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August 12th, 2014, 06:32 PM | #1551 | |
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I don't think we've ever gotten that hot here (at least in my lifetime). I have experienced roughly that temperature in Arizona but at least there its a dry heat. Very little humidity. But 116 degree F and high humidity? I'd probably never come out of the air conditioning. |
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August 12th, 2014, 10:01 PM | #1552 | |
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More recently-1995-a temperature of -21.6C was recorded at Ophir-a small village about 60km from Ranfurly, so these lows are not one off flukes... Note that that is an 'official' temperature-meaning it would have been recorded on a properly calibrated and set up weather station-doubtless unofficial temperatures have been lower in places in the SI. I do recall-as a very young officer, at the Tekapo military training area (central SI high country) in July 1983, on a training exercise with visiting Americans from Hawaii demonstating the TOW missile-it being so cold that you literally froze to the ground if you stood still (I'm not exaggerating!) for more than a couple of minutes-and the sensation was akin to separating velcro when you next moved your foot again. I'm only guessing-but it may well have been close to -15C overnight. As an indication-before moving out to the firing area about 8am (Tekapo is miles and miles of subalpine desert) 8 out of 12 vehicles 'threw' radiator fan blades on first starting up-it had been so cold the plastic fan blades had crystallised and were completely brittle...sheering off at the hub Even thirty years on its an 'invigorating' place to visit in winter-and apart from military use is also used as the training area for government, NGO and university personnel who have to deploy to Antarctica-as the only place in NZ you can experience antarctic like conditions for a time... And just for Palo-yes there is a permanent snowline on the Southerns Alps-and no-nobody lives above it-or even close to it on a permanent basis-though there are a lot of huts located up there for use by mountaineers and trampers. Most (if not all) of the areas of permanent snow and ice would fall into one or another of the NZ National Park areas-in which permanent habitation is not permitted in any case. Last edited by Dr Pepper; August 12th, 2014 at 10:18 PM.. |
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August 12th, 2014, 10:55 PM | #1553 |
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Just in case there was any doubt of how cold it gets up here, I found a site which has records for the last 124 years or so.
http://www.aos.wisc.edu/~sco/clim-hi...700-TN-EX.html The "official" state record is about -55 degrees F. No fun, no fun at all. |
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One more thing about Australia you will notice not just the heat.... The fly's the bloody FLY'S......
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I always thought the buggers were supposed to disappear in Winter?. Not so at blondifarm!
I probably should empty my compostibles I just had a couple of beers with a mate who leaves for Amsterdam tomorrow. Very tempted to sneak into his luggage. |
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For me the record temperatures are interesting, but the average/mean temperatures count more. Here's my home town data against a town in AUS called Wyndham They have almost exactly the same longitude, but what a difference in climate! |
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palo5,
Don't have time at the moment to look this up, but I'd say our average January temperature (usually our coldest month) would be around 20 degrees F to 30 degrees F in southern Wisconsin. Maybe 5 degrees F or so less in the northern part of the state or the UP of Michigan. |
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