Phoenix ? People here expect it to be hot, but they sure wouldn’t mind a cool spell. You know, maybe 107 or so.

Phoenix reached a shoe-melting, spirit-crushing milestone Wednesday: 29 days of temperatures 110 degrees or higher in a single year. The previous record of 28 days was set in 1970 and matched in 2002, according to the National Weather Service.

The streak is enough to vaporize any humor left in the phrase “It’s a dry heat.” The average number of days 110 or higher in a given year is 10.

Austin Jamison, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Phoenix, said an oven produces dry heat, too. “You can put your head in the oven, but that’s not comfortable.”

The temperature hit 113 degrees Wednesday afternoon, matching the record high for Aug. 29 set in 1948 and 1981, Jamison said. The weather service is forecasting temperatures of 105 degrees for the rest of the week.