Our first (and maybe last?) hot day

[Peter Boulding]

88F right now; predicted to rise another degree or two. That's HOT by Brit
West Country standards. And, according to the Weather Underground's
calculations, the "feels like " temperature is 101F ... how do they arrive
at that ridiculous figure? (The yo-yoing humidity figure is way down at 54%
right now; dew point apparently 78F.)

No need, however, for those who live in cool, balmy, Arizona to take pity on
us; as of tomorrow we face a week of almost zero chance of rain, with highs
of around 70F and lows of 50F. That's just about perfect as far as we Brits
are concerned.

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[art...@yahoo.com]

Does Brexit mean you will use F instead of C, or have you always done that?

[Peter Boulding]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 05:53:04 -0700 (PDT), "art...@yahoo.com"
<art...@yahoo.com> wrote in
<3d4a0fab-c246-48ea...@googlegroups.com>:

>Does Brexit mean you will use F instead of C, or have you always done that?

We went largely (but not entirely) metric in the early 70s, but old fogies
and refuseniks like me never got the hang of it; I still can't think in
centimetres or celsius.

[Howard]

Peter Boulding <pjbn...@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk> wrote:

> 88F right now; predicted to rise another degree or two. That's HOT by
> Brit West Country standards. And, according to the Weather
> Underground's calculations, the "feels like " temperature is 101F ...
> how do they arrive at that ridiculous figure? (The yo-yoing humidity
> figure is way down at 54% right now; dew point apparently 78F.)

Feels like, heat index and relative humidity are stupid things that weather
people should throw in an old steamer trunk along with wind chill.

I am endlessly annoyed by the way sites force users to go through a hunting
game to find dew point readings. wunderground.com for example seems to bury
it below pollen count and UV index, and getting forecasts is also a pain.
Even the term dew point is fairly dumb, since it's almost always talking
about a hypothetical situation -- it's 85 degrees right now, but if it
happened to be 70 degrees, then dew would be forming... Well, it's not 70
degrees, there hasn't been dew for weeks, and it would make much more sense
to just call it a humidity index. And if for some reason people have
trouble understanding that numbers above 60 mean it's humid, just
recalibrate the scale Spinal Tap-style so that 60 becomes a 10 and 65
becomes an 11.

I have a sneaky suspicion that humidity is so frequently ignored by weather
reporters because they spend all of their time indoors and all aspire to
move to Los Angeles or some other place where humidity is rarely an issue.

[Les Albert]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 17:10:19 +0000 (UTC), Howard <how...@yayoo.com>
wrote:

>I am endlessly annoyed by the way sites force users to go through a hunting
>game to find dew point readings. wunderground.com for example seems to bury
>it below pollen count and UV index, and getting forecasts is also a pain.

It's a hard-knocks world!

>Even the term dew point is fairly dumb, since it's almost always talking
>about a hypothetical situation -- it's 85 degrees right now, but if it
>happened to be 70 degrees, then dew would be forming... Well, it's not 70
>degrees, there hasn't been dew for weeks, and it would make much more sense
>to just call it a humidity index. And if for some reason people have
>trouble understanding that numbers above 60 mean it's humid, just
>recalibrate the scale Spinal Tap-style so that 60 becomes a 10 and 65
>becomes an 11.
>I have a sneaky suspicion that humidity is so frequently ignored by weather
>reporters because they spend all of their time indoors and all aspire to
>move to Los Angeles or some other place where humidity is rarely an issue.

A weather reporting snit, and a verbal assault against weather
reporters. Howie for President!!

Les

[Lee Ayrton]

On 6/29/2019 7:28 AM, Peter Boulding wrote:
>
> 88F right now; predicted to rise another degree or two. That's HOT by Brit
> West Country standards. And, according to the Weather Underground's
> calculations, the "feels like " temperature is 101F ... how do they arrive
> at that ridiculous figure? (The yo-yoing humidity figure is way down at 54%
> right now; dew point apparently 78F.)
>
> No need, however, for those who live in cool, balmy, Arizona to take pity on
> us; as of tomorrow we face a week of almost zero chance of rain, with highs
> of around 70F and lows of 50F. That's just about perfect as far as we Brits
> are concerned.
>

Alaska cancelled its Treason Day fireworks displays out of fear of wild
fire. You know, Alaska, land of frozen or semi-frozen soggy tundra.

I understand that there's biggish wildfires burning right now in
Deutchland. [clickety clickety] 1200 hectares/3000 acres.

By all means, let's burn up some more beautiful clean coal.

[BillT...@billturlock.com]

On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 17:14:10 -0400, Lee Ayrton <lay...@panix.com>
wrote:

>By all means, let's burn up some more beautiful clean coal.

Until it's all gone!

--
"...depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is."
— William Jefferson Clinton

[Lee Ayrton]

On 7/6/2019 1:43 PM, BillT...@BillTurlock.com wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 17:14:10 -0400, Lee Ayrton <lay...@panix.com>
> wrote:
>
>> By all means, let's burn up some more beautiful clean coal.
>
> Until it's all gone!
>

Jebus can't come back until all the oil is pumped, all the coal mined,
all the trees sawn, and all the oceans dead.

[art...@yahoo.com]

On Saturday, July 6, 2019 at 3:34:06 PM UTC-4, Lee Ayrton wrote:

> >
> Jebus can't come back until all the oil is pumped, all the coal mined,
> all the trees sawn, and all the oceans dead.

I didn't even realize that GWB's brother was gone.

[Howard]

"art...@yahoo.com" <art...@yahoo.com> wrote

He's gone on vacation:

https://www.clickhole.com/1835064007

[Peter Boulding]

On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 13:54:45 +0000 (UTC), Howard <how...@yayoo.com> wrote in
<XnsAA8564D65E7A2...@46.165.242.75>:

That story is so horrendously cringeworthy that I'm praying it isn't true. A
quick google leaves me still unsure as to whether it originated in The
Onion.

[Howard]

Peter Boulding <pjbn...@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 13:54:45 +0000 (UTC), Howard:

>
>>"art...@yahoo.com" <art...@yahoo.com> wrote
>>
>>> On Saturday, July 6, 2019 at 3:34:06 PM UTC-4, Lee Ayrton wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jebus can't come back until all the oil is pumped, all the coal
>>>> mined, all the trees sawn, and all the oceans dead.
>>>
>>> I didn't even realize that GWB's brother was gone.
>>
>>He's gone on vacation:
>>
>>https://www.clickhole.com/1835064007
>
> That story is so horrendously cringeworthy that I'm praying it isn't
> true. A quick google leaves me still unsure as to whether it
> originated in The Onion.

Clickhole is an offshoot of The Onion, sort of a Buzzfeed parody. It used
to publish a lot more articles but I think the sale of The Onion and its
affiliates to various corporate overlords has meant the staff has been
withering away.

[Questor]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 12:28:00 +0100, Peter Boulding
<pjbn...@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk> wrote:
>
>88F right now; predicted to rise another degree or two. That's HOT by Brit
>West Country standards. And, according to the Weather Underground's
>calculations, the "feels like " temperature is 101F ... how do they arrive
>at that ridiculous figure? (The yo-yoing humidity figure is way down at 54%
>right now; dew point apparently 78F.)
>
>No need, however, for those who live in cool, balmy, Arizona to take pity on
>us

The low humidity in the Western states does make the heat more bearable,
but there are limits to that effect -- a few to ten degrees at most.

I dislike hot weather, but I remind myself that the tomatoes like it. Have been
enjoying early season Juliettes, Sungolds, and Early Girls for a couple of weeks
now.