January 11 cold in CA

[Ross]

It is currently 57.1 degrees in my classroom. How cold is it where you are?

[Billy's Little Trip]

Cold enough that I'm sitting in my office wearing sweats, a hoody and uggs. But I'm guessing about the same temp as you, Ross, since I'm about a half hour away from you. Yeah, it's cold as heck here in the OC. Not used to it.

[fluffy]

oh wah wah 57.1 poor baby

I'm impressed at how quickly I got used to having real weather again. I was disturbed by how quickly I started to feel like anything below 60 or above 65 was too cold or hot, but now that I've been back in Seattle for a few months, I found the 30-degree weather during my walk to work this morning AWESOME.

Also it snowed for about 10 seconds yesterday morning. (Sadly it's sunny and bright out today, again.)

Of course I'm also back to wearing plaid flannel shirts, which helps. PROTIP: It's not a grunge thing, it's a I-don't-want-to-freeze-to-death thing.

[Billy's Little Trip]

Of course I'm also back to wearing plaid flannel shirts, which helps. PROTIP: It's not a grunge thing, it's a I-don't-want-to-freeze-to-death thing.

PROTIP: How to look cool while not freezing. Plaid flannel

Walking to work in 30 degrees? I hope it's close. I can't even go in the ocean with a winter suite right now, and it's almost twice as warm as that. yikes!

[roymond]

53 in NYC in mid-January. It snowed in Jerusalem yesterday. Don't worry, this is all normal.

[Ross]

oh wah wah 57.1 poor baby

I don't mind cold outside, my point is it is 57 inside, in my room, where I have to try to teach chemistry to kids. Don't people who live in cold places have heaters for their indoor spaces?

[Mike Lamb]

57 in a classroom when I was in high school would have been an "equipment failure." That sucks. That said, it was 31 when I was scraping ice off my car to go to work at 7.

[Caravan Ray]

It is currently 57.1 degrees in my classroom. How cold is it where you are?

Pretty close to 57.1 degrees here too. But I am talking Celsius. Not Farenheit.

Jast Tuesday was the hottest day ever recorded in Australia (averaged over the whole country). 40.3 degrees (104.5 F)..... averaged across the whole frikking country!!!! - even in Tasmania, which is at an equivalent latitude to Boston That is hot. A lot of towns in SA and western NSW were recording max temperatures of around 47 C (116.6 F). I have felt temperatures like this when I lived in Mt Isa - but not for a whole week - and not across the whole country at once. The Bureau of Met. had to even put a new colour on their weather maps to account for forecasts of temperatures above 50 C in central Aus.

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weath ... 2ce33.html


It is forecast to get hotter this weekend. Bad bad bad fire weather. Tassie has bad fires last week - and NSW is in big danger this weekend.

My favourite thing about living in Queensland is even in the south, we are still sub-tropical so we get most of our rain in summer. We generally don't have the nightmare fire scenarios I grew up with in the NSW summers. Bushfire scares the crap out of me.

[Caravan Ray]

oh wah wah 57.1 poor baby

I don't mind cold outside, my point is it is 57 inside, in my room, where I have to try to teach chemistry to kids. Don't people who live in cold places have heaters for their indoor spaces?

And in a slightly related question (one I may have asked you before) - as a science teacher, do you actually use units like farenheit/miles/feet/pounds etc in a science class? Or SI units?

[fluffy]

Oh, sorry, missed the "in my classroom" bit.

Yeah uh, your school should have heaters.

[fluffy]

Walking to work in 30 degrees? I hope it's close.

It's only a mile.

[Caravan Ray]

Walking to work in 30 degrees? I hope it's close.

It's only a mile.

Translation:

Walking to work in -1.1 degrees? I hope it's close.

It's only a 1.6km.

Now I see how insane that is.

Anything below 15 C (59 F) in the daytime - it is time to shut up shop and spend the day in bed under a doona.



And I now see Ross was saying:

It is currently 13.9 degrees in my classroom.

Ouch! Go to the pub and have a rum. Send the kids home

[RangerDenni]

It is 68 right now and I am sitting on the porch checking Songfight. I think it gets cold tomorrow.

[Billy's Little Trip]

my point is it is 57 inside, in my room, where I have to try to teach chemistry to kids.

Light all the Bunsen burners and duct tape all the magnifying glasses together by the windows and angle them strategically at large metal things in the room? Get scientific. Extra credit project?

I know what you're thinking. You want to be my friend during an Apocalypse, right?
....get in line. *pssst* don't worry, you're in.

[Caravan Ray]

my point is it is 57 inside, in my room, where I have to try to teach chemistry to kids.

Light all the Bunsen burners and duct tape all the magnifying glasses together by the windows and angle them strategically at large metal things in the room? Get scientific. Extra credit project?

I know what you're thinking. You want to be my friend during an Apocalypse, right?

Wrong. During an Apocalypse I would make sure you never got the Conch. You need to angle all the magnifying glasses strategically at massive concrete things in the room like the floor or columns. These will absorb heat and re-radiate it. Metal things would just reflect the heat back out the windows.

[Billy's Little Trip]

my point is it is 57 inside, in my room, where I have to try to teach chemistry to kids.

Light all the Bunsen burners and duct tape all the magnifying glasses together by the windows and angle them strategically at large metal things in the room? Get scientific. Extra credit project?

I know what you're thinking. You want to be my friend during an Apocalypse, right?

Wrong. During an Apocalypse I would make sure you never got the Conch. You need to angle all the magnifying glasses strategically at massive concrete things in the room like the floor or columns. These will absorb heat and re-radiate it. Metal things would just reflect the heat back out the windows.

Not if you angle the metal things at the concrete things, thus giving you TWO heat sources. Plus you can cook on the metal ones. *puts conch on string and hangs it around my neck*