Crisp, Pat? Consider Bismarck, North Dakota, which recently experienced -40 C. At that temperature, which I experienced many years ago in Maine, one's power steering fluid turns to Jell-O (or, if you prefer, Vegemite!), and the car's upholstery becomes as stiff as plywood.
Paul Quoting Pat Naughtin <[email protected]>: > Dear All, > > As you enjoy your nice crisp cool winter days, spare a thought for we > folk in the southern hemisphere. In the next few days we expect the > following temperatures: > > Tuesday 38 °C > Wednesday 41 °C > Thursday 40 °C > Friday 40 °C > Saturday 40 °C > Sunday 30 °C > > See the article > http://www.theage.com.au/national/melbourne-faces-worst-hot-spell-in-100-years-20090126-7q0c.html > for the details. Melbourne is the nearest big city to Geelong. > Melbourne is 70 kilometres north-east of Geelong. > > You might recall the rhyme: > > Zero is freezing, > 10 is not, > 20 is pleasing, > 30 is hot, > 40 frying, > 50 dying. > > I don't know who wrote the first three lines but I added the last two > to consider Australian conditions. We live near the coast of the > Southern Ocean but 200 kilometres inland from us you can expect the > predicted temperatures to be about 3 °C hotter than here. Swan Hill, > for example, will reach 44 °C on Wednesday and 43 °C on Thursday, > Friday, and Saturday. > > It's amusing to see chatter in northern hemisphere media reports about > 'global cooling'. You won't get much empathy for that position here in > Australia as we are about to experience our second driest January in > 159 years that is being topped off with this current heat wave. So far > this month Geelong has had 0.4 millimetres of rain compared to a long > term average of 35.6 millimetres for January. > > Cheers, > > Pat Naughtin > > PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, > Geelong, Australia > Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 > > Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has > helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the > modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they > now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for > their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many > different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial > and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. > Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, > and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See > http://www.metricationmatters.com > for more metrication information, contact Pat at > [email protected] > or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: > http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter > to subscribe. > > -- Paul Trusten, R.Ph. Public Relations Director U.S. Metric Association (USMA), Inc. www.metric.org 3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apartment 122 Midland TX 79707-2872 US +1(432)528-7724 mailto:[email protected]
