Heat Wave

[Uncle Al]

I took this picture, this evening, after getting home from my grocery pick-up.

Our first over 100°F temperature of 2025.

High Temperature V2 JPG 2025-07-31.jpg

Remember to stay hydrated in this heat wave and, if you have any outside
pets, make sure they have a shady place and plenty of water.

Uncle Al

[denimini]

Better rub some Marveer on that wooden dash as it will shrink and crack in that heat

[Uncle Al]

Better rub some Marveer on that wooden dash as it will shrink and crack in that heat

It's a "simulated wood look" created in plastic. This unit is 2001 model, built in November of 2000.

Uncle Al

[Mouse]

103F according to Google is just under 40C for those in the metric world.

Odd fact, I was replying to a medical admission nurse today and she wanted my weight in Kg, so I converted it from Stones and Pounds in google and gave it to her. Her next question was my height, so I said I would again convert it to metric, to which she replayed, no I need it in Feet and Inches... I love the UK, where we use a total mixture of imperial and metric with no relation to any logic.

[Kirbstone]

Too right, Mouse. Try Ireland, where everything official has gone metric, but I still think miles, MPH and feet & inches. When someone says 2m 40, I have to convert it to make any sense at all....around 8 feet !
All our signs and road distances have also gone that way and my car uses average 5 litres diesel per 100Km....around 50-odd MPG, after I've consulted all sorts of slide rules &c.!
As to skirt measurements....18" remains my absolute minimum. The metric equivalent doesn't mean anything to me.

....and Temperatures....Recently in Greece it briefly hit 40 Centipede. Uncomfortable. Back home we subsequently had a couple of days when it hit 32.C. Hot enough!

Tom

[JohnH]

As an American, I can't stand the way the US as been so SLOWW in adopting metric units.
US customary units (similar to imperial except for volume measurements) are like old pre-decimal British money: 12 pence to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound. And the Fahrenheit temperature scale has that weird 32 degrees for the freezing of water instead of the more logical 0 on the Celsius scale.
For my projects I always use metric units. I see on YouTube videos of how to read fractional inches, where I have seen comments such as, "Throw away your imperial tape measure and get a metric one"

John