well, thought yesterday was hot with 49.5 but today the meter went to 50.7 !!!!! this is insane. i just hope we get cooler wind later. keep cool marc-a.
its was 63 degrees in the shade out the back of a dudes house where i was brick paving. Had his pool thermometer out of the pool. i went home after that and prayed for some wind. c'mon huey, bring on a nice southerly at about 9, tomorrow morning.
The pool thermometer is also probabily designed to work best in the water, like kitecrazy said the casing would trap the heat.
Also, a static air temp of 60oC may not burn, as air has a low heat transfer co-efficient, whereas a metal rod at 60oC would be much more likely to do so.
Ever heard of a sauna? You can easily be 60 degrees heat, even 100. although the humidity is ALOT higher than hear. Still, 50.7 is just silly considering this:
"The most remote, major inhabited city is either Honolulu, Hawaii or Perth in western Australia, depending upon one's definition of "remote" and "major." There are no settlements within 3800 km of Honolulu or within 2200 km of Perth larger than the 30,000 to 50,000 population range (Hilo, Hawaii and Geraldton and Kalgoorlie, Australia."
I kited in Saudi with air temps over 50. You can hardly breath when its that hot. We had guys who had problems with their bladders on their kites melting while they were in the car (when the guys were on the water kiting)
Well, we had 50.7 in Geraldton today on our little weather station. we survived but this is quite extrem. tomorrow hot again but not so much if the forcast is right. still 43 or something. we had a nice offshore breeze last night at 7 pm and i hoped today too but only came at sunset and light. the weather forcast does not look promissing with this cyclone up north too. well, global warming ???
It reached an official 52 degrees shade temp for three days at Nummery Station in the Simpson Desert, when I was flying survey aircraft out of there a few years back. Spent 5 hours flying each day at 260 ft off the ground and a cockpit temperature of 47 degrees. Drank 3 to 4 litres of water each flight and didn't need to pee after I landed. 1 beer and I was off my tits! That was hot!
