Welcome to Summer, people. It is officially hot as hell….I believe that is what our meteorologists will tell us each and every morning if you live in a notoriously hot state. I do – our business is based out of Nashville, Tennessee, where, once June rolls around, you might as well carry a change of clothes with you everywhere you go.
Seriously, there are times when I believe I’m breathing in steam. It could be my history of asthma, but I’m going to blame the heat.
As temperatures climb in Phoenix, Arizona, more than 40 flights have been cancelled – because it is too hot for the planes to fly.
The weather forecast for the US city suggests temperatures could reach 120F (49C) on Tuesday.
That is higher than the operating temperature of some planes.
American Airlines announced it was cancelling dozens of flights scheduled to take off from Sky Harbor airport during the hottest part of the day.
The local Fox News affiliate in Phoenix said the cancellations mostly affected regional flights on the smaller Bombardier CRJ airliners, which have a maximum operating temperature of about 118F (48C).
The all-time record for temperatures in Phoenix is just slightly higher, at 122F, which hit on 26 June 1990.
“Well, it’s a dry heat.” -every Tennessean reading this.
But, I’m here to tell you that 120 degrees is still 120 fucking degrees, no matter where you’re at. And, the dry heat is dangerous in different ways. In a dry heat, apparently you don’t sweat as bad…that’s according to my Lyft driver last week. Dude said he went all day without drinking any water before it crept up on him. That’s dangerous!
And, in case you didn’t get it, guess what – IT’S SO HOT THAT PLANES CAN’T EVEN FLY. They’re just like, “sorry, y’all – we can’t go anywhere in this shit!”
Sure, it has something to do with how light the air is and how much lift the plane gets….has to use more fuel to get a good engine thrust….something like that…but, that’s just what the article says.
Engineers know that they can essentially say whatever they want, and people will just accept it. “Well, the engineers say that the sun is tilted at a 84 degree rotation, which causes it to concentrate its rays right over Phoenix. When that happens, the gravity created by the sun’s UV rays are just too strong for a plane take off.”
And, everybody grumbles, but eventually says, “well, yeah – I guess if the engineers say so, it must be true.”
I think the people flying the plane just didn’t want to get out in the heat. They just said, “screw that – let’s get the engineers to think of something.”
That’s damn hot.
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