... and I´m nearly melting. Temperature is reaching 90 ° F by now... (at three in the afternoon)
And that at a latitude of roughly 52° North (which would be somewhere in Canada, roughly the same as Goose Bay, Labrador...)
Air Conditioning ? What´s that ? I can open my windows, that´s it. Nice traffic noise outside...
I´ll quit work very early today...
Stefan
It's 97 F in the UK and some of their tar roads melted. I read how France is in the middle of a heatwave too. I'd be nice to have a wand of frost wouldn't it?
We're supposed to be getting into the triple digits here in Central Oregon by the weekend. I'm not looking forward to it - lots of cool showers to keep cool and gallons o' water.
Really not looking forward to it, as I have no AC in my apartment and one of the window fans is dying.
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It's been 102-105 deg f every day in Dallas, Tx. I saw 109 on a bank thermom, and my car daily purports 116.
We are expecting a cold front this weekend; his in the low 90s.
Does anybody know the equation offhand for deg f to deg c?
I know weight is 2.2kilo to the pound by memory.
And folks are getting $200 tickets for running the sprinklers on the wrong days; we're in a drought.
I'm in NYC this week looking for jobs and apartments and this is no time for 90+ weather! I had the day from Hell yesterday, literally and figuratively. And my rocket scientist president doesn't believe in global warming...shake my sweat-soaked hand and then say that to my face!
It's been 102-105 deg f every day in Dallas, Tx. I saw 109 on a bank thermom, and my car daily purports 116.
We are expecting a cold front this weekend; his in the low 90s.
Does anybody know the equation offhand for deg f to deg c?
I know weight is 2.2kilo to the pound by memory.
And folks are getting $200 tickets for running the sprinklers on the wrong days; we're in a drought.
f=(9c/5)+32
c=((f-32)*5)/9And it is hot as heck over here near Oxford in England
You guys are actually hotter than we are down here in Central Texas. Have you had much moisture earlier this year or are you in tinderbox territory?
I don't know about anyone else, but all the moisture we get here is sucked up by the reservoirs and snow pack. Most of our rain comes from either the south or west, where most of it sticks in the mountain ranges. Not much of it makes it down to our side. It is very very dry territory and the fire season has potential to suck badly this year.
All it takes is one jackass that doesn't put out his campfire correctly or someone who flicks their still burning cigarette butt out the window to start a several thousand acre wildfire. Or somebody who's burning trash in their burn barrel to go inside for a few minutes and have the sparks get caught up in a pile of dried out pine needles. Or a barbecue grill that's not being watched.
Sorry 'bout the rant, but my other half was a wildland fire fighter and put his life on the line numerous times because somebody was irresponsible with fire in the gorgeous landscape that we live in.
It's been 102-105 deg f every day in Dallas, Tx. I saw 109 on a bank thermom, and my car daily purports 116.
We are expecting a cold front this weekend; his in the low 90s.
Does anybody know the equation offhand for deg f to deg c?
I know weight is 2.2kilo to the pound by memory.
And folks are getting $200 tickets for running the sprinklers on the wrong days; we're in a drought.
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And there is about 2.2 pound to the kg, not the other way round. Or: one pound is less than half a kg (about 0.453 grams to the pound, IIRC).But I think these temperatures are to be expected in Texas at this time of the year. In normal summers, there are only short periods over 80 ° F over here, and it is expected to be about 95 tomorrow. But there have been some very hot summers the last few years. I don´t know if it is really the global warming already, but I cannot help but wonder...
Stefan
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Sorry 'bout the rant, but my other half was a wildland fire fighter and put his life on the line numerous times because somebody was irresponsible with fire in the gorgeous landscape that we live in.
I understand completely. That was going to be my fall-back job if I didn't get into grad school (well, and I was going to be in Arizona). I'm rather happier that I got in.
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We're supposed to be getting into the triple digits here in Central Oregon by the weekend. I'm not looking forward to it - lots of cool showers to keep cool and gallons o' water.
Really not looking forward to it, as I have no AC in my apartment and one of the window fans is dying.
It is 90-something now in Eugene. I have a dental appointment in two hours, but I'm going there now, as they have such a nice, air-conditioned lobby. Ahhhh... I'll read a book to pass the time - much better than being home.
30+ degrees Celcius is an average spring/summer day here in Brisbane OZ. I don't know what your complaining about. My wife won't take her jumper off until it's over 28C. Winter here and it's a pleasant 23C.
30+ degrees Celcius is an average spring/summer day here in Brisbane OZ. I don't know what your complaining about. My wife won't take her jumper off until it's over 28C. Winter here and it's a pleasant 23C.
It comes down to what you are used to. A normal summer has about 25 °C daytime temp here, so 30-35 °C is far above average. And I would love winter with 20+ degrees, last winter we had weeks with temp below freezing point. If you would experience a summer with 35-40 °C, you would probably complain as well.
Stefan
Yesterdays top temperature in germany 36.1 °C. Thats roughly 97 ° F, the highest temperature of this year until now. Today it will probably get even higher, and the humidity will probably raise as well, as there are thunderstorms expected in the evening. I´m happy that I don´t live in France, Spain or Portugal, though, as they reached about 40 °C (104°F) already, have severe forest fires (assumed ignited on purpose - if the forest is gone, the law allows the area to be used for building. At least it was that way in the past.). Some people died because of the heat already. So I can count myself still lucky, relatively speaking.
Stefan
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30+ degrees Celcius is an average spring/summer day here in Brisbane OZ. I don't know what your complaining about. My wife won't take her jumper off until it's over 28C. Winter here and it's a pleasant 23C.It comes down to what you are used to. A normal summer has about 25 °C daytime temp here, so 30-35 °C is far above average. And I would love winter with 20+ degrees, last winter we had weeks with temp below freezing point. If you would experience a summer with 35-40 °C, you would probably complain as well.
Stefan
Most definitely. I might be an anomaly, but I really like the cold, and I miss snow and sustained sub-zero temperatures here in Oregon. Of course, I grew up in a notoriously cold area even by Norwegian standards, so I'm used to -35 degrees Celsius in the wintertime; the thought of winters with 20 degrees C fills me with unease... That is a perfect summer temperature to me. Cold is easy - you just put on more clothes. Heat, on the other hand, just makes me very uncomfortable.
Oh my god! The UK was hotter than Cairo yesterday - and no sign of it letting up yet...
It's been 102-105 deg f every day in Dallas, Tx. I saw 109 on a bank thermom, and my car daily purports 116.
I'm with you man. It's just plain 'ol hot. But then I think of the 127 I saw on the thermometer when I was deployed to Qatar. I don't care how you slice it, that's hot!!
I keep hearing of this strange phenomenon where water allegedly falls from the sky . . .
It's been 102-105 deg f every day in Dallas, Tx. I saw 109 on a bank thermom, and my car daily purports 116.I'm with you man. It's just plain 'ol hot. But then I think of the 127 I saw on the thermometer when I was deployed to Qatar. I don't care how you slice it, that's hot!!
I keep hearing of this strange phenomenon where water allegedly falls from the sky . . .
We had some of that strange falling sky-water yesterday...it frightened me so much I had to go and cower in the basement until it was over. ;)
--Fang
We just went on a 5 day stretch of triple digits here in Indiana..(grumble grumble) damn river valley. It wouldnt be so bad but the humidity is just unbearable.
The heat just broke here in Chicago. High Friday...72F.
The heat just broke here in Chicago. High Friday...72F.
Lucky you :)) We're still around the 90s°F here in Paris, France.
Anybody played the "Hardwired" Cyberpunk campaign back in the end of the 1980s ? I think this supplement looks more and more frighteningly prophetic as time goes. The first episode was called "92° in the shade" and took place in Florida (if I remember well). Who said "global heating" ?
Bran
It hovers around 100 in El Paso most of the summer. We get 50% of our annual rain (8" annual avg) in late June and early July. As soon as the humidity exceeds 20% our evaporative coolers quit working very well and the heat becomes miserable.
I can't afford to put a $5000 airconditioner on my house this summer, so we just have to suck it up and deal with it. I am putting two more ceiling fans in my house this weekend, which means that almost every room will have one.
I love evaporative coolers--so much cheaper and so much easier to work on, but when the humidity creeps up they don't work.
I think some Arizonans still use evaporative coolers---from October to March!!!
It's way too hot... and its only going to get worse! The glaciers where I live are melting and they will be gone before I'm 50. Every year we seem to have some record breaking unheard of before temperature. I can't help but think... once Canada's weather starts to look like Arizona's, what will Arizona look like? It will look like Dark Sun; start rolling up stats for preservers, because we have way too many defilers.
It's way too hot... and its only going to get worse! The glaciers where I live are melting and they will be gone before I'm 50. Every year we seem to have some record breaking unheard of before temperature. I can't help but think... once Canada's weather starts to look like Arizona's, what will Arizona look like? It will look like Dark Sun; start rolling up stats for preservers, because we have way too many defilers.
Yeah, I just heard a few days ago that the glaciers in the Alps are melting as well, and will be gone at the end of this century - if the global warming does not accelerate...
A few days ago, a huge part of a mountainside near the Eiger mountain in Switzerland came crashing down, several 100k cubic meters of rock. Some expert said that crashes like these will happen more often as the glaciers recede, as the pressure resting on the partially porous stone is lifted, and the water runs into into the stone, bursting it when it freezes in the winter.Seems as if the face of the Alps is going to change drastically in the coming years and decades.
An indication might be the ice mummy found in the alps 15 years ago, perhaps known to you as frozen fritz or iceman , which supposedly was "set free" by a receding glacier after roughly 5000 years, so the global warming enabled the discovery of this unique mummy.
Stefan
Sitting at about 32C with the humidex here in southern Ontario. Actual air temp is only 27C - those 5 extra degree of humidity really suck! I think I could stand 32C without humidity but I hate that sticky oppressive feeling it creates.
Try this converterStefan
Hey - thanks for that link! I always wanted one of those - my parents always ask me what the temp is "in English".
