How Scorching Are Temperatures in Your City?

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The discussion centers around extreme heat experienced in various locations, with some areas reporting temperatures as high as 111°F and forecasts predicting highs of 109°F. Participants share their discomfort, noting that nighttime temperatures have remained uncomfortably high, with some places experiencing temperatures above 80°F at midnight. The conversation highlights the challenges of coping with such heat, including the effectiveness of air conditioning and alternative cooling methods like fans and ice. Some participants compare their experiences in different regions, with mentions of humidity affecting perceived temperatures and comfort levels. A few anecdotes illustrate the intensity of the heat, such as a record high of 128°F in Baker, California. The discussion also touches on the impact of heat on daily life, including difficulties in sleeping and the strain on air conditioning systems. Overall, the thread captures a shared sense of frustration and humor in dealing with the oppressive summer heat.
  • #51
Anything for you bud! :biggrin:
 
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  • #52
It's been around 305 degrees (K) here in Colorado Springs. I'm not even sure it's correct to say it's a dry heat. We've been getting thunderstorms most afternoons or evenings and the air's thin enough the temp always drops below 290 degrees (K) in the night time. I've never seen the prairies this green this late in the summer before (in fact, I almost forgot green was a color) and we're having to mow the yard nearly once a week.
 
  • #53
Moonbear said:
:smile:


Well, at least that temperature I can convert readily. 37 C = 98.6 F (body temperature). But, here, I'll give you a table to help. :wink: Anything below 0 C or 32 F is too damn cold to matter, and anything above 40 C and 104 F is too damn hot to matter, so I limited it to that range.
Should you really convert a number rounded off to two digits to a three digit number? Human body temperature is about 36.8 C if taken to three digits, which is about 98.2 F.
 
  • #54
Ivan Seeking said:
The weather people keep lying to us. It was supposed to hit a high of 95 yesterday [for Dimitri, that's in Kelvin]. By 10AM it was 90, and by late afternoon it hit a high of at least 102 [for Dimitri, that's in eV]. Today it is supposed to hit a high of 90. It was 90 at 10AM.

:confused: :confused: :confused: 102 eV?
 
  • #55
Pengwuino said:
:confused: :confused: :confused: 102 eV?

I dunno. In Alameda, CA it hit 105 bushels yesterday.

- Warren
 
  • #56
In Fresno, it hit 572.67 Rankine
 
  • #57
Pengwuino said:
:confused: :confused: :confused: 102 eV?


I think plasma temps are sometimes measured in eV. But really the point was to give dimitri a bad time. :biggrin:
 
  • #58
25.41 \, \mbox{meV}/k_B here. Much warmer outside, but still too cold for plasma ignition.

Dimitri - I already was using your stupid anti-scientific centigrade scale, back in post #4.
 
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  • #59
Rach3 said:
25.41 \, \mbox{meV}/k_B here. Much warmer outside, but still too cold for plasma ignition.

Dimitri - I already was using your stupid anti-scientific centigrade scale, back in post #4.

True enough. Don't feel bashfull about just using MeV, when you're a theoretical physicist you can set any constant of nature equal to 1 until proven guilty :biggrin:
 
  • #60
Dimitri Terryn said:
True enough. Don't feel bashfull about just using MeV, when you're a theoretical physicist you can set any constant of nature equal to 1 until proven guilty :biggrin:

That's meV, not MeV!
 
  • #61
Urgh... force of habit, sorry.
 
  • #62
It's currently about 1 outside... in units of the temperature in Milpitas, CA. The forecast for the next 2,000 millenia is a high of 1, and a low of 1.

- Warren
 
  • #63
It hit about 37 here the other day and it was awful, I hate it. Give me a nice 22 degree day and I'm happy.
 
  • #64
scorpa said:
It hit about 37 here the other day and it was awful, I hate it. Give me a nice 22 degree day and I'm happy.

You wish i felt sorry for you.
 
  • #65
Pengwuino said:
So how ungodly hot is it where you live right now?

MSN says to expect a high of 109 today. Currently it is 111. It wasn't until midnight last night that it went under 100 degrees. People's pools are probably evaporating as we speak. I know everytime i look outside my eyes start smoking.

My sister drove out to Vegas to see her friend get married last weekend. Going through Baker, they have the world's tallest thermometer, and she and her boyfriend told me it read 128F as they were driving through. When she got out of the car, she told me it felt as if her skin instantly caught fire.
 
  • #66
I visited a friend in Vegas two summers ago. One day it was 108 F (sorry Dmitri). We had to get into a car that had been closed up. Must have been 150 when we got in.

"But it's a dry heat" F*** That!
 
  • #67
loseyourname said:
My sister drove out to Vegas to see her friend get married last weekend. Going through Baker, they have the world's tallest thermometer, and she and her boyfriend told me it read 128F as they were driving through. When she got out of the car, she told me it felt as if her skin instantly caught fire.

What i want to konw is why does it feel like there's "walls of unmerciful heat" in certain places? Our A/C is out and when you walk upstairs, its like you walked right into a wall made out of hot hot air. You can literally feel like a partition of at least 5 degrees and you know the instant you walk into it.

I remmeber back in high school it was insanely hot and we were in a niiiiiiiiiiiiice air conditioned chemistry class. We were in finals so we were there for like 2 1/2 hours. We opened the door and walked outside and like a punch in the face i was knocked backwards feeling like i was hit by an inferno.
 
  • #68
BobG said:
Should you really convert a number rounded off to two digits to a three digit number? Human body temperature is about 36.8 C if taken to three digits, which is about 98.2 F.
:rolleyes:...98.6 F = 37.0 C. Happy now?
 
  • #69
A THREAD IN GD GOING BACK ON TOPIC?!
 
  • #70
I just took a shower and its so freaken hot that i don't konw if this water is from the shower or I am already sweating like crazy again. Damn air conditioner, i hate people with pools right now. I hope they all drown.
 
  • #71
haha

I have a pool

pwn
 
  • #72
yomamma said:
A THREAD IN GD GOING BACK ON TOPIC?!

Get out, shoo shoo
 
  • #73
yomamma said:
haha

I have a pool

pwn

gotta keep the kids happy...
 
  • #74
haha

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  • #75
scorpa said:
It hit about 37 here the other day and it was awful, I hate it. Give me a nice 22 degree day and I'm happy.

It hit about 34 here the other day and it was awful, I hate it. Give me a nice 2-5 degree day and I'm happy. :-p

that would be 93.2 in moonbears archaic language

every summer i always think that there's no way it could have been as hot the year before except this year i think i may have actually been right. i think the hottest day last summer was more like 30-32.
 
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  • #76
Pengwuino said:
I just took a shower and its so freaken hot that i don't konw if this water is from the shower or I am already sweating like crazy again. Damn air conditioner, i hate people with pools right now. I hope they all drown.
When I lived in a 3rd floor apartment without A/C (remember, heat rises), and it got to those hot, humid, disgusting days of summer when there was no breeze at all, I kept the bathtub filled with cold water...instant wading pool whenever I got too hot. :biggrin:
 
  • #77
I think I've got used to it now, I feel a lot more comfortable with the 30 degree C temperatures 86F I'm working in, no A/C but it could be worse I could be working in the Middle East :eek: Hotter and more dangerous.
 
  • #79
hmmmm...
This University of Waterloo engineering student hacked together a primitive air conditioner from a large fan, garbage can, some copper and vinyl tubing, and a few zipties and hose clamps.

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/06/14/howto_make_an_air_co.html

_www.eng.uwaterloo.ca_~gmilburn_ac_DSCF0295-1.jpg
 
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  • #80
It's 85 in Alaska.

I'm melting
 
  • #81
Math Is Hard said:
tips for keeping cool.

Hope it works! I am barely sleeping lately because the heat is so bad. :frown:

MIH, I have a window airconditioner in my garage. I am not using it so I will email it to you ASAP!
 
  • #82
larkspur said:
MIH, I have a window airconditioner in my garage. I am not using it so I will email it to you ASAP!
Thanks, but that's would make for a mighty big attachment! :smile:

My problem is that my windows are not the standard kind that air condioners go in. They slide side-to-side to open. I am also a renter, so I can't really build on something to modify the window.
I have been searching for a portable AC with a window kit but there's none left in Los Angeles. :frown:
 
  • #83
People and cows are keeling over.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4071270.html
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gripped by a 10th straight day of 100-degree heat, California sweated out the possibility of more blackouts Tuesday as the number of suspected heat-related deaths climbed to at least 38 and the rotting carcasses of thousands of dairy cows and other livestock baked in the sun.
 
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  • #84
Pythagorean said:
It's 85 in Alaska.
I'm melting

in inuvik today it's only 26 but for a couple summers now yukon & the mackenzie delta area part of which is north of the arctic circle, has been as hot as 40 celsius. tomorrow it will be 21 in iqualuit, the capital of nunavut on baffin island. i know it has been hotter there before also.
http://ca.weather.yahoo.com/images/na_canada_n_outlook_en_CA_440_dmy_y.jpg
 
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  • #85
Math Is Hard said:
hmmmm...
This University of Waterloo engineering student...

where is that? never heard of it. :confused:
 
  • #86
fourier jr said:
in inuvik today it's only 26 but for a couple summers now yukon & the mackenzie delta area part of which is north of the arctic circle, has been as hot as 40 celsius. tomorrow it will be 21 in iqualuit, the capital of nunavut on baffin island. i know it has been hotter there before also.
http://ca.weather.yahoo.com/images/na_canada_n_outlook_en_CA_440_dmy_y.jpg
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We've broken a couple records this summer. I'm in Fairbanks, Alaska, where the temperature gets real extreme. The weather is dry and we have a mountain range that (i assume) tends to hold in the warm weather. In the winter, it gets as low as -40, especially because of the inversion layer.
 
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  • #87
fourier jr said:
where is that? never heard of it. :confused:
Univeristy of waterloo is in Ontario
 
  • #88
All our air con units are breaking down, we have extra hire units in every room in the factory, trouble is the compressors are overheating, and for some reason pipes are splitting, this place must be enveloped in r22 gas.
 
  • #89
Yah with the number of a/c units failing aorund this city i don't know why they want us to conserve power :smile:
 
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  • #91
Andre said:
Sending some cool weather :-p

Andre, is this a (trend) that will be repeated, escalate year on year, or is it a
blip on the Earth cycle?
 
  • #92
Andre said:
Sending some cool weather :-p
At least it's a dry heat. The humidity's only 32%.
 

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