There are two seasons in the desert, warm and hot. Any day the sun shines there is a potential for the temperature to go into what would be considered the heat wave range in most parts of the country. What is funny is that the Weather Service has started issuing advisories for high temperatures in Phoenix. I guess they think someone who lives here or is visiting might walk outside and forget it was hot. Every year lots of people die in Phoenix and in the southern deserts due to the heat. Do you ever hear about it on the news? If one person dies in a tornado it makes national news. People die every day or so from the heat but it doesn't even make the local news.
Not to sound paranoid, but there may be a moratorium in reporting heat-related deaths in Phoenix, not from our local government, but from powerful business types who want to protect our image. Alas, because some of those deaths may have been preventable.
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