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 68AutoBug
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HOLY COW BATMAN... 44.5C today....
it may have been 44.5 outside today [in the shade]
about 65C in My carport.. lol
but it had cooled down to 32C tonight at 9pm so I went for a drive in My beetle and those quarter vents work really well..
[naturally, not as as good as air con..lol]
but it would have terrible without them open...
normally, I don't drive My beetle this time of year as the temps are just too high...
been lucky this year... so far...
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| posted on November 20th, 2009 at 10:32 PM |
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Eeek!
I'm not game to look at the weather reports, it makes me melt just thinkin of it.
And to think, i had a cold 3 days ago too... how odd! haha
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| posted on November 21st, 2009 at 04:49 AM |
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Great Jumping Horned Toads!
Up here in Oregon it got really hot (for us) this past summer with the temperature coming in between 40 and 41.5 for about ten days (most of those in
a row!).
So, I gotta ask, is 44.5 about as hot as it gets in NSW? Or are hotter days yet to come?
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| posted on November 21st, 2009 at 07:24 AM |
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It's quite nice now - http://www.weatherzone.com.au/nsw?list=ob&subset=a
Supposed to get to 31 here today. I think I'll have a day on the lake (Macquarie). Just jump in when I feel a little warm.
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| posted on November 21st, 2009 at 08:10 AM |
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posted by Bookwus
Great Jumping Horned Toads!
Up here in Oregon it got really hot (for us) this past summer with the temperature coming in between 40 and 41.5 for about ten days (most of those in
a row!).
So, I gotta ask, is 44.5 about as hot as it gets in NSW? Or are hotter days yet to come?
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Yea, bout as hot as it gets but the humidity is the killer, realy knocks the stuffing out of us.
Are you talking Farenheight or Celsius, we use the latter.
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| posted on November 21st, 2009 at 09:33 AM |
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Hi
And the stupid politicians are chewing their hankies that its caused by climate change, so that they can introduce a new tax on us, what will paying
more tax fix?
They were quoting that it was the hottest day since 19??, so what does that means that it was hotter before then, of course it does.
I remember popping tar bubbles on the road when I was kid, it got hot then and it gets hot now.
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| posted on November 21st, 2009 at 09:42 AM |
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Well here in lil' ol' Adeladie we had something like 10 of the last 14 days over 36 degrees, breaking records: first ever November heatwave here,
hottest ever November day here at about 43 on Thursday. And SA had the nation's first 'Catastrophic' fire conditions. It ain't right, I tells you,
to have that kind of heat this time of year.
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| posted on November 21st, 2009 at 11:21 AM |
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yeah was 36.4 degrees in front of the fan, at the coolest point of the workshop yesterday.... really sucked.... put the thermometer outside for about
5 minutes and it shot to 41.5 and was still rising as i carried it back inside.... mike and i had a late lunch at the beach for his birthday at
1:30.... was a 12 degree difference as soon as we started driving down bulli pass :P brilliant idea!!!! wanted to take the bug, but i wouldnt put it
through it, the trusty old 5ltr was just as much fun and didnt even reach the 3rd bar on the temp gauge although we did... hahaha
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| posted on November 21st, 2009 at 03:24 PM |
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Hiya donn,
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posted by donn
Are you talking Farenheight or Celsius, we use the latter.
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We do measure temperature in Fahrenheit but since this is an Aussie based forum I thought I should do a quick conversion to Celsius before posting.
Dunno about you but 106 sounds a lot hotter than 41.
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| posted on November 21st, 2009 at 03:31 PM |
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Yep, back when I was a little bloke we didn't have celsius we had farenheight, it was definatly hotter then.
I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!
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| posted on November 21st, 2009 at 06:52 PM |
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i here that it was that hot in Tamworth that sgetty was waiting around the ice cream van... for ice cream
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| posted on November 21st, 2009 at 08:11 PM |
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I took the Baja for a spin today. It was a lovely 22 deg C inside. Outside was rather hot and unpleasant though 
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| posted on November 21st, 2009 at 09:45 PM |
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I took the Baja for a spin today. It was a lovely 22 deg C inside. Outside was rather hot and unpleasant though
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| posted on November 21st, 2009 at 11:49 PM |
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Hi Mike,
We switched over to Metric money in 1966 and everything followed.. You couldn't buy a tape measure with both imperial & metric.. ONLY metric for
about 10 years ..
now they have both again.. lol
it doesn't usually get hotter than 44.5C in Scone Mike..
[again today] but now at 12.22am local its 23.8C outside..
usually its around 40C from Now until the enf=d of January in a hot year..
I can guarantee it will be 38+C on Xmas eve, xmas day etc..
it has been for as long as I can remember...
Christmas Day = 102F+ approx... or too hot to go outdoors..
I really hated the change from Fahrenheit ..
as a change of 10 degrees Celsius = approx 18 degrees F
so what good is that???
We don't get the Humidity You get on the coast Donn..
today was maybe close to ZERO humidity ..
like a furnace outside... but was OK in the shade if you had to go out and water the Wife's gardens,,, lol
[gardens weren't in the Sun then..lol]
The worst We have is night - when the temperature stays over 35C... which can happen for days on end..
so its still too hot to drive My beetle.. lol..
but have been very lucky so far this year.. and last year..
Year before i didn't drive My beetle for about 2 months++
cheers
LEE
in the center parts of Australia including NSW Mike, the temps in summer up to 48C.. is common...
remembering that is in the shade...lol..
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posted by Bookwus
Great Jumping Horned Toads!
Up here in Oregon it got really hot (for us) this past summer with the temperature coming in between 40 and 41.5 for about ten days (most of those in
a row!).
So, I gotta ask, is 44.5 about as hot as it gets in NSW? Or are hotter days yet to come?
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| posted on November 22nd, 2009 at 02:29 PM |
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Celcius (and the metric system in general) is the standard around the world nowadays (except for the USA). Nobody born in Australia since 1960 would
know, or care, about weather measurements in Fahrenheit.
The record temperature for NSW was set in Tibooburra, in the far north-west. That's the place that always reports the hottest temperature in the
state on the TV weather reports every night. It got a high of 47.6 deg C , on 3 Januray 1973. Sydney's record is 45.3 deg C, set on 14 Jan 1939. The
record for Scone is just 43.4 dec C, set on 19 Nov 1968.
The official temperature record for Australia was set in Oodnadatta, SA, during a heat wave in 1960. On 1st, 2nd and 3rd January 1960 the temperatures
measured 49.2, 50.7 and 50.3 deg C. For years the QLD town of Cloncurry claimed the overall record, 53 deg C in 1889, but modern day meterologists
suspect that the true temperature was a few degrees less due to the way it was measured then (using a beer crate!) http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2003/s1015670.htm
The hottest Christmas Day on record in Australia was set at Gascoyne Junction in WA - 48.3 deg C.
You can browse Australian weather records at http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/extreme/records.html and there are more detailed listings at http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~blair/extremes/extpage.html
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| posted on November 22nd, 2009 at 03:28 PM |
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Since we are talking about the heat;
How hot does it need to get before you should stop driving your aircooled?
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If you stop driving are you going to walk?
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| Quote: | Originally
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Since we are talking about the heat;
How hot does it need to get before you should stop driving your aircooled?
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If you take it easy and have a sound motor you should be ok. Keep an eye on the warning light as the oil pressure goes down as the oil heats up. Can
get a oil temp and or pressure gauage for some extra piece of mind.
One day ealier in the year we went out onto stockton beach on a 40degree day, it was unbearable to drive, and everyone's oil temp kept climbing so
had to regularly take cooldown breaks for the engines. The added load the sand puts on the engine is a lot worse than the road. Even so, we killed
(overheated to a point where it spun bearings) two engines, and not just an air cooled.
So yeah was going to go up there today but after expience no way.... I still drove it on the road though
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Nobody born in Australia since 1960 would know, or care, about weather measurements in Fahrenheit.
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And the same lot of Government officials and school teachers convinced the hoards of Australians that we didn't need to know anything about the
imperial system of linear measurement from around 1970 on.  How
wrong they all were and now we are suffering from a generation who can't get their head around machinery which was/is built using imperial
measurement and is still working and cannot be converted in any way to metric. Likewise, anything American will always in the long term be imperial.
Even the metric system is a mine field when it comes to screw thread systems with oddball sizes just as bad as the imperial ones. Don't get me
started on that one!!
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All I can say is I think I nearly melted today putting Christmas lights on the roof. Was too scared to check the temp gauge.
Much more pleasant sitting inside watching sport in the air con.
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You see, there is the answer right there, so many Christmas lights around heat up the air and next thing ya know it's too damned hot to drive the
dub, bah humbug to Cristmas lights I say.
I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!
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rnrnAnd the same lot of Government officials and school teachers convinced the hoards of Australians that we didn't need to know anything about the
imperial system of linear measurement from around 1970 on. How wrong they all were and now we are suffering from a generation who can't get their
head around machinery which was/is built using imperial measurement and is still working and cannot be converted in any way to metric. Likewise,
anything American will always in the long term be imperial. Even the metric system is a mine field when it comes to screw thread systems with oddball
sizes just as bad as the imperial ones. Don't get me started on that one!!rnrnDH
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I am in the building industry, and the only ones who use imperial are old fogies or people in some obscure, outdated, profession. Metric is the way to
go.
From your ole' mate Jeff
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?? Metric threads are pretty straight-forward - thread diameter and pitch in mm, such as M10 x 1.5. Who ever has difficulties with Volkswagen nuts and
bolts? They are always metric, and always easy. Now working on obscure American or British cars or machinery, with their possible choice of UNC, UNF,
BSW, BSF, BSP... arggh ! ISO metric threads are clearly defined by international agreement (1947) and are by far the most widely used around the world
nowadays.
Celcius is more intuitive than Fahrenheit. Water freezes at 0 and boils at 100 - how neat is that? Not at 34 and 212.
Stock VWs, as they came from the factory, can handle normal driving in 40+ deg C. Once you modify it, or remove tinware, etc, all bets are off!
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Nobody born in Australia since 1960 would know, or care, about weather measurements in Fahrenheit.
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Ever been to a dragstrip?
Ever read a medical record?
Ever seen what scale most metalurgists use?
Ignorant statement.
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Drag racing is an American sport, so they use imperial measurements. Formula 1 is not and they use metric measurements, as do our CAMS racing
formulas. As a cricket umpire, I know that cricket uses imperial measurements. Soccer, on the other hand, is a far bigger sport than cricket or motor
racing and they use metric measurements. So does the Olympics - all the weights and measurements are metric, as you well know.
Australian medical practice has been to use metric temperature measurements since the 1970s. The normal human body temperature is 36.8 deg C +/- 0.7.
Medicines are always distributed and administered in metric quantities. Blood pressure is recorded in mm of Hg. I could go on.
I am not sure what 'metalurgist' scales you are referring to. Weights? or Hardness? Rockwell hardness scales for example use kgf (or Newton) force
categories.
Did you know the Saturn moon rocket was designed in metric measurements? But then Wehner von Braun was German.
This is a tired argument. The metric system won the war years ago. And be very careful before you go calling people ignorant - I could say the same
about you.
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I'll quote it again...
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Nobody born in Australia since 1960 would know, or care, about weather measurements in Fahrenheit.
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Many many people in Australia do know, and care, about temperature/weather measurements in Farenheit.
Whether drag racing originated in the US or elsewhere is irrelevant. The temperatures given are in F. Not C, not both. So there alone are a good
number of people who do know, and care.
And that's just a tiny portion of those that do know, learn and appreciate a temperature scale that you may think is irrelevant.
It is not a question of what is better or what is more common. The ignorant statement was that "Nobody born in Australia since 1960 would know, or
care" is completely and utterly wrong.
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by 13bwagon
i here that it was that hot in Tamworth that sgetty was waiting around the ice cream van... for ice cream
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oh haha very funny
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Phil74Camper
The record temperature for NSW was set in Tibooburra, in the far north-west. That's the place that always reports the hottest temperature in the
state on the TV weather reports every night. It got a high of 47.6 deg C , on 3 Januray 1973. Sydney's record is 45.3 deg C, set on 14 Jan 1939. The
record for Scone is just 43.4 dec C, set on 19 Nov 1968.
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Jesus, anywhere in the 30's is hot enough. Lol Welcome to Australia
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Hi I was in Geraldton WA about 12 years ago it reached 48c the asphalt on the roads started to melt it was sticking to shoes as you walked. Most
people finished work early who could, the beach was packed that day.
Very nice place but a bit windblown.
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| Quote: | I am in the building
industry, and the only ones who use imperial are old fogies or people in some obscure, outdated, profession. Metric is the way to go.
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I'm a diesel fitter apprentice and I use imperial every single day I work. Granted it's on American machinery, but it's not an obscrue or dated
profession. And they are, if not the biggest, one the biggest constructors of mining and earthmoving machinery in the world.
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