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adderslj ([personal profile] adderslj) wrote2003-08-06 09:59 pm

No, I mean it.

It's really pretty damn hot right now.

Scorchio!

[identity profile] kit-hartford.livejournal.com 2003-08-06 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
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

coping with the heat

[identity profile] shulamite.livejournal.com 2003-08-06 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
shaved or crushed ice with fruit juice concentrate over it really helps

Re: coping with the heat

[identity profile] adders.livejournal.com 2003-08-11 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
I'll try that tonight...

A

[identity profile] artbroken.livejournal.com 2003-08-06 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Bah.

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.

[identity profile] adders.livejournal.com 2003-08-07 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] point5b.livejournal.com 2003-08-06 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
It was 38C with about 60% humidity here when I went to close on my house. :)

[identity profile] adders.livejournal.com 2003-08-07 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
and...?

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...

[identity profile] point5b.livejournal.com 2003-08-07 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

Or maybe that's a US and Australian thing.

You have my sympathies...

[identity profile] jltraut.livejournal.com 2003-08-07 11:55 am (UTC)(link)
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.

Ice cream is good on days like this.