Too hot to work here!

Max Hedges · #1 04-01-13, 21:10

We are expecting a high of 40 today at Yass. someone in the family thought it would be good to have a party in early rather than later on in January to beat the heat, now with the hottest day for many years we'll have to see.

rob love · #2 04-01-13, 21:31

I have worked in both the extreme cold ( Alert, and Repulse Bay tundra just accross the arctic circle) and the extreme heat (Cypress, Kandahar Airfield). It is almost hard to say which is better. I guess it comes down to the threat on the physical well being. At moderate negative temperatures you can simply dress warmer. At the 40+ above mark you can ensure adequate hydration.

End of the day, I guess I would take the heat over the cold. But quite frankly, I would prefer a climate where it just stayed at 21°C every day, and maybe 18 at night. Also, if it oculd rain only at night, that would be fine also.

Made it up to -3 outside right now. I am out in just a hoodie with no gloves and running shoes on. A nice break form the recent cold spell.

Lang · #3 04-01-13, 22:29

Rob,

You should move to Brisbane.

Apart from a handful of days out of left field, the annual average temperature is 24c (75F) with summer tops seldom over low 30's and winter night time bottoms seldom below 10c.

Lang

Mike Cecil · #4 05-01-13, 01:23

I think we struggled to about 0 degrees C today, from an overnight low of -10 degrees C.

And my better half has booked tickets for us to attend the Spokane Rodeo this evening. Hopefully the indoor arena will be heated!

It's 16:22 hours, and is already 'late twilight'. No wonder Bears hibernate....

Mike C

Bob Carriere · #5 05-01-13, 03:36

The TV weather station was showing the other day....... at minus -24 C if you rush out with a cup of boiling water and launch it in the air...... the boiling water turn to fog and snow before it hits the ground........solid water just disappears.

I am waiting for the next cold snap....drink a lot of hot tea..... and rush out to have a fast leak down wind to see if I can make yellow snow.....!!!!

.....and hoping to avoid frost bite.

Bob

chris vickery · #6 05-01-13, 21:39

The worst thing about heat is that you can only take off so much- everything takes longer to do because we turn sluggish, conversely, in the cold, you can only put so much on, everything takes longer because its all covered in snow thusly prolonging the agony of exposure to bitter cold.
I guess the only hapy medium is as Rob has suggested; 21c year round.

rob love · #7 05-01-13, 23:18

I was sightseeing in the Turkish side of the UN line in Nicosia, Cypress. An old turk made conversation with us, and laughed about how hot we looked at +40. When we explained that we occasionally got that hot in Manitoba, but also reached -40, he no longer laughed at us.

He also bragged about being a millionaire. It was not until afterwards that we realized that the turkish Lira was in such bad shape that a million of them was worth about $1100. So I guess we were multi millionaires.

Moral of the story is, the Turks have nothing over us. That said however, they were very disciplined soldiers who did not play games. Even at those 40° temps, they still wore the old wool battledress with the top button done up.

Bruce Parker (RIP) · #8 09-01-13, 04:42

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Originally Posted by rob love

I have worked in both the extreme cold ( Alert, and Repulse Bay tundra just accross the arctic circle) and the extreme heat (Cypress, Kandahar Airfield). It is almost hard to say which is better. I guess it comes down to the threat on the physical well being. At moderate negative temperatures you can simply dress warmer. At the 40+ above mark you can ensure adequate hydration.

End of the day, I guess I would take the heat over the cold. But quite frankly, I would prefer a climate where it just stayed at 21°C every day, and maybe 18 at night. Also, if it oculd rain only at night, that would be fine also.

Made it up to -3 outside right now. I am out in just a hoodie with no gloves and running shoes on. A nice break form the recent cold spell.

Ah, punk. When I lived in Iqaluit I walked to work in running shoes at -30C (yes, I really did, but the deal was I didn't stop to talk to anyone). Parkas with fur lined, wire adjustable hoods could deal with anything short of a 90K wind face on. The cold was manageable. After all it was the eastern Arctic where it seldom went below -30C. The hot, well melt me and suck the life out of me...

Eric Korhonen · #9 10-01-13, 21:21

Not quite that hot here but we are having a very nice winter so far. In the city you can still see the grass with just trace of snow here and there,but outside of city the most snow there is about a foot maximum. Was just for a walk behind my house and only have 8 inches of snow here. Sure is nothing like what it used to be 40 years ago. Only been a few days of mid to high minus 20's C.
The last couple weeks have been very nice if this winter at it's worst I would love winter. The temperature today is +7 C not bad for Jan 10th in northwestern Ontario

Have a great day all
Eric