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07.28.08

Office Temperature Watch File under: Weather, Work | (9)
While m'colleague Neil and I have been whinging about the temperature* in our office for a few weeks, we haven't, until today, been able to do so with statistical verification. I brought a cheap thermometer into work this morning and we've established that - even with a portable A/C unit blowing through the open door - the climate in our fifth floor cubbyhole is balmier than Bankgkok, Harare, Bermuda, Mexico City, Calcutta, Athens and Istanbul, to name but a few. As I write, the mercury has just reached 36°C (97°F), which I think must make it one of the hottest offices around. Unless ...
08.10.03

Stroke File under: Life, Transport, Weather | Comments Off
Hottest day ever in the UK, apparently. I know, I'll shut up about the weather at some point, I promise. Trouble is, when it's this clammy, it's actually quite difficult to concentrate on anything else. Anyway. With another scorcher predicted, P and I jumped in the car and headed once more for points south, ending up this time in....West Wittering again. Well, it's just what you need on a day like this. And it *was*. What we needed. Exactly what was required: a chance to enjoy the summer rather than resenting it (or watching it swelter from behind corporate smoked glass ...
08.06.03

Whither the weather? File under: Weather | Comments Off
OK, I've been quiet so far about this latest heatwave, because there's nothing so cliched (or boring) as British people moaning about whatever weather they have which falls outside the average UK (Sort of not warm but not cold either, a bit overcast. Should I take a jacket out? Will I need a brolly?) day. So let's just pretend I'm not British, just for a second, while I say by 'eck it's hot. I mean hot. I know, usually when Brits say hot they mean somewhere in the mid seventies (25° in real money). Likewise, when we say cold, we mean ...

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