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It ain’t half hot…

Just to point out that it’s over 30 degrees today. I realised it was going to be a scorcher, at least by my standards, when I emerged from the underpass on my way to the department and felt the full heat of the Sun. And that was at 9am.

I’m not very well adapted for high temperatures, unlike the people who live here. The other day I heard a student complaining about how cold it was, only 24 degrees. When I said that it wasn’t really that cold in Cape Town, as London was only 12 degrees on that day, he said he couldn’t understand how people could live in a place where there was only half as much heat….

I do hope it wasn’t a physics student.

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3 Responses to “It ain’t half hot…”

  1. Olly Lomax's avatar
    Olly Lomax Says:
    April 13, 2012 at 10:27 am

    I’m pretty sure that it’d be disrespectful to “lol” on your blog, so I’ll just chortle instead.

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  2. Chris Brunt's avatar
    Chris Brunt Says:
    April 13, 2012 at 1:54 pm

    More charitably… I think the student is (sort of) right by accident, if you consider the temperature difference from external body temperature at ~36 degrees.

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  3. Bryn Jones's avatar
    Bryn Jones Says:
    April 16, 2012 at 10:03 am

    I can recall hearing the “double the temperature” howler on a BBC weather forecast many years ago, and that would have been from a professional meteorologist with a degree in physics. I can’t recall who the meteorologist was.

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