I just saw this on Reddit (this is in Phoenix, the sign melted simply due the weather):
Wow. I read the Arizonans are being admitted to the hospital for severe burns…because they fell down on the hot asphalt. Could be 150F!
It’s always been that way…
Black surfaces get hot in the sun.
I learned that lesson when I moved out here 40 years ago, and had a car with dark vinyl seats.
It’s different now. It is much worse than 40 years ago.
“Summers are our busy season, so we anticipate that this sort of thing is going to happen. But this is really unusual — the number of patients that we’re seeing and the severity of injuries — the acuity of injuries is much higher,” said Dr. Kevin Foster, director of burn services at the Arizona Burn Center at Valleywise Health. “The numbers are higher and the seriousness of injuries are higher, and we don’t have a good explanation for it.”
Every single one of the 45 beds in the burn center is full, he said, and one-third of patients are people who fell and burned themselves on the ground. There are also burn patients in the ICU, and about half of those patients are people burned after falls. - SOURCE
Of course.
But, the city is also much, much larger now. Around 3x the number or residents.
True but I think the doctor is comparing now to last year or a few years ago and not 40 years ago (I could be wrong).
You mean where it’s warm enough you won’t die if you get locked out overnight?
Unlike anyplace where it snows. Some people find heat uncomfortable outdoors. Everyone finds a night outdoors in <40F with few or no clothes to be fatal.
I’ll take uncomfortable over fatal every day.
I live in the Bay Area. Rarely gets terribly hot, and never gets terribly cold. I specifically don’t understand people who move from here to Las Vegas.
Oh come on. Fate leaves you stuck outdoors at the mercy of 100+ temps without shelter ? That’s way beyond uncomfortable. 300 or more heat related deaths 2022 in Texas.
It’s probably financial more than climate-driven. There is the perception that the tax situation in Nevada will make life less expensive than in CA. It may be true in some cases. But if you own your house (no mortgage) then moving to NV probably does not pencil-out. And likewise, if you are underwater on your house in CA, moving may be a good idea. But, to the point - nice places with nice weather tend to be nicely expensive.
That’s kind of my point. I wouldn’t move to a place where I hated the weather no matter how much cheaper it is.
In 115F heat, you will die.
It is true that more people die from cold- almost twice as many as heat. But heat kills.
Not if you can find shade.
There’s a homeless guy who sleeps under the overhang of an abandoned restaurant near me. When it was super hot a few weeks ago, I was concerned about him, but he seemed to endure just fine.
There is a reason the homeless congregate in the hot part of the country but not the cold part if it can be avoided. And, ref e.g. Texas and Arizona, it’s not because the warm parts are homeless-friendly left-wing woke-adises.
How often have you been locked out all night? Me neither. 
So the criteria for a comfortable environment center around other considerations. For me it’s the absence of chronic excessive heat, the absence of hurricanes and severe storms, and the absence of threats from earthquakes, floods, droughts, and other natural disasters, and the absence of threats from sea level rise. Add in generally clement weather, fairly regular rainfall, an abundance of fresh water, a complete absence of huge venomous insects, and sane politics on top of it all, and I’m happy here in the Great Lakes area of southern Ontario. Besides, one does find that there are environmental and practical advantages to having a cold-weather season, and in any case it’s much easier and more energy-efficient to make heat than to remove it!
It’s true we have winters here, featuring snow, but climate change has been kind to us. Summers don’t seem to be significantly hotter – this summer so far has actually been exceptionally cool; I think there were about two days so far when the temperature almost hit 90F, and the average temperature over this next mid-August week will be around 80F. Just perfect! Winters are noticeably milder and snowfalls that actually leave significant amounts of snow on the ground seem to be dwindling. A bit further south, wine-growing regions are thriving and vineyards are diversifying from what used to be mostly cool-weather grapes.
I like it here, but we both seem to be happy in our respective environments, and that’s the most important thing! 
For perspective, the normal July nighttime low in Phoenix is 84.5 degrees, so most people’s ACs would be running all the time anyway. With the majority of July '23 lows in the 90s, their already huge cooling bills undoubtedly were worse than usual.
I was in the Phoenix area for a conference years ago, and was impressed with the furnace-like heat at night.
In May.
I have a 3,600 square foot house with two A/C’s and three people living it it full time (we all work form home). Our peak electric bill was $530 for the month of July. Is that huge?
How does that compare with heating bills (our normal bill in the winter is around $120). We are all-electric (heat pump).
Boy you sound like a really good candidate for Solar Panels.
One year my heating bill was $2738.72 in Oil. Electric was $872 with Solar and I got about $450 in Green Credits back. I should have improved the attic insulation the year I moved in, I would have saved a lot of money over the next 20 years.
I did the attic insulation in my current house the year I moved in. That and the attic fan makes a nice difference for keeping the house cool and a big difference heating it. Old place was 2300sq’ but a ranch, so less efficient to heat & cool. Current place is also a ranch but only 1600sq’.
The electric in NJ is pretty expensive by National Average if I remember correctly.
This thread inspired me to look up Phoenix as to why the heck there’s a large metropolitan area with 4.8 million residents, and the state capital, in what’s technically a desert. Turns out it was founded at the confluence of two rivers that were later bolstered by a canal system, so it was originally founded as an agricultural center. Although it now is outgrowing its water supply and paving 500 square miles with concrete and asphalt hasn’t helped the heat any.
Yeah, that’s what happens when you have a lot of cheap, dry real estate and add a little water. See: San Fernando Valley.