It's amazing how hard it is to work when you constantly have to mop sweat off your brow ... high 20s at gone 10pm is scary! They're talking about temperatures of 5-10 degrees above average, hence these Mediterranean conditions in our "sunny" latitudes
I don't live in Brisbane. If I lived in Brisbane, I wouldn't be complaining. I live in London, where the whole infrastructure is geared towards keeping us warm and dry, to compensate for the natural condition. Weather like this in a city which has little in the way of air-conditioning is just wrong.
And it's amusing to see people react in amazement to things we more-or-less take in stride (absent an official "head advisory" notice), just as people from colder climates get a laugh simply because our local infrastructure utterly collapses under the assault of freezing rain.
Those temperatures are normal here (mid-Atlantic seaboard, US), along wih high humidity (and afternoon thunderstorms), but everything here from homes, public buildings, busses and automobiles has AC.
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Scorchio!
Date: 2003-08-06 02:12 pm (UTC)coping with the heat
Date: 2003-08-06 02:19 pm (UTC)Re: coping with the heat
Date: 2003-08-11 09:16 am (UTC)A
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Date: 2003-08-06 02:51 pm (UTC)In four months it'll be 40+ degrees here. Roads will melt, bushfires will rampage, and flocks of bats will fall dead from the sky.
What you got there is a Brisbane springtime.
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Date: 2003-08-07 05:45 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-08-07 05:43 am (UTC)Your neck of the woods probably has the infrastructure to cope. London and Londoners sure as heck don't.
Bah.
We're used to cold, fog and rain...
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Date: 2003-08-07 09:39 pm (UTC)Or maybe that's a US and Australian thing.
You have my sympathies...
Date: 2003-08-07 11:55 am (UTC)Ice cream is good on days like this.