• Perth Heat "Melts the Internet".
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[QUOTE]Extreme hot weather in Perth has sent the internet into meltdown. Thousands of iiNet customers across Australia have found themselves offline after the company shut down some of its systems at its Perth data centre because of record breaking-temperatures. "Due to record breaking temperatures, iiNet Toolbox, Email and our corporate websites are unavailable. Apologies for any inconvenience caused," iiNet tweeted. Users in Western Australia, NSW, Victoria and South Australia took to Twitter and Facebook to post their frustrations to the country's second largest internet service provider. Source: [url]http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/01/05/perth-heat-melts-internet[/url] [/QUOTE]
i googled temperature in sydney and it told me 81° i was completely unsurprised even before i realized google was showing me fahrenheit
[QUOTE=lavacano;46865492]i googled temperature in sydney and it told me 81° i was completely unsurprised even before i realized google was showing me fahrenheit[/QUOTE] But... Perth is as far from Sydney, as Los Angeles is from Detroit..
[QUOTE=Bradyns;46865566]But... Perth is as far from Sydney, as Los Angeles is from Detroit..[/QUOTE] i'm an american, we didn't study australian geography in school also i'm a dumbass and i didn't notice there was a city mentioned in the article the first time around
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;46865570]Pretty sure a FP user who was in adelaide a few days ago was telling me it hit 49C. Dear fucking god aussie gets really hot.[/QUOTE] I live just south of Adelaide and it didn't get that hot. It was ~43-45C.
meanwhile in Queensland Raining like a mother fucker, sitting in a nice relaxing 29 degree heat
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;46865843]meanwhile in Queensland Raining like a mother fucker, sitting in a nice relaxing 29 degree heat[/QUOTE] 29 degree sauna.
At least it isn't Florida. Maybe worse though. I'm not sure.
I had go to out in that weather, used the wrong sunscreen and now I'm burnt red.
I grew up in WA, it does this every Summer, I went a few years back to see family right at the start of a heat wave, was 40 for two weeks straight. You get numb to the sweat and kind of accept the oily wet lifestyle
[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;46865991]At least it isn't Florida. Maybe worse though. I'm not sure.[/QUOTE] It's pretty pleasant here near the Gulf at the moment. But what do I know; I spend all day inside anyway.
it hits 50 here every now and again not on the east coast but in QLD NT and probably WA
[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;46865991]At least it isn't Florida. Maybe worse though. I'm not sure.[/QUOTE] Is it normally a dry heat in Australia, or do you also have humidity problems like here in the South?
Oh god it was so damn hot. My car was reading 46c when I got to a friend's house. With no aircon, weather like this sucks, everything seemed to be struggling to cope with the heat. Thankfully my internet didn't go down though. [editline]6th January 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;46866350]Is it normally a dry heat in Australia, or do you also have humidity problems like here in the South?[/QUOTE] It was extremely humid yesterday.
Humidity in Queensland is especially terrible, usually above 75% making the "feel like" temperatures 6 above the actual temperature regularly.
Sometimes when it is still hella fuckin hot at night it becomes near impossible for me to sleep
Ok thanks for coming, summer. Let's bring winter back now please
are australian christmas trees just the remains of a pine tree after being set on fire or something?
If i had to rate all of the capitlas of australia perht would probably be number 1 qld last.
[QUOTE=Nebukadnezzer;46866798]are australian christmas trees just the remains of a pine tree after being set on fire or something?[/QUOTE] They're fans, or a plastic tree very close to a fan.
It was so hot here I thought I was going to die. My aircon started smoking and broke it fucking sucked all I had was a cheap fan to keep cool.
Well the temperature here is a sweet 27 degrees.... Celsius. If it was in Kelvin, it might be freezing.
Now this is actual news. We're not talking about an 80 degree "heat wave" like some people. This is dangerous stuff.
Meanwhile it was -13°C here yesterday, and it's gonna be going further down.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;46865843]meanwhile in Queensland Raining like a mother fucker, sitting in a nice [B]relaxing[/B] 29 degree heat[/QUOTE] More like paralyzing. :v:
This is exactly why I will never live in a hot country - heat sucks when you're just trying to live and you're not on holiday
[QUOTE=Trumple;46869692]This is exactly why I will never live in a hot country - heat sucks when you're just trying to live and you're not on holiday[/QUOTE] see whenever i say things like "i want to live somewhere where it's hot", i usually mean about 90°F tops. I'm the most comfortable at those temperatures (the few times it gets that warm up here in Washington I'm just so happy about it) people disagree with me all the time but i think we can all agree that 44.4°C (~112°F) is a bit much
This has got me wondering though, how does australia compare to other countries in the % of people that buy after market heat sinks for their CPU's? Everytime a mate gets me to build them a pc I always ask them "do you have the best AC money can buy?" because if its a no your gaming pc aint going to be running anything cpu intensive during summer. It got to 45c here the other day and even my liquid cooling unit was struggling to keep the thing cool.
send some of that heat to the us tia.
so right now it's only 28 degrees in sydney, i'm guessing it was above 40 yesterday??
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