BS: 117 Degrees!!!?!?!?!....

Subject: RE: BS: 117 Degrees!!!?!?!?!....
From: Goose Gander
Date: 07 Nov 07 - 02:46 PM

I was in Pheonix a couple years ago, the mercury hit 128 degrees fahrenheit.

I will never live in Phoenix, because I refuse to live in a place where the climate could kill me.

Subject: RE: BS: 117 Degrees!!!?!?!?!....
From: Bert
Date: 07 Nov 07 - 02:52 PM

Her's some more hot places

Subject: RE: BS: 117 Degrees!!!?!?!?!....
From: pdq
Date: 07 Nov 07 - 03:31 PM

The highest temperatures ever recorded in Phoenix were:

122°F on June 26, 1990;

121°F on July 28, 1995;

120°F on June 25, 1990;

118°F on  July 16, 1925,  June 24, 1929, July 11, 1958, July 4, 1989, June 27, 1990, June 28, 1990, July 27, 1995, and July 21, 2006.

Subject: RE: BS: 117 Degrees!!!?!?!?!....
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Nov 07 - 10:30 PM

the hottest temperature in rhe shade ever recorded is 93.6 degrees celsius in Iran in 1933 during the weatherphenomia called "heatburst" in extreme situations a heatburst could rise the actual airtemperature by 40 celsius or more.

Subject: RE: BS: 117 Degrees!!!?!?!?!....
From: Barry Finn
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 02:04 PM

I hitchhiked through Phoenix in 1968 with 2 other guys on our way to San Francisco. We bought a couple of sodas, the soda chest was outside in the alley, shaded. The temp read 115 in the shade. We kept our thumbs out & walked into the desert. I haven't heard from those sodas since.

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: 117 Degrees!!!?!?!?!....
From: GUEST,Kevin
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 07:11 AM

"In Juneau, Alaska, our high temperature has been more than half that. We have been topping 65 degrees lately"

It does not make sense to say 65 deg is more than half the 117deg. If anything, comparison should be made using the Kelvin scale

Subject: RE: BS: 117 Degrees!!!?!?!?!....
From: Wolfgang
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 07:49 AM

Kevin,

do you really mean I should not say that the average winter temperature in Germany has doubled in the last decade when it has increased from 0.5 Celsius to 1.0?

Wolfgang (:-)

Subject: RE: BS: 117 Degrees!!!?!?!?!....
From: Midchuck
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 08:02 AM

I think Guest Kevin is right. An increase of some degrees either Celcius or Farenheit, is only a slight increase in heat energy level, not a doubling. You'd have to look at how much of an increase it was over absolute zero, which is something below -400 Celcius.

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: 117 Degrees!!!?!?!?!....
From: Mr Red
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 08:15 AM

Only a slight increase in heat? As a percentage of deg Kelvin maybe.
But the globe is pretty big and heat is temperature times mass and that ain't slight - PAL.

AND considering the mass extinction of the Permmian is reckoned to have been caused by about 5 degrees shift until the Hydrates started to unlock and release methane and push the result up to 10 degrees and kill off 90% of all creatures, all of which were bigger than rabbits........... One meteor/ commet and a few volcanos that follow - should do it.

I think 0.5 deg in 10 is not slight either - as a %. It is all relative. And you won't have any relatives after that.

Subject: RE: BS: 117 Degrees!!!?!?!?!....
From: GUEST,Kevinagain
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 06:19 PM

Midchuck Peter - thanks (but absolute zero is about -273 deg Celsius - there is nothing below that! :-) )

...but -40F is the same as -40C : was that what was in your mind??