It was 102 today, 103 Friday, 105 Thursday, and 98 on Wednesday. Supposed to be a little cooler the next three days, and then as hot or hotter going into the weekend.

The killer, though, is 10% humidity. Even when things are soaking wet, they just can't take the water up as fast as it transpires out through the leaves.

Fruit that should take 2-3 more days to ripen is dehydrated before it can do it in some varieties. Others do not seem to notice, such as Panache. Definitely a revelation about what varieties might be suitable for desert locations.  Varieties such as Celeste and Vista which are naturally lower in moisture succumbed to early dehydration. Juicier varieties, such as Panache did not, but White Greek did. The more Brown Turkey types, such as Osborn Prolific, Bifara, Black Spanish, etc. which tend to be lower in moisture also suffered. LSU Gold seems fine, as was Lemon. Native de Argentile, St Jerome and Black Weeping seem fine.

I think is has been twenty years, maybe more, since we had heat like this, and back then I only had a few figs. Last few years have rarely broken 90F.

There are several other new developments this season, which I will get posted one of these days.

Darn weather!  I wish we can take some of that heat from ya!  We've been in the 70's the last little while and only high of 65 tomorrow!    Need more heat to ripen the figs...

Jon, 10 % humidity is really low for such heat i can understand how most figs would suffer. Seems like the weather this year was and is a challenge this season for most fig growers.
El Nino this winter i hear and warmer and wetter winter for our area.
I hope that hot weather your having filters my way we can add the humidity thats not a problem here.
High today 65 no air conditioning needed , and maybe furnace kicks on tonight with lows around 45 in outlying area's ME!