Originally Posted by
Dianne47
Yes, as Cyclo reported above, that day it reached 120 in Phoenix the airport was closed for a while. I believe that's the upper operating limits on commercial aircraft. I lived in PHX at the time, but was at my company's HQ in Silicon Valley that day. I remember phoning my family and telling them, "Don't go outside."
1990 was a crazy weather year in Phoenix. On Christmas Eve, it snowed at my house. Low temperature that night was 26.