Warm weather

[Newt]

I do not want to be outside right now - not even for fishing.

 

101.6 °F / 38.7 °C

Clear

Humidity: 36%

Heat Index (the effective temperature based on how it behaves to a human body) 111.5 ºF

[Leon Roskilly]

I do not want to be outside right now - not even for fishing.

 

101.6 °F / 38.7 °C

Clear

Humidity: 36%

Heat Index (the effective temperature based on how it behaves to a human body) 111.5 ºF

 

 

Phew!

 

Looks like you'll have to get used to it Newt, gonna be hot for a few days yet at least.

 

Summer starts here next week

Edited June 6, 2008 by Leon Roskilly

[Newt]

Leon - I'm staying cool while we have this hot snap. AC house to AC auto to AC work and not spending time outside while the sun is out.

 

This stuff hit way too fast with no time to adjust. I can live with 100º but not when it was only into the 80ºs last week and the 70ºs the week before that.

 

It is still at 90º (32 ºC) at 8:30 pm.

[Clifftop]

38 i can live with but 38 with 36% humidity YUK. Hot and sweaty.

[Newt]

Yup. It does feel like a sauna. It finally reached a smidge over 40º which beats the old record for today of 36º by a substantial margin.

 

To make things seem a little brighter though - the predictions are for a more active than normal hurricane season this year.

[Leon Roskilly]

er, the price of crude has gone up since you turned up your A/C Newt

[Newt]

It has Leon but the alternative is to keep things dangerously hot. Central air is about the same cost as heat during the winter and in the hot times, about as essential. We keep the house in the high 70s (about 25 ºC) which is tolerable and not too horrible for the electric bill.

 

Outside now at 02:30 it is 24º and 85% humidity so not really good sleeping weather. The AC is mainly keeping the inside humidity down so the ceiling fans can keep us cool enough to sleep. I grew up in this climate in the days before AC and it is no fun at all trying to sleep when you are sweating puddles.

[severus]

I grew up in this climate in the days before AC and it is no fun at all trying to sleep when you are sweating puddles.

 

Can you imagine what it must have been like in the days when horses provided most of the transportation and the flies followed them? Most folks didn't have screens to keep the flies and other insects out, either. One company in my town made a fortune selling flypaper around the turn of the 20th century. I can't imagine what living with clouds of flies must have been like.

[Bobj]

I do not want to be outside right now - not even for fishing.

 

101.6 °F / 38.7 °C

Clear

Humidity: 36%

Heat Index (the effective temperature based on how it behaves to a human body) 111.5 ºF

Very nice...That would bring the barramundi on the bite.

A bit cool, here in Mackay, well it is supposed to be winter.

http://www.weatherzone.com.au/qld/central-coast/ball-bay

[rob.imk2]

38.7 phew its 16 degrees where I am and rising and thats too warm for me heaven help you