Life at 50C

30 September 2021, 12:04 PM

Nina

I've been in 122F and it is significantly hotter than "cooler" temps. Arizona semi-routinely would have a few days around 115-118, but that 122 day was from another world.

And that 122 was a spike in a hot weather period lasting about a week, IIRC. Not even remotely continous.

30 September 2021, 12:29 PM

pianojuggler

I spent a couple weeks in Kuwait in July and August one year right after the war ended. In Kuwait, the law said that if it is at or above 50C everyone can quit work and go home. Officially, it never got to 50C, it was always 48 or 49; but some of those 49s were a lot hotter than others. Kuwait (at least Kuwait city) has a predominately onshore flow, so it's pretty dry, even though it is right on the Gulf.

I would not want to live there. I think the heat would kill me.

A lot of people there have Mercedes and BMWs, but they don't drive them during the day because the windshields and dashboards melt. During the day, they drove Chevy Caprices. Those big ol' American air conditioning systems could keep up with the heat. The wussy German ones could not. I have no idea what they did after Chevy stopped making the Caprice.

We got up to 116 here a couple months ago. And it was a tad humid. We were sweating our guts out.

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30 September 2021, 02:50 PM

CHAS

General Motors had the best air conditioning when I was a youngster.
Hope they have kept it up.
The day may come when I need that.

30 September 2021, 02:54 PM

CHAS

Last year in Tucson there was a day the dog needed to go out when it was 113F.
It was a short walk.
On that day and the too frequent 109 days my synthetic fabric hiking shorts would get so hot on a walk around the block that I would shed them shortly after entering the house.

30 September 2021, 03:10 PM

RealPlayer

quote:
Originally posted by CHAS:
Last year in Tucson there was a day the dog needed to go out when it was 113F.
It was a short walk.

Does the dog wear booties so its feet don't get burned?

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30 September 2021, 03:25 PM

CHAS

quote:
Originally posted by RealPlayer:
quote:
Originally posted by CHAS:
Last year in Tucson there was a day the dog needed to go out when it was 113F.
It was a short walk.

Does the dog wear booties so its feet don't get burned?

No, he never winced or showed any discomfort. When he walked on ice he did not want to put his feet down.

01 October 2021, 03:04 PM

Mikhailoh

quote:
Originally posted by Nina:
I've been in 122F and it is significantly hotter than "cooler" temps. Arizona semi-routinely would have a few days around 115-118, but that 122 day was from another world.

And that 122 was a spike in a hot weather period lasting about a week, IIRC. Not even remotely continous.

Been there too, in Tucson. Everybody says 'But it's a DRY heat!'. Yeah? So's hell.

01 October 2021, 04:24 PM

Jack Frost

SO happy to live in Maine!

J

01 October 2021, 07:42 PM

Nina

Our deck gets super hot in summer afternoons when the sun beats directly down on it. When I take my daughter's dog out to do his things across the street, I have to carry him so he doesn't burn his feet. I feel like a sherpa, or that I'm carrying some sort of pasha.

02 October 2021, 11:05 AM

CHAS

The street in Tucson was asphalt covered with gravel pressed into it to avoid the heat asphalt can hold.
Wonder if that was why the dog never winced. Never saw booties on the other dogs I saw.

02 October 2021, 01:08 PM

Nina

Back in the day, we had a friend who was a student at ASU when I was there as a grad student. She had a beautiful golden retriever service dog who was sort of infamous at the time. You didn't see that many service animals. She started a small business making and selling dog booties after realizing she had to protect her dog's feet when they walked around on the Tempe sidewalks in the summer. That was the first I'd heard of it. I hope she patented it.

03 October 2021, 10:56 AM

AdagioM

quote:
Originally posted by Nina:
Our deck gets super hot in summer afternoons when the sun beats directly down on it. When I take my daughter's dog out to do his things across the street, I have to carry him so he doesn't burn his feet. I feel like a sherpa, or that I'm carrying some sort of pasha.

Is your deck wood, or Trex? I just had our backyard bench rebuilt (It was 30+ years old). We waited all summer for cedar to be available/affordable. HandyDude said that Trex would get too hot to be comfortable to sit on.

03 October 2021, 01:37 PM

Nina

I'm not sure it's TREX but it's another type of synthetic. We have two different types. The front deck/entry way is some sort of big "laminate" tiles (not really laminate but I'm not sure what) that gets really hot. The back deck is a TREX competitor, but has that same wood type look. It gets hot but not as much as the front, but it also doesn't get quick as much of the afternoon sun. It's HUGE drawback, though, is that it's super slippery. This is nice when pushing back your chair from our outdoor table, but really dangerous when climbing a ladder. We have a rubber mat that we *have* to put under the ladder rungs for that.