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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Well, its a sweltering 82�F here in Buffalo. This is the hottest weather we've had, and although many people ventured out today, I stayed in my room, in front of my fan.

After weeks of on and off weather, we finally get a solid week of warm beautiful weather...and it looks like storms for the rest of this week...Frankly, I miss thunderstorms, hehehe.

How is everything elsewhere?

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Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :

In Houston it's hot. And I mean freakin' hot. 91�F is the current temperature (32.8�C). The humidity has been terrible! It rained Monday morning, but it was a hot sticky rain. If I had the money, I'd transfer to the University of Wisconsin!

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Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

It's been on and off cold/warm here, with nice sunshine most of the time... VERY windy, though. The past few days have been rainy.... *shudders at thought of thunderstorms* .... I hope it gets nice again soon!

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Summer's been trying to force its way into eastern New Mexico these past few weeks. We've had highs in the eighties (~mid-20s C) recently, but today's high temp was in the 50s (~mid teens C).

--Baloo

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Posted by David Sands (Member # 132) on :

Well, today it was supposed to be typical Southern weather with hot sticky skies. But the clouds never let the temperatures get to 80 degrees (Farenheit), so wearing khakis today wasn't too bad. It supposed to stay like this for the next five days. Hopefully it will be about today's temperature in a week and a half since many of my friends will be graduating outside in the field behind me as I write this message.

On the really positive side, I finished my last exam! (Whoo Hoo!) Now I can get back to reading Sun Tzu's The Art of War for fun, and not graded. (We had the pleasure of reading it for Conflict Management. Somethign we can all use skills in. Recommend it to anyone.)

Posted by Coddman (Member # 10) on :

Ohhh, don't get me started about the weather.

Has anyone noticed how MORONIC the general public can be? Take last summer for example. El Nino or whatever it was. TERRIBLY hot. Everyone was sitting in front of their fans or in their air-conditoned houses, whining and complaining, WISHING for summer to be over, PRAYING for winter to come and save them.................and what happens when winter finally does arrive? THAT'S RIGHT! THEY WHINE ABOUT THAT TOO!! Jeez!! Ohhhh, close the window, I'm too cold. Ohh, let's get some more wood on that fire. Ohh, this is a cold winter! *ROLLS EYES* So soon people forget........ARRG. Like on the bus (we have a rapid-transit system here, believe it or not).....it's the same every year.
In the summer, the windows are wide open and everyone's complaining about the heat. But when winter comes, do you see ANYONE opening the window to ENJOY the cold they've wished would come for 4 months? NO. --Coddman
P.S., as far as responding to the TOPIC.....the weather here has been unsatisfactory. It's too damn hot. But of course, hot for me is 19 Deg. Celcius (What's that??)................. (or, for those metric-challenged homo-habiluses out there, "66 Deg. Farenheight" LOL, is that more familiar?). Hehe

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Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :

West of Scotland has had sunny skies and temps around 20 Celsius for the past week. Until today, and the RAIN. D'oh!

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

For those dictionary-challenged people its Celsius and Farhenheit...And just because I choose to use one form of measurement does not make me metrically challenged...

Now if you excuse me, I have a 2lb, 1.5 cubit sub to eat.

Romance is when you can't see any faults in your partner. Love is when you see all of them, but continue to love that person anyway. - Baloo

Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

I use both the metric and Imperial systems, although I prefer metric, and delight in calling people "Imperial scum"

(jokingly, of course). If I had my way, we would all use Kelvins for temperature. It's 300 degrees out, and that's the way it is. Etc.

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Posted by Coddman (Member # 10) on :

Hey!

Give me a break, ok? *LOL* It was 3 AM when I wrote that, and I don't remember writing it.

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Well, I survived YET another 84� F day... Very humid as well. Its supposed to be cooler though tomorrow! Woo!

And no I will not convert that to Celsius.

Romance is when you can't see any faults in your partner. Love is when you see all of them, but continue to love that person anyway. - Baloo

Posted by Sunspot (Member # 77) on :

Upper Michigan: ~50� today, ~70� the week before I left. Cold rain today.

North Coast of Jamaica: ~90� with like 90% humidity! Some rain, but in the evening.

(I just had to throw in the Jamaica part...hehe)

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Here in the amazing great etc UK we use both. Centigrade because it's more logical, modern, and we can understand it in Trek without having to convert it, but we also understand Farenheit, so that when old people talk we can understand.

Actually, most of my generation quite happily interchanged Centigrade, Farenheit, inches, centimetres, metres, miles, feet.
Strangely a lot more people know their height in metres than know their weight in kilograms. (I'm around 1.8 and 75 I think).
And we weight using stones and pounds too...

And yard seems to have fallen into dissuse.

I hate the indeterminate weather we're having now. If I take a coat to uni I'm hot, and end up stuffing it in my bag. If I don't it starts raining, and I become cold and wet. Hot, cold, I don't mind, but just MAKE YOUR MIND UP!

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Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :

I thought weight was supposed to be measured in newtons?

Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

*looks at the time Siggy posted*

Is there anyone over there who's NOT online right now, sometime after 4 in the mroning?

Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on :

Personally I can't stand the imperial system. I plan on beating it to death with a blunt spoon.
82F as you call it is nearly perfect weather. 27c. take that down to about 24 and it's heaven.

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Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :

Well, we should really talk about our mass.

I use the international standard "SI" system.
Mass - kg
Weight (a force) - Newtons, N
Temperature - degrees Celsius
or more confusing to uneducated proles: Kelvins
(Interesting aside: I type this from what used to be Lord Kelvin's office; now a computer lab. Oooh, doesn't that make me feel important!)

And Liam, i too face the ternal dillemma coat or no coat?!

This morning's forecast: Cloudy with occasional sunny spells, but some rain.
Outside: Sunny skies all morning and 20 C.
Useless!

- Nostradamus, 1568

Posted by Simon on :

It's odd even though I live only a short distance from the US, and have grown up watching their television and movies, I have never understood the Farhenheit sytem. As to the local tempurature it has been quite warm, ~27 C most of the week.

Another interesting note about metric is that you are meant to measure all time in seconds.

Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Well, to convert it there's a simple formula:

(F� x 5/9) - 32 = C�

where F is the temperature in Farhenheit, and C is the answer you want in Celsius

Romance is when you can't see any faults in your partner. Love is when you see all of them, but continue to love that person anyway. - Baloo

Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Easier way to convert:

0 degrees = too cold to go outside for any reason except to earn a living.

0-32 = Freezing cold.

32 (just short of 1/3 up to 100) = Demarcation between freezing cold and fargin' cold. Ideal temperature for American beer.

32-50 = Fargin' cold, but not too bad if the wind isn't blowing.

50 = The ideal temperature for many beers, except American brews.

50-68 = Cool. Bring a sweater or windbreaker.

68 (about 2/3 up from the bottom) = Pretty nice out. Demarcation between cool and just right.

68-100 = lower range is just right, depending on what you're most comfortable with (except polar bears/eskimos). Upper range is kinda warm ranging to rather hot.

100 = hotter than you are. Go inside and drink iced drinks.

Over 100 = really hot. Wear sunscreen and stay indoors as much as possible (air-conditioning is highly recommended).

The above chart should allow anyone unfamiliar with the Fahrenheit system to estimate the ambient temperature with the degree of accuracy required by non-professionals.

The pros should use a calculator.

--Baloo

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

I like the method, Baloo, but it's all relative. Living in New England, between 50-60 F (10-15 C) is about the most comfortable temperature to me...anything above 70 F (20 C, well, 21, but I like round numbers) is too hot.

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Posted by Jedi Weyoun (Member # 110) on :

Baloo? you're from Nuevo Mexico? Where? *L* I'm at school at UNM-Albuquerque. Heh. Don't know the NM geography *quite* well enough just yet to know if that qualifies as 'east' or not though...all i know is the mountains are to the east ;-)

*leaves to study for espanol some more* :P

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

J-W: On a map of New Mexico that includes the Texas panhandle, draw a straight line from Albuquerque to Lubbock. Clovis should be just inside NM where the line crosses the NM/TX border.

Notice something else about the map. It's sparsely populated. You have to drive 100 miles or more to get to a bigger burgh than Clovis, and Clovis ain't no Metropolis!

--Baloo

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Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

*scrolls down the thread*
ACK... There's NUMBER STUFF in here!!!

*Runs out of thread screaming*

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Posted by Jedi Weyoun (Member # 110) on :

Cool, Baloo

I see. Pretty sure some of the girls I've met are from around there...couldn't pick out any names though.

it's SO weird...we've had all this super cold weather up in ABQ...all of us wearing sweats and wishing we hadn't packed all our turtlenecks and stuff yet. it was somewhat nicer yesterday, and then today its SUPER hot...very weird. *L*

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Same deal here. Upper temps got into the lower 90's (~lower-mid 30's C). Low temp this morning was the high temp a few days ago (less than a week).

--Baloo

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Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :

Orders Jubilee to compute to the last digit the value of PI...

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Monty, everyone knows that the last digit is 3.

(See, no one can conclusively deny this, so... )

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Posted by Jedi Weyoun (Member # 110) on :

*chuckles* wanna bet, Frank? I had NO IDEA the last digit was 3 ;-) *L* In fact, i think the bug wall length poster that was in my geometry room my sophomore year stopped at 7. hehehe...

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Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :

*shakes Moderator finger*

This is sorta.. ahem... off topic....

Finish up soonish... or the padlock will be on its way.

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

*holds up padlock*

You mean this one?

*bludgeons Tom with the padlock, just for fun*

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Thread subdued, the valiant moderator had but one task remaining...

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