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magnetic_poleThinking of those facing down Florence and Mangkhut tonight.
1. Have you ever experienced a hurricane firsthand? No, luckily.
2. Have you ever experienced outside heat over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celcius)? Often when I was young; I grew up on the edge of the high desert. But 100F / 38C and dry is ten times better than 80F / 27C and muggy. My worst moment was just arriving in Hong Kong, passing out for a moment in the heat, and falling at the end of an escalator. I was a sweaty, dizzy mess with a skinned knee and a sprained ankle. Not my best moment.
3. When and where was the coldest temperature you have ever experienced? Objectively? Probably in January in northern New England, where the temperatures sometimes fell to close to 0F / -17C. Subjectively: the weekend I found myself in St. Andrews, Scotland, in mid March with insufficient clothing and/or backbone. I actually had to turn around and get back on the train and head to London, I was that miserable and unprepared. (These were the days before this California girl had discovered wool. That was a bit of a revelation.)
4. Is your household prepared for a possible power outage of two to seven days? No.
5. Do you have a go bag? No. Hm. I'm starting to think there may be a lesson here.
Textbox below (you can link back to thefridayfive), or just stop by and leave a comment: When and where were you your hottest and coldest, flist?
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And on a completely different and much happier note: a very happy birthday to the incorrigiblelash_larue! I spotted this months ago and thought of you....
Hope you've all had a great week, flist!
1. Have you ever experienced a hurricane firsthand? No, luckily.
2. Have you ever experienced outside heat over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celcius)? Often when I was young; I grew up on the edge of the high desert. But 100F / 38C and dry is ten times better than 80F / 27C and muggy. My worst moment was just arriving in Hong Kong, passing out for a moment in the heat, and falling at the end of an escalator. I was a sweaty, dizzy mess with a skinned knee and a sprained ankle. Not my best moment.
3. When and where was the coldest temperature you have ever experienced? Objectively? Probably in January in northern New England, where the temperatures sometimes fell to close to 0F / -17C. Subjectively: the weekend I found myself in St. Andrews, Scotland, in mid March with insufficient clothing and/or backbone. I actually had to turn around and get back on the train and head to London, I was that miserable and unprepared. (These were the days before this California girl had discovered wool. That was a bit of a revelation.)
4. Is your household prepared for a possible power outage of two to seven days? No.
5. Do you have a go bag? No. Hm. I'm starting to think there may be a lesson here.
Textbox below (you can link back to thefridayfive), or just stop by and leave a comment: When and where were you your hottest and coldest, flist?
And on a completely different and much happier note: a very happy birthday to the incorrigible
lash_larue! I spotted this months ago and thought of you....Hope you've all had a great week, flist!
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Date: 2018-09-16 01:04 am (UTC)So interesting about Dubai! My curiosity is piqued. M.
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Date: 2018-09-16 11:13 pm (UTC)Whereas Melbourne and Geelong (in Victoria) have a reputation for bad / unreliable weather, but I prefer it. Weather is very changeable but the advantage is that you get a few days of cold snaps and then it's milder, or a few days of heat and then a break. (Apparently, we're a temperate zone, caught between weather fronts from the desert and from the antarctic below us -- but it basically means there's always a break in the weather if you wait.) Downside is taht you can have beautiful spring days on Thursday and Fridays, and the weather can shift back to wet and cold for the weekend.
Tourism, though, is usally focused on Sydney -- which is a few degrees warmer than us, but humid so the air feels warmer -- and Brisbane / Gold Coast / Sunshine Coast area (a big tourism area that spreads an hour's drive above and below Brisbane) which is far more tropical -- 22C and sunshine in winter, 35C and sunshine in summer (but also muggier). And if you go further north there's Cairns, which is tropical -- felt like FLorida, honestly -- but wonderful to visit in winter (27C) and apparently hideous in summer (90% humidity and over 35C -- eurgh).
You folks get these beautiful advertisements here, making it seem like the entire country has perfect weather all the time. Good PR.
I think it's also a size thing. Tourism concentrates on a few specific areas, but most people forget how big Australia is as a country. I mean, the US excluding Hawaii and Alaska is 8M sq km -- Australia is 7.7M sq km. You wouldn't expect the same temperatures in Washington and New Orleans, and that's about the distance from Brisbane to Melbourne.
Okay, when I talk this much about hte weather, we can see I relaly don't want to start Monday morning.