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Re: Post your practical ideas to stay cool in a heatwave?

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:55 pm
by urban
I'm just glad I didn't live in Marble Bar in 1923/24 where they set the Oz record heatwave with 160 days above about 38

Re: Post your practical ideas to stay cool in a heatwave?

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:56 pm
by darksidelemm

Re: Post your practical ideas to stay cool in a heatwave?

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:49 am
by Cruise
i have a feeling it will piss down all easter then heat back up when we all go back to work.

Re: Post your practical ideas to stay cool in a heatwave?

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:15 am
by Omicron
This weather has caused me to hold off buyng jackets, scarves and the like. Bastard.

Re: Post your practical ideas to stay cool in a heatwave?

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:23 am
by Cruise
my practical solution,
Go to you local bottle shop and stand in the big fridge with with all beer in it

Re: Post your practical ideas to stay cool in a heatwave?

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:28 am
by Omicron
Cruise wrote:my practical solution,
Go to you local bottle shop and stand in the big fridge with with all beer in it
Dan Murphys is very good for that - lots of cartons everywhere to sit on, and plenty of room for friends.

Re: Post your practical ideas to stay cool in a heatwave?

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:14 am
by crawf
Cruise wrote:i have a feeling it will piss down all easter then heat back up when we all go back to work.
I think this heatwave will be the last of hot weather probably until Spring. According to BOM, SA is expected to have bellow average temps and higher above rainfall over the next few months...

Its probably going to be one extreme to the other (major bushfires to floods)

Re: Post your practical ideas to stay cool in a heatwave?

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 2:01 pm
by Pikey
Here's me, down in Hobart. On my way down yesterday I'm thinking "Awesome, out of the heat finally!" And yesterday was awesome, 26' still, furken lovely.

Today, on the other hand, 38 and windy as all hell!! The guys in the office are all saying "tell that Adelaide guy to piss off back home and take this weather with him!" :lol:

Showers next wednesday? Showers?? Rain?? What's that?

Re: Post your practical ideas to stay cool in a heatwave?

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:36 pm
by Omicron
Pikey wrote:Here's me, down in Hobart. On my way down yesterday I'm thinking "Awesome, out of the heat finally!" And yesterday was awesome, 26' still, furken lovely.

Today, on the other hand, 38 and windy as all hell!! The guys in the office are all saying "tell that Adelaide guy to piss off back home and take this weather with him!" :lol:

Showers next wednesday? Showers?? Rain?? What's that?
I beg your pardon; 38 degrees in Hobart??

I fear the Earth has fallen over.

Re: Post your practical ideas to stay cool in a heatwave?

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 1:16 am
by monotonehell
Omicron wrote:I beg your pardon; 38 degrees in Hobart??
I fear the Earth has fallen over.
It's all these people building buildings over 150metres I tells ya, fire and brimstone are next... or was that this week?

Re: Post your practical ideas to stay cool in a heatwave?

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 1:19 am
by Omicron
monotonehell wrote:
Omicron wrote:I beg your pardon; 38 degrees in Hobart??
I fear the Earth has fallen over.
It's all these people building buildings over 150metres I tells ya, fire and brimstone are next... or was that this week?
I spilled tea on myself before, and that was plague-esque enough for my liking; goodness knows what I'll do if locusts come through the window.

Incidentally, I've noticed that I've been outside far more in this heatwave than any other time this year, and I have absolutely no idea why.

Re: Post your practical ideas to stay cool in a heatwave?

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 1:21 am
by Cruise
Omicron wrote:
Incidentally, I've noticed that I've been outside far more in this heatwave than any other time this year, and I have absolutely no idea why.

To work on your tan maybe?

Re: Post your practical ideas to stay cool in a heatwave?

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 1:26 am
by Omicron
Cruise wrote:
Omicron wrote:
Incidentally, I've noticed that I've been outside far more in this heatwave than any other time this year, and I have absolutely no idea why.

To work on your tan maybe?
I'd like to know where exactly my tan has gotten to, now that you mention it - there's probably some European kid called Omi who suddenly has the most brilliant tan in the middle of winter and is the envy of all his friends, but he is unsure from whence the brown did come.

Re: Post your practical ideas to stay cool in a heatwave?

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 1:32 am
by crawf
Geez it was so hot in town today and tonight, if those northern lights were on I would of headed straight home.

Here in the hills its like about 15 degrees atm with a nice cool breeze (guess it will hit Adelaide aswell). Though last night for the first time ever the min temp in Adelaide was just around 30 degrees! (another record smashed).

Re: Post your practical ideas to stay cool in a heatwave?

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 1:35 am
by Omicron
crawf wrote:Geez it was so hot in town today and tonight, if those northern lights were on I would of headed straight home.

Here in the hills its like about 15 degrees atm with a nice cool breeze (guess it will hit Adelaide aswell).
It's quite lovely outside at the moment - BOM tells me it's 24.4, and there's a light breeze about.