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hellofaniceguy
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: On your computer screen!
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 Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:09 am Post subject: 116 degrees in Arizona! |
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And that's in the shade! 2 in the morning it's 100 degrees!
A radio station from Chicago called a Baskin Robbins in Phoenix and had them put a scoop of ice cream out on the sidewalk and see how long it took to melt...8 seconds!
The heat in seoul does not seem so bad compared... |
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PolyChronic Time Girl
Joined: 15 Dec 2004
Location: Korea Exited
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:16 am Post subject: |
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| That's hot....California is also soaring to 101F (39C) Compared to these two states, this Korean summer is nothing. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:34 am Post subject: |
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I've experienced 50 Celsius (120 F). Afghani summer temps. Not nice. You draw your curtains at 9am & have a smoke & drink hot tea & drift in & out of sleep until 6 or 7 in the evening when a bit of cooling breeze starts to stir again.
Nevertheless, it felt hot today! |
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PolyChronic Time Girl
Joined: 15 Dec 2004
Location: Korea Exited
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:44 am Post subject: |
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| Just read on Yahoo news.....12 people have already died in AZ due to heat (mostly homeless people and a couple of elderly women). |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
I've experienced 50 Celsius (120 F). Afghani summer temps. Not nice. You draw your curtains at 9am & have a smoke & drink hot tea & drift in & out of sleep until 6 or 7 in the evening when a bit of cooling breeze starts to stir again.
Nevertheless, it felt hot today! |
I experienced that in Northern California- Redding. Weeks of 116-120 F. The thing is, it does get cool there in the evening and night because it is desert. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 6:49 am Post subject: |
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Ah but it's a dry heat.
Sorry, someone had to make that cliched joke/observation.
Sparkles*_* |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:35 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
I've experienced 50 Celsius (120 F). Afghani summer temps. Not nice. You draw your curtains at 9am & have a smoke & drink hot tea & drift in & out of sleep until 6 or 7 in the evening when a bit of cooling breeze starts to stir again.
Nevertheless, it felt hot today! |
Throw in nearly 100% humidity and you've got Kuwait and some parts of Saudi Arabia in summer. You know it's pretty bad when the locals go to Damascus and Cairo to get out of the heat. |
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SuperFly
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
Location: In the doghouse
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, it's hot here. We are supposed to get some rainstorms in PHX by the end of the week though, fallout from Hurricane Elaine.
It's too hot to type. bye |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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| SuperFly wrote: |
Yeah, it's hot here. We are supposed to get some rainstorms in PHX by the end of the week though, fallout from Hurricane Elaine.
It's too hot to type. bye |
Surely you have a/c, doggy dogg.
Sparkles*_* |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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I just left Las Vegas about 4 days ago.. it was 115 degrees outside. Our airplane was re-routed to pick up fuel in San Francisco on the way to Honolulu. They said it was too hot to fuel the plane in Las Vegas.. too dangerous to do so.. so diverted to SF to do it instead.
All of that being said.. and I'm back in Seoul (its hot and sticky) and much cooler temperature-wise.. yet I still prefer the 115-degree dry heat of Las Vegas over this. |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Throw in nearly 100% humidity and you've got Kuwait and some parts of Saudi Arabia in summer. You know it's pretty bad when the locals go to Damascus and Cairo to get out of the heat. |
Strange, I was in Kuwait for about 4 years and I do not remember high humidity - bloody hot yes. 49.5 day after day, never reaching 50 officially as all work had to stop.
Forecast there for next few days .... with humidity being the last group of digits (or most cases, single digit)
Friday
Sunrise 9:01 (ICT )
Sunset 22:47 (ICT ) 49��C 34��C 3 good 998 14
Saturday
Sunrise 9:02 (ICT )
Sunset 22:46 (ICT ) 47��C 34��C 8 good 999 6
Sunday
Sunrise 9:02 (ICT )
Sunset 22:46 (ICT ) 47��C 34��C 10 good 999 8
Monday
Sunrise 9:03 (ICT )
Sunset 22:45 (ICT ) 46��C 34��C 16 good 1000 7 |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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I stand corrected. I should have said Dubai. Last week, it was in the mid-40s and around 70% humidity. Comfort level was "six" according to metorologists, while it occasionally gets up to eight a few times during the summer each year.
Gulf News article |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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Apparently Portugal is experiencing its worst drought in 100 years now..
Global warming is already putting us in some serious trouble. (sorry, but I had to mention that again). |
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the saint
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
Location: not there yet...
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:18 am Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
Strange, I was in Kuwait for about 4 years and I do not remember high humidity - bloody hot yes. 49.5 day after day, never reaching 50 officially
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strange, you must have been there 4 different years from me and my family... 
give me dry heat any day |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:40 am Post subject: |
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I was there 1978-1979 and again 1984-1986. First time I lived in Bnied el-Gar, second time down in Fahahaal, right opposite the English School on the coast. How about you?
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