First Alert Climate Days issued for incoming warmth wave in Arizona

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A ridge of excessive stress that might deliver moisture into Arizona is not going to, as a result of it’s transferring east from New Mexico and can stay over Arizona for a number of days.

That may enable temperatures to close information across the state and tremendously scale back the possibilities for thunderstorms, even within the mountains.

We now have First Alert Climate Days for Friday and Saturday, with Saturday being the most well liked of these two days and one other set of First Alert Days for excessive warmth subsequent Wednesday and Thursday. It’s potential that by Thursday, we may see a excessive of 117 levels in Phoenix.

With a number of exceptions, not a lot moisture might be allowed into the state as a result of place of the excessive, which is able to each block moisture from coming into Arizona from the south and catch the remainder of the moisture, sending it west into southern California.

We ended July with a median excessive of 107, which is far cooler than the typical excessive in July 2024 of 112 levels. Whereas final July was the second-hottest on document for Phoenix, the July we’re simply ending up ranks because the ninth warmest.

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