It's Gonna Be A Hot One...

[SoulBlazerFan]

Well, yesterday the East Coast apparently broke several weather records... several places in New York/Jersey saw temperatures as high as 103 degrees. Thanks to my living on a wonderful coastline, the humidity in my state made the temperature feel closer to 114 degrees.

Just to ask; hows the weather where you live?

[Freedan]

Downtown Kitchener (not far from where I live) got to be around 42 or 43 degrees (that's around 114 or so for the American folks).

A co-worker of mine heard something on the radio to put that in perspective; it wasn't that hot in Arizona. As in, the place with a desert.

We were setting some temperature records this week. Tomorrow will be about the same, but fortunately, I'm off work that day (and hooray for central air conditioning), and I just bought a box of cream-sicles. After tomorrow, there's a chance of rain (here's hoping), and it should cool down a bit.

[Mantaray]

it's always hot down here in AZ. even the winters are mild (unless you're up in the mountains). it's usually over 100 degrees in the summer. once in a great while it climbs to a whopping 120..

some people say their area gets much "worse" because of humity and whatnot, but when it's just plain old hot and the heat is digging into your skin, it's frusterating oooooh boy, i cant wait till school starts again >_>

thank god air conditioning exists.

[inferiare]

sora-mage wrote:

it's always hot down here in AZ. even the winters are mild (unless you're up in the mountains). it's usually over 100 degrees in the summer. once in a great while it climbs to a whopping 120.. some people say their area gets much "worse" because of humity and whatnot, but when it's just plain old hot and the heat is digging into your skin, it's unbearable oooooh boy, i cant wait till school starts again >_> thank god air conditioning exists.

To be fair, humid heat is a bitch. Not only do you get the heat but the moisture in the air to amplify it times a billion PLUS a sticky icky feeling on your skin that makes you go OH GOD I NEED TO SHOWER AGAIN AAAAAUGH. Humidity + heat = I hate my life.

As for me, dry heat is a bitch and I hate it. It's only been up to 95+ but it's still gross. It's going to only get hotter from here.

[Yet One More Idiot]

The temperature here most days this last month has been about 27 or 28 degrees. I have no idea what that equals in Fahrenheit.

....no wait, I do. 28C = 82F. XD I was forgetting that simple conversion for a mo'.

It's actually been fairly pleasant, all told. Last summer was even cooler than this, but the summer before THAT was a bastard for Londoners, even the ones who claim to love hot, sunny weather (not me - I hate the summer! I love cold rainy days, especially thunderstorms. I know, I'm weird). Summer 2008 saw temperatures in London (and most of southern England for that matter) hit about 39 degrees - 102F, a record for London (and for Britain as a whole).

But yeah, touch wood this year hasn't been too bad, relatively speaking....

[EverPhoenix]

we're in mid-winter over here in australia, where the days are around 20 something degrees C, and the nights get as cold as 2 degrees C.

thats a range from about 35 to 87 or so.

[Freedan]

Being from Canada, I can't help but snicker at the phrase "as cold as 2 degrees C".

If 2 degrees were as bad as Winter got here, I'd be very happy with that. We tend to get -24 or so, possibly colder at night.

I remember meeting someone from Australia a few years ago. She was amazed at how cold it was during Winter here (it was -8 at the time). I told her to wait until it gets really cold.

[Jason Tandro]

Live in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, USA. This is a TEMPERATE CLIMATE.

All this week the high is 98 F (36.6 C) and the low is 83 F (28.4 C).

The heat index is well over 100.

[EverPhoenix]

Freedan wrote:

Being from Canada, I can't help but snicker at the phrase "as cold as 2 degrees C". If 2 degrees were as bad as Winter got here, I'd be very happy with that. We tend to get -24 or so, possibly colder at night. I remember meeting someone from Australia a few years ago. She was amazed at how cold it was during Winter here (it was -8 at the time). I told her to wait until it gets really cold.

yeah, well to be fair, if it got that cold over here, i'd have the proper clothing for it.

[psychokind]

we're about 30-35 °C since a few weeks. disgustingly hot

[Yet One More Idiot]

Freedan wrote:

Being from Canada, I can't help but snicker at the phrase "as cold as 2 degrees C". If 2 degrees were as bad as Winter got here, I'd be very happy with that. We tend to get -24 or so, possibly colder at night. I remember meeting someone from Australia a few years ago. She was amazed at how cold it was during Winter here (it was -8 at the time). I told her to wait until it gets really cold.

Even *I* sniggered a little at "as cold as 2 degrees C", and I live in England! 2 degrees C is a nice, pleasant day for me, our winters go down a little further to about minus 5 degrees C, and that's a bit on the cool side.

I know though that temperature is a very relative thing; I remember reading a joke once about the difference in behaviour between people from London and those from Sunderland (a city up in the north-east of England, if you didn't know) - in which it compared freezing weather in London and public transport grinding to a halt, families huddling round fires etc; to people in Sunderland putting a long-sleeved t-shirt on. The joke ended with something like this line:
-273.16C Absolute zero. All atomic motion ceases. Hell freezes over; Newcastle United finally win the FA Cup; people in Sunderland put on a sweater.

[psychokind]

so... I always asked myself: is there (like a minimal) a maximal temperature?

shouldn't this be when atoms are moving with lightspeed? or will this just result in the atoms taking in more space, resulting in the whole universe burn by a chain reaction (assuming the heat still rises in the center)? but since the atoms are already moving with lightspeed, they can't cover unlimited space, and since they take time to cross through their space, another atom then takes their space while "they aren't there", so it again limits the temperature to a certain maximum?

[tay120n64]

Frickin humidity. Dry heat is WAAAAAAY better. At worst, you just have to keep yourself hydrated and take care of your skin. I really enjoyed my week in North Carolina. I figured with it being on the coast, the humidity would be worse than in Arkansas which is landlocked and forest-y. However, to my good fortune, it was very breezy and hardly humid at all.

...But of course, now I'm back in Arkansas where one day it lets up with a high in the 80s then the very next day decides, "What's up? Let's kick it in the 100s." There's something seriously wrong with our eclectic weather.

[arkisdabomb]

it's currently 33 C here, or about 91 F, before heat index. After, it's about 42~44 C. In other words, so hot that the library I go to is supplying people with water when they enter.

[Yet One More Idiot]

psychokind wrote:

so... I always asked myself: is there (like a minimal) a maximal temperature? shouldn't this be when atoms are moving with lightspeed? or will this just result in the atoms taking in more space, resulting in the whole universe burn by a chain reaction (assuming the heat still rises in the center)? but since the atoms are already moving with lightspeed, they can't cover unlimited space, and since they take time to cross through their space, another atom then takes their space while "they aren't there", so it again limits the temperature to a certain maximum?

A Maximum temperature? Believe it or not, the currently accepted answer is "Possibly....."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_temperature

The Planck temperature, T_p = 1.416785(71) × 10^32 K, and some theorise it is the highest possible temperature, and possibly also the temperature of the singularity at the Big Bang.