How hot are you?

[Freakzilla]

I wore a long sleeve t-shirt today but I'll probably regret it this afternoon.

[Aquila ka-Hecate]

Interesting stat. here: we've just had a day or two with highs of 32C (almost 90F) and a few more predicted to come.
The record high for this month in Joburg, i have just learnt, was 31.7C.

So it looks like shaping up to be a hot summer.

On a positive note, we've just had our first rains. Hoo bloody ray.(They're late as all hell)

[A Thing of Eternity]

Interesting stat. here: we've just had a day or two with highs of 32C (almost 90F) and a few more predicted to come.
The record high for this month in Joburg, i have just learnt, was 31.7C.

So it looks like shaping up to be a hot summer.

On a positive note, we've just had our first rains. Hoo bloody ray.(They're late as all hell)

You crazy people with your summers in the winter!

[Omphalos]

Interesting stat. here: we've just had a day or two with highs of 32C (almost 90F) and a few more predicted to come.
The record high for this month in Joburg, i have just learnt, was 31.7C.

So it looks like shaping up to be a hot summer.

On a positive note, we've just had our first rains. Hoo bloody ray.(They're late as all hell)

You crazy people with your summers in the winter!

Ha! Like you don't have winter year round!

[A Thing of Eternity]

Interesting stat. here: we've just had a day or two with highs of 32C (almost 90F) and a few more predicted to come.
The record high for this month in Joburg, i have just learnt, was 31.7C.

So it looks like shaping up to be a hot summer.

On a positive note, we've just had our first rains. Hoo bloody ray.(They're late as all hell)

You crazy people with your summers in the winter!

Ha! Like you don't have winter year round!

It actually gets bloody hot up here, not crazy like you guys get, but we do get up into the 90s and sometimes up near 100 in your strange measurement system.

[Omphalos]

Interesting stat. here: we've just had a day or two with highs of 32C (almost 90F) and a few more predicted to come.
The record high for this month in Joburg, i have just learnt, was 31.7C.

So it looks like shaping up to be a hot summer.

On a positive note, we've just had our first rains. Hoo bloody ray.(They're late as all hell)

You crazy people with your summers in the winter!

Ha! Like you don't have winter year round!

It actually gets bloody hot up here, not crazy like you guys get, but we do get up into the 90s and sometimes up near 100 in your strange measurement system.

That was a joke, you know.

[A Thing of Eternity]

Interesting stat. here: we've just had a day or two with highs of 32C (almost 90F) and a few more predicted to come.
The record high for this month in Joburg, i have just learnt, was 31.7C.

So it looks like shaping up to be a hot summer.

On a positive note, we've just had our first rains. Hoo bloody ray.(They're late as all hell)

You crazy people with your summers in the winter!

Ha! Like you don't have winter year round!

It actually gets bloody hot up here, not crazy like you guys get, but we do get up into the 90s and sometimes up near 100 in your strange measurement system.

That was a joke, you know.

Oh I know, but this is a forum full of Americans so there's a pretty decent chance that some of our members think us Canadians live in igloos... had to set that straight for their sake.

[Omphalos]

Interesting stat. here: we've just had a day or two with highs of 32C (almost 90F) and a few more predicted to come.
The record high for this month in Joburg, i have just learnt, was 31.7C.

So it looks like shaping up to be a hot summer.

On a positive note, we've just had our first rains. Hoo bloody ray.(They're late as all hell)

You crazy people with your summers in the winter!

Ha! Like you don't have winter year round!

It actually gets bloody hot up here, not crazy like you guys get, but we do get up into the 90s and sometimes up near 100 in your strange measurement system.

That was a joke, you know.

Oh I know, but this is a forum full of Americans so there's a pretty decent chance that some of our members think us Canadians live in igloos... had to set that straight for their sake.

Wait. You don't all live in igloos?

[A Thing of Eternity]

Interesting stat. here: we've just had a day or two with highs of 32C (almost 90F) and a few more predicted to come.
The record high for this month in Joburg, i have just learnt, was 31.7C.

So it looks like shaping up to be a hot summer.

On a positive note, we've just had our first rains. Hoo bloody ray.(They're late as all hell)

You crazy people with your summers in the winter!

Ha! Like you don't have winter year round!

It actually gets bloody hot up here, not crazy like you guys get, but we do get up into the 90s and sometimes up near 100 in your strange measurement system.

That was a joke, you know.

Oh I know, but this is a forum full of Americans so there's a pretty decent chance that some of our members think us Canadians live in igloos... had to set that straight for their sake.

Wait. You don't all live in igloos?

Wait, shit, yes.... yes we do. I almost forgot aboot our national igloo too.

(Damnit, one slip of the tongue and I've undone years of Rick Mercer's work "Talking To Americans"... damnit! (youtube "Talking with Americans" and see if you can find the igloo clip)

[Robspierre]

Bloody snowed this afternoon!

Rob

[Shaitan]

I'm from Maine, so I'll assume that "Talking to Americans" consists of a few tips on how to be very, very nice to the damn yankees so we don't up and kick your asses in a re-run of the Aroostook War.

[A Thing of Eternity]

I'm from Maine, so I'll assume that "Talking to Americans" consists of a few tips on how to be very, very nice to the damn yankees so we don't up and kick your asses in a re-run of the Aroostook War.

Kick our asses? What war was that? The one where we burned down the whitehouse and slaughtered the invading army?

I'm just kidding, you guys could obviously crush us like bugs, if the rest of the free world didn't intervene on our behalf.

"Talking to Americans" was a segment in a TV show called "This hour has 22 Minutes" where a guy called Rick Mercer travelled down into the US and asked Americans on their opinions of global issues, mostly stuff about Canada though. He got university professors talking about our National Igloo, lots of people saying Canada was to the south of the USA and Mexico to the north, people saying things about our "president" John Poutine, man it went on and on for years. It was pretty much the funniest thing ever.

Every now and then someone (usually a child of the people actually being interviewed) would catch Rick and say something like "hey, Canada doesn't have states, it has provinces" or maybe would realize there's no seal hunt in Manitoba, or that our parliment building is not in fact an igloo.

[Omphalos]

We're having the nicest spring we've had in years.

[Hunchback Jack]

... or that our parliment building is not in fact an igloo.

Damn. I want to live in a world where Canada's parliament building is an igloo. That'd be so cool.

HBJ

[A Thing of Eternity]

... or that our parliment building is not in fact an igloo.

Damn. I want to live in a world where Canada's parliament building is an igloo. That'd be so cool.

HBJ

I know, it would be awesome. I have no idea where we could put it so that it wouldn't melt though... north pole maybe?

[Freakzilla]

There's an entire hotel carved out of ice somewhere, Scandanavia maybe?

I guess they don't need a fire alarm or supression system, huh?

[A Thing of Eternity]

Yeah, but they have to completely rebuild that thing every year, wouldn't work for a government building... or wait, they don't work all summer anyways...

[Omphalos]

I heard a rumor that the CT Tower was made of compressed maple leaves.

Or should I say "leafs?" True?

[A Thing of Eternity]

I heard a rumor that the CT Tower was made of compressed maple leaves.

Or should I say "leafs?" True?

That would be a much more useful use for the Leafs for sure!










ZING!

[Freakzilla]

It's "16 degrees below normal" here in Atlanta. I actually heard that on the radio on my way to work.



It was 73 degrees on Thanksgiving day and that climatologists had predicted a mild fall and winter.

[Freakzilla]

At 8 a.m., Atlanta's official temperatures at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport stood at 14 degrees, breaking by 1 degree a record for Dec. 14 that had stood for 93 years, since 1917.

[Robspierre]

We hit 70 F today, kids were all whining to have the AC turned on.

Rob

[Freakzilla]

We had icy rain yesterday durring rush hour.

There were 1,000 car wrecks in the metro-Atlanta area last night. http://www.11alive.com/rss/rss_story.as ... yid=168287" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It's supposed to be 50 degrees today.

[A Thing of Eternity]

It's so tough for me to feel sorry for you guys, even when you're having terrible cold weather - because your numbers make it look so much better than it is! 50?! That's like a super super hot day in Arizona... or my microwave! 30?! I can't even stand to go outside, too hot! Anything above 15 is nice and warm - talk to me about -20 or -30!

Of course, I can do the conversions... but it just doesn't have the same impact as talking about temps surrounding a 0 degree point that marks when water freezes.

[Freakzilla]

That was 50F, which is 10C. Earlier this week it was 16F or about -9C, -18C with the windchill.