When will it end?! 
In Tempe AZ..
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Sorry to hear about that. I need to apologize for complaining about it being in the high 80's/very low 90's for the past week or so. (SoCal). I am clearly a wimp...
A few more degrees higher, and you can replace your in-house oven and bake cookies in the carport! 
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I can't beat that but I can participate...
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And here I thought it was a hot day at 90F over here! Ouch!
It hasn't been BELOW 90 here in weeks. At midnight, it's still around 100 and the coolest it has gotten the past few weeks is 92 at around 4AM.
It is crazy. All throughout central Phoenix there are hundreds of these really old Aleppo Pine trees. Many of them are around 100 years old and 80-100 feet high. And they're all dying quickly. 
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I feel for you. We used to perform automotive hot fuel testing in Phoenix. Usually some time in August. However it never reached your level of heat.
That's really sad...going to be a lot of that as things continue to warm up. Flora and fauna are going to be dying and/or changing locales to deal w/the changes.
I'm hoping we don't have a bad fire season here in SoCal.
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Or, you could just get a pest from a foreign land that kills all the ash trees.
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Loosing pine trees out here...borers and bark beetles combined w/drought stress has had unpleasant consequences.
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This is actually harder to happen than you believe. Biology teaches us that resistance to specific pathogens is usually dependent on a very small number of genetic changes. In plants, parthenogenetic growth provides chances for this to happen even when sexual reproduction is not possible due to the pathogen.
In contrast, neither parthenogenetic growth or sexual reproduction are possible when environmental conditions are inhospitable for growth.
I bet the price of lumber is going to go up as a result of the Canadian wildfires.
I suspect that the wood that is burning is not the same species as what is typically used for lumber, so should be okay… I hope!
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I was in Phoenix once when the high was 118f for 3-4 days. When you approached anything that had some mass (car, hotel entry, etc) the radiant heat felt like a blast furnace. Not once did I hear a local say "Oh, but it's a dry heat!"
I escaped to San Diego ...where it was 100f --they were feeding animals ice at the zoo, then they ended up closing for the day.
It will go up anyway. Corporations only need a reason to "justify" price increases, not necessarily reality.
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Here in Scottsdale for a family function. I had trouble opening up the car door!
They told me, that everyone starts their car from inside, so that (at least) the inside cools down before you get into the car!
It's cooled down at night - only 110.
(This Canadian has no idea what "hot" really is!)
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Once you hit about 105, dry heat or humidity doesn't matter. Hot is Hot (im From New Mexico) In North Texas (about 30 miles NW of Fort Worth) we hit 108 today, the sad thing is, it felt cool,
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I've got my thermals on
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I don't remember such high temperatures (42 C = 107.6 F) followed on the same day by thunderstorms and such a rapid drop in the temperature (it's still a forecast) :
