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Cigar
01-10-2013, 03:28 PM
We've been reading (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/10/world/asia/record-heat-fuels-widespread-fires-in-australia.html?_r=1&) about how Australia is suffering under some of the highest temperatures in it's history. It's so damn hot that heat maps had to add a new color (http://grist.org/list/australia-is-so-damn-hot-that-they-had-to-add-a-new-color-to-their-heat-maps/) to describe the phenomenon. The temperature increase is causing severe drought and wildfires.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5MuR_FvEvA&feature=player_embedded

IT was so hot in the South Australian outback town of Oodnadatta yesterday that the local servo stopped selling petrol.

The Outback town has been sweltering through one of its great heatwaves with the temperature soaring above 40 degrees every day this year, reaching a peak of 48.2 degrees yesterday.

"The ground, the building, everything is so hot, you walk outside and you feel it's going to burn you," Pink Roadhouse owner Lynnie Plate said.

Mrs Plate said the Roadhouse couldn't serve unleaded fuel after midday because it was vapourising and wouldn't pump in the extreme heat.

48.2 degrees Celsius is about 119 degrees F. According to Apple, that's too hot (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2101?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US) to use your iphone.

Unable to pump gasoline due to extreme high heat attributed to climate change? Irony run amuck.

http://www.news.com.au/national/too-hot-to-refuel-as-town-bakes/story-fncynjr2-1226549873359

(http://www.news.com.au/national/too-hot-to-refuel-as-town-bakes/story-fncynjr2-1226549873359)http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/10/1177822/-In-one-Australian-town-it-s-too-hot-even-to-pump-gasoline
(http://www.news.com.au/national/too-hot-to-refuel-as-town-bakes/story-fncynjr2-1226549873359)

ThirdTerm
01-12-2013, 10:02 AM
I spent many summers in Australia and I had stroke-like symptoms once because it was too hot to endure with temperatures above 40 degrees and it is one of the toughest environments on earth which humans can cope with and a British child migrant described a rural area in Southern Australia where she was sent to as Mars because it was nothing like she had experienced in Britain.

Carygrant
01-12-2013, 12:48 PM
That's because we have a Temperate climate , to use the exact terminology . And that no doubt gets to the root of our national psyche ---- easy with change , highly adaptable and therefore able to work under the most changeable circumstances , and forever laughing at the vagaries of life .
Unlike our gun and violence crazed cousins , unfortunately .

Mister D
01-12-2013, 12:51 PM
That's because we have a Temperate climate , to use the exact terminology . And that no doubt gets to the root of our national psyche ---- easy with change , highly adaptable and therefore able to work under the most changeable circumstances , and forever laughing at the vagaries of life .
Unlike our gun and violence crazed cousins , unfortunately .

:roflmao:

roadmaster
01-12-2013, 05:27 PM
LOL well they wouldn't like the Carolinas. We get that and have humidity. :laugh: Went west and all they talked about was it was so hot but is wasn't to me. It's the humidity that will get ya. I use to walk barefoot in that type of weather.