UGH! Hot pipes...

[jjohnwm]

I always console myself with the fact that no matter how cold it gets here, I can always dress appropriately for the weather and still go out to work or play. You hot-zone guys are different; you can only take off so much clothing, after which problems of legality, propriety and/or modesty start to come into play. So, when it's 140F or whatever God-awful temperatures you get...you're pooched! Or maybe poached?

 

[Conchonius]

Just be sure to brace yourself if you're going from one extreme to another! I was raised in southern Turkey, where the weather is balmy in winter and positively infernal in summer. You can cook eggs on the pavement, asphalt sticks to your soles like chewing gum, and people discharging guns at the sun after having a heat-induced mental breakdown is so common that the police have to arrest a few modern-day Hou Yis every year.

So when I was packing for a BPS meeting in Baltimore, I think back in 2019, I took a sweater and a light jacket and told myself the weather wouldn't be that bad. It was. Four days later I was presenting a poster while trying my best not to keel over, and my pride was only saved by the fact that one my fellows was hit just as hard by the kind of freak temperatures that allow ice to exist outside your fridge.

As for the fish, thankfully what I keep is hardy enough not to care unless the water starts to melt the bucket. Cold water gets the cories breeding, so I prefer it to the alternative.

 

[abominus]

Did a water change on my growout tank yesterday at about 9pm. You can see the temperature is 31.5 degree celsius.

 

[jjohnwm]

Looks more like 36.5C to these old eyes...

Perhaps a digital thermometer would help? Or ask Alexa?

 

[abominus]

Looks more like 36.5C to these old eyes...

Perhaps a digital thermometer would help?

My bad, it was a typo. Went to edit it but it was too late, you saw it. The point is the water is very warm, even at night times.

 

[FINWIN]

I always console myself with the fact that no matter how cold it gets here, I can always dress appropriately for the weather and still go out to work or play. You hot-zone guys are different; you can only take off so much clothing, after which problems of legality, propriety and/or modesty start to come into play. So, when it's 140F or whatever God-awful temperatures you get...you're pooched! Or maybe poached?

Skin show

 

[cockroach]

I always console myself with the fact that no matter how cold it gets here, I can always dress appropriately for the weather and still go out to work or play. You hot-zone guys are different; you can only take off so much clothing, after which problems of legality, propriety and/or modesty start to come into play. So, when it's 140F or whatever God-awful temperatures you get...you're pooched! Or maybe poached?

Trufax right there! -40°C/F = chuck thermal scants, scarf and jackets and you cooking. 40°C/ 104°F. Some pools even feel warm and so many pools here are underroof for sun protection. I have legit slipped on tiled floors from sweat running down my leg being barefoot.

Many "foreigners" in Taiwan manscape, (defluff for ladies) purely because it helps with the excessive sweating and swamping. If I work in the small bonsai garden I have for an afternoon, I easily go through about 6L/1.5+gal of water only that day. Excluding electrolyte drinks and whiskey + soda in the evening.