans are in our short existence on this planet, it's almost like we want to kill ourselves off with this mentality
Carbon footprint ? Whatever crank up the aircon
I am ironically sitting in an air conditioned room at a water park in Phoenix as I watch this
Working class is getting pushed out 1600+ a month for a studio in a decent area
It’s happening all over America….
@@robertbenkelman947 that’s true, good thing the companies doing the price gouging finally got caught!
Same price for boise idaho.....except our wages are way lower
Southern California is an easy $2500
Dear Phoenix lover. We have been invaded by 'army ants' from the West . Do not come...
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I’ve been to Phoenix 5 times now and I can say the weather is basically perfect for 9 months with the trade off being 3 months of insane heat.
Which I mean... thats alright.
Some years it is actually 6-7 months from with temps of at least the 90s from May to November into what is known as an Indian Summer and it's still very warm all the way until Thanksgiving. It is rediculous.
I'm not sure where that idea that it's only 3 months of heat followed by perfect weather comes from. I hear it frequently. 2020 had 145 days of 100+ degree highs, 2023 had 133 (and 12 of those days were in October! It usually starts in early May, sometimes late April and doesnt get truly nice until mid-November). That doesn't even count all the days it was in the 90s. So, at best its at least half the year that it's really hot.
Perfect? Perfect would imply rain and lush greenery. Their weather is awful.
@@BadgerCheese94 Stay away it's terrible. That's why everyone is moving here. Even Cheeseheads. I've been to Wisconsin. You can have your humidity and mosquitoes. It's terrible.
Arizona resident, easy to tell you why. No hurricanes, earthquakes are a joke, no tornadoes, occasional dust storm and rain, great weather for 8 months a year, and obviously cooking an egg on the sidewalk
This is is right here. The heat isn't so bad, its not like Natives had AC back in the day and they've been here for centuries. But why anyone would want to live in a land where the sky could suck you up and throw you around... no thanks.
Yup, and no snow to shovel in the winter.
@@LC05If you live in the southern deserts.
Earth quakes are no joke?? Does that mean you get earthquakes or no??
@@ourtruth216 we do they're just minor. Barely feel them and only do if you're not moving
Phoenix is the hottest city based on its consistently high average temperatures throughout the year. Phoenix frequently has daily highs above 100°F (38°C) for an extended period during the summer, making it one of the hottest cities in terms of average temperature.
However, when considering recorded extreme temperatures, Lake Havasu City holds the record for Arizona with 128°F (53.3°C), which makes it a strong contender for the title of the hottest city in terms of peak temperatures.
Both cities are extremely hot, but the distinction depends on whether we're talking about average temperatures or record-breaking heat.