Phoenix Arizona Reaches Temperature Of 118 F

That is just insane. How do humans live in such an environment? I was once in a 105 degrees Fahrenheit day in the hell hole that is Trail, British Columbia and when we left the air conditioned store I passed out once we reached the hot parking lot. I was only 7 at the time and the temperature variation was too extreme for me to handle.

I was a human barometer in those days. My mother could always tell I was going to get crazy once the heat and humidity rose. She even joked at times that she could tell when it was going to rain because I would finally stop whining about the heat. Most times that meant the cooling rains were about to arrive.

Like then, my system doesn't react to extreme heat the same way it does to extreme cold. I thrive in the cold and dark and was once in -70 below zero weather up on Baffin Island in the Canadian North. It felt like being on another planet especially when I walked to the store in my military cold weather gear (I needed cottage cheese for my salad - salad without cottage cheese is just not done). I was practically an astronaut complete with clear face shield.

Warming up in the cold is so much easier than cooling down in the heat. Ask any Polar Bear you may see at the zoo this summer. They will set you straight pretty quick.