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Date Posted: 12:13:19 01/31/03 Fri
Author: Goktimus Prime
Subject: oh don't envy me...
In reply to: Imperial NOVA 's message, "*feels bad*" on 12:36:13 01/30/03 Thu

nothing nice about heat so hot that you can't sleep at night and end up tossing and turning in bed all night long. I slept in this morning... luckily I still made it to work on time (though I did speed a bit...).

Yesterday got so hot... 45'C out where I was working. Third hottest day *ever* recorded (hottest day for Sydney is 47'C back in 1939). Several bushfires broke out due to the extreme heat (although they were all contained by last night). When I was driving home yesterday, the air coming through the window was so hot that it literally HURT my face. I felt like I was being blasted with sheer heat and being roasted (my car has no working air conditioning, you see). *sigh* Thank goodness that at least my staff room and classroom both have air conditioning. Today I had the kids all walking in with a very audible sigh of relief (like, "Aaaaahhhh!") when they walked into my class (which has two a/c units). In fact, since yesterday was the first day of school, apparently there were spot blackouts throughout Sydney due to a sudden increase in the use of electricity from all the schools' use of air conditioning! I drove through at least two blacked out intersections with police officers manually directing traffic on the way home.

I was also listening to talkback radio during the drive home and all these callers were talking about the heat -- the worst case came from a tiler. Man... I would *hate* to be working outdoors in this weather, especially on a hot roof... ouch!! (somebody buy the man a beer!)

Oh well. Today wasn't so bad... only 37'C. Nice cool change from yesterday's unbearable swelter.

And yes! Send me snow!! I wanna see snow!! One of my work colleagues is working in Spain atm, and she sent us this one very lengthy Email explaining to the rest of us here what snow was, what it looked like, how it felt etc etc etc. It was a good lunchtime conversation topic yesterday. But yeah... if some kind of trade was possible, I'd be in it to win it!

Translations

45'C = 318K = 113'F
47'C = 320K = 117'F
36'C = 309K = 97'F

(no, I haven't learnt to convert, I just found a web site) ;p

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