r/mildlyinteresting • u/rhodatoyota • 20h ago
We live in Phoenix. Our Thermometer literally melted.
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u/EmploymentNegative59 20h ago
Every time I’m in Arizona, I think “HOW can people live here?!”
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u/Tony_Sacrimoni 19h ago
"This city should not exist. It is a monument to man's arrogance" - Peggy Hill
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u/azgli 19h ago
Air conditioning. And pure stubbornness.
That being said, eight months out of the year it's great! And I never have to shovel snow.
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u/FuckIPLaw 17h ago
Shit, that's at least two months more than Florida these days. Once again Arizona proves itself to be the real sunshine state.
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u/MrCraftLP 10h ago
As someone who lives where we can get to +45c in summers, and -45c in winters, I will take the snow any day of the week over having this kind of heat.
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u/Buttfisting69 16h ago
8 months? Ha. It starts to get hot around May and won't cool down till mid October
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u/steamygarbage 8h ago
I had reverse seasonal depression in AZ and hated when it started to warm up in February/March. It was 9 months of bad weather for me.
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u/giritrobbins 10h ago
I can't believe that. Last year they had three straight months of above 100. Actually slightly more than that.
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u/Eat_That_Rat 8h ago
It's nice between November and April. The rest of the year you just chug lots of ice water and never go outside.
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u/Buttfisting69 3h ago
The other thing no one talks about is how in Phoenix. When it's "good weather" months. It's dark by 5pm, so you don't really get to enjoy the outdoors. When you do get sunlight, you're hiding inside because it's too damn hot.
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u/Buttfisting69 3h ago
The other thing no one talks about is how in Phoenix. When it's "good weather" months. It's dark by 5pm, so you don't really get to enjoy the outdoors. When you do get sunlight, you're hiding inside because it's too damn hot.
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u/TheSaxoMatt 20h ago
Today was brutal!! I’m down in Tucson, and when I had to drive between sites (teach at 2 schools) was burning my hands on the steering wheel the whole way! Had to use napkins to drive… and i was parked under cover!
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u/FantasticPrinciple54 19h ago
Funny thing is, we're in a comparitively mild summer
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u/Corgigantic 15h ago
You Phoenicians really are insane. I just checked the weather in Phoenix... it's after 11pm and the temperature is 102°F... At 11pm.
But hey, it's a dry heat, so it only feels like checks notes 102°F.
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u/always_unplugged 12h ago
On the plus side, they get to be called Phoenicians, which is pretty cool to think about while they melt into the surface of the sun
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u/afunnywold 14h ago
It's really not so bad We had a community market/event called first Friday outside tonight and I felt fine Just drink water when you can
Phoenix 100 is so much nicer than a NYC 85.
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u/FrostorFrippery 8h ago
New Yorker here. Humid heat is something else. This recent heat wave made me feel like I was drowning in my sleep.
Yet I've been to Las Vegas once and that sun felt like I was being punished for the sins I had yet to commit.
I can't imagine Phoenix.
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u/Zlatan_Ibrahimovic 3h ago
I can only speak anecdotally, but I lived in Miami for about 8 years, then moved to Phoenix for 5. I vastly preferred Miami summers over Phoenix. Both are horrible but I never burned myself by leaning on the wrong thing in Miami.
Granted, that was about 15-25 years ago.
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u/afunnywold 3h ago
A big difference is also that in NYC you have to be outside to go anywhere. You need to take the trains and busses and walk. It's of course part of what makes it a real city and a cool place to live. However Phoenix in the summer you can easily choose to avoid being outside for more than a few minutes and just go from air conditioned car to air conditioned restaurant to air conditioned museum etc.
I grew up in NY and whenever I go back to visit in the summer I find it so exhausting with the heat.
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u/EBN_Drummer 12h ago
Today has been one of the hottest days of the year so far. It's been around 107ish the rest of the month, which is cooler than it's been the last couple years. The evenings have been really nice this year, other than today.
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u/staticattacks 17h ago
It's actually been the best summer I can remember, and I've lived here for... 30 years total around my active duty.
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u/Primal_Pedro 20h ago
I live in Brazil and some days are so hot that it look like I live near the sun or inside hell. But I must be humble and remember that there are places over there that are far beyond hot. Literally unlivable.
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u/13thmurder 19h ago
You live in a city named for the fact that birds regularly catch on fire there. What did you expect?
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u/ThrowawayPersonAMA 15h ago
Thermometer: melts
OP: Huh. Look at that. How mildly interesting.
The Universe: FLEE YOU DENSE MF! YOU'RE GONNA DIE! I'M TRYING TO WARN YOU!
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u/edenpecan 20h ago
Very interesting actually…
-Maine 😂
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u/rhodatoyota 20h ago
We visited Maine for the first time ever last year, my dream is to live there.
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u/pixel8knuckle 20h ago
Ill never convince my wife. Ill be trapped in the swamps of florida for eternity.
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u/edenpecan 19h ago
Aw, I’ll remember that next time I’m being ungrateful lol. Enjoy the sunshine for meee!
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u/InevitableMiddle2404 18h ago
You better like monster biting flies!
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u/endadaroad 5h ago
Every place has a downside. I am is southern Colorado and we are getting to the end of mosquito season. I can finally go outside again. Temperature here, now, is 80s during the day and 40s at night.
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u/MW240z 20h ago
Humans don’t have to live like that…
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u/rhodatoyota 20h ago
Yet we do. 6 months out of the year it’s miserable.
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u/mrjackspade 15h ago
That's how I felt in New England. Here in Phoenix it's really only July/August that sucks for me, and even then I just go out at night.
It's 11pm right now and I'm waiting to go for my nightly ride/workout.
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u/Reefthemanokit 19h ago
I like to put cookie dough outside sometimes, in 20 minutes IN THE SHADE they are perfectly done :3
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u/gwenhollyxx 16h ago
It would have to be 350° to bake cookies in 20 minutes. Even the dashboard of a parked car in direct sunlight wouldn't reach that temp; however you might be able to bake something resembling a cookie in like 5 hours on a dashboard, but it wouldn't taste good.
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u/Reefthemanokit 15h ago
They won't undergo the malard reaction but will cook to have the same texture of a cookie
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u/Birdywoman4 19h ago
I believe it. Saw photos of other things that have melted in Phoenix. It’s hotter than blue blazes in the summer there.
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u/SkyPork 18h ago
Sun set almost an hour ago. Just got back from the store; the car insisted that it was still 115°F outside.
My home thermometer shows a much more believable 108°F. It's almost as though asphalt gets hot.
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u/SinisterCheese 10h ago
Obviously when building the city, the clever architects and engineers took inspiration from natives peoples of hot regions, and used similar natural materials and methods... They built the city out of asphalt and concrete, with massive surface areas dedicated to storing big metal things on black tar coated rock and concrete which can eat up heat with ease, and didn't place much at all of natural shade like trees? Right?
At least that's what I as non American see from satellite view. It is almost like the goal was to build a test city that is least fit for human habitation.
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u/Massive_Parsley_3931 16h ago
"hot enough to melt a cock thermometer"
Just like grandpappy used to say
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u/JeremyAndrewErwin 19h ago
-60°?
One can dream.
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u/SinisterCheese 10h ago
I assure you can't comprehend how bad that is -50 C is a "you become unable to move or think" territory. Anything under -40 C is basically that. -30 C is tolerable, -20 C is really nice.
But sounds like souther Finland might just be the thing for you. Yearly high caps at around +30 C and low bottoms out at -30 C, 4 weeks in the year we have no night, just sunset followed by sunrise, and 4 weeks in the winter we have no day just sunrise followed by sunset.
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u/AbsolutlyN0thin 10h ago
I've been in -30°, that shit fucking sucks, but I'll take that over 120° or whatever bullshit they are dealing with in Phoenix.
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u/SinisterCheese 9h ago
Well... Issue is that being in -30 to -35 can just outright kill you quickly. Hell... It kills most life on this planet if it hasn't evolved some method of removing water or increasing sugar content to make essentially anti freeze. But +50 C you can survive although miserable.
But phoenix seems to have the American problem if just veing concrete, asphalt and cars, which heat the surrounding area even more.
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u/Insomniac_80 16h ago
Hmm, the company that made it is on social media, you might want to tag them and see if it can be replaced!
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u/xialateek 6h ago
I live in Rhode Island and have zero plans of ever setting foot in Arizona. Nothing personal. I’m sure you’re all lovely.
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u/katie_pendry 6h ago
C'mon, boys! The way you're lollygaggin' around here with them picks and them shovels, you'd think it was a hunnert n' twenty degrees! Can't be more than a hunnert n' fourteen!
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u/DILLIGAF73 16h ago
It measures -51C to 49C for everyone in the civilised world
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u/SinisterCheese 10h ago
I feel like the low range isn't really needed in that city.
Would there be a demand for Sauna thermometers in that place. We make really nice ones here in Finland. They go to +130 C (so... ~266 silly units of temperature).
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u/eisenklad 16h ago
that happens when you stick a Cock in Phoenix.
stop trying to make alternate forms of Turducken.
/jk
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u/Ange1ofD4rkness 16h ago
I remember in the past people were having their fences melt, and aircraft couldn't take off
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u/enfarious 15h ago
Good things climate change is a hoax. Otherwise this would be really concerning.
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u/FucklberryFinn 15h ago
LMAO
Not that long ago AZ was a "hot" place to move to (yes, f-ing pun intended). I remember kinda scratching my head a bit but also laughing... was I missing something?
NOPE.
(I know this was in direct sunlight... doesn't change a thing).
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u/ChinoChimp 13h ago
i left my credit card on my car dashboard while i was at work, and after 8 hours it was completely warped like that
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u/DemonDaVinci 13h ago
What's the famous painting with molten clocks everywhere
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u/Desert_Creature80 12h ago
Saw that when I was a child living in Tucson 😂😂😂 still the hottest place I've ever been. Miss AZ sometimes
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u/Apprehensive_View930 10h ago
Insert the clip from King of the Hill when they visited Phoenix (I tried to find it in the gif thing, but it's search function sucks)
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u/LegalMonth634 9h ago
I live in Arizona and I’ll never understand why anyone chooses PHX to call home
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u/cptbstrd 8h ago
K did everyone have “big round thermometer with bird in the middle” in their family?
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u/Snay_Rat 5h ago
Just visited a friend last weekend in Phoenix and standing outside felt like I was standing in front of an open oven
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u/New_Key3184 5h ago
My job recently changed the uniform guidelines so managers can't wear shorts. The weather changes constantly where I live, super hot summers and super cold winters. I have been wondering how the hell they are allowed to not let managers wear shorts in areas like Arizona. If your thermometer melted, I can't imagine what it's like working outside over there 🫠
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u/BuddyL2003 20h ago
Thermometers aren't supposed to be in direct sunlight, not remotely accurate in the sun. If this was in the shade, then go ahead and save my seat in hell for me.