Re: I'M BACK!!! :)

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> I remember a day that we had to go home early because the wind blowing
> was even warmer than the air we were in!!! (as if a giant hairdryer
> had blown against us) It's something I've never experienced before...
Hah! Do you know how many days I had to *walk home* in weather like that
at primary school?* North winds, though incredibly hot, have the
consolation of being dry (we have a desert to our north west). But that
north wind and the sun story? Makes absolutely no sense here. If the north
wind tried that, not only would the traveller have taken his jacket off,
but it probably would've been blown away, along with anything else that
wasn't attached to him. So yes: the wind-chill factor works both ways.

*Which became optional if it reached 38 degrees, but our parents always
insisted we go. There were, of course, no airconditioners there back
then;** some classrooms became unusable.

**I finished primary school in 1996, but aircon in schools is a relatively
new phenomenon, and I always predate them. (They *finally* decided they
could afford to put airconditioners in my high school this year. But this
year I started uni. Grr.)

If you don't like that kind of weather, plan your trips to Melbourne for
winter (that being, of course, your summer). If you want to see hail when
it's sunny, come during spring :)

> The warmth took its toll: 5000 "official" deaths due to the warmth
> (non-official sources double that number). In the village we were (which
> has about 800 inhabitants), 3 people died of the warmth while we were
> there. And according to the French meteorological services, we have a new
> record of high temperatures! The former record of 1976 has been broken this
> year: since the beginning of the French meteorological services, it has
> never been so warm in France. And we happened to be in the warmest place in
> the country...
I can't remember a year recently when there wasn't some record set* during
the summer. One you don't like is the record for the warmest overnight
low: I think this is somewhere in the vecinity of 27 degrees (real
degrees, not fake ones based on absolute zero and body temperature and
failing on both counts). Anyone here tried sleeping on a humid 27 degree
Celsius night? (Without aircon: that's cheating. Though hot weather likes
taking the power out, so I doubt you'd have it anyway.)

--
Tristan                  <kesuari@...>
(can rant about weather till he's blue in the face)

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still
be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
                -- Snoopy

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