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I scheduled a repair to the top of a chimney today for the morning before it got to hot... when I came down at 11:00 the roof was already 150 degrees.


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Let's just have a reality check for a moment before you start taking the piss out of the Brits [again]. If you put London on the same latitude in North America, you'd find that it situated some 90 miles North of Calgary.

There has to be a reason why so many Americans who live WAAAAAAY South of that location go and live in Florida during the winter months, or vice-versa.

The average annual temperature in the part of UK that we live works out at 58F, with highs of 75F and lows of -10F.

Extremes of weather do not happen in the British Isles.

To the people living here, 90F IS an extreme weather condition.

tac


Oh noes, WEATHER!

Tell everyone in Britain to go outside and pretend they are eating really hot soup and blow....Maybe they can get the air moving a little better Big Grin

It's fun watching folks complain about melting roads, no air conditioning, and other such niceties that our ancestors never had. I can see it now.....Vikings from Scandinavia packing it in and going home because it's too hot to pillage Roll Eyes


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89F (31.9C)


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Ha, repeating what my exwife family would say: "Fook'the Brits".


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Originally posted by tacfoley:
Let's just have a reality check for a moment before you start taking the piss out of the Brits [again]. If you put London on the same latitude in North America, you'd find that it situated some 90 miles North of Calgary.



That's not an accurate reflection of climate there though due to ocean currents and whatnot.

Though I do agree that it is "extreme weather" for those who live there. My in-laws live in the Brittany region of France near the coast and start freaking out when the temperature gets over 75F.



wife and I standing at a bus stop in Trafalgar Square one morning about 10 yrs ago, in March,
sun was out but we were in the shade of a few buildings,

it was chilly, maybe mid 30F's,

young guy, maybe 25, wearing a light jacket, T-shirt under it, shorts and tennis shoes walks up, sees us bundled up, and says,

"just another balmy summer day in Scotland"



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Let's just have a reality check for a moment before you start taking the piss out of the Brits [again].


tac, I'm sure you realize this has been something of a sport here since at least the 1760's. Probably earlier.

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102° in Colorado today. Bin'ness as usual.
 
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Interesting that the asphalt is melting at that temperature. If that happened here, most of the roads in the country would be impassible. Are there different types of road tar?
That was my first thought also. What kind of asphalt do they make there that can't take a 90 degree day or two?



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Psssssshh...spring day in The Lone Star State.



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But no doubt the "Asians" are pigs in shit, to use a totally inappropriate analogy.




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Well played, sir. Well played, indeed Smile




 
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To the people living here, 90F IS an extreme weather condition.


Tac, extreme, IMO, is a relative term. In Texas, extreme exists well above 100F and well below freezing. As someone said once “location, location, location”.


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89?

Hell, that's "I'd better go mow the lawn before it gets hot" weather.

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Man I think I would love the weather over there. We had a couple of Hundred degree days last week and I’m not handling it as well as I used to. We were at a baseball tournament on n Gulfport and the temps on the artificial turf fields were over 115 degrees.

I am recovering from surgery so that may have had something to do with it.


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Hosing down the bridge is pretty funny.
 
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Wife and I were in London 14 days ago. Highs in the low to mid 60's. Glad we missed the heat wave.
 
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Before I moved to Texas I thought 90 was hell.....then I lived in AZ, now I am good to 95 or so....
 
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S/E Michigan is predicted to be in the 90's Friday thru Monday. And if true to form the humidity will be close behind.


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