HOT HOT Hot

[Paul Brooking]

Adelaide South Australia

41C here today
I rode the Stelvio into work as there is a free park outside my office.
Of course the park was full so I had to do a very slow lap of the city block to find another.
Dash temperature gauge indicated 45c and she was not happy.
any residual oil on the heads, headers and pipes has now been burnt off
Good news is that the very large black spider that was living behind the gauges decided that enough is enough and bailed out as I was parking.
Think I might wait until the cool change come is before going home.

[LowRyter]

So bats are frying their brains in Auzzi?

South Africa is about to have it's last drink of water.

We're freezing in the middle of the US.  It's snowed in Baton Rouge.

It was 7 f here two days ago but it will 65 f here on Saturday. 

I won't mention what can't be named.  It's all weather.  You bet.

[JJ]

QUOTE:  Adelaide South Australia / 41C here today

Gee...just like "The Valley of the Sun" during July-August!!

[Tom]

Global warming......or is it the polar vortex is the result of global warming???      

[Lannis]

Global warming......or is it the polar vortex is the result of global warming???      

Mainly the result of everyone having a webcam of every other spot on earth and being able to compare and contrast conditions in Antarctica and the Sahara and Oz and Syracuse NY all at the same time, via the magic of the Internet, and say "Look how different they are!  Who knew?".

Sort of the inverse of what happened to UFO and Bigfoot sightings once everyone on the planet had a camera in their pocket!

Lannis

[wyno]

Yesterday at 5.30pm I rode from Geelong to Melbourne and it was 43C (109F) all the way and then I got to enjoy riding the Griso in inner city traffic. The Griso did really well. It was only 33C when I rode home at 9.30pm.

[pehayes]

The whole story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8-BI89mb9A

I am old.

Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA

[webmost]

Mainly the result of everyone having a webcam of every other spot on earth and being able to compare and contrast conditions in Antarctica and the Sahara and Oz and Syracuse NY all at the same time, via the magic of the Internet, and say "Look how different they are!  Who knew?".

Sort of the inverse of what happened to UFO and Bigfoot sightings once everyone on the planet had a camera in their pocket!

Lannis

Astute.

[Chuck in Indiana]

The whole story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8-BI89mb9A

I am old.

Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA

Me, too. I had their first recording of that.. 

[Chuck in Indiana]

Mainly the result of everyone having a webcam of every other spot on earth and being able to compare and contrast conditions in Antarctica and the Sahara and Oz and Syracuse NY all at the same time, via the magic of the Internet, and say "Look how different they are!  Who knew?".

Sort of the inverse of what happened to UFO and Bigfoot sightings once everyone on the planet had a camera in their pocket!

Lannis

Agreed about UFO and bigfoot. I know you are an open minded guy, so I'd recommend some research on the planet's carbon cycle.. <shrug>

[Lannis]

Agreed about UFO and bigfoot. I know you are an open minded guy, so I'd recommend some research on the planet's carbon cycle.. <shrug>

I have done ... and I think about it when I "do things" to make sure I'm doing my part.

My "Fleet MPG" (with a tiny car and medium-sized motorcycles) is over 40 MPG here at the house, even including Fay's 32 MPG Subaru.   I burn deadfall wood to heat my house, in a stove with a catalytic converter, so that's pretty carbon-neutral.   We dry our clothes on a clothesline, are members of the Arbor Day Foundation (who sends me a few dozen trees to plant around the place every year), and we manage about 130 acres of our own timber.   You do what you can do in areas where you have control.

On the other hand, I maintain a healthy skepticism of people screeching "SETTLED SCIENCE!" at me all the time.   No science has ever been settled over the long term, and if I go back and look at the predictions and the "settled science" when I was going to school in the 1970s, I just laugh at the temerity and lack of perspective of some people.

Part of being "open-minded"!

Lannis   

[oldbike54]

 <Sigh> Can we stay away from this nonsense please .

 Dusty

[earemike]

Don't forget to put something under your side stand if parking on bitumen 

was over 45 here then too...

[webmost]

Don't forget to put something under your side stand if parking on bitumen 

was over 45 here then too...

I remember those days. Grew up in San Bernardino (bird-doo to the inhabitants) where it was never really hot until you passed 110 (43 and a third to you C biscuits). Many a time, me and my buds would pull melted tar out of the asphalt and chew it. What can I say -- there were no Tide pods at the time. Hot.