Oops.....sorry Peter, I almost envy you.....almost! No, I guess I lie, but I have never experienced this high a a temperature. For me 30*C is almost to much. I honestly don’t recall it ever being as high as 40*.
Yeah, that's juuust a '
normal summer' here, altho we do tend to consider anything over about 35°C as '
warm', while anything above about 42°C is
'getting hot', and once it tops 45° C, it
IS truly hot!! :lecturef_smilie:
There again, I used to work in places where the temp would hit 50°C by about 10:00, and the only reason we couldn't tell how much higher the temp got was cos that was as high as our recording devices went & normal thermometers would just blow their tops!! :yikes: Once a day got
that hot, it generally wouldn't drop below that sorta temp again until the sun started going down; and we'd often see temps still up over 40°C
at midnight after a day like that!! It was too hot to sweat - well, not really, cos we
did sweat, just didn't feel it!
Inside where even with the A/c going flat out, the heat wasn't
quite so bad, we'd be sweating rivers, then the second we stepped outside
ALL of that moisture would instantly evaporate, shirt suddenly crispy dry too; and it'd happen so quickly that there was no discernable cooling effect at all; even
talking was difficult cos opening your mouth meant that'd dry out pretty much instantly & you'd just make croaking noises; breathing wasn't at all comfortable either; and unless you continually replaced the moisture loss you'd be
really sick in minutes or sooner! The things we do/put up with when we're young & bullet proof!
And I won't go into why I went back to that sorta country after I retired! :banghead:
So anyhow, I really do understand and commiserate, but I
still think you lot are right nasty bugga's for complaining about temps like that while I'm sitting here looking out the window, watching the fog & gluggy rain trying
almost successfully to turn into shards of ice falling outta the sky as my fingers thaw, my ryding gear gently steams as it dries off, and the sun fails to make any impression beyond producing a vaguely glowing spot in the sky! :cus:
Bloody winter! :gaah:
just another Louisiana daynojoke few others out riding too:doorag: thankfully have not got stuck waiting at any RxR with no available shade lately (knock on wood) but the seat is cooking if forget to cover, just about any quick stop. Course grass just sucking it up growing faster :gaah::sour:
) are coming around late this arvo, so the day is only gonna get better! 
hyea:
