Fair dinkum* Aussie summer.

[Netlist]

Ultimate "test-weater" for the Alephs.

Hugo

[kelticwizard]

And Georgia is a Southern state. Deep South. It is one of those places Americans usually go to in order to be warm in the winter!

Those amazing temperatures are in Fahrenheit.

ATLANTA (AP) Even though roads were clear of snow, sleet and ice Friday, schools around Georgia closed because of brutal cold.

School officials and parents didn't want children who were not used to such temperatures waiting for buses or walking to school in temperatures below 10 degrees.

Continued:
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/to...lclosedGA.html

[Hamish]

if the alephs are like this, i don't care how good they sound, i'm sticking with my gainclones! try pricing heatsinks for 45 degC ambient!

[Circlotron]

Originally posted by seangoesbonk
In contrast, in southern parts of eastern Canada, it's getting to lows of -30 deg C.

A car radiator at my end, another in Canada or Sweden or Norway or whatever, connect the two with pipes, add a circulation pump, fill it with antifreeze and water, blow air through each radiator with a BIG fan. Then you could transfer my heat to your place and your cold to me. Symbiosis at it's finest.

[kelticwizard]

Folks in Western Australia should have been expecting it.

You have held the World Record for the hottest summer for over 75 years.

"Longest hot spell (world): Marble Bar, W. Australia, 100 °F (38 °C) (or above) for 162 consecutive days, Oct. 30, 1923 to Apr. 7, 1924."

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/MichaelLevin.shtml

90 degrees F must seem like a cold snap.

[halojoy]

Originally posted by kelticwizard
Folks in Western Australia should have been expecting it.
You have held the World Record for the hottest summer for over 75 years.
90 degrees F must seem like a cold snap.

We have had a winter where it was really cold for a month
around Christmas.
It was several periods with below -30 C. (below -22 F)

You don't go out much such days....

/halo - in dreams of Australia - one hotspot of this globe

[Ilianh]

I wish I lived in Canada right now

and I wish i lived in Australia!

Ya know... getting out in the morning and its like... -45C with wind factor.... I really miss those times when I had my shorts and my tshirt in the summer.

[SkinnyBoy]

Originally posted by Ilianh


and I wish i lived in Australia!

Ya know... getting out in the morning and its like... -45C with wind factor.... I really miss those times when I had my shorts and my tshirt in the summer.

You wouldn't stand going from -45C to +45C, you'd wanna strip down to less than shorts and Tshirt..

[SHiFTY]

Interestingly, the global warming effect could bring about BOTH extreme drought in Australia and extreme cold in Canada & Northern Europe.

This is because the melting icecaps dump huge amounts of fresh water into the oceans, which stuffs up the currents and stops the warm water from the tropics circulating around northern American continent & Europe... Apparently this current has declined by 20% in the last 50 years or so...

Without the warming effect of the current, Canada and northern europe would turn into Siberia.

Ironically, global warming could bring about an ice age!

[kelticwizard]

Originally posted by ShiFtY

Ironically, global warming could bring about an ice age!

As a matter of fact, I have read that that is precisely what the preserved tree ring record says.

Trees add a ring of growth every year. When it is a warm year, the growth is thick. In cold years, the groth is thin.

Analysis of tree rings from preserved trees show that just before Ice Ages occur, things get very warm, then turn cold. Suddenly. within a decade or so.

I'm not saying that is what is happening now, just mentioning what the record indicates.