I guess if your 55 you should be smarter than jogging at 85*. My opinion of course.
I could see a 20 yr old doing it.
I could see a 20 yr old doing it.
No work!
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The highest temperature ever recorded in Phoenix, Arizona was
122 degrees Fahrenheit (50°C). This record was set on June 26, 1990.
But it's a dry heat....
Usually....
Now this is hot... The highest I've ever seen was a bit over 100F, and there I could not move a lot.
Here in the south of Ireland the highest temperature ever is about 25°C (77 F) and normal summer day temperatures would be around 20°C (68 F). So unfortunately I don't have an excuse not to work
Hottest temp outside I have worked was when I was in the Nam. One day it hit 120 degrees. Company commander black flagged the rest of the day and we hit the water at Red Beach with a lot of cold beer at hand.
No doubt. Summer aint even fully hit yet and were baking. In a couple hours we'll get a 3 minute heavy rain then by 4pm it'll be a real feel of 115ish. August is typically terrible for us.
Actually kind of mild at the moment.....
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Here in the USA someone has decided that we can’t understand words like “heat index” so they started calling it “feels like temperature”. For some reason the think that wind chill was an understandable term and continued to use it in the winter! But they almost always tell us what the “feels like temperature“ is instead of the actual temperature
You can see that in post 25.
Is that also going on in Ireland or do the weather people think you are able to understand the term “heat index”?
It has gotten so bad here that now the try to explain what “feels like temperature” means!
Hmmm... good question. I never heard it before I did this project. I think it is not used in Ireland, it is simply always too cold for that
p.s.: just asked my wife. She never heard it either.
p.p.s: in the project we used "feel temperature" where I combined wind chill and heat index into one displayed value. This was simply to save a function and space on the display. The user manual refers to "wind chill" and "heat index". I think this function request came from Asian customer who need it and understand the term.
I don't do heat either. Or pavers for all that matter.
A desert rat in my younger half-life, I loved it.
Stupid is as stupid does.... One day about 30 or so years ago, my brother and I wanted to test our endurance, and spend a weekend in the Mojave desert.
In July.
Both of us spent time in the Marines, (my brother was still in at the time), so we were bad-asses. Even our crayons melted, so there went lunch. LOL. But seriously...
in a large tent, thermometer said 123F in the shade the first afternoon. We lasted one day before we packed the Jeep up and got out. The lizards and even a scorpion ran fast from shade to shade.
You don't want a cold beer. Definitely not. You want cold water and lots of it, and all over your body as well.
Neither of us got heat stroke or died, so it was a personal win in a stupidity contest.
Never again. I lost my love for dry heat and anything over 80 makes me stay indoors. My motto now is; Let it rain or snow.
Be well. Tractor cool.
Eric
My brother putting some 7.62 x 39 downrange that trip:
A desert rat in my younger half-life, I loved it.
Stupid is as stupid does.... One day about 30 or so years ago, my brother and I wanted to test our endurance, and spend a weekend in the Mojave desert.
In July.
Both of us spent time in the Marines, (my brother was still in at the time), so we were bad-asses. Even our crayons melted, so there went lunch. LOL. But seriously...
in a large tent, thermometer said 123F in the shade the first afternoon. We lasted one day before we packed the Jeep up and got out. The lizards and even a scorpion ran fast from shade to shade.
You don't want a cold beer. Definitely not. You want cold water and lots of it, and all over your body as well.
Neither of us got heat stroke or died, so it was a personal win in a stupidity contest.
Never again. I lost my love for dry heat and anything over 80 makes me stay indoors. My motto now is; Let it rain or snow.
Be well. Tractor cool.
Eric
My brother putting some 7.62 x 39 downrange that trip:
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Great to hear how well she is handling being blind, and that you decided to let her outside. Agree about being cruel to be stuck inside.
We know our cats could be eaten by coyotes, but our happy medium is for them to come inside overnight to mitigate the risk. When you see how happy they are outside, would be torture to be stuck looking out windows.
Greg
We have an electronic cat flap that only opens for her, so she can come in any time.
Last autumn there were a bunch of people here hunting foxes with dogs and she was outside. They came so quickly that I could not do anything, so I thought that is the end of our cat, the dogs will smell and get her. But about 45 minutes later she walked up to the house as if nothing has happened.
No work!
... for the cat again.
Just keeping watch that I am not being attacked by mice while pulling weeds out of the gravel before paving ... A job I really love ... But I am out of paving grit and delivery is coming Thursday, so not much else to do.
And very comfortable 19°C (66F), nice temperature to do work outside.
... for the cat again.
Just keeping watch that I am not being attacked by mice while pulling weeds out of the gravel before paving ... A job I really love ...
But I am out of paving grit and delivery is coming Thursday, so not much else to do.And very comfortable 19°C (66F), nice temperature to do work outside.
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That my friend is gorgeous!!!No work!
... for the cat again.
Just keeping watch that I am not being attacked by mice while pulling weeds out of the gravel before paving ... A job I really love ...
And very comfortable 19°C (66F), nice temperature to do work outside.
Dan
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We get 110°Now this is hot... The highest I've ever seen was a bit over 100F, and there I could not move a lot.
Here in the south of Ireland the highest temperature ever is about 25°C (77 F) and normal summer day temperatures would be around 20°C (68 F). So unfortunately I don't have an excuse not to work
We reach 110° to 120° some summers with the humidity on top of it.The highest temperature ever recorded in Phoenix, Arizona was
122 degrees Fahrenheit (50°C). This record was set on June 26, 1990.
But it's a dry heat....
Usually....
We also have 7 acres of asphalt around the shop.
When it gets that hot, you feel like your being steamed just walking to a vehicle.
We'll start work at 5am and work until 1pm those days. And whichever one of us needs to stay and monitor on call camps out in the office the rest of the afternoon.
Most of the time, our customers will shut down do to the extreme heat or start early like we do.
Having lived in the Sahara (Tessalit - Taoudenit - Kidal et.al.), I have seen the thermometer stuck at 135F. From my own experience I know that you can fry (slowly) an egg on the hood of a car, and how good hot Coke can taste...