On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 15:04:57 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
wrote:

>On Saturday, July 23, 2016 at 7:49:15 AM UTC-10, KenK wrote:
>> 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, aboutc 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.
>
>Check your water level. If it's not going down, your water pump is not turning on. It's either the switch or the pump that needs to be looked at.

I was about to say it must be high in humdity in AZ (which renders
evap coolers useless) but I just checked the weather and humidity is
only 16% ATM, so it's not that.
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=a...DMns0ATF656IBw