I don’t doubt that for a minute. I lived there in ‘85 and saw temps consistently in the upper 110s and into the 120s. Overnight lows in the city were in the upper 90s. Felt like living with a hair dryer blowing at you at all times ... except not always with wind.
Phoenix, 1968, it was 114 the day we moved there. Bahrain, 1990, highs in the 120s all week long. Seems to me that we’re cooling down since 1913.