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The temperature in Pheonix has almost reached a record-breaking 122 °F (50 °C) recorded on June 26, 1990, and it's becoming harder and harder to escape the insane heat. The flights are being cancelled, and things are literally melting.
Today it's up to 116 °F (47 °C), and 168 °F (76°C) on the concrete. To illustrate just how bad the situation is we have collected some shocking images of things melting in Arizona.
Do you live there? Tells us how you deal with such high temperatures.
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#1
My Neighbors Put Up This Fake Rock Plastic Wall Over The Winter. It's Slowly Melting Away In The Heat
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When It's So Hot In Phoenix, Even The Street Signs Are Melting
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Puppy Feet Are Frying
#6
This Plastic Mailbox Melted Due To The Heat In Mesa, Arizona
#7
Took Advantage Of The Heat In Scottsdale And Baked Cookies In The Car
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Arizona So Hot Weather Map Almost Runs Out Of Colors
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It's So Hot In Arizona Our Cactus Melted
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Airplanes Can't Fly Because It's Too Hot
#11
Scorpions Get Hot Too! Woman Finds Desert Critter Taking A Dip In Her Pool
Tim Morris 7 years ago
It may have just fallen it, or it may have been drying out and needed to re-hydrate its book lungs.
#12
It's So Hot In Phoenix, The New @jasonisbell Record Was Delivered Today And Sat In The Mailbox For Only An Hour, And Got This Badly Warped 😕
Blue Cicada 7 years ago
Kudos to you for appreciating the sound of vinyl! Hope you can get that replaced.
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MissAnthrop 7 years ago
And here I am in Zurich, Switzerland, diying with 32 degrees (i have every day migraine headache because of the heat) and you all have to live in the hell.
zena 7 years ago
I live in Dubai where temperatures easily reach 50 degrees Celsius. I've never seen anything melt like that
Grams Catfish 7 years ago
Phoenix is a very big city, lots of concrete and asphalt that soaks up the heat. As a southern neighbor of Phoenix, we are usually a little cooler in temps, but still have had our share of very hot days. We learn to adjust to the heat by staying indoors and running our air conditioners when we absolutely have to. I can handle the heat up to 100 degrees, anything over 100 feels like an oven when you first open the door.
Stevan Fagan 7 years ago
As an Arizona native we were tough to respect the heat. after all we live in a desert. What fool would install plastic outside in this environment? 40 years ago we hit 134 and all the streets melted, auto tires were exploding, and yes even the biggest jet planes could not fly.
Agnes Jekyll 7 years ago
Woah! That's crazy. I bet a lot of people are cooking things in their cars--or eating salad! I hope there are centres open for people to keep cool.
Janice Foster 7 years ago
Wow, this is a total eye opener! Thanks to all for sharing - stay safe!
JustABobcat 7 years ago
I'm in Mesa, AZ and I tell ya this time of year I am sooooo thankful that A/C exists. It's hell on electrical bill but that and plenty of water for me and my cat and we're alright.
Mr.Fly 7 years ago
I live in Saudi and I thought we had it the hottest! It's 41 and I can't step a foot outside! But seems like Arizona is even hotter.
Chuck Bartowski 7 years ago
The mailbox looks like it didn't melt completely, just weaken and the bending moment caused by the mailbox caused the bend we see. I don't think the garbage can was due to just the 50C temps. The melting is too localized for that. Perhaps a mirror or something was intensifying the heat. Another possibility (the one I am inclined to believe) is that someone put something burning inside. I'd also expect some of the items, particularly the juice box and beer case, to exhibit some damage.
Maria Beilschmidt 7 years ago
The SW gets this hot EVERY YEAR. It's not global warming, it's life in the Mojave Desert.
Tamara Sheehy 7 years ago
Hello, I live here in Phoenix and YES it's HOT, it's a dry heat so 122' is like 106' in the east with humidity. We are night owls, we do grocery shopping at midnight (thank god walmart is open 24/7 and people do their daily runs at 11pm at night. 4am is like 89' but we drink lots of water and survive. Lots of tires are blown and car batteries dies every year to every other year due to the heat. As a 16yr Michigan resident, I would still after 9 yrs living here rather be here in the heat paying 300.00 a month for a/c for 3 months then 5-600.00 a month for heat for 5 months. it's just a adjustment or we move out and I see more and more ppl moving from the snow to here especially see every month for my 9 yrs here michigan plates all the time. it's funny we have a future here as we don't in michigan. I dont known nothing about out of the usa this is just my experience here.
Isabelle Hadorn 7 years ago
I live in Phoenix. I have never had a recycle or trash bin melt. And they are in full sun all day.
Diana Mokry 7 years ago
Oh for cripes sake, we here in NV. especially down here in Green Valley(Henderson) are at 117 regularly now. We are lucky if the asphalt doesn't melt beneath our feet.
Cheryl Koonce 7 years ago
the water coming out of the pipes is so hot - you cant take a cold shower - literally. One store was offering for a purchase - you could have 10 minutes in their walk in freezer - seriously
John Leyo 7 years ago
Motivation and passion can be strong things when it comes to achieving your goals. If you have both, then even setbacks won’t stop you from continuing to strive for what you want. Here is a great book you must read: How Bad Do You Want It?: Mastering the Pshchology of Mind over Muscle: https://goo.gl/2HQss5 This book is about the psychology of athletic competition and maximizing the potential of any athlete's ability. Mr. Fitzgerald expresses this idea with several analogies about athletes who either succeeded or failed based on attitude and mindset. While this book is aimed at athletes, the lessons can be applied to all aspects of life, if you want it bad enough.
Brian Allen 7 years ago
Well I would rather have winter with some snow that that c**p. None of my Arizona friends are laughing now!
Zora Valentinova 7 years ago
I know it is kind of normal to be so hot at this time in year in Arizona... but still what comes first to my mind are the ridiculous statements of Trump, that we are still having snow and it was too cold to believe in the "global warming s**t".....
Kajri Nablida 5 years ago
i am in Indonesia and we always get same weather every year. so, 42°C doesn't matter with us
Vishal Khopkar 7 years ago
Come and visit Nagpur or any village in Vidarbha, Maharashtra, India in April-May. The temperatures easily touch 45 degrees and yet nobody has seen anything melt like that. Stop joking AND FACE THE CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL WARMING!!
Monkeywrench Productions 7 years ago
disappointed no one tried to fry an egg, but cookies are good too
Marcelina Masztalerz 7 years ago
Summer in Ireland, today is 06/29/2017 and outside we have only 10 Celsius o_O
Glynis Duggan 7 years ago
I'm in S/E Wales UK, we had temps of 34 last week....practically unheard of here! What's going on with this crazy weather?
Ben Novick 7 years ago
The heat is the one thing that killed living in Arizona for me--maybe accept for living up in the hills in Prescott. Imagine what is going to happen with climate change when the temperatures rise to 150 degrees.
Shelly Scott 7 years ago
Welcome to Arizona!!! And just for those wondering it does snow in Arizona too!!!
Alexandre Torres 7 years ago
We have up to 50 celsius where I live and nothing melts, what are these people's things made of?!
Angela Elgersma Visockis 7 years ago
Who in Mesa puts up a plastic mailbox? ROFL...I'm dying here. Yes, it gets hot. I keep my chocolate chips in the freezer just so they don't partially melt in the pantry. But I'd still rather deal with this for a short period of time than shovel snow all Winter. #choices
Larry White 7 years ago
66 degrees in the San Francisco bay area..........that I will take every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Rahim Abdo 7 years ago
in algeria it is +50 but the f*****g govrement didn't annonceit always say 45-47 so it wont be emorgency case
Richard Sutton 7 years ago
Let send Scott Pruitt, Jim Inhofe, Don. J. Trump there so that they will see it first hands.
Lidee Moril 7 years ago
Yanks and fahrenheit...I will never get uses to that. Just like yanks never want to adjust to the rest of the world. No wonder someone above has decided to give them a hard time...with a crappy president, and all kinds of crappy weather. Good luck uncle sam...
Bhanu Chhabra 7 years ago
I live In Rajasthan, India (Thar dessert), temperature went 46-48 deg cel this Summer. Nothing melted, nothing faded.
Keith Horsey 7 years ago
Funny I was actually there on that June 26th 1990 112 degree record day. I flew in the night before arriving at midnight (when it was 90 degrees) to drive a friend's car back to L.A. as she was leaving Phoenix. It was actually 118 in downtown Phoenix but it was 122 at a gas station about 5 miles outside downtown. Funny thing is? It was so dry it didn't feel as bad as 95 degree heat with humidity that I've seen right in L.A. It is crazy that the air is too thin at ground level to provide lift for planes at that temperature.
Joan Klein 7 years ago
I live here in Phoenix, I've never tried to bake cookies in the car window, but I'm sure you can. It's hot, but because you get used to 95 at midnight it just doesn't seem that hot. I was out today, it's 116, would I want to stay out there for any length of time? No, but if you get in the swimming pool, you actually feel chilly when you get out. I would rather have the hot of Phoenix in the summer than the cold of the northern states in the winter.
Lauren Elizabeth 7 years ago
The very first picture is 100% false. I live 4 houses away from this home and upon seeing this photos, wanted to see if it was real and it is not. There is no smaller wall that is melting by this home.
Mishte Tine 7 years ago
Have lived in Phoenix for 10 years now after 40 years in NY. Humidity in NY is FAR worse than the hotter dry heat here. Yes, of course, you have to be smart - just like one must be during NY winters. Except you don't have to shovel sunshine! I walk my dog at night and we just went out for a potty break at 4:00 pm (118 F) and it's ok in the shade. Bought those booties for my pup too but they're too small. Yes, the water comes out hot - I cuddle with ice and wear wet scarves (so nice, dry fast). For 3/4 of the year the weather here is amazing. I miss the varying verdant green of cooler climes and I miss snow but it's awesome me here...
Катя Арнаудова 7 years ago
Today here, in Bulgaria, was 40 degrees and it was quite normal. If you leave a car outside, probably in the end of the day you will have the perfect dinner, but we don't have a "melting" problems.
Catherine Joan 7 years ago
I was born and lived in Palm Springs for 8 Years.I've never seen any signs melt,but I FEEL YOUR PAIN!
Philip Woodgate 7 years ago
HEHEHEHE, sorry dudes but I live in Australia, even in Sydney we have 3 or 4 days over 45 cent, we just laugh it off. I lived through a 52 degree centigrade day a few years ago.
Lance Whitmore 7 years ago
It's 8:00am, sunny, and 68 degrees Fahrenheit in Maine right now. Beautiful. But then again - the south and mid-west doesn't have 6 months of sub-freezing temps either! Global warming is our friend! Ha! :-D welcome-to...d834e1.jpg 
Elri van der Linde 7 years ago
I live in South Africa, where the Northern Cape province reach summer max of 51°C. And nothing melts.
Shawn Wright 7 years ago
I was in high school at gilbert high when it hit 122F in phoenix...its a dry heat, but when it gets that hot, dry heat means nothing!
Emily Ellis 7 years ago
I don't know how a human can survive is such an atmosphere! In NYC, I feel like I'm being tortured when it reaches 80. I am definitely a winter person!
Brianna Bastian 7 years ago
this is every summer in the part of Australia where i live, so i feel for you. Drink plenty of water, stay in the shade, Slip, Slop, Slap, look out for the elderly, the young and the ill, be kind to your four legged friends DO NOT LEAVE BELONGINGS, PETS OR CHILDREN IN THE CAR EVEN WITH THE WINDOW DOWN!!!!. Good luck to all
Tania Smith 7 years ago
It's like that here in Australia at times. I've thought of cooking in the car but never actually done it lol!
Maureen Zappellini 7 years ago
Glad I live in Tucson, about 120 miles SE of Phoenix...Tucson is the "cooler" city by around 5 degrees.. still hot as hell though
Sparkwater 7 years ago
Global warming. Ya can't argue that global warming isn't working it's way here. I learned it in third grade.
Pablo Landriel 7 years ago
Here in Argentina there is a province where temperature reaches up to 50C. Jajaja so you don't really know what hell is if you've never been in Santiago Del Estero or Santa Fe province. We're in winter now but temperature was 30 today!. Weather is crazyyyyy. Ja
MissAnthrop 7 years ago
And here I am in Zurich, Switzerland, diying with 32 degrees (i have every day migraine headache because of the heat) and you all have to live in the hell.
zena 7 years ago
I live in Dubai where temperatures easily reach 50 degrees Celsius. I've never seen anything melt like that
Grams Catfish 7 years ago
Phoenix is a very big city, lots of concrete and asphalt that soaks up the heat. As a southern neighbor of Phoenix, we are usually a little cooler in temps, but still have had our share of very hot days. We learn to adjust to the heat by staying indoors and running our air conditioners when we absolutely have to. I can handle the heat up to 100 degrees, anything over 100 feels like an oven when you first open the door.
Stevan Fagan 7 years ago
As an Arizona native we were tough to respect the heat. after all we live in a desert. What fool would install plastic outside in this environment? 40 years ago we hit 134 and all the streets melted, auto tires were exploding, and yes even the biggest jet planes could not fly.
Agnes Jekyll 7 years ago
Woah! That's crazy. I bet a lot of people are cooking things in their cars--or eating salad! I hope there are centres open for people to keep cool.
Janice Foster 7 years ago
Wow, this is a total eye opener! Thanks to all for sharing - stay safe!
JustABobcat 7 years ago
I'm in Mesa, AZ and I tell ya this time of year I am sooooo thankful that A/C exists. It's hell on electrical bill but that and plenty of water for me and my cat and we're alright.
Mr.Fly 7 years ago
I live in Saudi and I thought we had it the hottest! It's 41 and I can't step a foot outside! But seems like Arizona is even hotter.
Chuck Bartowski 7 years ago
The mailbox looks like it didn't melt completely, just weaken and the bending moment caused by the mailbox caused the bend we see. I don't think the garbage can was due to just the 50C temps. The melting is too localized for that. Perhaps a mirror or something was intensifying the heat. Another possibility (the one I am inclined to believe) is that someone put something burning inside. I'd also expect some of the items, particularly the juice box and beer case, to exhibit some damage.
Maria Beilschmidt 7 years ago
The SW gets this hot EVERY YEAR. It's not global warming, it's life in the Mojave Desert.
Tamara Sheehy 7 years ago
Hello, I live here in Phoenix and YES it's HOT, it's a dry heat so 122' is like 106' in the east with humidity. We are night owls, we do grocery shopping at midnight (thank god walmart is open 24/7 and people do their daily runs at 11pm at night. 4am is like 89' but we drink lots of water and survive. Lots of tires are blown and car batteries dies every year to every other year due to the heat. As a 16yr Michigan resident, I would still after 9 yrs living here rather be here in the heat paying 300.00 a month for a/c for 3 months then 5-600.00 a month for heat for 5 months. it's just a adjustment or we move out and I see more and more ppl moving from the snow to here especially see every month for my 9 yrs here michigan plates all the time. it's funny we have a future here as we don't in michigan. I dont known nothing about out of the usa this is just my experience here.
Isabelle Hadorn 7 years ago
I live in Phoenix. I have never had a recycle or trash bin melt. And they are in full sun all day.
Diana Mokry 7 years ago
Oh for cripes sake, we here in NV. especially down here in Green Valley(Henderson) are at 117 regularly now. We are lucky if the asphalt doesn't melt beneath our feet.
Cheryl Koonce 7 years ago
the water coming out of the pipes is so hot - you cant take a cold shower - literally. One store was offering for a purchase - you could have 10 minutes in their walk in freezer - seriously
John Leyo 7 years ago
Motivation and passion can be strong things when it comes to achieving your goals. If you have both, then even setbacks won’t stop you from continuing to strive for what you want. Here is a great book you must read: How Bad Do You Want It?: Mastering the Pshchology of Mind over Muscle: https://goo.gl/2HQss5 This book is about the psychology of athletic competition and maximizing the potential of any athlete's ability. Mr. Fitzgerald expresses this idea with several analogies about athletes who either succeeded or failed based on attitude and mindset. While this book is aimed at athletes, the lessons can be applied to all aspects of life, if you want it bad enough.
Brian Allen 7 years ago
Well I would rather have winter with some snow that that c**p. None of my Arizona friends are laughing now!
Zora Valentinova 7 years ago
I know it is kind of normal to be so hot at this time in year in Arizona... but still what comes first to my mind are the ridiculous statements of Trump, that we are still having snow and it was too cold to believe in the "global warming s**t".....
Kajri Nablida 5 years ago
i am in Indonesia and we always get same weather every year. so, 42°C doesn't matter with us
Vishal Khopkar 7 years ago
Come and visit Nagpur or any village in Vidarbha, Maharashtra, India in April-May. The temperatures easily touch 45 degrees and yet nobody has seen anything melt like that. Stop joking AND FACE THE CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL WARMING!!
Monkeywrench Productions 7 years ago
disappointed no one tried to fry an egg, but cookies are good too
Marcelina Masztalerz 7 years ago
Summer in Ireland, today is 06/29/2017 and outside we have only 10 Celsius o_O
Glynis Duggan 7 years ago
I'm in S/E Wales UK, we had temps of 34 last week....practically unheard of here! What's going on with this crazy weather?
Ben Novick 7 years ago
The heat is the one thing that killed living in Arizona for me--maybe accept for living up in the hills in Prescott. Imagine what is going to happen with climate change when the temperatures rise to 150 degrees.
Shelly Scott 7 years ago
Welcome to Arizona!!! And just for those wondering it does snow in Arizona too!!!
Alexandre Torres 7 years ago
We have up to 50 celsius where I live and nothing melts, what are these people's things made of?!
Angela Elgersma Visockis 7 years ago
Who in Mesa puts up a plastic mailbox? ROFL...I'm dying here. Yes, it gets hot. I keep my chocolate chips in the freezer just so they don't partially melt in the pantry. But I'd still rather deal with this for a short period of time than shovel snow all Winter. #choices
Larry White 7 years ago
66 degrees in the San Francisco bay area..........that I will take every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Rahim Abdo 7 years ago
in algeria it is +50 but the f*****g govrement didn't annonceit always say 45-47 so it wont be emorgency case
Richard Sutton 7 years ago
Let send Scott Pruitt, Jim Inhofe, Don. J. Trump there so that they will see it first hands.
Lidee Moril 7 years ago
Yanks and fahrenheit...I will never get uses to that. Just like yanks never want to adjust to the rest of the world. No wonder someone above has decided to give them a hard time...with a crappy president, and all kinds of crappy weather. Good luck uncle sam...
Bhanu Chhabra 7 years ago
I live In Rajasthan, India (Thar dessert), temperature went 46-48 deg cel this Summer. Nothing melted, nothing faded.
Keith Horsey 7 years ago
Funny I was actually there on that June 26th 1990 112 degree record day. I flew in the night before arriving at midnight (when it was 90 degrees) to drive a friend's car back to L.A. as she was leaving Phoenix. It was actually 118 in downtown Phoenix but it was 122 at a gas station about 5 miles outside downtown. Funny thing is? It was so dry it didn't feel as bad as 95 degree heat with humidity that I've seen right in L.A. It is crazy that the air is too thin at ground level to provide lift for planes at that temperature.
Joan Klein 7 years ago
I live here in Phoenix, I've never tried to bake cookies in the car window, but I'm sure you can. It's hot, but because you get used to 95 at midnight it just doesn't seem that hot. I was out today, it's 116, would I want to stay out there for any length of time? No, but if you get in the swimming pool, you actually feel chilly when you get out. I would rather have the hot of Phoenix in the summer than the cold of the northern states in the winter.
Lauren Elizabeth 7 years ago
The very first picture is 100% false. I live 4 houses away from this home and upon seeing this photos, wanted to see if it was real and it is not. There is no smaller wall that is melting by this home.
Mishte Tine 7 years ago
Have lived in Phoenix for 10 years now after 40 years in NY. Humidity in NY is FAR worse than the hotter dry heat here. Yes, of course, you have to be smart - just like one must be during NY winters. Except you don't have to shovel sunshine! I walk my dog at night and we just went out for a potty break at 4:00 pm (118 F) and it's ok in the shade. Bought those booties for my pup too but they're too small. Yes, the water comes out hot - I cuddle with ice and wear wet scarves (so nice, dry fast). For 3/4 of the year the weather here is amazing. I miss the varying verdant green of cooler climes and I miss snow but it's awesome me here...
Катя Арнаудова 7 years ago
Today here, in Bulgaria, was 40 degrees and it was quite normal. If you leave a car outside, probably in the end of the day you will have the perfect dinner, but we don't have a "melting" problems.
Catherine Joan 7 years ago
I was born and lived in Palm Springs for 8 Years.I've never seen any signs melt,but I FEEL YOUR PAIN!
Philip Woodgate 7 years ago
HEHEHEHE, sorry dudes but I live in Australia, even in Sydney we have 3 or 4 days over 45 cent, we just laugh it off. I lived through a 52 degree centigrade day a few years ago.
Lance Whitmore 7 years ago
It's 8:00am, sunny, and 68 degrees Fahrenheit in Maine right now. Beautiful. But then again - the south and mid-west doesn't have 6 months of sub-freezing temps either! Global warming is our friend! Ha! :-D welcome-to...d834e1.jpg
Elri van der Linde 7 years ago
I live in South Africa, where the Northern Cape province reach summer max of 51°C. And nothing melts.
Shawn Wright 7 years ago
I was in high school at gilbert high when it hit 122F in phoenix...its a dry heat, but when it gets that hot, dry heat means nothing!
Emily Ellis 7 years ago
I don't know how a human can survive is such an atmosphere! In NYC, I feel like I'm being tortured when it reaches 80. I am definitely a winter person!
Brianna Bastian 7 years ago
this is every summer in the part of Australia where i live, so i feel for you. Drink plenty of water, stay in the shade, Slip, Slop, Slap, look out for the elderly, the young and the ill, be kind to your four legged friends DO NOT LEAVE BELONGINGS, PETS OR CHILDREN IN THE CAR EVEN WITH THE WINDOW DOWN!!!!. Good luck to all
Tania Smith 7 years ago
It's like that here in Australia at times. I've thought of cooking in the car but never actually done it lol!
Maureen Zappellini 7 years ago
Glad I live in Tucson, about 120 miles SE of Phoenix...Tucson is the "cooler" city by around 5 degrees.. still hot as hell though
Sparkwater 7 years ago
Global warming. Ya can't argue that global warming isn't working it's way here. I learned it in third grade.
Pablo Landriel 7 years ago
Here in Argentina there is a province where temperature reaches up to 50C. Jajaja so you don't really know what hell is if you've never been in Santiago Del Estero or Santa Fe province. We're in winter now but temperature was 30 today!. Weather is crazyyyyy. Ja
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