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Post by cadman on Jun 4, 2024 14:50:26 GMT -5
Temperature and altitude affect how a plane flys? If so I had no idea. Makes a huge difference. Take off distance , weight etc. Wind chill is meaningless to airplanes (or anything else for that matter) only the ambient temperature is important. As far as the feels like temperatures go, I guess it is determined by how old you are? When I was a kid growing up here in Florida we didnβt have air conditioning, but I really donβt recall being hot? But of course we would just jump in the lake if it got too hot. π I think that your body adjusts. If you have no AC, it gets used to 90 degrees and you are fine. With AC, we are used to 75 degrees and 90 is hot as hell I know in the winter, first cold snap feels colder than later ones due to being adjusted to warmer weather
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Post by gandy on Jun 5, 2024 6:42:28 GMT -5
Last job I had punching a clock was for an aluminum extrusion equipment manufacture. We had a hot summer week in Sanford Fl highs 113Β°, 114Β° My lucky butt was inside a 1/2" thick 800 to 900 gallon tank stick welding in the sun for a few of those days.
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Post by mackeralsnatcher on Jun 5, 2024 7:28:05 GMT -5
I just had a flashback to the worse, miserable, hot job I ever had. Working on the inside of oil tankers, doing rigging and sandblasting. BUT back in 1979-80 it paid like $20 an hour. You only lasted about 30 minutes and had to go topside and change your clothes and suck down a gallon of water.
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Post by nikonoclast on Jun 5, 2024 9:23:50 GMT -5
So far ... it hasn't been too bad here near the center.
( Years ago, the population center of the US was a SE Illinois bean field. )
Humidity is what makes for miserable weather here, though heat happens.
The City is a heat-island, with large rivers on both the North and East.
Fingers are crossed that tornados stay "in their place" ... Oklahoma and Kansas.
The entire state took an big insurance hit after a twister took out Joplin in 2011.
( economics aside, over 160 were killed ... insurance can't bring them back )
Could a hurricane come from the SE at the same time as tornados from the SW?
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