Codiaeum variegata ‘Angel Wings’

Your Croton is looking very colourful, Andy!

If it loves the hot weather it would feel at home this year in the UK as we have had 2 heatwaves & are currently beginning to experience the third!

We’ve had 5 or 6 heatwaves starting in February, but the ones we’ve had over the last month haven’t been too hot, only up to 95 degrees f (35 degrees c) max. Further inland it’s been much hotter. The SD County deserts are extremely hot now, Octotillo was 119 degrees (48.3 c) today.

That's a tremendous amount of heat! I experienced temps of up to 40+C in Madrid when I worked there for a couple of years & then I was 50 years younger than I am now.

The desert southwest deserts are the hottest in the world. Death Valley, California still holds the record for the hottest official temp ever recorded on earth, 56.7°C (134 F) at Furnace Creek.

That's seriously hot!!

Yes, horrible heat! I stay far away from the low desert this time of year. It’s like being in an oven.

That's how we have felt during the heatwaves we have so far this year!

I’ve seen the temps there during your heatwaves, they don’t appear to be very high. But, I guess it’s just a relative factor. The heat index here can get extremely high sometimes.

The worst heat index here was about 132 degrees (55.5 c) back in July of 2006, during California’s hottest summer ever recorded in the state. It was absolutely HORRIBLE!

I've never experienced temps higher than about 44C, in Madrid in 1974. I was 50 years younger then but the temps may have been artificially inflated as the street I was walking along was being resurfaced with hot tarmac! I could feel the heat rising from the street as I went past.

It was all done by hand back then, no machines to spread an even layer of it on the road surface. The poor guys were stripped naked to the waist & almost as black as the tarmac they were spreading out! I remember feeling very sorry for them! ;(

44 c is like the temps every day in summer in Palm Springs. What kills you there is the morning lows of 33 c or hotter. Yuck!