It’s too hot.
I realise that, for many of you, having to put up with 28C (82F) in my office is cool, but I live in the UK! We can’t cope with hot weather. Or cold weather. We get temperate weather and we like it!
All I want to do is sleep, but it’s too hot to sleep! Getting work done is hard. Luckily, I got the Atlantis book finished a couple of weeks ago. You should be seeing that early next month. And things are supposed to cool down at the end of this week, so I’m hoping my progress on the next Unobtainium book will pick up then. I’ll go back to struggling to concentrate now.
(This ramble was brought to you by Niall’s overcooked brain.)
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Considering we were *supposed* to be having thunderstorms from Monday and right now it’s still blue sky and 32C, I’m not sure how much faith you can put in it getting cooler soon.
I’m due thunder this afternoon, according to the met office. I’ve had small thunderstorms after midnight for the last two nights. (Weird, actually, it was like they were on a timer.) However, this has already gone on longer than they thought and thinking it’ll end this week IS more hope than judgement.
Here on the Devon and Cornwall border, we had a thunderstorm that lasted a large part of the day on Monday. Thunder rolled over at about half hour intervals, with almost no rain. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered anything quite like it.
Since then the atmosphere feels like it might still thunder, we have 40%+ humidity, and 28 degrees C temperatures. My temporary office in one corner of the bedroom has just reached 32 degrees, even with the window open, so I’ve stopped work for the day.
More importantly, well done on progressing the Atlantis book, and I look forward to reading it.
Yeap, 28C is a mild to warm day for us downunder. Then again today at the end of winter we had 21C and that felt warm! Good news about the books. Hope your weather cools down so work is possible again.
I was talking to my father recently and he mentioned that my family almost moved to Australia when I was about 11. I’m not sure I would’ve survived!
Count your blessings – tomorrow is supposed to be above 38 degrees C where I live. Not entirely unusual, but not pleasant either. Standard for this time of year is around 31-33 degrees or so.
In the UK heatwave with you but I’m a builder….
This temperature + white rendered well reflecting heat + manual labour….. 4L of water a work day cause that’s what I’m sweating out.
*Wall not well
I humbly bow to your greater suffering.
Mind you, I’m in a small room with two thudding great computers. The heat output is… Well, it keeps me warm in winter.
Though I still think you’ve got it worse. I can not turn the biggest machine on until it gets cooler. 🙂
I suppose 28C doesn’t seem all that bad given it was in the mid 30s at lunch today and a feels like temperature of 37 or 38 due to the humidity. Of course I’m in Florida where such things are expected & common until November or thereabouts. Of curse we also have aircon setups to handle it, but I hid in our datacenter this afternoon becuase it was down for servicing today.
Ha! I used to work as a computer admin in an office which got ridiculously hot in the summer. The computer room had air conditioning and I used to desperately need to do admin work in there every summer. Bliss.
I’m actually thinking of getting an air conditioner put into my office, which is not something I’d have thought of saying before we invented climate change.
I find I am far more fastidious when it comes to checking the hardware in our server room during this time of the year. Can’t think why
The heat and hard work in summer put the servers under extra stress. And that requires extra monitoring and maintenance. Or at least that was always my excuse. Either that or cleaning the dust out of the server air intakes with a box of ear cleaners to ensure optimal cooling. That the room was 22 compared to 26 in the rest of the building had nothing whatsoever to do with it. Nope. Not at all.
It just has to be done.
A previous job had an IT office with about a third partitioned as the server room. We had 5 servers and 9 NAS boxes in two rack cabinets, plus the aircon unit. There were 4 staff, one in each corner of the office.
In the summer we would close the door to the corridor, and open the server room door to reduce the temperature in the office, and keep it open until we could no longer stand the fan noise!
I’m starting to think that IT people are constitutionally incapable of abusing air-con privileges. 🙂
We here in Las Vegas are supposed to average about 43c next week. Hottest I remember was working on the ramp at McCarren Int Apt. One summer it got to 51c. Winter here is delightful. Where I grew up in upstate NY summers were hot and muggy with winters brutal . I remember one year air temp was -31c. I hate winter.
I’ve never been to Vegas, but I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Phoenix. Winter there is awesome. That’s the season they recruit people from out of town to work there. Summers… Summers are brutal. I almost gave myself heatstroke walking two blocks one Sunday. But I do have fond memories of watching hummingbirds feeding on someone’s patio out on the edge of the desert.
I spent a day in a hanger in Phoenix doing inventory for the airline. It was hot enough in their my ancestors from 500 years ago sweated. Phoenix is like Laughlin/bullhead city at close to sea level. Vegas is about 2000ft above sea level.
Sunrise and sunset in the desert is a very moving experience.