I just placed another digital thermometer on the south side of my house. It just registered 113 degrees! This while my weather station reads 112. Its obviously in the shade.
It really is that hot outside! No wonder my long-suffering lawn is dying (and my home AC is struggling).
Yikes!
You can help your AC and electric bill quite a bit at the expense of your water bill (and possibly a bit more corrosion in the long term). Get a short piece of soaker hose and wrap it around the top of the outside unit so that when you turn the water on, a trickle of water flows on to the radiator fins. You want just enough to dampen them and you don’t want the water to go anywhere else. That will help it cool a lot better.
Ron