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I believe we have started the run here.. just had our last set of Storms and rain.. 95 today with 100 percent humidity.. and It will continue on thru the end of july... Midwest summer... Yee fraking Ha!!!

On my way home yesterday my car said it was 96F outside. It's normally 8-10F hotter on the interstate but they say it's going to be in the 90s all week.

I really need to get a new fan for my AC.

Holy Peter of Saint Paul!

Summer just crawled up out of the frikkin' Pacific and is whipping us across the face with it.

HAWT!!!

I got 110 on the front porch thermometer yesterday afternoon,
but that was in the face of a blasting setting sun reflecting off
the house - it was probably only 103 or so off the porch.

trying to figure out how to calculate a wind-heat factor ....
when the southwest wind blows good, it's like being in a clothes dryer

We have actually cooled down thanks to a Nor' Easterner (I think) We are at 81 right now and we are not suppose to even reach 90 today. Back in the 90s tomorrow w/schatter T-Storms.

SandRider wrote:I got 110 on the front porch thermometer yesterday afternoon

I don't EVEN want to know what you were doing. And ON the thermometer.

when the southwest wind blows good, it's like being in a clothes dryer

Kewl. My favorite part is the final fluff cycle. You?


And to think, just a few nights ago I actually switched on the little fan heater I use in the bedroom, it was that chilly.

SandChigger wrote:

SandRider wrote:I got 110 on the front porch thermometer yesterday afternoon

I don't EVEN want to know what you were doing. And ON the thermometer.

when the southwest wind blows good, it's like being in a clothes dryer

Kewl. My favorite part is the final fluff cycle. You?


And to think, just a few nights ago I actually switched on the little fan heater I use in the bedroom, it was that chilly.

Spin cycle...

Currently 86F, 51% humidity. Cool day for Atlanta.

Got up above 100 degrees here yesterday. Right before I went on vacation two weeks ago it got up to 109. Its still one of the coolest summers Ive ever had, on balance.

pfft. we had 114 last summer here. Also, curse your stupid farren-height system with it's scale of 236.432 degrees between the temperatures of some scientist's favourite ice cream to some random cavity of some random mammal. Or some shit like that. When are you guys coming out of the stone age?

Schu wrote:pfft. we had 114 last summer here. Also, curse your stupid farren-height system with it's scale of 236.432 degrees between the temperatures of some scientist's favourite ice cream to some random cavity of some random mammal. Or some shit like that. When are you guys coming out of the stone age?

Never

Schu wrote:pfft. we had 114 last summer here. Also, curse your stupid farren-height system with it's scale of 236.432 degrees between the temperatures of some scientist's favourite ice cream to some random cavity of some random mammal. Or some shit like that. When are you guys coming out of the stone age?

114? Where? In Adelaide? Or are you talking about in the desert? Death Valley hit 134 last year, and that wasnt a record.

So on you!

We've had a great summer here so far. I've been out on the bike almost every day, just as comfy as can be.

And that's about to end. Our forecast for the rest of the week calls for some of that brutal Sacto heat to come over the hill and stop in for a while. Our first 100 is coming soon.

Goddamn Californians exporting their heat wave ...

Its really only been like this for a week or two, I swear. Its been unusually beautiful outside here in June and July. I keep thinking that we are about to have to pay that particular butcher's bill, but I will remember this summer as the mildest in the 13 years ( ) I've been in CA.

Well we did reach 90 afterall today.

Omphalos wrote:

Schu wrote:pfft. we had 114 last summer here. Also, curse your stupid farren-height system with it's scale of 236.432 degrees between the temperatures of some scientist's favourite ice cream to some random cavity of some random mammal. Or some shit like that. When are you guys coming out of the stone age?

114? Where? In Adelaide? Or are you talking about in the desert? Death Valley hit 134 last year, and that wasnt a record.

So on you!

In Adelaide. I don't even want to know what temperature it got up to in the desert... I think we had 15 consecutive days over 40C here, which in crazy american units is 104.

Ouch! The highest it gets where I am is a very rare 30 C.

It cleared over here and was fairly hot on Tuesday, and they officially called the rainy season ended yesterday. Yea!

And it was hot as hell. I hid out in my office with the air on all afternoon. When I got home around 9:00, I could see the stars and there was a fairly brisk wind blowing.

But it was warm.

OK, maybe the rain and cold wasn't so bad after all....

My problem with Celsius is there's too much wiggle room between digits. Basing the scale on zero at freezing and 100 at boiling is great, but I think they should have gone up a factor of ten. Anyway, it's pretty easy to memorize a few benchmarks:
50F = 10C
77F = 25C
95F = 35C

Here smack dab in the middle of the country it's been relatively mild this summer, but very wet. I don't think we've hit 100 yet, although there's plenty of time for that to still happen. For the last few weeks we've been hovering a few degrees on either side of 90, occasionally hitting the mid 90's. And as usual humidity pretty much stays between 90 and 100%. Our winds are mostly from the south, but sometimes we get good west winds gusting off the plains. ANYWAY....

Right now:
10:57 AM Central
74F/23C (storm from the north this morning, unusual)
Wind N 5 mph
Humidity 81%
Barometer 30.03 rising

Spicelon wrote:My problem with Celsius is there's too much wiggle room between digits.

Sorry, I don't quite get that. Isn't it the normal distance between numerals ie. difference between say 15C and 25C is 10C? I don't think its a logarithmic scale or anything fancy like that...

SadisticCynic wrote:

Spicelon wrote:My problem with Celsius is there's too much wiggle room between digits.

Sorry, I don't quite get that. Isn't it the normal distance between numerals ie. difference between say 15C and 25C is 10C? I don't think its a logarithmic scale or anything fancy like that...

I think he's saying that it isn't precise enough, the old system had more degrees between freezing and boiling.

That said - I've never met a person who could tell the difference between 20 degrees C and 21 degrees C and so forth, no one other than lab rats needs a more precise measurement than single degrees, and that's easy to do, you just add decimal places!

A Thing of Eternity wrote:

SadisticCynic wrote:

Spicelon wrote:My problem with Celsius is there's too much wiggle room between digits.

Sorry, I don't quite get that. Isn't it the normal distance between numerals ie. difference between say 15C and 25C is 10C? I don't think its a logarithmic scale or anything fancy like that...

I think he's saying that it isn't precise enough, the old system had more degrees between freezing and boiling.

Get you now.

The problem is not the systems of measurement, it's the people using them. If you're using Fahrenheit, you have a lot of numbers. If you use Celsius, you have fewer numbers. A change in temperature is the same no matter the system. Don't think in Fahrenheit (with lots of numbers) if you're trying to understand Celsius (fewer numbers). A change of one degree in Fahrenheit obviously means a lot less than it does in Celsius. Simply account for that difference. Problem solved.

And on that note, a brief reminder about temperature from the best TV series ever made...

Forty-Degree Day (The Wire)

Celcius obviously makes more sense anyways.

Got a call from a co-worker who is in AZ today. It was 112 there at 10:30 am.

Omphalos wrote:It was 112 there at 10:30 am.

Oh my gawd, the koalas will evaporate!

Oh, that's Fahrenheit, right?