Feast your eyes on this:

People are expressing amazement at the high daytime and even more amazement at the high overnight lows that the Phoenix Metro area is experiencing. This, in spite of their (stated) understanding that the development of the area (large areas of concrete and asphalt, massive structures) creates a heat island – that is, these structures and areas soak up the heat all day and slowly release it all night, keeping the overnight lows artificially elevated and the daytime temps stay high because there is no “cooling off” period.

Once you get out of Metro Phoenix, you get to experience the true desert weather pattern – very warm and dry during the day, and much cooler temps at night since there are no heat sinks to retain and then discharge the heat. Temperatures in the lower 50’s overnight are not unheard of, even in the middle of July and August, and in the spring and fall you can actually catch freezing temperatures. Of course, once this is discovered, everyone rushes to build in that area, and the heat island begins to take affect.

And then people complain about the incessant heat.

Whose idea was it to build such a massive metropolitan area in the middle of the desert, anyway?

Chat ya later…

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