>>>>>>http://bigstory.ap.org/article/cold-dis-comfort-antarctica-set-record-1358
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>>>>>>y 135.8 degrees Fahrenheit! Of course it got really cold here last night dropped all the way down to 71 degrees, heck I had to sleep under a sheet! haha
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>>>>>I am pleased to see you are back to lording your weather over us.
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>>>>>You don't even want to know how cold it is here. And it's not even officially the start of winter. The good part is we appreciate summer when it comes. We've earned it.
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>>>>As usual it's relatively warm out here in SoCal -- low likely to be just under 500°R
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>>>500 degrees, that sounds hot. I don't even know what the R temperature scale is. I am familiar with Fahrenheit, Centigrade, and Kelvin.
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>>>Google to the rescue -- it's Rankine. It's amazing what you can learn here.
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>>>My brother lives in Florida and has been crowing on Facebook about how warm it is there. I said get back to me in the summer when it's in the 90s and humid.
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>>I was thinking about posting temperature in Onkian, but I couldn't much info on that temperature scale..
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>I am going to run out to the store and get two indoor/outdoor thermometers, one Rankine and the other Onkian.
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>Actually I have been avoiding even looking at the thermometer I have now (Fahrenheit, with a think an option for Celsius). Going outside tells me all I need to know. The temperature today is still "Ahhhhhh!"

Why are you shaking that thermometer?
To make sure to settle the merc.... oh wait.. this is a digital thermometer...


this reminds me of something that happened to me at a laundromat a while back... A person asked about how to set the temperature on the clothes dryer -- which I thought was odd, considering that the temperature setting was represented using an easy-to-understand iconic form (using a "thermometer" with different levels) rather than the wording low/medium/high. Then it dawned on me... It's been a while since I'd seen a fluid-filled thermometer being sold at stores...