A record string of daily highs over 43.3 C in Phoenix ended Monday as the dangerous heat wave that suffocated the Southwest throughout July receded slightly with cooling monsoon rains.
"The high temperature for Phoenix today is 108 degrees," Jessica Leffel, meteorologist for the National Weather Service, said at 5 p.m.
"It has been REALLY hot here!" said Jeffrey Sharpe, of Kenosha, Wis., who was in town for a long weekend that on Monday included watching his son's two poodles frolic in a grassy dog park. "But today it was about 85 degrees, more like Wisconsin." The planet's hottest recorded temperature ever was 134 F in July 1913 at Furnace Creek, according to the World Meteorological Organization, the body recognized as keeper of world records.
The Southwest heat wave was just one kind of extreme weather events that hit the U.S. in July. Fatal flash floods swept people and cars away in Pennsylvania, and days of flooding led to dangerous mudslides in the Northeast. "Older people have a harder time with the heat, there are a lot of diabetics, people who take medicines," he said.
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