'kin ell it's hot

[Simon Gardner]

1.5 m

It does.

And the rain - otherwise you have a 'wet bulb' or equivalent.

[Ian Clowes]

Hi

Us too. Extremely good value to fit and run c.f. a/c.

IanC

[Andrew McKay]

Yep. I've had red admirals in my study and also in my garage, both with the windows open.

Andrew

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[N. Thornton]

Dont they melt in this weather?

35C - thats 95F. Shit.

Regards, NT

[Chris Holmes]

Someone asked how hot hell is?

This may shed some light.....

SOME INTELLECTUAL HUMOR Is Hell exothermic or Endothermic ===================================

This is a true story.........(Well they always are aren't they!)

A thermodynamics professor had written a take-home exam for his graduate students. It had one question.

Is hell exothermic or endothermic? Support your answer with a proof. (exothermic is when something releases heat and endothermic is when something generates heat)

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:

"First, we postulate that if souls exist, they must have some mass. If they do, then a mole of souls can also have a mass. So, at what rate are souls moving into hell and at what rate are souls leaving" I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for souls entering hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today.

Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and all souls go to hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in hell to increase exponentially.

Now, we look at the rate of change in volume in hell. Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in hell to stay the same, the ratio of the mass of souls and volume needs to stay constant.

#1 So, if hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter hell, then the temperature and pressure in hell will increase until all hell breaks loose.

#2 Of course, if hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until hell freezes over.

So which is it? If we accept the postulate given me by Jennifer Smith during Freshman year, and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then #2 cannot be true, and hell is exothermic."

The student got an A

[Simon Gardner]

I can absolutely guarantee you that I will say no such thing. I particularly like January and February and spend a great deal of time outdoors during both. Indeed I already have a week holiday booked in the NW of England during Februaury. The only time the weather is particularly vile in this country is during July and August with honourable mention for June. I have never ever said or even remotely thought that I 'wished I could have had a hot day like last summer' since last summer was invariably at some point nasty.

[Peter Ashby]

ROTFLMAO! Loved it. Thankyou very much Chris, that one was good, especially the evidence at the end.

Peter

[Andrew Gabriel]

That reminded me of some less intellectual humor which came round our office...

After being nearly snowbound for two weeks last winter, a Seattle Man departed for his vacation in Miami Beach, where he was to meet his wife the next day at the conclusion of her business trip to Minneapolis. They were looking forward to pleasant weather and a nice time together. Unfortunately, there was some sort of mix up at the boarding gate, and the man was told he would have to wait for a later flight. He tried to appeal to a supervisor but was told the airline was not responsible for the problem and it would do no good to complain.

Upon arrival at the Miami hotel the next day, he discovered that Miami Beach was having a heat wave, and its weather was almost as uncomfortably hot as Seattle was cold. The desk clerk gave him a message that his wife would arrive as planned. He could hardly wait to get to the pool area to cool off, and quickly sent his wife an e-mail, but due to his haste, he made an error in the address.

His message therefore arrived at the home of an elderly preachers wife whose even older husband had died only the day before. When the grieving widow opened her e-mail, she took one look at the monitor, let out an anguished scream, and fell to the floor dead. Her family rushed to her room where they saw this message on the screen:

Dearest wife, Departed yesterday as you know. Just now got checked in. Some confusion at the gate. Appeal was denied. Received confirmation of your arrival tomorrow. Your loving husband.

P.S. Things are not as we thought. You are going to be surprised at how hot it is down here.

[Dave Liquorice]

A Stephenson screen at the corfect distance from the mown grass and other objects would get you close to the Met Office readings but it is generally accepted that they can overread by a couple of degrees C under certain conditions (basically sunny and still).

My AWS external temperature probe is under the exteneded northfacing gable eave of the shed roof. Inside it's white plastic shield, it's good enough for my use, though will over read due to the hot air coming off the adjacent shed roof.

If the wall your probe is sticking out off is north facing, try and get the sensor a foot or so from the wall enclosed in something that will keep direct sunlight of it but still allow free flow of air. I used an 8" length of 40mm white waste pipe mounted vertically and the sensor in the middle for a while. That produced acceptable results on a east facing wall.

[Gnube]

Trying to get my head around this; we are saying that the Met Office can be a couple of degrees higher than reality?

And how would we know that?

And assuming we do know that, then why wouldn't the Met Office use the same method used to determine the (correct) temp, which we used to decide the Met Office is wrong, and then they too would end up with the correct temp?

I don't doubt it's as you say, but can't think of a reason it is allowed to continue, given there must be an alternative (or we could not know there is an error!).

Take Care, Gnube {too thick for linux}

[Dave Liquorice]

Yes.

Standards and models. The measurement of the atmosphere is governed by international standards which are based on best available technology from many years ago, there have been changes but not many. If you change the data entering the model it won't come up with the "correct" answer unless you change the model as well (ie the forcasts are even less accurate).

Then there is all the old data (used to build/check models or theories) using such "standard" measurements going back hundreds of years in some cases.

[Gnube]

I don't think anyone in their right might should expect forecasts to be totally accurate! They're way too general to mean anything concrete at all for a start.

I'm sure you're right, but to me this sounds like an upmarket version of "it's always been that way"! That has to be the worst possible reason for lack of action! You know it's been a long time since we had the courage to correct our major mistakes, The Gregorian calendar as a fairly recent example! ;O)

If there's to be any real hope for us as a species, we simply have to work that one out and swallow our pride before we choke on it!

Take Care, Gnube {too thick for linux}