DIARY OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

[lotus79]

Not written by me. I don't know who actually did write it or I would attribute. Found on various messageboards and facebook posts; towns vary from Karratha, Newman and Port Hedland (For the non West Aussies, those are all towns in the North of WA in the Pilbara. AKA hot and dry.)DIARY OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA

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[daybreak777]

This was a funny post all around. :-) I've done the snow thing in the comment above. There is a thing called a snow rake that you used to shovel snow off the roof from the ground. And they were sold out last year. Whoa.

I'd rather the heat. I'm very, very heat tolerant and am comfortable when others are wilting and run for an AC. I'm really comfortable at about 35C. Not sure how I would be if it never rained mostly because water gets so scarce. 41C is no joke, though. That's super hot. Do they cancel work and school?

I hear that dry heat is better than wet heat? Is that true in Austraila? 35C and 100% humidity is a trip, I'll tell you. I don't love humidity but eventually heat just makes everyone really, really tired.

[lotus79]

41C is no joke, though. That's super hot. Do they cancel work and school?

I kinda had to laugh. Not unless there's no air con (for example, tradies get to go home if it hits 37 since they are generally working outside or in roof spaces that are not climate controlled.) Office workers and schoolkids though don't get the time off.

Having said that, summer hols in Dec/Jan means they aren't at school when it's hottest anyhow. At my work, we all have desk fans for when the air con can't keep up. ;)

41 is warm, yes. 46 is hot. ;)

Dry heat is definitely better. Humidity is yuk - "hot and sticky" we call that. At least with dry heat you can splash water on your face and stand in front of a fan to cool off - when it's humid that doesn't work, you just stay wet. That's when I stick my head in the freezer.

[daybreak777]

I'm not so good at translating the Celcius to Farenheit. But my online translator but 41C as 105F. It's rare that most of the US even gets to 100F. I'm actually okay at 95F - 98F. Most people can't take the high 90s, for more than a few days. I'm perfectly fine for a week or more even with 100% humidity. The humidity does ratchet things up a bit. It's like waves of moist heat and very sweaty and heavy.

I've never felt 105F degree heat. I've felt 101, though. Honestly? After 98F it's all pretty hot.

I just found that 46C is 114.8F. WOW. I'm intrigued by it. I wouldn't get these bad winter colds that clog my ears. But it is dangerous in terms of getting burned and power outages. But I've had power outages in the summer and in the winter. Summer is better. I can deal with no aircon. I can't deal with no heat.

But 114 degrees. Yes, that is hot. :-)

[gemfyre]

I remember that 46 degree day. A bit over a week before we had a 45 day (which held the record until it hit 46), and I remember I was outside playing in a pile of sand out the front on that day - I guess it was dry heat, so kinda tolerable, especially seeing as I was a 10 year old kid who really didn't give a shit.

[sg1padawan]

LMAO I've seen this before (but with Mt Isa instead of WA) and it cracks me up every time. BECAUSE IT'S TRUE. XD