OT: Perth temperatures hottest in 40 years

OT: Perth temperatures hottest in 40 years

Perth temperatures hottest in 40 years

Narelle Towie
December 26, 2007 08:00am


PERTH is expecting another 41C scorcher today after the city
sweltered through the hottest Christmas Day in nearly forty
years.

Bureau of Meteorology forecasters are even tipping that Perth
could break the 1968 December record of 42.3C. [More at]

http :// www .news,com .au/perthnow/story/0,21598,22969221-2761,00.html

41 degrees C = 105.80 degrees F 42.3 degrees C =
108.14 degrees F

Probably needless to say, but well above the comfort zone of 98
degrees F. especially if humidity increases later as predicted.

Cheers,
Kangaroo16@example.invalid
Sydney, 2:14 PM, 26 Dec.
[GMT + 11 hrs]

Re: Perth temperatures hottest in 40 years


"Kangaroo16" <Kangaroo16@example.invalid> wrote in message
news:02g3n39oo1k5mr8k12trsqd9p1bfjvulkf@4ax,com ...
> Perth temperatures hottest in 40 years
>
> Narelle Towie
> December 26, 2007 08:00am
>
>
> PERTH is expecting another 41C scorcher today after the city
> sweltered through the hottest Christmas Day in nearly forty
> years.
>
Actually it was 44.2 today! Easily broke the record.
Must go outside to see how many of my garden plants are scorched. :-(

Gerrit

Re: Perth temperatures hottest in 40 years

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:16:06 +0900, "Gerrit"
<gthart@sadforyou.au> wrote in
<4771e39c$0$6803$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet,net .au> :

>
>"Kangaroo16" <Kangaroo16@example.invalid> wrote in message
>news:02g3n39oo1k5mr8k12trsqd9p1bfjvulkf@4ax,com ...
>> Perth temperatures hottest in 40 years
>>
>> Narelle Towie
>> December 26, 2007 08:00am
>>
>>
>> PERTH is expecting another 41C scorcher today after the city
>> sweltered through the hottest Christmas Day in nearly forty
>> years.
>>
>Actually it was 44.2 today! Easily broke the record.
>Must go outside to see how many of my garden plants are scorched. :-(
>
>Gerrit
>
G'day, Gerrit!

Thanks for the update!

I spent some time in Perth many years ago and I was uncomfortable
at lower temperature as the humidity was pretty high.

Just checked Perth weather and see that the humidity apparently
hasn't gone up, and the temp is down to 109 °F / 43 °C , with a
bit of wind.

http :// www .wunderground,com /global/stations/94610.html

Still, I wouldn't think that it would be very comfortable outside
at the moment.

I hope that your plants get through O.K. Not a gardener myself,
so don't know if sprinklers would help or harm them. Of course,
this also depends on any watering restrictions Perth might have.

Your health is more important than the health of the plants, of
course. Perhaps a cool bath or shower, and some liquid intake?

A couple of tinnies of "XXXX" perhaps, although cool or cold
water with a bit of "Staminade" to replenish lost body
salts might be useful as well.

Do you have any pet dogs or cats?

Such high temperatures there indicate to me another
example of global warming. I suppose we will all have to
get used to rising temperatures in the coming years.

Nice to see your post, group seems unusually quiet today.
Boxing Day holiday in Oz, of course. Yanks would have been back
at work today.

Last time I checked, only post was from "Cath" in Texas. IMHO,
we might see more posts from her today, as I politely replied to
her post. [By my definition of "politeness", at least....:-) ]

Must admit am a bit surprised that she choose Texas over N.Z.,
though.

I personally haven't visited the "shaky isles", but may do so
someday.

Have you ever visited N.Z.?

Perth is a nice city, and last time I checked it was cheaper to
fly to Asian destinations than to Sydney.

Having traveled a bit, can assure you that there are a lot worse
places to live than Perth! ... But you would know that, of
course!

IMHO, Australia is probably the best country in the world to live
in. If it gets too hot on the mainland, we could always relocate
to Tassie. :-)

Hope you had a pleasant Christmas, and best wishes for a happy
New Year!

Cheers,
Kangaroo16@example.invalid
Sydney, 5:16 PM, 26 Dec.
[GMT + 11 hrs]

Re: Perth temperatures hottest in 40 years


"Kangaroo16" <Kangaroo16@example.invalid> wrote in message
news:vcp3n3h11g2e588lmsg6u5h45j6oig8mr3@4ax,com ...
>>Actually it was 44.2 today! Easily broke the record.
>>Must go outside to see how many of my garden plants are scorched. :-(
>>
>>Gerrit
>>
> G'day, Gerrit!
>
> Thanks for the update!
>
> I spent some time in Perth many years ago and I was uncomfortable
> at lower temperature as the humidity was pretty high.
>
> Just checked Perth weather and see that the humidity apparently
> hasn't gone up, and the temp is down to 109 °F / 43 °C , with a
> bit of wind.
>

Generally the humidity in Perth during summer is very low so all we really
have to worry about is real heat.

> http :// www .wunderground,com /global/stations/94610.html
>
> Still, I wouldn't think that it would be very comfortable outside
> at the moment.
>
> I hope that your plants get through O.K. Not a gardener myself,
> so don't know if sprinklers would help or harm them. Of course,
> this also depends on any watering restrictions Perth might have.
>
> Your health is more important than the health of the plants, of
> course. Perhaps a cool bath or shower, and some liquid intake?
>

I have a wonderful reverse-cucle airconditioner (2 actually) so the temp
inside hovers around 25. Very comfortable thanks.

> A couple of tinnies of "XXXX" perhaps, although cool or cold
> water with a bit of "Staminade" to replenish lost body
> salts might be useful as well.
>

Don't drink beer! Just water is pretty good. And cold coffee!!

> Do you have any pet dogs or cats?
>

No

> Such high temperatures there indicate to me another
> example of global warming. I suppose we will all have to
> get used to rising temperatures in the coming years.
>

Actually even with the high temps these last couple of days the average temp
this December is way below the long term average, so global warming does not
exist. :-)

SNIP
>
> Hope you had a pleasant Christmas, and best wishes for a happy
> New Year!
>

And to you!

Gerrit

Re: Perth temperatures hottest in 40 years

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:09:42 +0900, "Gerrit"
<gthart@sadforyou.au> wrote in
<47726ebc$0$6812$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet,net .au> :

>
>"Kangaroo16" <Kangaroo16@example.invalid> wrote in message
>news:vcp3n3h11g2e588lmsg6u5h45j6oig8mr3@4ax,com ...
>>>Actually it was 44.2 today! Easily broke the record.
>>>Must go outside to see how many of my garden plants are scorched. :-(
>>>
>>>Gerrit
>>>
>> G'day, Gerrit!
>>
>> Thanks for the update!
>>
>> I spent some time in Perth many years ago and I was uncomfortable
>> at lower temperature as the humidity was pretty high.
>>
>> Just checked Perth weather and see that the humidity apparently
>> hasn't gone up, and the temp is down to 109 °F / 43 °C , with a
>> bit of wind.
>>
>
>Generally the humidity in Perth during summer is very low so all we really
>have to worry about is real heat.

Sorry about the delayed reply. Just checked following site and
see that humidity up at noon, but the temperature looks a lot
more bearable.
>
>> http :// www .wunderground,com /global/stations/94610.html
>>
>> Still, I wouldn't think that it would be very comfortable outside
>> at the moment.
>>
>> I hope that your plants get through O.K. Not a gardener myself,
>> so don't know if sprinklers would help or harm them. Of course,
>> this also depends on any watering restrictions Perth might have.
>>
>> Your health is more important than the health of the plants, of
>> course. Perhaps a cool bath or shower, and some liquid intake?
>>
>
>I have a wonderful reverse-cucle airconditioner (2 actually) so the temp
>inside hovers around 25. Very comfortable thanks.

Same here, but not cheap to run, usually get by with fans.

>
>> A couple of tinnies of "XXXX" perhaps, although cool or cold
>> water with a bit of "Staminade" to replenish lost body
>> salts might be useful as well.
>>
>
>Don't drink beer! Just water is pretty good. And cold coffee!!

Don't drink it that often myself. Overtaxed. When I came to Oz
a NSW schooner was around 15 or 20 US cents from memory.

From yesterdays temperatures, cold or iced water would have been
good. Like you, I prefer cool or cold coffee or tea.

Iced tea pretty popular in the USA, but some Aussies shudder at
the thought. :-)

>> Do you have any pet dogs or cats?
>>
>
>No

If you are wondering why I asked, dogs often suffer from the heat
and don't mind the cold spray from a hose. Cats generally don't,
but once had a neighbor whose cat would jump in the swimming pool
and swim around to cool off. Only cat I've ever seen that would
do this, though. Was flatly amazed at it.

More intelligent than the average cat, perhaps? Oh well, both
humans and pets have individual likes and dislikes. Had video
cameras been common at the time, would have been worth submitting
to the T.V. series "Funniest Home Videos"! :-)

>
>> Such high temperatures there indicate to me another
>> example of global warming. I suppose we will all have to
>> get used to rising temperatures in the coming years.
>>
>
>Actually even with the high temps these last couple of days the average temp
>this December is way below the long term average, so global warming does not
>exist. :-)

Here, I would have to disagree with you. Check on what is
happening to the arctic icecap, for example.

Of course, global warming or cooling based on "average"
temperatures is a bit misleading. During the last "ice age" the
present site of Chicago, Illinois was covered with around 1.6 km
or ~ a mile of ice.

In Europe, ice extended down to the North side of the
Mediterranean Sea.

Yet the "average" global temperature is thought to be only 2 or 3
degrees C. lower than it is now.

Obviously, all that snow and ice had to come from somewhere, so
other parts of the world might well have been warmer than usual.

Still, all this is based on scientific conjecture, as no weather
stations around at the time. :-) Or, for that matter, perhaps no
humans around to man them. :-)

>SNIP
>>
>> Hope you had a pleasant Christmas, and best wishes for a happy
>> New Year!
>>
>
>And to you!
>
>Gerrit

Pretty quiet Christmas here, as no kids. [By choice,
incidentally.] Wife & I both consider one of our wiser
decisions, and rates as highly. maybe higher, than our decision
to migrate to Australia.

If you have read many of my posts, you will know that both my
wife & I tend to be "realists" rather than "optimists" :-)

In passing, haven't seen any new posts on this group or the
immigration group other than the lone post from "Cath" last
night.

At the last time I checked, anyway. Am doing other tasks at the
moment, so just checking computer periodically.

Still, the lack of posts from the USA does seem a bit odd,
considering that they don't have a "Boxing Day" holiday there.

A recent landslide in Oregon took out our major link to the USA,
and they were rerouting through a link in California.

Have you heard of any difficulties with the Transpacific link? My
ISP hasn't reported any difficulties. Still, they don't always
do so.

After all, the US network may be pretty choked at the moment,
considering that a lot of kids may have got computers as
Christmas presents.

Same would apply here in Oz of course, but we have a much lower
population.

If you are online at the moment, and reading this, I would
appreciate a quick acknowledgement of receipt of this and
previous posts, even if you only send the words "Have rec'd
same". :-)

Would be even more interested if you have had problems accessing
your usual U.S. groups.

I really would have expected a reply earlier from "Cath", if no
others.

Not like her to miss a chance of criticizing one or more of my
posts! :-)

Anyway, glad to see that weather conditions in Perth have eased
today.

Cheers,
Kangaroo16@example.invalid
Sydney, 3:20 PM, Thursday 27 December
2007
[GMT + 11 hrs]










>

Re: Perth temperatures hottest in 40 years

Kangaroo16 <Kangaroo16@example.invalid> wrote:
[...]
> I really would have expected a reply earlier from "Cath", if no
> others.

Sorry but it doesn't work that way! *You* are still at least three
replies behind, so you'd better start working on them.

And no, you are *not* allowed to ask for the obvious.

Re: Perth temperatures hottest in 40 years

On 27 Dec 2007 14:30:32 GMT, Frank Slootweg
<this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote in
<4773b708$0$38859$dbd4b001@news.wanadoo.nl> :

>Kangaroo16 <Kangaroo16@example.invalid> wrote:
>[...]
>> I really would have expected a reply earlier from "Cath", if no
>> others.
>
> Sorry but it doesn't work that way! *You* are still at least three
>replies behind, so you'd better start working on them.

Do you consider yourself as a "moderator" or "chief censor"
Frank?
>
> And no, you are *not* allowed to ask for the obvious.

See above.

Cheers,
Kangaroo16@example.invalid
Sydney, 1:07 PM, Friday 28 December
2007
[GMT + 11 hrs]

Re: Perth temperatures hottest in 40 years

Kangaroo16 <Kangaroo16@example.invalid> wrote:
> On 27 Dec 2007 14:30:32 GMT, Frank Slootweg
> <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote in
> <4773b708$0$38859$dbd4b001@news.wanadoo.nl> :
>
> >Kangaroo16 <Kangaroo16@example.invalid> wrote:
> >[...]
> >> I really would have expected a reply earlier from "Cath", if no
> >> others.
> >
> > Sorry but it doesn't work that way! *You* are still at least three
> >replies behind, so you'd better start working on them.
>
> Do you consider yourself as a "moderator" or "chief censor"
> Frank?

> > And no, you are *not* allowed to ask for the obvious.

Or if you prefer:

s/for the obvious/stupid\/irrelevant questions/