Heatwave

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

How all you Europeans going with the heatwave?

Personally I say big deal. 32C? Come over to Australia and live a normal summer where it can be in excess of 35C. Last heatwave Feb 09 was 46C, broke our train system and our tourist trap (the Southern Star wheel).

Now thats a heatwave!

[Sam 163]

Originally posted by: ROFLyoshi

How all you Europeans going with the heatwave?

Personally I say big deal. 32C? Come over to Australia and live a normal summer where it can be in excess of 35C. Last heatwave Feb 09 was 46C, broke our train system and our tourist trap (the Southern Star wheel).

Now thats a heatwave!

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In excess of 35? Most summers it was 46C inside my house (and about 42C at 11 pm). I moved out of that place.

Edit: Yes I'm pretty sure it broke our train lines too. I remember them having to be relaid in a real hurry.

[Boggy1 45]

It's been dreadful here in the UK. Reached 32C last week. It's cooler now thankfully. But still..I had minor heatstroke from it. Couldn't think, could barely breathe. Was horrible. The MET office issued a major nation-wide warning.

[buildsolid 4]

Originally posted by: sam

In excess of 35? Most summers it was 46C inside my house (and about 42C at 11 pm). I moved out of that place.

Edit: Yes I'm pretty sure it broke our train lines too. I remember them having to be relaid in a real hurry.

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Yeh sound like my house, the first six days of the year here were over 35C (thats normal), thankfully we have a pool though it did not help a lot......anyway, keep cool europeans!!

[Meg 368]

I had to convert the temperatures to understand

32 C = 89.6 F

35 C = 95 F

46 C = 114 F

What was the relative humidity in all of this?

All of them would be quite unpleasant without air conditioning.

89.6F is about typical for the DC area

95F is hot but not unusual here

114F is ridiculous and dangerous

[Kryptowhite 9]

I wouldn't say 35C is a heatwave, I think its more just summer reaching its peak. Most days in the middle of summer it will be between 30-35. Now, 46, that is really high. It's never been above 105 F here in massachusetts during my lifetime, I think thats about 40 degrees celsius though im not sure.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Come to Texas if you want some heat.

been over 100F most days for the last 2 weeks. Throw 60+% Humidity and you have a nice refreshing Sunny day

[Ny24 0]

It was unbearable in the Uk though because we are more used to showers than heatwaves the last one before 2009 was in 2004 and still it was not as hot as it was last week........

[fukuda 351]

32

[LarksTonguesInAspic 28]

Meanwhile, Chicago basks in a near-record summer, but for low temps. What would normally be in the mid 90s F, is the low 70s so far this year.

It's gotten 105-107 F (42+ C) here, but not too often.

[rainyday 2]

There's a heatwave in Europe? That's news to me! It won't stop raining here in Ireland, we had thunderstorms all week here. The weather has been so dead.

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: Kryptowhite

I wouldn't say 35C is a heatwave, I think its more just summer reaching its peak.quote>

Depends on where you live. In some places, temperatures that high are normal in the summer. In others, they are not.

It happens at least once every summer around here (New York). Though, last year it happened in early June, before it was technically summer, which was unusual. And it happened again in August. We hit triple digits in some spots on a couple days in August of 2007. It happens.

But yes, the humidity does make a big difference. Living near the ocean, it gets hot and muggy in ther summer, which where it gets you (for an objective comaprison between wet and dry, look at the heat index).

A couple of summers ago my family spent a week in Coloroado. Continental interior, a thousand miles away from the nearest ocean. We didn't notice how dry it was at first... but when we landed back in Newark at the end of the week we got out of the plane and it felt like we had just walked into a sauna, because we had gotten used to the interior dryness - and then hey, coastal humidiy's back all of a sudden! That's when we realized the difference.

[Meg 368]

Originally posted by: Duke87

But yes, the humidity does make a big difference. Living near the ocean, it gets hot and muggy in ther summer, which where it gets you (for an objective comaprison between wet and dry, look at the heat index).

A couple of summers ago my family spent a week in Coloroado. Continental interior, a thousand miles away from the nearest ocean. We didn't notice how dry it was at first... but when we landed back in Newark at the end of the week we got out of the plane and it felt like we had just walked into a sauna, because we had gotten used to the interior dryness - and then hey, coastal humidiy's back all of a sudden! That's when we realized the difference.   quote>

Several years ago, a group of friends came to visit, all from various places.   The one from Colorado kept looking puzzled whenever we walked outside.   She said she was feeling something hit her face.  We told her it was air.

The east coast does get like a sauna in the summer.  Having been here my whole life, you'd think I'd be used to it.  But my tolerance for it seems to be decreasing over the decades.

[warrior 169]

I am so thankful its over now,I can deal with snow but not heat, most of my class were just running on automatic,as in not really putting any effort into anything(even the teachers were a bit "dead"), including lunchtimes. Including me.Also another goodthing about snow is it closes schools, where heat doesn't though most people probably wish it the other way round.

I guess it's alright for a day but anything more and it's horrible. I'm betting though all the people in australia and other hot countries are thinking what total wimps we are

Jonathan

[Mike the Mayor 51]

Although people from the UK are supposedly intolerating of anything over 26C, I actually found the recent hot spell a nice change to the last two summers. In fact it made June a really interesting month weatherwise - lots of variety.

1st-4th: Sunny & warm

5th-10th: Cooler with sunny intervals and thundery showers

11th-12th: Cool and cloudy

13th-16th: Sunny and warm with thunderstorms on the 15th

17th-21st: Cool, cloudy and breeze with a little rain

22nd-28th: Sunny, warm and humid with thunderstorms on the 26th

29th-30th: Sunny, hot and humid

What an awesome summer month - much better than these place that see temperatures in the 30s day in day out.

[TekindusT 3,809]

Originally posted by: warrior

most of my class were just running on automatic,as in not really putting any effort into anything(even the teachers were a bit "dead"), including lunchtimes. quote>

Imagine doing the Most Difficult Exam You Will Ever Face during the "heatwave". I had do it during these days and I had to stop for 3-4 minutes because I was about to faint! I felt my sweat drops falling down my back and my hands were so humid that I couldn't hold my pen properly.

[Steamrobin 4]

Not really dramatic in France but the government start to communicate about the danger for old people (15000 persons were dead in 2003 because of a heatwave...).

For now, I'll go to my coastal city to plop some fresh water and trees around. It's refreshing enough for my mind...

lol

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

It did actually reach 46C and thats not normal even for Australia. Worse still, the heatwave lead on to a massive bushfire that killed nearly 200 people.

And this was 46C OUTSIDE.

[mayor_brando 8]

The UK isn't the only one getting heatwaves. The US has some nasty ones too. In Texas farmers are saying they might have to abandon their farms because the heat and drought is killing off the crops. In North Dakota it was so hot a few highways buckled. I had to travel to Wisconsin and back in that heat, and it wasn't fun. Here in Omaha we've been getting temperatures below normal. Yesterday was cool and rainy for the 4th. The below normal temperatures might be explained by a volcano erruption in Russia that happened in June sometime, but it wouldn't explain the heatwaves. We did have very hot temps a few weeks ago, and next week we're supposed to be getting temps in the high 90's. Unfortunetly, for me, I don't have good air conditioning and it's just as hot in here as it is out there.

[_Atticus 10]

That's funny, because here in DC we've been having abnormally low temperatures for this time of the summer. The temperature has been in the 70s and low 80s.

-Pingangster

[Jumpthefence 74]

The weather here in the eastern-northeasten United States has been really weird. I was camping in Pennsylvania, no rain whatsoever for 8 days. Meanwhile, my friend here in western MA said it rained for 6 out of the 8 days. Also, the power went out 5 times.

Temperatures stayed below 60 degrees Farenheit (15.5C) in MA, but it broke almost 100 degrees (38C) for a day in PA. It's hardly a heat wave, but it wasn't comfortable.

It's quite strange, 2 places only about 300 miles apart having completely opposite weather.

Kryptowhite, can you relate to this nasty weather Massachusetts has been getting?

[buildsolid 4]

Originally posted by: warrior

I guess it's alright for a day but anything more and it's horrible. I'm betting though all the people in australia and other hot countries are thinking what total wimps we are

Jonathanquote>

[Kryptowhite 9]

Originally posted by: Jumpthefence

The weather here in the eastern-northeasten United States has been really weird. I was camping in Pennsylvania, no rain whatsoever for 8 days. Meanwhile, my friend here in western MA said it rained for 6 out of the 8 days. Also, the power went out 5 times.

Temperatures stayed below 60 degrees Farenheit (15.5C) in MA, but it broke almost 100 degrees (38C) for a day in PA. It's hardly a heat wave, but it wasn't comfortable.

It's quite strange, 2 places only about 300 miles apart having completely opposite weather.

Kryptowhite, can you relate to this nasty weather Massachusetts has been getting?

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Unfortuantly yea. two weeks ago I had a baseball game and it was nice whether, i came home it started raining. It rained nonstop for the rest of the school year, there was one or two days of sunshine, then it rained for another week. The first sunny day was friday, its been sunny since. It has been nice and cool, and there have been almost no mosquitos this year, i've only been bitten 3-4 times despite being out late more.

[sneakeypete 16]

Might not be hot for Australia, but the buildings in europe aren't exactly built for it either i'd imagine. Just like i can barely tolerate less than 15C here, because the large windows etc. let it all in.

[Merlin of Flyote 8]

Warm and sunny here in Gravesend, Kent. (25m east of London). Gravesend holds the record for the warmest town in Britain (33c one August day about 4 years ago). Not much rain here!

In Britain most houses don't have pools and there's not much air conditioning either.

Some easy to remember comparison temperatures:-

0c = 32f (freezing point of water at sea level)

16c = 61f

28c = 82f

100c=212f (boiling point of water at sea level)

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

oh and -40 = -40

[Danlikebooks 6]

Here in Cincinnati its about 97 F (36-ish C) and 45 % humidity. Not bad.

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: Merlin of Flyote

Some easy to remember comparison temperatures:-

0c = 32f (freezing point of water at sea level)

16c = 61f

28c = 82f

100c=212f (boiling point of water at sea level)quote>

Not quite on the middle two there. 16°C = 60.8°F and 28°C = 82.4°F.

If you want some exact points in there, try these:

10°C = 50°F

20°C = 68°F

30°C = 86°F

40°C = 104°F

Or, you know, there's always the conversion formulae:

°F = 9/5 × °C + 32     and, similarly     °C = 5/9 × (°F - 32)

Make whatever equivalents you want!

[how_deep 2]

Living in San Antonio, where it's been 37-41 C every day for a month, (except one day last week where it was a frosty 35 C) I would love to have a European heatwave. I must say, however, any temp that is remarkably hotter than what is normal for your climate can be dangerous, so I know how you feel. Temps like these in the SW US are almost normal, but get that above the 35th parallel and it kills.

[Merlin of Flyote 8]

Originally posted by: Duke87

Originally posted by: Merlin of Flyote

Some easy to remember comparison temperatures:-

0c = 32f (freezing point of water at sea level)

16c = 61f

28c = 82f

100c=212f (boiling point of water at sea level)quote>

Not quite on the middle two there. 16°C = 60.8°F and 28°C = 82.4°F.

How do you spell pedantic?quote>

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16c = 61f and 28c = 82f  are easy to remember