Record Heat Fries Phoenix

Phoenix citizens can’t blunt this hot spell with claims of “dry heat”: The city’s just marked its 29th day in a year of 110-degree temperatures. Urbanization and global warming are likely factors in the chart-topping season, though Phoenicians have been spared a highest-ever figure, the AP reports—they survived a 122-degree day in 1990.

On average, there are 10 days per year that hit the excruciating 110 mark. The previous record of 28 days was set in 1970 and equaled in 2002. There is a tiny spot of consolation for Arizonans though: A cold spell is blowing in this week, as highs won’t press 105. (More climate change stories.)