Heat Wave

[STE\/E]

The Heat here in Michigan has forced me to shut my Pharm down for the next 2-3 Days anyway, I've had my GPU's shut down already for the last few weeks so shutting the CPU's down is no big deal, it'll just hold me up getting higher Badges. Once the Temps get back to normal I'll fire up some if not all Box's again and adjust as the Heat goes up or down. Temp's have been getting into the 90's with Heat Index's over 100, my AC keeps kicking out for lack of Power I figure so the Computer's have to be shut off when it gets this hot, I had to do the same thing last summer when the Temp's got to high ... :( ... The Temp's are supposed to drop down to the low 80's either Fri or Sat so I should hopefully be able to fire some back up anyway by then ...

[DrPop]

Wow! And I thought it was hot out here. ;) (actually being from Alaska means I think it's hot all the time down here) Sorry to hear, but maybe it will give you a good break anyway, and best of luck on the cooler temps coming at the weekend!

[zombie67]

Now's my chance to sprint into the lead! :rolleyes:

[Justgeo1]

And that's the main reason I like living in Seattle... Our high today was 88 and that's the high temp for all this year, so far... :cool:

[Duke of Buckingham]

We passed 40 Centigrade this year for Portugal, that was about 110 Fahrenheit.

The heat seems to come in waves this year at least we have some cool days in between.

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[Fire$torm]

Ya know, I don't see anything wrong with the metric system as a whole, but....

Metric temps are very deceiving! 40 degrees Celsius doesn't sound that high. After all, in today's age, 40 is the new 30. Now the Fahrenheit scale makes sense. I mean to properly convey really hot temps you need to use THREE digits!!!!!!! Now 110 degrees Fahrenheit even looks hot, by comparison 40C sounds like slowly melting ice cubes. Pitiful....

Just my 2%

[DrPop]

Now's my chance to sprint into the lead! :rolleyes:

G0 ZOMBIE GO! :)) :D Looks like he's giving you about 3 more days here. ;)

[STE\/E]

Now's my chance to sprint into the lead! :rolleyes:


I'm Fired back up as of this morning ... :p:p ... Was looking at the long Term Temps for this month & August & if they hold at those Temps I should be able to keep running ... :D ... Won't be running any GPU's though until maybe sometime in September or early October ... Will save some Electrical Costs anyway ... :rolleyes:

[pinhodecarlos]

Here in Brazil in Winter we get minimum temps of 72 ºF and highs of 88 ºF.

[pinhodecarlos]

Ya know, I don't see anything wrong with the metric system as a whole, but....

Metric temps are very deceiving! 40 degrees Celsius doesn't sound that high. After all, in today's age, 40 is the new 30. Now the Fahrenheit scale makes sense. I mean to properly convey really hot temps you need to use THREE digits!!!!!!! Now 110 degrees Fahrenheit even looks hot, by comparison 40C sounds like slowly melting ice cubes. Pitiful....

Just my 2%

You are wrong. The thermodynamic temperature scale is in Kelvin. Just my engineer 2 cents...lol

[John P. Myers]

You are wrong. The thermodynamic temperature scale is in Kelvin. Just my engineer 2 cents...lol

Haha! I gotta +1 Carlos for that one. You want 3 digits when it's hot, Kelvin gives you that. At the same time though, if you don't want 3 digits while is snowing, Kelvin gives you 3 digits anyway (32F = 0C = 273K).

[Duke of Buckingham]

Three temperature scales are in common use in science and industry. Two of those scales are SI metric:

The degree Celsius (°C) scale was devised by dividing the range of temperature between the freezing and boiling temperatures of pure water at standard atmospheric conditions (sea level pressure) into 100 equal parts. Temperatures on this scale were at one time known as degrees centigrade, however it is no longer correct to use that terminology. [The official name was changed from "centigrade degree" to "Celsius degree" by the 9th General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) in 1948.]

The kelvin (K) temperature scale is an extension of the degree Celsius scale down to absolute zero, a hypothetical temperature characterized by a complete absence of heat energy. Temperatures on this scale are called kelvins, NOT degrees kelvin, kelvin is not capitalized, and the symbol (capital K) stands alone with no degree symbol. [The official name was changed to "kelvin" and symbol "K" by the 13th General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) in 1967.]

The degree Fahrenheit (°F) non-metric temperature scale was devised and evolved over time so that the freezing and boiling temperatures of water are whole numbers, but not round numbers as in the Celsius temperature scale.

[Bryan]

You guys don't know what heat is ... it got up to 2500 degrees at my house and the AC couldn't keep up :)) Did you know that all components in a computer either melt or burn - fascinating!!

[Duke of Buckingham]

You guys don't know what heat is ... it got up to 2500 degrees at my house and the AC couldn't keep up :)) Did you know that all components in a computer either melt or burn - fascinating!!

Yeha, we like to complain with small things Bryan. Hope things are going better for you now. Keep it cool.

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[Duke of Buckingham]

A nice article about Kelvin scale

Uncommon Measure: Acoustic Result Could Change Definition of Temperature

A new measurement of a fundamental physical constant marks a turning point in the quest to craft a perfect temperature scale

By Lee Billings

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The most accurate thermometer in the known universe sits in a rather nondescript white building in Teddington, England, on the campus of the U.K.’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL). It looks nothing like a slender tube filled with mercury or colored alcohol. Instead, it’s a copper vessel about the size of a large cantaloupe, filled with dilute ultrapure argon gas and studded with microphones and microwave antennas, precisely shaped by a diamond-tipped lathe so that its radius varies with an uncertainty of only about 12 atomic layers of copper. The purpose of this thermometer is not really to measure temperature, however. Rather, new results from this and other similar devices could soon allow scientists to redefine temperature completely and bring it in line with the meter and other standard international units of measurement.

More on: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=acoustic-result-could-change-temperature-definition&WT.mc_id=SA_CAT_SPCPHYS_20130718