Just think sunshine or hop a short flight to Australia where they are having record heat waves down under.
It was so hot that they had to postpone some tennis matches during the heat wave. Maria Sharipova was playing in the Australian Open when it was 110 in the shade. Other's were passing out from the heat in the Southern Hemisphere while we are freezing cold in the Northern Hemisphere.
If you take all the warmer temps in the N hemisphere and add them up and divide by N where N= the total number of temperature readings you get an average temp for the Northern Hemisphere. Do the same for the Southern Hemisphere get and average temp for the Southern Hemisphere and then average the two averages and you may find that the Average Temp of the Entire Earth is one or two deg C higher than normal. And the extremes are way above normal. Extreme Colds and extreme hot temperatures are the normal these days.. But the average is moving up from the past 100 years or so.
I wish I were 30 years younger so that I could take the Heat Buddy outside next to the lake shore and put on some ice skates and go play Ice Hockey on the ice covered lakes. I use to do that all the time when I was still in School. It was cold but if you keep moving you stay pretty warm. These days I have to pay $12 for just an hour or so of ice time at the indoor ice rink.
Or I could drill a hole in the ice and go ice fishing. If it stays cold long enough we can even drive a vehicle out onto the lake and drag an ice shanty onto the lake.
But it never stays cold enough for long enough to get 4" or thicker ice on our lakes here in Southern IN. At least not very often in my life time anyways.
It's so cold outside that when I went to go hunting and got out of the warm truck my breath froze onto my eyeglasses and I could not see for a while. Guess I'll have to put a soft eye glass cloth in the hunting vest for those occasions.
I went out the other night to hunt varmints and it was around 20 deg F outside that night. I didn't get home until after midnight and right as it started to snow. I called it a day when my feet said that they could not take it any more. ha ha. I had been up at the rifle range all day and I my feet didn't like my Rocky Boots for more than 10 hours.
Originally Posted by mhall
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