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In Reply to: RE: How Hot? really? posted by pictureguy on January 18, 2017 at 18:41:44
A few months ago I was out in a hire car in Western Australia and saw 50C (122F). That was hot, but somehow bearable - dry heat.
The worst day in recent memory was while camping down the South Coast here - These Hobie water bottles are damn pretty tough. I could stand on one without breaking it.
This bottle was about 1/2 full, laying on it's side in one of our kayaks, in the full sun. It was a 45C day more or less from dawn till dark. I found the bottle melted like this the next morning!
Cheers,
John K
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I don't care any more about 'dry heat'. A scam, IMO. That's OVER 20f past body temp. No way are you able to deal with that. Just sitting around in deep shade would probably soak a gallon a day of water out of your poorpores.
However, Palm Spring which was formerly a nice bit of dry desert is now HUMID based on the fact that they have thoussands of Acres of GOLF COURSE which is water 3x or 4x daily during the summer.
Cheap water has destroyed the Water Table.
In years past? The indians would SUMMER up the hill, around 7500 to 8000 feet elevation and spend the winter 'at the springs'.
Now? They own a casino where White People go for a Modern Scalping.
Note the heading in the article linked about 'golf course water data withheld'. That's code for WASTE.
Too much is never enough
We have the same crap going on here. And global warming will be making it worse.
We grow cotton and rice in our semi-arid western districts.
It's nuts.
We are a effected by the Southern Pacific El Nino / El Nina cycles, which generally run 10 year cycles. New users move in when water flows are plentiful, grow fast, make profits, then El Nino kicks in and all the new users demand their allocations when the water flows are shrinking. Our once absolutely massive Artesian Basin is in trouble with the same dramas as Coachella - bore holes getting deeper and at lower pressure.
It stinks.
Cheers,
John K
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