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It's actually not that bad - considering I spent 6 years in Sydney, where the average Summer temp. sat around 35 deg. C., and peaked around 45 deg. C.

Hell - I ain't complaining. I just spent the whole day inside plastering my lounge room wall. It's dry already... I'm thinking about putting in a new order for a replacement fireplace later this week - there'll be a sale on, I bet...

I'm not really looking forward going to work tomorrow though - all I'll be doing is covering stories all about how HOT it's got (and running around, carrying tons of heavy equipment in the process...).

:rolleyes:
 
Wow, no AC in the UK, learn something new every day. I'd die without AC, i remember having a window unit that my dad would faithfully install about a month after he should have, then take out when cold drafts started coming through :rolleyes: but i'm loving my central air right about now. Today was a beautiful 85F or so, perfect weather for the state fair. But between may and september here in Iowa, it can without much warning reach 105F, tho that doesn't happen often, we usually have at least a few weeks of about 100... high humidity.

it gets to really drag, but we use immigrant labor for most outdoor (farm/field) work during the summer. Kind of funny, considering all the local panhandlers are out in that weather anyway... ah, nevermind, it would never happen. some of those damn panhandlers live better than i do :rolleyes: :mad:...

what were we talking about?

pnw
 
Originally posted by edesignuk
HA! To us this is boiling point! I can hardly move for the heat, and it has brought many problems with public transport, they are worried that the train rails might start to bend with any high speed trains, so speed restrictions have been put in place!

Hehe, yeah I suppose without the high speed railways your going to need to take the underground?

Originally posted by Wes
And do you have AC's in your house? Try working all day in 95 indoors. :)

Yeah I have an AC, but the power company in my area keeps bitching about using power, so I just use a fan.

And I have playied baseball in 105 F for 3 hours... omg... so... hot... *pant*
 
I just saw this on a news report. In St. Louis we're having an extremely mild summer staying usually in the 80's (ferenheit of course). We'd usually see temperatures a good 10 to 15 degrees higher and hit 100 a few times.

Feel sorry for you with no air conditioning though. My father lives in Wisconsin and he says when they have a warm spell they're in the same boat. Very few have air conditioning there either.
 
I have never lived anywhere without central Air. But hey, I have never lived anywhere but South Louisiana. :D Also I have always had A/C in the car. (Well I drove a 15 year old Truck that the A/C broke in, but I eventually had it fixed. after a summer or two. (Getting to work sweaty wasn't cool. ;))
 
Bloody hell - the brits are amazing.

They complain when it's cold, they complain when it's hot. They complain about the standard of television, the cost of petrol, who's in charge, who's NOT in charge, who SHOULD be in charge, who's running the country, who's running the football team...

:rolleyes:

Q:

So - how do you know when a plane full of english have arrived in the country?!?



A:

When the engines have stopped, the plane's still whining.
 
Originally posted by kiwi_the_iwik
Bloody hell - the brits are amazing.

They complain when it's cold, they complain when it's hot. They complain about the standard of television, the cost of petrol, who's in charge, who's NOT in charge, who SHOULD be in charge, who's running the country, who's running the football team...

:rolleyes:

Q:

So - how do you know when a plane full of english have arrived in the country?!?



A:

When the engines have stopped, the plane's still whining.

I am TIRED of hot weather. I have lived 15 years of my life in 40+ degrees. I loved it when it was snowing this winter.
 
Originally posted by Stelliform
I have never lived anywhere without central Air. But hey, I have never lived anywhere but South Louisiana. :D Also I have always had A/C in the car. (Well I drove a 15 year old Truck that the A/C broke in, but I eventually had it fixed. after a summer or two. (Getting to work sweaty wasn't cool. ;))

You'd be surprised how many cars don't even come with A/C unless you're willing to drop the notes and have it fitted as an option...

Up until the mid-90's A/C only seemed to be fitted to high-end cars or was a loaded premium extra...

I'm with Wes on this one, it's too hot here at the moment, we simply don't have the infrastructure to cope, lack of A/C in public places, railway tracks warping, an antiquated tube that has zero ventilation on the older lines... We also have crappy heat, it's very humid, it's not like the heat you get in say California, I can handle that, but the last week has been so oppressive... also a chilled beer just warms up after a couple of sips in this weather.... :rolleyes:

I mucho prefer the snow, frost, fog, mist... bring it on.... come forth November... give it to me.... NOW NOW NOW!! :p
 
Originally posted by kiwi_the_iwik
Bloody hell - the brits are amazing.

They complain when it's cold, they complain when it's hot. They complain about the standard of television, the cost of petrol, who's in charge, who's NOT in charge, who SHOULD be in charge, who's running the country, who's running the football team...

:rolleyes:

Q:

So - how do you know when a plane full of english have arrived in the country?!?



A:

When the engines have stopped, the plane's still whining.

I am British but not English. Please don't assume that we are all the same!
 
USA = king of climate control

For some reason, other countries just aren't into it like we are. Their loss, I think. :)

Hey, when I was in Singapore (32C all year), they had room-by-room AC to save money. You'd have a little remote, and when you came into a room, you turned it on, and when you left, you turned it off. Saved a lot of money and worked pretty well, though you had to keep room doors closed all the time.

Anyway, feel sorry for you guys - hopefully the heat will break soon.
 
Originally posted by kiwi_the_iwik
Bloody hell - the brits are amazing.
Thanku, we know! :D :p
Originally posted by kiwi_the_iwik
They complain when it's cold, they complain when it's hot. They complain about the standard of television, the cost of petrol, who's in charge, who's NOT in charge, who SHOULD be in charge, who's running the country, who's running the football team...

:rolleyes:
When it's cold in this country we don't get the nice cold, clear with snow etc, we just get crappy weather, constant rain, gray sky’s, it's just miserable. Normally the heat is welcomed, but this year it is VERY hot and we are not equipped to cope with it (no A/C in homes etc). I couldn't care less about who's in charge, or not (football/government). And the TV fee I have no problem with. The fuel is another issue, the yanks would have a pink fit if they had to pay what we do!

edit: typo
 
Originally posted by kiwi_the_iwik
It's actually not that bad - considering I spent 6 years in Sydney, where the average Summer temp. sat around 35 deg. C., and peaked around 45 deg. C.
:rolleyes:

..that's all well and good, but did you try working in Cairns at those temperatures?

Humidity sucks, without a nice coooool beer.....:D

ntg.
 
It was so hot I could not use any of my computers on Sunday (even my Macs were over heating).

However it was a lot hotter in Germany, in Kassel last week when I was there.
 
Originally posted by kiwi_the_iwik
Bloody hell - the brits are amazing.

They complain when it's cold, they complain when it's hot. They complain about the standard of television, the cost of petrol, who's in charge, who's NOT in charge, who SHOULD be in charge, who's running the country, who's running the football team...


Dont forget about the the NHS which must be the most complained about thing in history. Maybe complaining is all the British can do now ;)
 
I will agree its hot.
I was in Michigan in June, moving out of my Apartment at College. I swear it was at leat 30c, with high humidity. We even broke 35 several times.
I drove across the US in early July, thank the maker for A/C, I would have died with out it. I passed ranges from 40c to 15c. When I went east in March, I passed through Wyoming where it was 30c, after comming through snow in Montana, it was a real shock.
Here in Portland, they broke 30c in early May, and we broke 38c (100f) a few weeks ago. Thankfully, today It won't get above 25c. A few days in the 70's will really help around here.

TEG
(Yes I'm a Yank, but I do use both systems interchangably)
 
NOW we're onto something...

Sorry guys - didn't mean to touch a nerve, there...

;)

OK - what ELSE is there to bitch about in this fine land of yours?!?

Let's start a list...

By the way - did you know we have to pay over £100 for a TV LICENCE in the UK?!?!?

AND, if you're registered blind, you can apply for a £1.25 discount...

:rolleyes:
 
Re: NOW we're onto something...

Originally posted by kiwi_the_iwik
By the way - did you know we have to pay over £100 for a TV LICENCE in the UK?!?!?
Yes, and for that you get a quality set of stations, the BBC, with no adverts!!!! How many stations are there? BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC World etc. Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4, Radio 5, World Service, local bbc stations etc. All in all I don't think it's a bad deal at all.

edit: actually if ur serious about this, it should probably be a new thread, we don't want this one going totally off track.

and BTW, it was another bloody HOT day to day, approx. 35c!

edit2: worst of all, it's still around 25c @ 22:30! Argh! so humid, no breeze! Horribe trying to get to sleep in it :(
 
no more UK bashing

The TV tax! And they drive on the wrong side of the road! And what the heck's a quid anyway? Or a stone? Sounds evil and alien - the stuff of nightmares!

Gee, the UK must be the strangest land in the world! Thank god I'm nestled safe in my own country an ocean away from all that chaos and horror!

:)
 
European hotness...

I spent 4 weeks in the southern UK this summer (East Sussex, if you want to be specific), and it was a real shock! I was warned to bring lots of rain gear because of their 'rainy climate', but it only rained 4 days in the whole 4 weeks! In my opinion, there were only 5 or 6 days that I considered really hot (over 33 degrees Celsius), and the rest were all fairly nice between 25 and 30 degrees.

But then I went to Germany for 2 weeks....and that's a completely different story! Each and every day it was around 35 degrees, with some days nearly reaching 40! I think it rained thrice...twice monsoon-style and then again just a 15 minute light shower on another day...and it was still bloody-hot when raining! I was in southern Bavaria (near Munich) for most of the time, and spent a few days north in Sachsen. I am blown away by European weather! :D

Has it been this hot all over Europe this summer? I've heard about people dying in Paris because of the heat...
 
Be glad that all of you don't live in Alabama. 2 years ago we had a heat wave where it was over 100 degrees F, for 21 straight day. With 100% humidity, so it felt like 130 with the heat index.

Our average summer days are normally around 95 - 100 degrees F with 95% humidity.
 
Come to Nebraska ladies and gents, then you'll get it all. ;)

100+ days in the summer, -10 in the winter. Tornadoes, hail storms, flooding, blizzards, icestorms, and occasionally, a nice 70 degree day. :)

I grew up in the south where it's always sweltering in the summer. I've heard people up north call southerners lazy because we move and talk slow. It isn't laziness, it's the humidty. :) ;)

Regards,
Gus
 
Originally posted by Gus
Come to Nebraska ladies and gents, then you'll get it all. ;)

100+ days in the summer, -10 in the winter. Tornadoes, hail storms, flooding, blizzards, icestorms, and occasionally, a nice 70 degree day. :)

I grew up in the south where it's always sweltering in the summer. I've heard people up north call southerners lazy because we move and talk slow. It isn't laziness, it's the humidty. :) ;)

Regards,
Gus

WORD! Have you ever seen the number of Tornados that occur in Alabama? Top 5 in the country. We just don't get as many of the big ones that you get out there.
 
Yeah, Alabama and Arkansas get hit quite often. Tornadoes are one of those things that quantity and quality don't matter. Either you get a few HUGE ones, or a whole crapload of smaller ones. Doesn't matter, same damage. ;)

Regards,
Gus
 
Ah yes, the weather... I've had plenty of experiences with hot, humid, painful weather.

I live in South Texas.

Our averages are in the high 90's, and we can get well over 100, and that's in the shade. When there's no breeze, it feels even hotter, especially since the humidity sets in.

I've had to march outside, at 3:00 PM in a nice, thick, heavy, band uniform before. Not very fun. We've had people pass out before...

Our railroad tracks here (although not very well maintained), look like wet noodles drooped across ties... No high speed trains here...

As for air-conditioning... I always thought everybody had it. I mean, if you didn't have it down here, you'd die. People actually steal window units off of houses when it gets really hot. I remember going through New England on a day that the weather people claimed was 'really really hot', and I was like "this is hot?" But I was close to the sea, so it wasn't that bad, but when I went on a little hike to some mountain my uncle knew about, the humidity was terrible, and the mosquitos were awful...

Of course, right now, there's a tropical storm (with the possibility of becoming a hurricane) 130 miles off the coast, barreling right down on me, with a flash flood and tornado... Such fun. I had to dig a trench on the side of the house to get water to drain, because when the city re-surfaces the alley behind our house, they just add layer after layer of dirt and rock, and it finally built up where the water on the side of our house doesn't drain...

Of course, it's 88° right now, at 12:30 AM, and there's almost no wind, and partly cloudy skies... You'd never think that in about 2-4 hours, there'd be a hurricane right over us... It's kinda creepy.

But our area needs the rain badly. We haven't seen normal rainfall amounts for over 5 years (I think it's somewhere around 8.) That, and the bay on South Padre Island needs to be flushed out with a good storm surge. That hasn't happened in a long time, and a good flushing will make fishing in the winter a lot better.

It's a good thing this storm is fast moving... By noon tomorrow, this thing is supposed to be across the lower part of Texas. It's scary because many people live in mobile homes, or very poorly built houses, and they don't stand a chance against high winds and rain, much less tornadoes...

I just hope nothing terrible happens. I just better have my PowerBook charged, in case the power goes out. But then again, my cable modem would die too, so there's really no point... Oh well... I'll take pictures for ya'll.
 
G4 Scott,
Best of luck with that hurricane. I am originally from Waco, and even that's not as bad as the weather in the south of Texas. I know what you mean about people griping about heat other places. I was in L.A. in May and people were griping about a deadly heat wave that was all of 80F. What a joke.
 
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