Hot hot hot

[Steve Milani]

going to be a scortcher today here - 44 Degrees C (111 F) 42 yesterday, and above 40 till sunday.. Damm hot!

Take it easy Dave!!!
I am in the Navy.... so... I'v been all around the World.

You try to go to Eritrea.....Panama' Channel......Suez' Channel or... Cairns (Queensland) just right now....
Even if these places cannot be the hottest in the World..... humidity there kill you! (90-100%)

Then let me know Mate...

Steve

[helium]

It's a balmy 8 degrees C and stormy here. Roll on the summer when it'll be 12 degrees C and stormy......

[Xytrell]

It was -24F (-31C) here yesterday morning. Nice and toasty. I ask myself often "Self, why... the @#$R... do you live here??" My boiler can barely keep up.

[The_Doctor]

estimated 20 ( 50 cm) inches of heavy snow. My very tiny snowblower was choking and stalling on the icy stuff. Really dont have any place to put any more. 5th place ranking for most snow in january in recorded observation.

minus 10 dot 6 C or 12 dot 9 F


May I proffer my theory of "Global Cooling" ?

Google, "Lake Effect Snow"

Steve

Without Googling, I remember that cold air picking up water as it crosses a lake, will dump it on and after the far shore. I guess even warmer weather is the same; as global heat increases, windward coasts will see wetter weather. True in west UK anyway. Seems to be true in the Mexican gulf too.

[The_Doctor]

It's a balmy 8 degrees C and stormy here. Roll on the summer when it'll be 12 degrees C and stormy......

Don't knock it. Where else at this lattitude can we go shirtless pretty much year round?

[buffo]

Got down just below freezing here in Charleston last night. Tried to start a fire with a bunch of new (read: wet) wood that a buddy dropped off. Wow! Hard as hell to start. And I didn't feel like chopping it up either (Doc probably wouldn't want me lifting the axe!). Only had 2 fire-starter bricks, and that wasn't enough to get this stuff burning. Crud.

Today I'm going to go get more fire-starter bricks, and have my son chop up some of this fresh oak into decent kindling. They're calling for freezing temps again tonight, and my heat pump doesn't work all that well when it's that cold. (The damn aux. heat strips come on, and at that point the entire system is like a big electric toaster!)

Adam