44 thoughts on “Oy, is it hot!”

  1. LOL pedantic purists! If it weren’t for the metric system and the ability to simply move decimal places, I would have failed elementary school math 😀

    1. I was excellent in Form I (2-4 Primers, 4 Standards, 6 Forms – you figure it out) at decimalising money – that’s working out that, for example, ₤2/4/7 = ₤2.22916666666666666666666666666667 (but we used a rounding-off algorithm that I can’t remember, and stopped at two or three decimal places).

      Then on 10/7/67 (That’s July 10, 1967) we went decimal and my education was wasted – or rather, I could start learning stuff that mattered.

      Oh, and “pedantic purist” is a tautological redundancy.

      2. Nah, pedantic purist is okay – the meanings are different enough to complement each other and the alliteration is lovely. 🙂

      3. I became a trainee accountant in 1965; we didn’t have calculators then so I became expert at adding columns of £sd in my head. A skill sadly wasted now.

    2. Irrelevant for temperature. There are no oddly-proportioned sub-degrees in the Fahrenheit scale. A decimal fraction of a degree F is just as good as a decimal fraction of a degree C. Both degrees are sized by arbitrary scales, and both originate well above absolute zero.

      There are only two reasons one would want to use Celsius instead of Fahrenheit.

      1) The Kelvin scale was given the same degree size as Celsius, and Kelvin is the only scale that begins at an actual zero value.

      2) Some constants worth memorizing use Celsius-sized degrees in the units.

      For a normal person just talking about the temperature, neither scale is superior in any way a priori. The better scale is the one you grew up with, and subsequently developed an intuitive feel for.

      1. Well, no. The better temperature scale is the one that the greatest number of people are familiar with, and in that respect there is no competition. Something like four countries in the world use Fahrenheit and 190+ use Celsius.

        1. That’s only a reasonable approach to the issue if you assume that your audience is a randomly selected sample of the world’s population.

      3. There is at least 5 reasons, and you left out the 3 most important:

        1. degC is a complement to K in the SI.

        You know standards. The thing that prevents some but not all Mars missions to crash because one of the largest post-enlightenment nations need to juggle two or more metrics instead of the usual one.

        2. degC has more science & tech usage, as far as I know. Isn’t chemists all into degC? So I assume biologists should be too.

        3. degC is easy to calibrate or check in the kitchen. degF is more subjective, and you need access to large farm animals.

        1. To be fair, the retort to temperature scale standardization is code standardization. (The Ariane 5 that crashed because the new engine was matched with old control software.)

  3. “(that’s 26.7º C for you pedantic purists)”

    No it’s not. It’s 299.85 K, if only the sloppy bastards would bother to collect and report temperatures to the nearest hundredth of a degree.

      1. WHAT? They updated absolute zero already?

        Damn. Now I’ll have to start all over again… (turns around 273 times, claps 12 times, turns around 273 times, claps 12 times…)

        1. Ha ha, I like the claps. I just asked my computer because….well lazy. 🙂

    1. Very good. Yes, Catman is a desert variant Siamese cat. He loves the heat.
      Also, he is a ‘water-seeker’: in that he can smell it! Have water on your fingers, get within three feet (a metre, if you will), he sniffs the air, and comes over to lick the moisture off you… who needs cat treats.
      There’s an uninsulated portion of the attic in my old house (temps easily over 100/40 degrees) and this guy wants in, where he’ll just lay out on the bare wood flooring for hours… like a sauna, or desert.

      1. Well, now you’ve went ahead and busted my bubble. I thought Catman might be my soulmate because that is what I look like when it gets hot. Paws can’t be touching other parts because that causes heat retention. But alass, I vigorously try to avoid heat above normal body temperature. Never more will my soulmate be found, I fear.

  7. That’s not “hot”.

    That’s “comfortable”. Right in the middle of the “just right” range.

  8. 76℉ (too lazy to convert) was the high here today in Northern Califia, but we have had temperatures in the 80’s the three previous days. The Sun begins to appear in the living room window around 2:00 and Max the Magnificent likes to find a sunny spot on the carpet soon thereafter and snooze the PM away. We’re about 20 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean so temperatures rarely become extreme here, much like the Mediterranean, which is why this traditionally agricultural county has become a major wine producing region.

  9. 27 degrees – hot?! We had a day that was over 47 degrees Celsius here in Sydney last summer. It hit over *54* in the middle of Australia on that same day. Now THAT was hot, and my cat took it like a champ.

    1. 47 C is killer! We had a couple of weeks of ~38 C and high humidity one summer & I was dying! Colleagues from Atlanta visited during that week and laughed at us.

      I think it got to about 29 C yesterday and it was humid so I deemed it too hot to go outside 🙂

    2. Only one day over 47°C? We’ll go a week or so at a time with highs over that. And it’s made it up to 50°C at the airport — with many localized microclimate hotspots regularly topping that. It wouldn’t be hard to find some parking lot in front of a glass building substantially hotter than 50°C.

      b&

      1. You must be in Saudi Arabia. In which case you have my sympathy for much more than merely the weather.

        1. South of northern Arizona, Saudi Arabia, half a dozen of one six of the other.

  10. Meh.

    This time of year, 80°F isn’t unusual for an overnight low…forecast if for 75°F tonight, and 102°F for tomorrow’s high. It’s about a hundred outside right now.

    Hell, 80°F is what I generally set the thermostat to inside — much lower than that and it gets chilly.

    “Hot” isn’t until daytime highs are in the lower teens. And “very hot” is daytime highs in the lower twenties. “Hundred and teens” and “hundred and twenties” respectively, of course. Eighties is mild, and upper nineties is warm.

    b&

  12. Beautiful happy cat! My monsters would shred that lovely blanket and chair faster than you could say “Bad Kitty.”

    Not too hot here today, just low 90s. No triple digits yet, so the ice still hasn’t broken on the Santa Cruz River!

    1. SnowyOwl above says he finds water. I think that’s his super power!

    2. Ha!
      Both “Catman-Batman” & “Catmando-Kathmandu” were involved in this guy’s naming.

      1. Thank you for getting the pun! So much of my work is wasted here! Really great stuff if I do say so myself!

        Long life and warm fur to them all.

        1. Ha ha I only concentrated on super powers and missed the pun. Clearly I’ve let comic books influence me too much.

  14. Don’t touch that tummy; its a trap.

    Its the ancient, eastern cat martial arts pose called “inviting paper shredder.”

  16. Not only a gorgeous feline, but the photo is lovely also with all those subtle shades of warm beige and undulating patterns which compliments Catman to purrfection.

  17. Last summer we had a week or so where every day was over 30-35 degrees. Even at night it stayed in the mid-20’s. Even now, late autumn, we’ve had a few days in the high 20’s. Although you can only feel it in direct sun. In the shade it’s cold, which here is pretty much once it drops to 20 or below. All in centigrade, obviously.

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