JetSet Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40339730 How can you live in that? Pete 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aashenfox Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 (edited) Wow, that's nuts. Occasionally it reaches 45 here, a couple of times in my 15 years, most summers we'll get a day or 2 at 40. The funny thing is, unlike Arizona it frequently hits zero degrees in winter! It once snowed three feet outside my house in the suburbs of Athens Edited June 20, 2017 by Aashenfox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stutopia Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 I love the heat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fodder Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 @Stu sexy beast Just speaking to a colleague who lives south of LA and it's hot there at the minute but he was saying he's been in Las Vegas 115F and it's unbearable, they even use pool chillers! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMballistic Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 How can you live in that? Pete Quite simply I couldn't, ...I'm struggling with the heat here now as it is. That would bl**dy kill me I'm sure. https://media.giphy.com/media/YtrthDIAncXcs/giphy.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetSet Posted June 20, 2017 Author Share Posted June 20, 2017 Wow, that's nuts. Occasionally it reaches 45 here, a couple of times in my 15 years, most summers we'll get a day or 2 at 40. The funny thing is, unlike Arizona it frequently hits zero degrees in winter! It once snowed three feet outside my house in the suburbs of Athens Record low in Phoenix is -9 and average night temperatures in January are only 2.3 degrees, but they can go for several years without a frost. However snow is very rare, only 8 measurable falls in 150 years. Other parts of Arizona get heavy snow, like The Grand Canyon where the North Rim Road is closed until mid May Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aashenfox Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 I thought year low temperature was about 9C, oh, okay, comparable winters then, maybe ours is just a touch colder, hardly something to shout about loool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetSet Posted June 20, 2017 Author Share Posted June 20, 2017 @Stu sexy beast Just speaking to a colleague who lives south of LA and it's hot there at the minute but he was saying he's been in Las Vegas 115F and it's unbearable, they even use pool chillers! I was in Vegas on Independence day 2007 and it was 115 degrees that day, just 2 degrees short of the all time Vegas record. I'm O.K with big heat but this really was my limit, I must have drunk about 8 bottles of water walking up and down the strip. The thing is though that it'll be above 100 degrees for 2 or 3 months, just unbearable. What amazed me though was that there were vendors polishing shoes out on the street and that the hotel we stayed at (The Stratosfear) had parking attendants dressed in full uniform outside the lobby Pete 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy1980 Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 We had a day several years ago in Sharm El Sheikh when it hit a ridiculous 55c. We were lucky to be in the Cleopatra water park at the time, the heat from the floor came through the flip flops. Word to the wise do not go in July The weird thing is, 28 in the UK is worse than 40's and 50's in Egypt, too humid over here so you just sweat and are stuck in the office.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoogyRev Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 The weird thing is, 28 in the UK is worse than 40's and 50's in Egypt, too humid over here so you just sweat and are stuck in the office.... This ^^ don't get me wrong 120F is fecking hot, but as its a dry heat it won't feel as bad as it would in the UK. Last time I went to Singapore its was 105F with 100% humidity . . . that was the worst I have ever experienced 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay84 Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 The weird thing is, 28 in the UK is worse than 40's and 50's in Egypt, too humid over here so you just sweat and are stuck in the office.... This ^^ don't get me wrong 120F is fecking hot, but as its a dry heat it won't feel as bad as it would in the UK. Last time I went to Singapore its was 105F with 100% humidity . . . that was the worst I have ever experienced Same in Hong Kong. Although I can live with out there, maybe it's because I don't go to work etc. Being I'm a metal roofed garage having to deal with people is no fun. Plus everytime the phone ringsits a safe bet someone wants an ac regas lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fodder Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 The weird thing is, 28 in the UK is worse than 40's and 50's in Egypt, too humid over here so you just sweat and are stuck in the office.... This ^^ don't get me wrong 120F is fecking hot, but as its a dry heat it won't feel as bad as it would in the UK. Last time I went to Singapore its was 105F with 100% humidity . . . that was the worst I have ever experienced Yeah SG was mental for me too, had to wear a suit during the week even though I spent most of my time in a data centre making sure my kit had been installed to the design. On days off they were spent dashing between AC establishments, walk out of one and another shower was required. Walking through soup is the best way to describe it. Spent some time in HK for the same trip and that wasn't as bad and I actually felt cold a few of the days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
350zedd Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Its the humidity here thats the killer. It was 90'F here today but the humidity must be up around 85% surrounded by all this forestry. We have a chiller unit in the workshop, and all its doing is using its energy to extract buckets & buckets of water and hardly bringing the temp down at all! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky-Ricky Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Been seeing 33c from the outside temp gauge...in the shade here in Norfolk, today started better with some cloud and just 24c but soon climbed to 29c with 78% humidity, i have spent most of the weekend sat in front of two fans....hate the heat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoogyRev Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Walking through soup is the best way to describe it. A very fitting description Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetSet Posted June 21, 2017 Author Share Posted June 21, 2017 Back in 1996 I visited a friend who had retired to Boulder City which is 15 miles or so from Vegas. When I asked them how they coped with the heat they told me that they'd never adapted to it (they were from Galveston, Texas originally) and in the summer months their whole life had to be planned out to avoid the heat. For me, it wasn't so much the heat it was the racket that the air conditioning made in the motels I stayed in that kept me awake at night. I've never stayed in a private house in The States so I don't know how noisy the A/C units are compared to the massive units that many motels have but I reckon that being an A/C engineer would get you a good living over there . I've been in Death Valley when its pushing 120 and quite frankly it was a major effort to walk from the car to the visitor centre and I was pretty fit back then. Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetSet Posted June 21, 2017 Author Share Posted June 21, 2017 I thought year low temperature was about 9C, oh, okay, comparable winters then, maybe ours is just a touch colder, hardly something to shout about loool. Greece sometimes gets plunges of really cold air pushing in from Central Europe, Southern Arizona is protected from cold plunges by The Rocky Mountains. Northern Arizona is on a high plateau from 6,000 to 9,000 feet and has a totally different climate to the Southern deserts. Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeezeebaba Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 I don't mind heat in dry conditions but the humidity we get here living on an island can be unbearable at times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stutopia Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 I don't mind heat in dry conditions but the humidity we get here living on an island can be unbearable at times. Humidity sucks. I spent a couple of weeks in the Amazon, it was so humid you couldn't get dressed fast enough after a shower to know what dry clothes felt like. Then when I ran out of clean clothes, I'd wash them in the shower, this amount of exertion caused me to start sweating, which was crazy because the showers only supplied cold water!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoogyRev Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 Back in 1996 I visited a friend who had retired to Boulder City which is 15 miles or so from Vegas. When I asked them how they coped with the heat they told me that they'd never adapted to it (they were from Galveston, Texas originally) and in the summer months their whole life had to be planned out to avoid the heat. For me, it wasn't so much the heat it was the racket that the air conditioning made in the motels I stayed in that kept me awake at night. I've never stayed in a private house in The States so I don't know how noisy the A/C units are compared to the massive units that many motels have but I reckon that being an A/C engineer would get you a good living over there . I've been in Death Valley when its pushing 120 and quite frankly it was a major effort to walk from the car to the visitor centre and I was pretty fit back then. Pete We have a cool air system in our house with a condenser outside, the only time I hear the condenser is when standing next to it, and even then its not that loud. Its supposed to be mid 30'sC here this weekend . . so I will be sat indoors in the cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docwra Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 Totally down to humidity. I went from Dubai to Vegas last year - both were around 40 degrees but Dubai was 70% humidity, Vegas was about 10%. Dubai you couldnt spend more than 30 seconds outside air con before sweating, in Vegas I didnt even feel hot. Was talking to a guy about this over the weekend and he said it reminded him of a guy from Moscow who was complaining about our Winters. He said "but you get down to -20 or more over there" to which the Russian replied "being cold in a dry -40 is positively pleasant compared to being cold AND wet for 3 entire months" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilogikal1 Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 49C, isn't that the average temperature of the Central line in the height of winter?!? [/London problems] 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetSet Posted June 21, 2017 Author Share Posted June 21, 2017 Was talking to a guy about this over the weekend and he said it reminded him of a guy from Moscow who was complaining about our Winters. He said "but you get down to -20 or more over there" to which the Russian replied "being cold in a dry -40 is positively pleasant compared to being cold AND wet for 3 entire months" I once watched a program about a small town in Russia that had no roads in or out and only existed to service the Trans Siberian Railway, In the winter it was so cold that the school had sleeping facilities for the kids, which were enabled at -45, the temperature at which your tear ducts freeze up and it wasn't that unusual for people to freeze to death in a standing up position. Moscow of course doesn't get down to -40 very often but their winters can be 6 months long, kinda like parts of Canada. Also, according to Wikipedia, the average humidity in Moscow in winter is very similar to London, around 85% but yes, -20 on a bright sunny calm day would feel a lot more pleasant than 3 degrees in a howling gale when its raining cats and dogs . I used to work with a guy from NZ and he said the thing he didn't like about the British weather was the number of windy days, I guess we are just so used to it that we don't notice. Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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