Sounds like summer every year in Arizona but we call it normal:) and our lawns are green.

I am in AZ too and this morning it is chilly 62 degrees. High today is expected to be 83 with clear blue skies and a 30% chance of monsoon rains during the day. Great day to be outside working on the golf course or playing. :>)

rdaystrom, are you saying you have limited water available to you and could not keep up with watering?

Not all of us are up the hill like you TW. I will be golfing at Superstition Mountain Sunday but it is not really a mountain and still will be 110. Oh well

The disparity is temps is yet another sign of global warming, or more appropriately termed, global climate change.

Ditto dwrecktor. The climate chances from time to time. I've heard that Greenland was named just that during a time when the globe was much warmer then typical and people started moving up there.

dchall, I have city water and a well. The problem is my almost 3 acre yard. Under normal conditions I can water the dry areas easily with one sprinkler which is about all my well pump can handle. Last summer I prepared the yard for a wedding and my water bill was over $300 using city water to supplement the well. My point is that it is drier than I have ever seen it around here and now this heat wave is killing everything. While driving my golf cart through the neighboring woods I was amazed at the dying trees and vegetation.I have a dozen or so mature big Oak trees and do not want them to die. The guy across the street lost 2 huge Oaks already from the heat and drought.

Warming Globe thanks to the sun. Nothing we can do about. Watch out for sunspot 1261. It is throwing off some large M-class flares

Three acres is a lot to water unless you are a government. Grass is easy enough to fix quickly when the rains return. Are you focusing on saving your trees?

I think we might see some of the untended trees dying in the region, but so far most seem to be hanging on. We are normally this hot but not normally this dry. We've had about 9 inches of rain since last October. In a normal year it would be more like 30 inches with much of that falling during summer thunderstorms. We're not seeing any of that this year. I just read where they declared the 2011 La Nina event to be over but are predicting a new La Nina event starting about October. If that happens there might be a migration away from this region for lack of water in the aquifer.

Not all of us are up the hill like you TW. I will be golfing at Superstition Mountain Sunday but it is not really a mountain and still will be 110. Oh well

Hill? Dude I am from TX, this is not no freaking hill where I come from, its a rock of a mountain sitting up here at 5400 feet. :>) Just giving you a hard time.

If it makes you fell better we have touched 100 up here a few times, but as you know if we hit 100, you hit 120 or more down there in the valley. At least up here if it does hit 100 during the day, it is real pleasant just after sunset as this very dry thin air up here cools off real fast. Just about every morning you need a sweater or light jacket if out early. Now if it would just rain a bit. We only get about 4.5 inches per year I hear, and 4 of that is suppose to come in August with Monsoon. At least that is what I am told.