BS: How warm is it where you are?

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Kara
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 03:31 AM

38° in Brittany (France) that C not F, anyway I'm going to the beach.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 03:49 AM

It was 79F in our bedroom last night... and that was me on my own....

Today it's hot enough that my garden is full of painted ladies. Got 7 of 'em sunning themselves right now.
And it's not even 9.00am.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:04 AM

Painted lady count is up to 9 now.. never seen that many single species in one place , it just doesn't tend to happen in the UK.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Scoville
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 09:54 AM

Houston: predicting rain today so it's still cool but 85% humidity, which is still on the low side.

Ask me again in August when we're likely to be back up near/over 100.

My brother (in Virginia) swears he's moving in near his in-laws in Minnesota as soon as he's done with grad school. He says he'll take the winters if he doesn't have to live through 8 months a year of summer.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Flash Company
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 11:07 AM

Pretty hot here in Cheshire, Haven't got the thermometer out but too hot to work on my decking project
No sleeping alone though, as my old idol Ogden Nash put it:-

Love will not wait for cooler weather,
If we must melt, let's melt together!

FC

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,Desdemona
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 11:24 AM

It's unpleasantly sweltering at about 90 here in central Massachusetts, but I just came home from a few weeks in the UK, where the last week was every bit as bad! It was absolutely shocking: I've spent a good deal of my life in England, and have literally never encountered such unremittingly sunny, hot, sticky, uncomfortable conditions for such an extended period.

T'ain't natural, or even marginally pleasant, to my mind; there's a REASON I travel to the UK in the summer! Add to this the fact that there just aren't the necessary infrastructural weapons (like lots & lots & lots of ice cubes, air conditioning in most public places, etc), and it makes for a pretty uncomfortable state of affairs!

Looking forward to the autumn, or at least a passing thunderstorm...

~D

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: skipy
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 11:26 AM

at this moment 33.3 deg. C
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,workman
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 11:34 AM

Quite warm here in London

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:16 PM

Warm enough for Max the arthritic cat to throw himself into the pond at least once a week...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:20 PM

Hot enough here to lie down in the shade and die.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:25 PM

The scary thought is that this may be the "good old days".

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: DougR
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:33 PM

The highest we have had so far, 118 degrees. 116 degrees yesterday. Seems a mite cooler today. Probably 115 degrees. All F, of course.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Dave Swan
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 05:28 PM

Slag (whose name now makes sense),

I spent January to July one year working outside in the Scottish highlands, then came back to the States and took work as a welder in Turlock, CA on July 5th. I remember driving to the steelyard and watching a time/temperature sign flickering between 108 and 110. As you say, salt rimed everything. I almost never wore leathers as the occasional dingleberry or welder's tan was preferable to another layer.

I think Delano and Turlock are located on about the same ring of Hell.

D

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 07:26 PM

Here in Indianapolis, it's warm enough that I haven't ordered anything hotter.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Slag
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 07:32 PM

Dave Swan: Yes! You know. I lie not! Indeed the same ring. Well, today is a cool snap. It only got up to 104.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,Rumncoke
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 07:59 PM

Ah - Painted lady.

Thanks

I saw one on a buddlea - however it is spelt, bush the other day, and meant to look it up as I had not noticed one before.

There are quite a few of the bushes around here - I live in Parkstone, on the ridge above the town of Poole, Dorset, and some days it is hardly possible to see the flowers with the bees and butterflies on them, with more stacked up waiting to land all around.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 01:46 AM

55 night highs low 70's day.

However, inland, less ten miles can be 105.

VERY Enjoyable summer. One of the best ever. A shame to leave Shangralai to sup at the coiffers of filty lucre.

But the Kitty must be fed.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 01:50 AM

Horrible shame - passing through London - (second time since Simon and Garfunkle in the park) and the ROYAL gardens are brown and the zoo has a model display of succulents. They are encouraging Londoner's to forget their pansies and geraniums.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 01:11 PM

I watered the geranium only this morning... with it's customary 'die you scabby little basket' greeting. It loves it. The bloody thing is 3ft tall and won't stop growing.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 01:11 PM

The Pansie is on holiday for another 3 weeks, to everyones delight.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 03:29 PM

Too bloody hot!!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 03:31 PM

It's about 70F, with a very nice breeze.



From the ceiling fan. If I went outside I'd find it about 90F.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 04:39 PM

Our bedroom is presently 85F... that's going to be pleasant.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,Bruce Baillie
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 06:03 PM

...well it's too fucking hot for me in Cleckheaton!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 06:17 PM

I was in an office in that Germany yesterday with a thermomity that recorded 37 degrees at 4pm. That, my friends, was nothing compared to the holding pens in the shed at Neiderrhein airport, and the plane was ........... late.

Ryanair, you gotta love 'em.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 02:23 AM

Yesterday's papers report a confirmed sighting of a shoal of Sun Fish
off the British Coast. This is believed to be unprecedented.
Temperature up here on the N.E. coast of England a refreshingly cool 22.5 degrees C.
However it is only 7:20 A.M.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Scoville
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 12:53 PM

Liz--plant it for shade! Put that sucker to work if it refuses to die for you. I don't think I've ever seen a three-foot geranium.

We can't win here--it's either 100 degrees and dry, or it's 85 degrees, raining, and everything floods. And it's 90% humidity today. My best friend emailed from Tucson complaining that it was 25% humidity and she was "drowning" and I was forced to tell her to go to Hell.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 02:44 PM

Hey! My cherry tomatoes are starting to get a blush. Thank you global warming!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 05:45 PM

Hot enough to do this

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 09:16 PM

Thash funny. I posted in response to Clinton's shaved head- and it disappeared (the post, not the head). Have I undergone silent deletion?

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: bobad
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 09:20 PM

What is the meaning of that symbol on your t-shirt Clinton?

I hope you haven't joined some sect or something.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 09:24 PM

No. He's more into sects.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 11:33 PM

" I hope you haven't joined some sect"

You have to be invited to join The Corps

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Keef
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 01:37 AM

Same story from everywhere, more extreme weather, record sales and usage of air conditioners leading to record electricity demand...leading to more power stations... burning more coal..aargh!
And then there's the nuclear option just in case we haven't phucked up the planet enough yet.
Now here's the strange thing, Sanyo, Sanwa et all can churn out airconditioners at incredibly low prices but can't get their shit together to produce solar panels at a sensible price.
Computers and all the electronic goodies have improved in price/performance by a thousandfold and more but somehow the much simpler technology of solar voltaic has gone nowhere.
Solar radiation is highest at the same time aircon need is greatest so no need for expensive batteries, just need solar electricity for 10 Cents per watt rating instead of the $10 per watt we have been stuck on forever.
Will it ever happen?
I doubt it

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 03:36 PM

So why can't we get solar powered air conditioning units/fans?

83 degrees here today in the back room....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Alice
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 10:08 PM

LTS, solar powered air conditioning does exist.

http://www.solarac.com/

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Mr Red
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 03:25 AM

38C / 100F in my office one day. Aren't mobile phone wonderful these days - mine even has an alarm which woke me at 6am to get from Warwick to work Monday morning - and I use it occasionally to make calls - super..........

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Keef
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 06:39 AM

Solarac looks interesting Alice but at $7000 (after state rebates)plus installation it is about 4 times the price of the air conditioner that it would run.
Needs to be a huge price improvement before it will be taken up in serious numbers.
Compared to the improvements made in other electronic gizmos,solar is still in the stone age.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 07:37 AM

And the shipping and conversion to UK would be pricey too.... I just want a fan that I can plug into a socket that is run by solar power.. that would be so simple. The sun is shining so the fan is on. Store a bit for night time and it would be perfect.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Mr Red
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 08:26 AM

Well call me a poser if you want but I have had a hat like that for 6 years - and it's red. I got it from the Machynlleth Alternative energy centre CAT, which makes it a hat in the CAT I guess.

And I can even pronounce Machynlleth

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Alice
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 01:47 PM

solarac.com - system sends power back to the utility most months of the year, when you are not using the electricity for your air conditioning. So, you are reducing your electic bill overall.

Solar powered fans - you can get a small one that fits in your car window to cool the car while it is parked in the sun. You can buy a cap with a little solar panel in it that runs a fan to cool your head.... or, you can get an attic fan that has roof top solar panel to cool your house, or use it in your RV.

http://www.advancedenergyonline.com/catalog/applications/fans.htm (can order from outside the US, too)

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: michaelr
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 05:14 PM

Santa Rosa (Northern California), 2 pm: 72 degrees in the shade.
A week ago: 102 degrees. Phew!

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Peace
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 05:22 PM

It is 59 degrees F in north central Alberta. May have to wear a jacket over the t-shirt soon. Or go to a long-sleeved shirt.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,Noddy
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 06:01 PM

Hot enough for June!!!???

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 06:18 PM

Troy Fair, Troy Pennsylvania, 3:30pm, 100 degrees fahrenheit (with an occasional lovely breeze)!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Peace
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 06:30 PM

"Hot enough for June!!!???"

Is it June already?

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Hrothgar
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 06:09 AM

About 23 degrees Celsius maximum here today - that's about 73 Fahrenheit.

Another Brisbane winter day ...

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 09:44 AM

A lovely summer morning here on the wet coast of Canada. Its around 6:30AM and 10C or about 52F and its raining. Yeah!!! Our very hot spell was short lived, it only lasted about 3 days.

The rain is welcome though. I hope it does more than just settle the dust, because my apple trees are very thirsty. While I have no qualms about watering the rest of the garden with our precious well water, I'd prefer not to have to use it on the fruit trees too. The real rains of November are still a long ways off.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 10:41 AM

hotter & hotter & hotter here in the Wash DC area...we are expecting 4 days of nearly 100°F, and we get high humidity to boot.

(and *grin*...JUST as I typed the above, my weather program popped up this alert)
HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS EXPECTED TO LAST INTO THURSDAY. EXCESSIVE HEAT CONDITIONS ARE LIKELY ALONG AND EAST OF THE BLUE RIDGE...ESPECIALLY IN THE BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON DC URBAN AREAS.

HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL BE AROUND 100 DEGREES TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. THIS WHEN COMBINED WITH HIGH RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL RESULT IN HEAT INDEX VALUES OF UP TO 110 ESPECIALLY TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. THE EXCESSIVE HEAT MAY PERSIST INTO THURSDAY.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 11:32 AM

Here in my part of chilly Sydney, it's 4.5 degeees C - about 40 degrees F. A long way off the 100 degrees some of you are having.

But it's not a long way off post number 100. hahahahaha!!