The thread started off with remembering the hot "good old days."

I recall recording OATs at 45.6C (114F) during vehicle tests I ran at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona ca. 1965; but the only truly objectionable effect was that the boot polish kept melting and running off my boots into puddles on the test track. (That meant a new spit-shine before I could wear them the next day, of course.)

I clearly remember the year when it topped 38C (100F) on each and every day for 30 consecutive days here in Wichita Kansas during the late 50s.

I was a lot younger then, and recall how the pavement heat caused blisters on your feet if you stood still too long, and a couple of times when I helped "old ladies" (probably 25 or 30) pull their shoe heels out of the asphalt pavement when they crossed N. Main St. a little too slowly; but at that age the kids didn't find it too inhibiting to normal activities.

The thermometer has been recalibrated without my being told, however. I find now that wise elders (like myself of course) need to be very careful about trying to do anything very "physical" in our recently more common 33C (92F). That's especially the case for those of us who were "indoor slaves" for many years, and may be a bit out of condition for outside activity.

The variation in our temperatures recently, usually near 33C, makes it difficult to find the line between hurrying in and out between the (air conditioned) truck and places of busines (air conditioned, of course) at a fast enough pace to avoid hyperthermic effects while still moving slowly enough to avoid a "cardiac event."

John