Roy wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On Saturday, July 23, 2016 at 11:49:15 AM UTC-6, KenK wrote:
> > "Julie Bove" > wrote in
> > news:nmup2g$jrc$1@dont- email.me:
> >
> > > Apparently Washington state is the only state that escaped the
> > > high
> > heat
> > > today.
> >
> > I'm having my own private high heat this past month. About 6/15 The
> > 100K+ AZ town in live near had a week-long heat wave, around 115.
> > Then it returned to normal - high 90s, low 100s, once in a while
> > low teens. Out here in the farmland where I live, about 2 miles
> > west of town, it's consistently been around 15 degrees above theirs
> > since then. They report 100 on the radio weather report, 1 get 115.
> > Yesterday it was 113 there, 132 here. I'm afraid this is going to
> > last all summer. This has never happened before - the temperature
> > in both places was always close to the same. Must be a very local
> > phenomena, I've seen no mention in the newspaper. My usual source
> > of cooling, evaporative cooler, just blows hot air - the water in
> > it nust be too hot to cool the air. Very strange, Very miserable.
> >
> > No, it's not a defective thermometer, all three of my outside
> > thermometers agree.
> >
> Evaporator coolers compound the problem by releasing even more
> moisture into the air. If you had a proper air conditioner you would
> experience less discomfort. ====


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler

Suspect it's too damp where he is.

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