It’s a nice warm day today, so I’m working from the deck. Just starting to see some spring like weather in Iowa.
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working ???
No wine , how can you class that as work, ok temperature please (and no funny numbers C only) ?
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I had Diet Pepsi because I don’t drink at all.
At that point the temperature was about 70 F (21 C). It topped out at 80 F (26 C). It was pretty darn windy. It’s a good thing I was sheltered somewhat from the wind.
Inside my laptop and monitor is bright enough, but outside is another story. They’re usable, but not overly so.
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That is a huge issue. I cant see my mobile phone outdoors on a sunny day.
In the days of CRT screens, I remember they laughed at me at work when I asked for a room with south facing windows.
Here it is 17C and raining. We had one 29C day this week… Summer is hanging on.
I like your view.
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I wear polariséd sun glasses outside and in our front room where the sun passes all afternoon. Discovered I need to turn my phone and tablet on their sides to be able to read the screens, dont need to do that with computer.
Here is 18 but very very windy, great for the kite surf compétition in the next village but not for me, too strong for my paddle board. Tomorrow we go off to mallorca for 2 weeks, hoping its better weather for the pool and sea temperature.
To quote the famous add, ”the water in majorca dont taste like it oughta gosh…” so back to the wine !
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High 30’s (C) here today - and - top that off - it’s humid too…
Been high 30’s all week, and a couple of days of 40… But not humid thankfully, more :
There’s no way I could work outside in that sort of heat - but - some people have no choice! On heavily unionised construction sites - it’s “down tools” if the mercury climbs past 37.5…
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That is sensible. If the air temperature is above body temperature, you can not cool your body by radiating heat.
If it is also humid, evaporative cooling becomes ineffective too.
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Some jobs I just could not do in winter or summer, great for the tan (except skin cancer) but rain, wind, cold just not interested.
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Winter is the time for outdoor work in south eastern Australia,
Summer is heat, humidity, storms, sandflies, snakes, spiders, ticks, blowflies , mosquitoes and bushfires.
All the mad tourists come down here in Summer… they pick the worst part of the year… just to sit on the beach.
The locals stay inside in Summer. Winter is for outdoor work, it is usually dry and cool.
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I recently read Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future” - mostly about climate change… The opening narrative describes a hideous heatwave somewhere in the Punjab (Indian part, not Pakistan) and I learned about the “wet-bulb” concept… i.e. in that heatwave - the air was super saturated with moisture that evaporation couldn’t cool…
I’ve read most of his stuff - but - as a “hard” science fiction writer - I’ve had a few problems with his stuff - e.g. in one series he writes that siamangs have tails, and that gibbons and siamangs are different somehow (they’re both species of gibbon, and as such, are tailless*), and he didn’t know that both the domestic cow, and the aurochs, are essentially the same species - and in “The Ministry for the Future” he kinda champions the idea of relocating Polar Bears from the Arctic, to the Antarctic, not even considering what would happen to the vast colonies of Emperor and King penguins which breed and brood there.
* I suspect he was thinking of spider monkeys - but he wrote “siamangs”…
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Have you read Fred Hoyle?
He wrote a paperback called “Ice” where he explored the causes of ice-ages and declared that another ice-age was imminent. He proposed a scheme for heating up the ocean to counter it… serious stuff… not SF
He also wrote SF… see “The Black Cloud”. A real climate catastrophe with the sunlight being blocked from earth.
Hoyle was a really brilliant scientist … famous for explaining that the sun’s energy came from nuclear fission.
He got involved in theories of the universe, and proposed the ‘Steady State’ theory which is not now favoured.
He proposed that evolution was a cosmic phenomenon, … ie life did not start on earth. He suggested that comets spread biomolecules or even viruses and bacteria through the universe and that when we pass thru a comet tail the earth is showered with biomaterial. He infuriated the mecical profession by suggesting that some dieases come from comet encounters. This led to the new field of Astrobiology.
Everything Hoyle did was always one step away from current conventional thinking. I like that . Computing needs that.
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