96.8º F

[Bells]

That is the average temperature around here as of 14:11 pm today.

Already drank at least 4 Bottles of water in the last hour.

It's officially "early summer" in Brazil.

Fuck.

Well, at least i get to go to the beach more often and pick sand from every single inch of my body for 2 days then... (actually i like the beach...)

Damn it's hot today...

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I thought you fuckers were on the metric system.

[Azisien]

We've had a very worrying, warm winter this year. Today was one of the first legitimately cold days, at -23C, or -7.6F.

Before today though, woo, global warming all the way! I've been getting by on sweaters and such.

[Bells]

36ºc Doesn't convey the dramatic tone of just how annoyingly hot it is today as 96.8º FAHRENHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIT.

I mean, for god sake... it sounds like a freaking radio station.

96.8 Fahrenheit, where it's too hot to give a fuck about music!

[Azisien]

I have never been to Brazil but I imagine what's worse about the weather is the humidity more than the temperature?

By my personal preference, I would take direct, searing Sun heat over getting steamed in water vapour any day. My only experiential proof of this is being in Ottawa during the dog days of summer and being in the Mediterranean in summer.

Ottawa is a wacky unpredictable place but our worst heat is around 40C with humidity factor, and it is death.

When I was travelling Europe, I found in places like Spain and Italy, the Sun was extremely hot and piercing. Way more direct than anything I've felt in Canada. But it was much less humid, and therefore ten times more bearable.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Man all you fuckers have an ozone layer. Until you've been summer in New Zealand and somewhat australia you ain't see nothing. You go outside for 10 minutes you get burned like a crisp. Just standing outside, not even in the sun.
Also there is about a million times more light, I could barely see first few days I went back.

And yes humidity is a fucking killer. I've seen days where it was 99% and you could barely move.

[Osterbaum]

36ºc Doesn't convey the dramatic tone of just how annoyingly hot it is[...]
It totally does!

Atleast all you fuckers have guaranteed warm summers. What about when the whole summer is a flop, averaging at like +15!?

[Bells]

Humidity around here varies quite a bit. Depends on where you are, But it's never much trouble... i mean, for instance, my entire city sidelines with the ocean, i live just a 15 min drive from the beach, so, it never gets reaaaaaally dry and when there isn't a lot of wind (like today) it never gets misty, just this damp, stale, warm air.

[Azisien]

Yup, that sounds like pretty much the worst.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Fuck you all and your bloody warmth, it's fucking freezing here and I don't need to be reminded of it any more than I already am, which is constantly. Even worse because the heating in my house sucks.

Like, we have fucking hoarfrost everywhere, all day right now. 3 days ago it was fine, what the hell happened to all the heat?

[Magus]

ITT Bells complains about living in a tropical paradise when he should be complaining about all the poisonous chemicals he's probably breathing/drinking.

[Bells]

what the hell happened to all the heat?

it fled here (and apparently went to a convention in Australia and New Zealand...) to LIQUIFY MY BRAIN !!

ITT Bells complains about living in a tropical paradise ...

I've never seen snow! My beaches are too crowed with actual bitches in thongs! #FirstWorldProblems

... he should be complaining about all the poisonous chemicals he's probably breathing/drinking

Multiple possible answers!

a) WTF!? i'm not in china!
b) WTF?! We don't have mountain dew!
c) WTF!? It's called O2 and Potable water! It's common in places with some natural resources remaining!
d) WTF?! Stay away from my Lithium-Charged rivers!!
e) WTF!? Just cause some sewage lines are connected directly to our rivers and oceans? It's all natural...ish!
f) All of the above

[Doc ock rokc]

Your complaining about 96 Degrees! Don't come up to Texas then. in early summer 96-97 is a welcomed godsend

[Flarecobra]

Try Mid-90s with 100% humidity.

[Aerozord]

From what I am told from people that moved here, the consistently hot or cold regions aren't as bad since the buildings and even culture have adapted to them. Its kind of hard to dress for the weather when temperatures change 40 degrees in a single day.

Of course I also dont have to deal with it nearly as long. We might go through a few weeks of weather so hot or cold it can kill you while you deal with it for months.

[EVILNess]

Try Mid-90s with 100% humidity.

Last summer is was 115 with upwards to 90% humidity on some days where I live. Thankfully it wasn't that humid everyday, I don't think I could have survived.

It has never been that hot before. God willing it will never be that hot again.

[Bells]

I never "got" the concept of 100% Humidity... when people say to me "Today the humidity is 100%" i immediately thinks "It's raining?"

I mean, it's 100%! what has more humidity on the air than freaking rain?!

[EVILNess]

Maybe rain is 101% humidity? Humidity turned up to 11? Hyper-humidity?

[Krylo]

Rain doesn't really have that much to do with humidity as the humidity at ground level may be significantly different than the humidity at cloud level, annnnd yeah humidity is how much moisture the air can hold without precipitating.

[Flarecobra]

Krylo got it in one.

[Aerozord]

also why it makes it feel hot. Your body cools itself by sweat evaporating, but if the air cannot handle any more water it doesn't.

Its not really that its hotter with high humidity, just your cooling system works less, really with 100% humidity thats what the temperature actually feels like

[BitVyper]

humidity is how much moisture the air can hold without precipitating.

Isn't that the dewpoint?

[Darth SS]

Damn it's hot today...

HA HA HA

Do you know how cold it is in Saskatoon today? Seriously, do ya? Let me tell you, with wind chill it feels like -29C. Yesterday at this time, we had no snow. None. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Squat. Do you know how much snow there is now? I'm not sure on the specifics, but I do know that it's so much that my beer league had to cancel a hockey game. I know that I can't step outside without getting snow down my boots.

That's right. There is so much snow where I live that it is too wintery for hockey. Too. Winter. For hockey.

I propose a trade. I'll trade you my weather for yours, just for a day, just to see how it feels.

[Magus]

Yeah this flash freeze, cold snap shenanigans has got to stop. Where are the weather machines they promised us?!

[Bells]

Isn't that the dewpoint?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dZhsuEfUpjM/TKsTNJt3WGI/AAAAAAAAC9g/UgLfOxHKOT4/s1600/Mountain_Dew_sign_Tonto_Arizona.jpg

No, this is.

*rimshot*

[batgirl]

It's been mild over here until yesterday and I had to work the overnight in 8F weather with a wind. I wore my long johns.

Worst heat I've ever been in was 122F or 50C. Israel in the summer is a bitch. I got heat exhaustion and was stuck inside my hotel all night with 5 other people, just lying in front of an ac unit.

[Krylo]

Isn't that the dewpoint?

No. Dew Point is the temperature at which current humidity would = 100%. If you're at 100% humidity, however, you are also at the dew point for that temperature.

Edit: for instance at 3% saturation, the dew point is ~25 degrees celsius. And at 25 degrees celsius you'd have 100% humidity with a 3% saturation.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Wow where I'm at here in New Jersey Its brutally cold out. Somewhere around 10°to 20°F on average.

I wouldn't worry about global warming too much just yet.

[Fenris]

I wouldn't worry about global warming too much just yet.

That's not what that means.

And that's not that cold.

[Ryong]

Haha oh man, humidity. I live in a city where humidity is never lower than 76% at all, so, hey. Thankfully, temp went down from like 35ºC to 22ºC in a couple of days, so I'm pretty chill now.

[Magus]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dZhsuEfUpjM/TKsTNJt3WGI/AAAAAAAAC9g/UgLfOxHKOT4/s1600/Mountain_Dew_sign_Tonto_Arizona.jpg

No, this is.

*rimshot*

While I'm familiar with the Mountain Dew "hillbilly" slogan, I'm confused by exactly what is going on here in the advertisement. Is this the Hatfields and the McCoys? Is the guy in the background absconding with the other feller's moonshine? Is he just sniping that guy so he can have the outhouse all to himself, since "it'll tickle yore innards" can only mean that it causes explosive diarrhea in all who drink it?

[Darth SS]

Just a follow up to my last post.

Today it is -38C in Saskatoon. With wind chill it feels like -42. The sun didn't rise until 9:15AM.

Fuck your warm climates.

[Aerozord]

Wow where I'm at here in New Jersey Its brutally cold out. Somewhere around 10°to 20°F on average.

I wouldn't worry about global warming too much just yet.

global warming causes polar melting which causes more near-freezing water entering the ocean altering the currents and pushing them further south resulting in some areas experiencing a cooling effect.

[Magus]

global warming causes polar melting which causes more near-freezing water entering the ocean altering the currents and pushing them further south resulting in some areas experiencing a cooling effect.

Yeah global warming is something of a misleading term to people.

Basically this happens. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnvqsWVluCE)

Except not like that at all but sort of in slow motion and without the wolf attacks.

Okay basically nothing like that. "Global warming" means the overall temperature across the globe increases 1 degree celsius which will cause erratic weather patterns such as extreme cold and extreme heat following one another. I think this is why they want to call it "climate change" instead of global warming because people think that means it will be warm all the time. It is just warmer on average, you will get droughts, but you will still get blizzards. Terrible, terrible blizzards. Areas around the equator become uninhabitable. Coastal cities experience flooding. Northern climes also become uninhabitable. It's a super slow process. It's just not like giant walls of water or giant chunks of hail, nothing so dramatic. It will still cause untold devastation to the human race if not reversed.