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Title: Some like it hot.....
Post by: ribbert on January 03, 2019, 06:59:56 PM
It is frequently said "Everything in Australia is trying to kill you", today it's the heat.

Temps in Southern Aus. ranging from a relatively cool 43C (110F) where I am, to 47C (116.6F) in other parts of the state.

A week or two back it got to 49.3C (120.7F)

It's a rare thing for me when I have a choice but today I think I'll take the car!

Noel
Title: Re: Some like it hot.....
Post by: Tuned forks on January 03, 2019, 07:30:45 PM
Good Lord.  Those are unhealthy temps.  When it gets that hot in the States, elderly and sick people start dying.  I've also often thought that your country got saddled with all of the most deadly critters.

Joe
Title: Re: Some like it hot.....
Post by: giantkiller on January 03, 2019, 08:05:55 PM
Yeah like koala's
Title: Re: Some like it hot.....
Post by: Sparky84 on January 03, 2019, 08:51:31 PM
Koala's have nothing on a feral Echidna, 
that's why they stay up in the trees

Title: Re: Some like it hot.....
Post by: ryanschoebel on January 03, 2019, 09:53:11 PM
Temps just like I like them!! Living in Phoenix, I dont mind the heat, but I hate the cold. I can work with 120 degrees, but I cant deal with 40 degrees F at all
Title: Re: Some like it hot.....
Post by: giantkiller on January 03, 2019, 10:42:08 PM
We had a scorcher today. Really warm 34f. Everybody out doin stuff today.
Title: Re: Some like it hot.....
Post by: Pat Conlon on January 03, 2019, 10:55:25 PM
Yea, riding a motorcycle in heat like that, the inverse of the wind chill effect takes place. I call it the blast furnace effect. It might be 120* ambient but at 80 mph on a motorcycle, it's over 130*
Moral of the story: Travel at night and morning (before noon) and hydrate, hydrate, hydrate....hydrate or die.

The days of toasty summer afternoon crossing the Mojave or lower Colorado deserts are behind me. BTDT.

Noel, what's your humidity like at those temps?  

I'll take 120*@10% humidity *anytime* over 90@90.

Dan, it was 70* today in our desert, a beautiful day for sure. Come out for a visit while you recuperate. Warm your bones. We have a bedroom with your name on it at Casa de Conlon.

Title: Re: Some like it hot.....
Post by: TexasDave on January 04, 2019, 05:06:27 AM
I thought Texas got hot. We don't come close to OZ.

Supposedly we have planet warming. The NASA scientists are predicting rapid cooling and the start of another ice age next year based on the Sun's cooling off cycle and no sun spots this year.

I don't know who to believe.

Dan you should take Pat's offer and get out of that icebox they call Wisconsin for awhile. You are welcome to come visit me in Texas but we are not much warmer than Wisconsin. Supposed to freeze tonight.

Dave
Title: Re: Some like it hot.....
Post by: ribbert on January 04, 2019, 06:05:50 AM
Quote from: Pat Conlon on January 03, 2019, 10:55:25 PM

Noel, what's your humidity like at those temps?  

I'll take 120*@10% humidity *anytime* over 90@90.


I'm with you Pat, the humidity kills me. I live at the southern most point of the mainland and the humidity is negligible thank goodness.

I did end going out on the bike after all, but not far, it was 43.3 (110F) when I left and the heat radiating off the bitumen was significantly hotter than the air hitting my upper body. Any way you look it at, it was too bloody hot for riding!

Noel
Title: Re: Some like it hot.....
Post by: giantkiller on January 04, 2019, 08:38:41 AM
Thanks Pat and Dave. That would be great. But I'm on disability right now and couldn't afford even a bus ticket. Like I said If I ever get my house done. Anyone who gets up this way. Has place to stay and or work on their Fj.
Title: Re: Some like it hot.....
Post by: Charlie-brm on January 04, 2019, 12:46:27 PM
On the Sport-Touring site, some guys were advising that depending on a perforated jacket over exposed skin at those extreme temperatures actually puts the rider in danger of dehydrating much faster than if they wore a closed jacket. I guess it's something akin to previous to being schooled on the matter, when I wondered why the Bedouin wear full body robes on horse back in the desert.

Anyway, at this moment I'm more concerned with jamming stuff in any leaks around windows, letting out my hard earned heat in the apartment at the 44th N parallel.