# For all you guys coping with freezing snows about now... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 28, 2009, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366 "2009-01-28T07:34:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bathsheba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bathsheba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bathsheba)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366/21 "2009-01-28T20:50:48Z")
Top temperature here (Adelaide) yesterday was 45.6C. Apparently it was hotter on my [decking](http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k289/foraboard/hayulp.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366/22 "2009-01-28T20:52:34Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Just got out of a meeting, they’re letting us go home early. And I take the bus so I don’t have to drive in it! 🙂 🙂 Same here, but I do have to drive. In our house when I was growing up, you were allowed to complain about the cold or the hot but not both. I decided long ago that I hate the hot a lot more. So I’ll take the snowstorm. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366/23 "2009-01-28T21:18:58Z")
How do you cope with such high temperatures without air conditioning? 43.5 / 105 is the temperature of a severe fever. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366/24 "2009-01-28T21:34:59Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > Top temperature today: 43.4 degrees C. I’m so glad that the hot weather seems to be staying down south at the moment. Max today in Sydney of about 28. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366/25 "2009-01-28T21:37:23Z")
I was in (okay, slightly north of) Adelaide in 2000, when the temperature reached 47 C. I would certaibly prefer what I have just now (-1 C). ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366/26 "2009-01-28T21:51:23Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > I’m so glad that the hot weather seems to be staying down south at the moment. Max today in Sydney of about 28. I hate you. I hate you. No seriously. I hate you. Right now. Feel my hot, sleep-deprived hate ⭕ozzzZZZZZzzzzZZZZ\*\* I’ve given hubby a directive to stay home from work today. He’s having another anaemia attack at the moment, which means he has problems regulating his body temp even on nice, normal days. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366/27 "2009-01-28T22:33:27Z")
Just so you know… I’m now 1.5 hours into a bus ride that should take 35 minutes because of the weather. Want some snow? We have plenty. It would be no trouble. Honest. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366/28 "2009-01-28T22:38:01Z")
> [@bathsheba](#): > > Top temperature here (Adelaide) yesterday was 45.6C. Apparently it was hotter on my [decking](http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k289/foraboard/hayulp.jpg). Yike! It never gets that hot here. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366/29 "2009-01-28T22:46:05Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Just so you know… I’m now 1.5 hours into a bus ride that should take 35 minutes because of the weather. Want some snow? We have plenty. It would be no trouble. Honest. Yay dude. Hope you’re dressed well enough to cope with the weather. And at least you’re not driving. ---
**Author:** ![TastesLikeBurning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@TastesLikeBurning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TastesLikeBurning)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366/30 "2009-01-28T22:53:40Z")
[PAH!](http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/levelthree/c20thc/temp1.htm) You Victorians don’t know what hot is! Actually, that is pretty hot, but I’m just glad it’s not us for a change. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366/31 "2009-01-28T22:57:51Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > How do you cope with such high temperatures without air conditioning? 43.5 / 105 is the temperature of a severe fever. Back in the days before aircon, I remember the swimming pools used to stay open till midnight on really hot days (actually they may be doing it tonight - I should check this out). Also, houses were sensibly designed for the heat, with verandahs and eves (both conspicuously absent from my current house which is a total heat trap) and when it got cool at night you could water your house and let the breeze help cool it down overnight. And heaven help you if you left the doors open. Speaking of which, my insane neighbors seem to hold to the “elderly folks who grew up in europe” style of house-cooling (which I recall my grandma used to subscribe to) - they’ve got all the blinds shut and the doors OPEN! Does not work here! (not unless it’s already 40 inside, in which case heaven help you) Maybe I should check on 'em later on in case they’ve both succumbed to heat stroke! ETA: FUUUUUUUCK! _adds Marble Bar to list of places never to live in_ ---
**Author:** ![Cider\_Depot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Cider\_Depot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cider_Depot)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366/32 "2009-01-28T23:19:56Z")
And after an overnight low of 28 C, it’s currently 36. Well on its way to a predicted high of 43. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366/33 "2009-01-28T23:32:47Z")
I mock your overnight low of 28. Pah. Spit in it’s general direction. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366/34 "2009-01-28T23:36:55Z")
I’ve done 119 degrees in the Sonoran desert and I’ve done -44 degrees by Lake Superior. I’ll take either of them over 94 degrees with 99% humidity (one fine Baltimore summer). ---
**Author:** ![Cider\_Depot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Cider\_Depot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cider_Depot)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366/35 "2009-01-28T23:41:46Z")
[In the local news…](http://www.theage.com.au/national/melbourne-sweats-through-thirdhottest-night-on-record-20090128-7s0y.html) ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366/36 "2009-01-29T00:00:36Z")
> [@Cider\_Depot](#): > > And after an overnight low of 28 C, it’s currently 36. Well on its way to a predicted high of 43. We should be getting temperatures like that within the month, for maybe a week. We’ll call it the February thaw, and laugh at ourselves for leaving our jackets open, saying it’s ‘balmy’, and mooning over the seed catalogues. Here, we measure temperature in Fahrenheit and ‘balmy’ refers to warm gentle weather, not looniness. I fully expect my house, car, and driveway to be coating in perfect sheet of ice in the morning, and I will still try to drive to work, because I will have lost power and have no heat. I _ **still** _ don’t envy you in the least. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366/37 "2009-01-29T00:12:25Z")
> [@Cider\_Depot](#): > > [In the local news…](http://www.theage.com.au/national/melbourne-sweats-through-thirdhottest-night-on-record-20090128-7s0y.html) Sounds hideous. Strangely enough, I actually pulled up the blankets early this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366/38 "2009-01-29T00:30:07Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > Max today in Sydney of about 28. Damn you. Today the _minimum_ in Melbourne is going to be 29. I’ve had the air con on for over 24 hours now. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366/39 "2009-01-29T00:37:07Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > Although I hate the icy roads, I think I hate 110F worse. +1 And baRmy means loony, not baLmy… ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366/40 "2009-01-29T00:59:15Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Hey, at least if the weather is cold you can bung more jumpers on and snuggle under a doona or two. If it’s too friggin’ hot, there’s nothing for it but to walk down to the beach and drown yer’self. 😃 Oh, not me. I can’t get much done with 100 lbs of warm crap piled on me. I can strip down to a pair of shorts and get lots of work done. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-you-guys-coping-with-freezing-snows-about-now/483366.md?page=3)