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Postby lorenzo » Mon 20 Jun 2005, 12:39:49

It's 40°C (104°F) here! The Ozone Alarm has sounded today. Djee, take a look at a map, my country's close to the North Pole and we're boiling.
This is not normal. Global warming is a definite fact. This is the tenth year in a row that we're experiencing abnormally high temperatures. I have old pictures of myself as a kid, playing in the snow, building ice-castles during cold and long winters. These were the seventies. Now I will never see snow again.

And then they predict another heat wave in Europe, this summer. We can't put airconditioning in our houses, because they're all fine art Art Déco buildings, not trailers. We're so f!!ked.

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Americans, do something. Now. Don't let us boil here. Maybe we should start sueing you for destroying our winters and for forcing us to install ugly airco systems in historically protected Art Déco buildings! It's not because you prefer trailers, that you have to force your trailer-will onto us, stylish Euros.
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Postby uNkNowN ElEmEnt » Mon 20 Jun 2005, 12:41:55

So that's what hell is like...
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Postby gnm » Mon 20 Jun 2005, 12:44:41

Uh, we might use more fossil fuel per capita... but you oh so stylish Euros use more period yes? So who is roasting who?

Unfortuantely you probably can't make use of a swamp cooler which is very efficent if you have a dry climate so better fire up your nuke plants there and install some refrigerated air!

Down here in the southwest we have little sypathy for heat whiners....
Our usual temps right now are what we call "freeze and fry" 50 at night and 100 in the day.

You want hot? Talk to Jato... poor guy is in Phoenix, AZ... now thats hot!

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Postby Barbara » Mon 20 Jun 2005, 12:49:43

Look like I'll enjoy another wonderful summer holiday in SWEDEN, like I did two years ago.

(Can you believe an italian going to Sweden for summer holiday? Well, they have no Sahara summers... no yet)

Lorenzo: aren't you somewhere in the Pays Bas? So what are you complaining? You get a 24/7/365 rain up there!!! :lol:
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Postby lorenzo » Mon 20 Jun 2005, 12:53:24

Indeed Barbara. This is crazy!

I'm going to check out some beaches in Greenland next year, if I have the money. I love the idea of swimming in arctic lakes, with reindeer and icebears watching.
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Postby Tuike » Mon 20 Jun 2005, 13:14:06

Lorenzo, in witch country are you exactly in right now? 40C sounds horrible, I couldn't stand so much heat. It's now 18C in the southern part of Finland where I am right now and it's quite comfortable. There was in the news that because air traffic is increasing in Europe, Kyoto treaty won't be happening in reality.
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Postby 0mar » Mon 20 Jun 2005, 13:16:37

40 C isn't too bad if the humidity is low.
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Postby leal » Mon 20 Jun 2005, 13:41:59

I feel sorry for you Lorenzo, where do you live?
Here in southern Sweden we had 20 to 25 degrees C today. Sitting at home now and eating some ice cream :)
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Postby Raxozanne » Mon 20 Jun 2005, 14:07:49

It reached 33 C in London yesterday and is now quite warm in England. Pollen count is doing my head in but the worst is the lack of rain. We haven't had a good rain in ages. I work on an allotment and everything is really suffering. In Spain they are having a major drought with 80 million sheep in south with no food.
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Postby RonMN » Mon 20 Jun 2005, 14:58:15

go to WWW.WEATHER.COM and look at what's over MY head right now (minnesota)...
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Postby I_Like_Plants » Mon 20 Jun 2005, 17:03:45

I've lived in Hellizona, get up early in the morning for a swapmeet and the frost warning in my car go off (means below freezing temperature and thus a danger of black ice on the road) and then later in the day it gets close to 100.
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Postby Wildwell » Mon 20 Jun 2005, 19:05:55

Meanwhile flash floods in Northern England, Wales and Scotland

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4110206.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/4111076.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4111052.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4108246.stm
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Postby k_semler » Mon 20 Jun 2005, 19:56:51

33 C here today. Then again, it is June, and while about 11 C higher than normal, it is no cause for alarm, sonsidering it will drop back down to normal temperatures in a few days anyway. I'm not worried about it.
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Postby Aaron » Mon 20 Jun 2005, 20:09:14

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')on't let us boil here.


What's the relative humidity?

104 - 106 F is quite tolerable in Las Vegas (0% - %5 humidity)

Here in Houston 95 F is boiling (90% RH .)
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Postby PenultimateManStanding » Mon 20 Jun 2005, 20:17:03

Ideal weather all the time here in San Diego. Now if we just didn't import our water . . .
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Postby jato » Mon 20 Jun 2005, 20:25:11

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ou want hot? Talk to Jato... poor guy is in Phoenix, AZ... now thats hot!


Correction, I am in San Diego. However, I did use Pheonix as an example the other day on one of John Denver's threads.

Two summers ago we had high temps above 110F in my neighborhood. Right now it is 84F. 8)
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Postby lorenzo » Tue 21 Jun 2005, 14:21:58

Hello, I just wanted to tell you all that I'm extremely dead now. Being dead is ok. I still have my internet connection down here in this hellish pit. I'm still reading the peak oil forum. Lots of scantily dressed babes down here. Dead is nice.

See you all soon, the big die-off is on its way anyways.
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Postby PenultimateManStanding » Tue 21 Jun 2005, 15:22:23

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lorenzo', 'H')ello, I just wanted to tell you all that I'm extremely dead now. Being dead is ok. I still have my internet connection down here in this hellish pit. I'm still reading the peak oil forum. Lots of scantily dressed babes down here. Dead is nice.

See you all soon, the big die-off is on its way anyways.
Oh good. I have some questions. Are there a bunch of people wailing and screaming and falling into lava? Do you see any tall red dudes with horns and pitchforks?
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Postby leal » Tue 21 Jun 2005, 16:26:23

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Wildwell', 'M')eanwhile flash floods in Northern England, Wales and Scotland

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4110206.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/4111076.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4111052.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4108246.stm

Another picture of how bad it can be 8O 8O
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Postby erl » Tue 21 Jun 2005, 16:31:33

I am in Phoenix. It's 109 and partly cloudy.

But it's a dry heat. :-D

Anyone for a game of golf?
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