{"id":177,"date":"2006-01-02T10:52:06","date_gmt":"2006-01-02T00:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=177"},"modified":"2006-01-02T10:54:13","modified_gmt":"2006-01-02T00:54:13","slug":"damn-its-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Damn, it’s hot"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"New<\/a>Had the hottest day I’ve seen in Australia<\/a> in my 9+ years here yesterday. My thermometers recorded a 45.3C (113.5F) maximum and we had gusty winds all day. Bushfires have sprung up about 50km (30 miles) north of us. A cool weather front swept across my area at about 10pm which dropped temps to 21C (69.8F), which will help the fireys<\/a> a bit but the 50-70mph wind gusts from the southerly fanned up bushfires that the fireys had nearly controlled. <\/p>\n

At 45C, everything is hot as a cup of coffee to the touch. Even plastic items like my mouse and keyboard were hot. It is actually worse to sit in front of a fan than simply to be in still 45C air. It’s like sitting in front of a hairdryer. Even 2 hours past the cold front moving through, the knotty pine floors and plaster walls were still warm. The concrete of the front porch was still too warm to stand on for long, even at midnight. <\/p>\n

The high winds caused power glitches, so in anticipation of a good long outage, I searched up my stash of candles. Unfortunately, a box of 10 emergency candles all melted into one lump of wax with 10 wicks. My study maxed out at 50C (122F). In the peak of the heat, my computer simply refused to run. <\/p>\n

I do have one window aircon unit in this house, but when the temps get above 38C (~100F), even though it’s a BIG unit (draws 16 amps at 240V), it can barely cool one room at those temps, though it will normally keep three rooms comfortable. Homes built in the 1960s in Sydney don’t have much (if any) insulation and only single glazed windows. With an average summer daytime temperature in Sydney around 25-27C (77-80F), much more than basics isn’t necessary. <\/p>\n

The cool front brought some low cloud with it. The bright orange glow from fires about 50km north on Mt White and around Woy Woy was ominously reflected off the clouds. Fortunately- for us at least- the 80-110km\/h (~50-70mph) winds from the cool front were blowing from the south, pushing fires and flying embers away from us. Others near Kariong were not so lucky. Hopefully we’ll get temps back down to usual for the next week. We’ve had a few days of WAY TOO DAMN HOT. Gail over at 12th Harmonic, who is not far from us, tells her tale<\/a> of escaping the heat at the dreaded shopping malls. <\/p>\n

So, the US and Australia won’t sign on to the Kyoto Protocol<\/a> because it is bad for business, eh? Perhaps the oil companies driving government policy should get into the hurricane and bushfire recovery business.  <\/p>\n

-weez <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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