It is truly hell on earth.
I've seen it 120deg, officially.
But, it's a dry heat. You know, like the heat that hits your face when you open the oven.
Because the winters are awesome. It’s 75 outside right now and I just got out of the pool.
The ones who stopped were either looking for “El Dorado” or were lying low. When you’re born there the weather is only occasionally bothersome. At the time I was growing up in Superior, there were still magneto telephones, 25 cycle electricity, only evaporative coolers and frequent power outages.
“When settler were headed West, I could never figure out why they stopped in AZ.”
Arizona was a haven for those with tuberculosis in the era before modern medicine.