Extreme Heat
It does not matter what you think about ‘climate change’, there is extreme heat over a large part of the world that is in summer. I’ve heard all the jokes – yes, it is hot in summer did you not know, but what I hear and what we experience is extreme. El Niño, they say but all I say is Hot! Damn Hot! (Remember that scene from Goodmorning Vietnam)
How is everyone else doing out there?
I pulled a bed quite close to the one airconditioner last night and the airconditioner was so overworked and it had removed so much moisture from the overheated moist air, that the water tray overflowed and it spilled water that is meant for outside, to the inside, and I woke up with wet feet. Not Funny lol. We in the tropics are used to hot summers, but this one is record-breaking. Hiking in hot summer, we used to take our hiking hat, fill it full of water at a brook or a stream and pour it over the head. We’re not preparing much food – we’re living on sandwiches, egg salad and fruit mainly and today I have a stew simmering in the slow cooker. I think I need to do the hat trick before I go to the kitchen again, as our kitchen is not airconditioned and the fans blow hot air around. We survive whenever a tropical storm rains down and cools down the whole world for a day or two, but generally, even the tiles in the house under the feet feel a little warm.
Guys, while man-made climate change and global warming are debatable as climate modeling is mostly mumbo-jumbo voodoo — world’s climate is the ultimate complex system with too many turbulent flows + emergent properties which are not known and not modellable even if known (no supercomputer has the capacity to do… Read more »
I’m not following the MSM ‘scorched earth’ apocoporn, but when it’s hot, it’s hot. An advise that I’ve learned many years ago from people from the tropics, is to let water flow along the inside of your wrists. Flowing, not dipping. Like you quench eggs after boiling. The blood veins… Read more »
Its a social pita that simply to talk about the weather, we comment on ‘where we stand’ in the greater matter. Is it not? I also started this piece by saying .. no matter where you stand .. its hot! .. thinking, dare I even speak about this? And a… Read more »
ok, all fine 😉
“It’s astounding how much weight has been loaded on our shoulders in all respects of the social discourse.”
Now that is an interesting thought to chew on for some time.
I miss Robin Williams and his humor, really…
Cheers, Rob
33 degrees Celsius at 1600m altitude. Not funny at all. The heat makes our mountains all the more dangerous.
Report, so to say> @ Anoxia afternoon runs to 44C, but the humidity is moderate, and we’re surrounded by riverain orchards and garden – not insufferable and actually a pretty ordinary summer. Mornings we have coffee at dawn by a wood fire in the garden patio. Then turn to chores.… Read more »
My sympathy to you and your family Amarynth – your summer sounds dreadfully uncomfortable. My 2 cents worth though is that temperatures all the way from the Arctic to the tropics have fluctuated cyclically for millions of years, but the overall long-term net trend is a cooling off of the… Read more »
Currently in Nairobi and it is around 24 degrees Celsius during the day. I’m not used to European temperatures anymore and feel cold here. Could do with a bit of heat.