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Gumby

22nd January 2006, 08:25 AM

So I'm spending the day inside, in front of the TV and computer with the air conditioner blasting away.
From all reports it's 40+ all over Victoria today.

What shall we do then ?

Chess ? Checkers ? Ping pong ? A good healthy debate to while away the hours ?

One question though. Who was the idiot who changed the Aus Open tennis to this time of the year. It used to be around November didn't it ? That just doesn't make any sense. I feel sorry for them out there today, not to mention the fact that it's dangerous! Somebody will end up in hospital. :(

Oh well, I'll sit here and keep an eye on the adjacent national park. It's just the sort of day some clown will set it alight.:mad:

Somebody post something worth hijacking please. :D
Otherwise I might have to spend some time talking to the wife :rolleyes: Although she's out in the spa at the moment. I'd go and join her but it's only an 8 seater so there's no room for anybody else. :eek:

I don't like this heat. :(

ozwinner

22nd January 2006, 08:36 AM

Pancakes.

Al :D

Rocker

22nd January 2006, 08:46 AM

Gumby

22nd January 2006, 08:59 AM

Pancakes.

Al :D

Good idea ! I'll make some for breaky. :) If you're lucky, I'll take a pic so you can have some.

Grunt

22nd January 2006, 09:03 AM

Bloody girl Gumby, get out to the shed.

ozwinner

22nd January 2006, 09:15 AM

Maybe all you girls would like to come and spend some time at the shop today.

We left there at 3 yesterday it was just too hot.
And the joint always fills up with blowies when it gets hot too.....:eek:

Al :p

bitingmidge

22nd January 2006, 09:18 AM

What shall we do then ?

Rocker has it right.

If you can't stand the heat, leave Hell!!

Move to Heaven.

P (23° and admittedly with a few light showers, but clearing later - gosh I love summer here ... it's just like winter. :D :D :D )

E. maculata

22nd January 2006, 09:26 AM

Ivan in Oz

22nd January 2006, 09:28 AM

When I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun. Wait, I don't own a gun:)
Rocker

Please Rock, DON't and NO pics!!!!!...........:eek:

> When I hear the word culture

Arh!! Blue Vein Cheese, Yum!!!!

KevM

22nd January 2006, 09:36 AM

I'm officially hi-jacking Gumbys' thread as I walk past the computer going out the door with another load of gear for Casino, will check back later to see if it works.
So here it is "Peter & othetr luminaries here" which ceiling height is better for cooling a house in this general area relative to the equator & why?
This is a serious question that I am currently pondering:o .

Bruce,
Not sure of the theory:confused: but surely the higher the better, gives the hot air somewhere to rise, while keeping your head out of the heat.:D

Only going to be 36degrees C in Hobart today.

Kev M

Grunt

22nd January 2006, 09:39 AM

Bruce,
Not sure of the theory:confused: but surely the higher the better, gives the hot air somewhere to rise, while keeping your head out of the heat.:D

The reverse is true for winter.

redwood

22nd January 2006, 10:18 AM

bunch ov girls over there in melbourne. its 36 here now and iv just turned the heater off. like rocker said, on the winge your worse than poms :D

KevM

22nd January 2006, 10:32 AM

You Mexicans are worse than the poms when it comes to whingeing; you could always move to Darwin, where if never gets above about 37°, or to more equable climes in SE Queensland. But no, you must have your culture. When I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun. Wait, I don't own a gun:)

Rocker

Rocker,
They were Poms. We sent John Batman away in 1835 from Tasmania or Van Dieman's Land as it was known then to find a place to resettle the worst of the wingers. He founded Melbourne and encouraged the wingers & convicts to follow him.:D :D :D

Kev M

dazzler

22nd January 2006, 10:38 AM

HOT? HOT?.......We had jumpers on last night while having a barbie!:p

What to talk about.mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......

Should I buy a Triton Workcentre or a TSC10?

Is your Triton router top heavy like mine!

How do I sharpen my chisels?

Better get the heater on, starting to get cold;)

dazzler

Lignum

22nd January 2006, 10:39 AM

If you can't stand the heat, leave Hell!!

Move to Heaven.

But Heaven is Hotter than Hell.

It is possible to make an accurate computation of the temperature of Heaven using a physical law called Stephens Law - This follows from data available in the bible.

Isiah 30:28 reads "Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days." Thus heaven receives from the moon as much radiation as we do from the sun and in addition seven times seven (ie: 49 times) as much as earth does from the sun. This gives 50 times in all. This radiation falling on heaven heats it to the point where the heat loss by re-radiation just equals the heat received by radiation Taking the absolute temperature of earth as 300K, we obtain a temperature of 798K, or about 525 Celcius.

It is tempting to compare this unexpectedly warm temperature with that of Hell. Although we cannot be exact about the temperature of hell, we can conclude an upper limit. Revelations 21:8 reads : " But the fearful and unbelieving ... shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." The boiling point of brimstone (sulphur) is 444.6 degrees C, which means that the temperature of such an eternal lake must be less than 444.6 degrees C (otherwise if would evaporate). Therefore, as 444.6 is much less than 525.0, we are forced to conclude, by Physical and Biblical data, that Heaven is Hotter than Hell;)

skratbag

22nd January 2006, 10:50 AM

bunch ov girls over there in melbourne. its 36 here now and iv just turned the heater off. like rocker said, on the winge your worse than poms :D
Really must take the winter doona off the bed, I almost was warm last night.

:cool: eeee by goom

Eastie

22nd January 2006, 11:05 AM

A little green plasticine man sitting at home one very hot Sunday got so bored with whinging that he decided to go and talk to his wife. Sitting on the side of the spa while his wife bathed the little green man said to her, "Just so you know, I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on machines and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just switch me off and pull the plug."

His wife got up out of the spa, turned off the airconditioning, unplugged his computer and threw out all of his beer...

Mwahahahahaha :D

Groggy

22nd January 2006, 12:03 PM

I refreshed the weatherzone screen after 1/2 hour - 2 degree rise in temp - I'm not going to click the mouse on that again!

A number of years ago I had the pleasure of sitting in the middle of a desert with broken transport. The outside air temperature gauge went off the clock at 50deg C at 1:30pm. We estimate it got to 54+ deg C. We sat in that from 10am to 6pm. Now 40-44deg just seems "uncomfortable" :).

Iain

22nd January 2006, 12:23 PM

My aircon has just decided it's too hot, got woken up by the CFA last night when we had a biggish grassfire nearby, house full of smoke.
CFA did a good job, woke us up and told us what was happening.
MOre smoke today from the big fire at Erica, thats about 80-100 kms away but we still have a fog.
Supposed to go showjumping but the horses jacked up, if I wanted this I would have gone to Qld, no, wait, the humidity is missing......

Cliff Rogers

22nd January 2006, 01:13 PM

23° under tin roof on the verandah here :p

I've been out putting the power cable & conduit up under the wall of the shed, just stopped for a cup of coffee ;)

Tikki

22nd January 2006, 01:53 PM

zenwood

22nd January 2006, 02:24 PM

Hijacked (http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/showpost.php?p=254151&postcount=15) a useless thread yesterday to comment on the weather, and today's just the same. Outrageous.

DavidG

22nd January 2006, 02:57 PM

Lovely sitting in office with aircon on. 22c

Just finished replacing the diodes in a switch-mode battery charger. Must inform kids - Swimming pool water is not to be dripped into battery chargers.
Dissolves copper and shorts power.:mad:

Too hot to go to shed. Will wait till pm.

ndru

22nd January 2006, 03:10 PM

:( :( 42 degrees here, 1200 homes in Adelaide without power (some for more than 24 hours now) and many more in the Victor Harbor/Goolwa area, plus four major fires burning around the State .... bring on winter!

Cheers
Tikki :)

Agreed!!! :(

The Eyre Peninsula fire was the only black spot on an otherwise great summer in South Oz last year. Why cant we have another summer like that!

Whenever we get a long stretch of weather like this, SWMBO and I discuss packing up and getting new jobs in Hobart. We may just do it next year. The main reason we have stayed is staying close to friends and family for our young son. We are seriously reconsidering it, though. Neither of us are hot weather people, and we end up with "cabin fever" if we get two or more weekends of staying inside and running up our power bill. Our young boy gets very bored with staying inside, too.

Anyone recommend a good place to live in the capital of the apple isle???

ozwinner

22nd January 2006, 03:20 PM

Anyone recommend a good place to live in the capital of the apple isle???

Anywhere and everywhere is good.
You can live 30 minutes from Hobart and get really good cheap housing, and still be within driving distance.

The Tassie lot dont like to drive more than 5 kms from home.:p

Al :)

Sturdee

22nd January 2006, 03:20 PM

So I'm spending the day inside, in front of the TV and computer with the air conditioner blasting away. From all reports it's 40+ all over Victoria today......................................I don't like this heat. :(

At the moment the temperature in my workshop is 26 % .:D :D :D :D Trouble is I had too good a lunch to go there now.:D

Peter.

doug the slug

22nd January 2006, 03:45 PM

But Heaven is Hotter than Hell.

It is possible to make an accurate computation of the temperature of Heaven using a physical law called Stephens Law - This follows from data available in the bible.

Isiah 30:28 reads "Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days." Thus heaven receives from the moon as much radiation as we do from the sun and in addition seven times seven (ie: 49 times) as much as earth does from the sun. This gives 50 times in all. This radiation falling on heaven heats it to the point where the heat loss by re-radiation just equals the heat received by radiation Taking the absolute temperature of earth as 300K, we obtain a temperature of 798K, or about 525 Celcius.

It is tempting to compare this unexpectedly warm temperature with that of Hell. Although we cannot be exact about the temperature of hell, we can conclude an upper limit. Revelations 21:8 reads : " But the fearful and unbelieving ... shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." The boiling point of brimstone (sulphur) is 444.6 degrees C, which means that the temperature of such an eternal lake must be less than 444.6 degrees C (otherwise if would evaporate). Therefore, as 444.6 is much less than 525.0, we are forced to conclude, by Physical and Biblical data, that Heaven is Hotter than Hell;)

Heres another one along a similar vein:

A thermodynamics professor had written a take home exam for his graduate students. It had one question:

"Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Support your answer with a proof."
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools off when it expands and heats up when it is compressed) or some variant.
One student, however, wrote the following:
"First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So, we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand as souls are added.
This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
2. Of course, if Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Ms. Therese Banyan during my Freshman year, 'That it will be a cold night in Hell before I sleep with you', and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then 2 cannot be true, and so Hell is exothermic." This student got the only A.

namtrak

22nd January 2006, 05:34 PM

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa what a bunch of babies!!!!

I just knocked over 6 hours of landscaping - no worries. Translated as - I was whingeing like a baby for 5 hours and then at 3pm when the temperature went up about 5 degrees and hit about 41 I threw in the towel, walked up to the bottle-o got a six-pack and waited an hour for swmbo to pick me up. It was friggin hot!!!!!

Auld Bassoon

22nd January 2006, 05:42 PM

At the moment the temperature in my workshop is 26 % .:D :D :D :D Trouble is I had too good a lunch to go there now.:D

Peter.

Aw Peter, Shut Up:D

My shed reached 44C yesterday and today it was 44 on one side and 46 the other. Tried jointing some RG, but nearly drowned in sweat. Gave up and went inside to a nice 23C.

Blerry annoying though, as I had wanted to do a whole bunch of things...

Waldo

22nd January 2006, 06:10 PM

Hijacked (http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/showpost.php?p=254151&postcount=15) a useless thread yesterday to comment on the weather, and today's just the same. Outrageous.

G'day,

Hey that was a gteat useless poll. :D

outback

22nd January 2006, 06:49 PM

At the moment the temperature in my workshop is 26 % .:D :D :D :D Trouble is I had too good a lunch to go there now.:D

Peter.

26% of what? :D

I'm not game to put a thermometer in my shed, I'd onl;y find out how much too hot it is in there. I'm happy to know its way to hot.

Sir Stinkalot

22nd January 2006, 07:13 PM

Just for a little fun a put a digital thermometer out in the sun in the backyard today. It recorded a max of 50.0 and a min of 27.5. The min was at 9.00 am when I put it out. Now it is back to around 28. The thermometer can read up to 70 so 50 was chilly.

Gra

22nd January 2006, 07:37 PM

we measured a 50 under our back deck as well, though we spend half the day in the garage trying to get the car running for Australia day. Then get home to find out they have upped the expected temp to 40+. Looks like we wont be going to the car display (Car will cope, driver wont). Test drove the car early this arvo and wondered why it was getting hot. Temp gauge went off the dial.

Will have to keep an eye on the expected temps to see if we can make the aussie day display

echnidna

22nd January 2006, 08:29 PM

Rocker has it right.

If you can't stand the heat, leave Hell!!

Move to Heaven.

P (23° and admittedly with a few light showers, but clearing later - gosh I love summer here ... it's just like winter. :D :D :D )

Seem to remember Midge said something bout his air conditioer some time ago.
fess up BM,
do you use an air conditioner:D

Schtoo

23rd January 2006, 12:03 AM

0 degrees here, expecting snow any day now...

It's dry heat, no problems whatsoever, so what the ^%^&% are you crying for???

Shedhand

23rd January 2006, 12:25 AM

Officialy 39c in Hobart today..My Backyard (in the shade - 43c +relative humidity 76%) 2 blocks from the beach in Bellerive.:eek::eek:

TTIT

23rd January 2006, 12:43 AM

It's always hovering around the 40C mark out here at this time of year so I turbo-charged my shed (that's what the kids reckon it looks like anyway):D. Now I can spend the summer in the shed (cooler than the house) and the winter out collecting wood.:):):)

PS:- Also works as a dust expulsion system.!!!! Blows everything straight out the door at the other end.:o

Ashore

23rd January 2006, 01:15 AM

The reverse is true for winter.

As is the A/C unit

bitingmidge

23rd January 2006, 01:48 AM

Seem to remember Midge said something bout his air conditioer some time ago.
fess up BM,
do you use an air conditioner:D
Your memory's playing tricks Bob!!

No air conditioner, no heating. We do have a woodburning fireplace, which consumes about a sugarbag of 2 x 1 roof battens per season for effect, but now that my dearest has worked out she can put candles in there adn get a firey effect without all that silly heat, we probably won't burn too much!

Cheers,

P

TassieKiwi

23rd January 2006, 07:36 AM

Balmy 26 Deg here in the weekend, cool zephyr coming in off the sea - ahhh lovely. Who needs the mainland, eh?

zenwood

23rd January 2006, 09:21 AM

Also works as a dust expulsion system.!!!! Blows everything straight out the door at the other end.:o
Love it: dust expulsion instead of dust collection. How sensible!

Why the two outlets?

redwood

23rd January 2006, 09:23 AM

trees came from the earth, he`s just sending parts of them back to where they came from:D

Cliff Rogers

23rd January 2006, 10:01 AM

It made it up to 30° on the verandah for a short while yesterday....
currently 22° at 9am. :D

TTIT

24th January 2006, 05:53 PM

Love it: dust expulsion instead of dust collection. How sensible!

Why the two outlets?

Zen - the A/C is designed to run 5 or 6 outlets normally - even pumping out through just 2 on high speed it nearly blows me out the door with the dust !!!:eek: :eek: :eek:

Auld Bassoon

24th January 2006, 07:36 PM

Clinton1

24th January 2006, 08:21 PM

Not so hot here, only got up to 32 degrees, but the humidity is getting to me - Not used to it anymore, after a good break from it (thanks Victoria).

And the silly wimmin I'm working with turned off the AC because it was "leaking", instead of knocking the ants nest blocking the drain tube and putting a bucket under the drips. :mad:

ozwinner

24th January 2006, 08:39 PM

Not too bad here at the mo'.
This morning was nipplie, very refreshing.
Got to all of mid 20's with hardly any humidity.

Look out tomorrow, and Thursday...:eek:

Al :)

John Saxton

24th January 2006, 08:50 PM

Just had a humungous thunderstorm been pouring down most of the afternoon and since aroud 11.00 this morning ..gonna be good for the firies with the bushfires happening over this neck of the woods.

About a pleasant 25 at the moment.

cheers:)

Driver

24th January 2006, 09:44 PM

Weird sort of weather in Perth today. Gloomy cloudy morning with a temp of about 33 deg C and a bit of humidity (thanks to Cyclone Daryll up North).

Pleasant evening however. I've just been sitting on the patio with my missus having a look at the day. Lots of cloud about to make an interesting sunset, bit of residual woodsmoke from a small bushfire (under control, thankfully).

I've posted a picture on the Australia Day thread showing a view over next door's roof.

Col

ozwinner

24th January 2006, 09:50 PM

In a Monty Python sort of voice.

Daryll!! Ive told you about this before.

Youve been a very naughty boy.......

Al :D

Driver

24th January 2006, 10:34 PM

In a Monty Python sort of voice.

Daryll!! Ive told you about this before.

Youve been a very naughty boy.......

Al :D

Yerss. Bit of a silly name for a cyclone, eh? Not that there's anything wrong with the name Daryll, of course. Very Australian, for one thing. But still, hard to take a cyclone seriously when you're tempted to call it Dazza and buy it a beer.

Anyway I've always thought of cyclones as female. Like ships.

Speaking of female - Cyclone Mother Farcquar! Now that would be a cyclone to take very seriously! :eek:

John Saxton

29th January 2006, 10:32 PM

FLAMIN" cold here at the moment ...people here in the West are sayin' "When's summer Goin' to Happen"?

Crikey starting to think about getting the winter gear out, the weather goin' thru a hissfit here.:(

Hope it happens soon.

Cheers:)

Waldo

29th January 2006, 11:08 PM

G'day John,

Well it's 28ºC at the moment (11:08pm) and itr's not :cool: