Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?

Songbird76

Songbird76

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MinnieM123 said:
;) Well I suppose you could also argue that normal colder temperatures up here in the winter, might be a crisis for some people farther South, if that same weather pattern showed up, along with the snow and ice.

My theory is that it comes down to individual, internal thermostats -- perhaps some people internally "register", either higher or lower than the actual temperature. I've never done well in the summer; and even as a little kid, sometimes heat made me ill. Yet, I can tolerate frigid cold, while many of the people I know, can't.

So I don't think people were necessarily heartier years ago (in either heat or cold). And maybe people who were overcome from either heat or cold, might have been inconsistently reported in the health data records--skewing the actual statistics. Although the temptation is to say that people were tougher back then, I question whether that was always the case. Perhaps the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

To conclude: It's good advice for people to drink more water in the heat (as you sweat out water--but more importantly--you also sweat out salt, which can make you collapse). Actually Gatorade is often used for overheated patients--our hospital buys it by the caseload! :p (Especially this past month when it's been unusually hot and humid for so long--it's coming off the delivery trucks on these big pallets.)
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You also have to take in the change in climate over the last century or so. For example, here...the winters used to be very very cold and snowy. Every year there was an ice skating race on the canals...ever heard the story of Hans Brinker and the silver skates? Now we barely get enough snow and cold weather to make the ice on the canals. We haven't had that race in the Netherlands in years. And then when I first moved here, we were lucky to get 3 weeks worth of warm days over 25 celsius in the year. This year we had 6 weeks in a row of temperatures over 30 degrees celsius where about half of those were over 35, which is SO rare here. What they considered "Extreme temperatures" back in the 1800s is way different than today's definition of it. Back then, extreme heat would have probably been 30 celsius. The definition of a "heatwave" here is 5 days in a row of temps over 25, where 3 of them are over 30. So this year's was way more extreme than that. Climate is shifting and the extremes are different.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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Songbird76 said:
You also have to take in the change in climate over the last century or so. For example, here...the winters used to be very very cold and snowy. Every year there was an ice skating race on the canals...ever heard the story of Hans Brinker and the silver skates? Now we barely get enough snow and cold weather to make the ice on the canals. We haven't had that race in the Netherlands in years. And then when I first moved here, we were lucky to get 3 weeks worth of warm days over 25 celsius in the year. This year we had 6 weeks in a row of temperatures over 30 degrees celsius where about half of those were over 35, which is SO rare here. What they considered "Extreme temperatures" back in the 1800s is way different than today's definition of it. Back then, extreme heat would have probably been 30 celsius. The definition of a "heatwave" here is 5 days in a row of temps over 25, where 3 of them are over 30. So this year's was way more extreme than that. Climate is shifting and the extremes are different.
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Well, you can put that out of your mind, because over here we know that Climate change is just a rumor planted by the Chinese. No worries! :cautious::bawling:
 
Nemo14

Nemo14

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Today is our adjusting to the time zone changes and just kind of R and R- ing. There's a garden place we want to go to this morning, then a state park on an island out on the lake that we'll go to this afternoon. We caught a glimpse of the Mormon Tabernacle yesterday, but DH doesn't seem too interested in seeing it any closer than that, so that's OK with me. I've toured it before. Tomorrow we head to the mountains!
 
trr1

trr1

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