I was living in Riverside county in 2016. In late June, I remember one day in particular the thermometer on the back porch read 119F in partial shade. I had to drive to Phoenix later that day to help a family member (one of my wifes aunts, her daughter had recently and unexpectedly passed and she was elderly, alone, was having issues with her AC and couldn't get things sorted out on her own). I left Murrieta around 10PM and while passing through the desert around midnight, close to the AZ/CA border, I had to stop and take a picture of the temperature gauge on my car. Midnight and 102F. It blew my mind. I knew that it was going to stay hot but I'd have never thought that it'd be > 100F at midnight. It gave me a renewed respect for this desert that we live near (and that you live in...).
HA! That's like a cool summer day - stay a while here in Phoenix, and you can easily experience 120+F days at times.
Nothing like it being 2am and 100+F degrees outside...
On the flipside - shorts at Christmas-time!