28 January 2010

Day 49 - Hot Deck: Part 2

Below is the graph of temperature over time on the 26th of January. The red line is the shade temperature and the blue line is the temperature on my deck. I knew that it got hot out there, but what surprised me the most was the tenacity of the heat - it was over 40 degrees for 5 hours, and over 50 degrees for 3 1/2 hours.

This day wasn't chosen because it was particularly hot - it just happened to be a day when I wasn't going out, and was able to measure the temperature every half hour! The maximum was 57.5, which was quite a bit short of this year's maximum of 58.8 degrees (137.8 in the old scale). I'm convinced that I'll see 65 (150) before the end of February.

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  1. BernieHJanuary 28, 2010 at 4:28 PM

    I think it's a common mistake we make ... we really overlook just how hot it gets outdoors when we're cocooned inside with the air-conditioning on.

    I once took the temperature of the soil in my plastic pots out in my courtyard garden ... and it was so surprising. The roots were literally cooking in the stinking hot soil! It would have been like an oven.

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