128 degrees in Baghdad today

[NNN0LHI]

NBC's Richard Engler was reporting from the shade there a few minutes ago and he looked wobbly. Thought he was going to pass out on live TV. I don't think I have ever experienced being in 128 degree heat before? Does it get that hot anywhere in the USA besides Death Valley? Um......think I will go walk the dogs now? Had to get that fifth sentence in. :-)

Don

[hadrons]

1. A/C is working great in Crawford ....

I'm sure the troops will be happy to here that

[JCMach1]

2. Major ME heat wave going on right now

just in time for my move.

it was 113F in Dubai yesterday with 75% humidity. The low was errrr 91.

:(

[sugus]

3. Come to Europe. We are freshquitos. Just 113 degres in Sevilla

The toll of deaths blamed on the blistering temperatures or on fires fed by the heat stood at 37 by Wednesday, and rising every day.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/07/1060145783010.html

Weather experts from Italy's state-funded CNR research centre said the heat wave was among the five worst in the last 150 years.

Europe is hit by hot air from northern Africa (from Sahara).
High-temperature records have been broken in many cities of France and Britain.

Tomorrow Bush will say again treaty of Kioto is a stupidity, and bombs and oil are the motor of our economie. The story of the heating of the planet is just an invention of those fucking ecologists.

[Palacsinta]

4. I've been in 112 degrees

Takes your breath away and you have to start panting.....then you get light headed and dizzy then you start to hallucinate..........spots, rainbows, wavy lines, shimmery little critters start showing up. Would explain alot about what's going on over there.

[Melsky]

5. We have had a record hot year in the desert I live in

The hottest it got at my house is 120 - at least that is as high as my thermometer goes. We live near 29 Palms, CA. A lot of people have died from heatstroke this year. Some of them were young and healthy. One was a Marine on the nearby base.

When it gets that hot, it's all I can do to go outside and hang the laundry. It's like being in a sauna. If I go outside, I wear little or nothing. I can't imagine trying to wear body armor.

[Generic Other]

9. Nice artwork Melsky!

Another talented DUer!

[Torgo]

6. In the Mexican Desert...

I experienced a few days of 125 degree heat. Of course most of the air conditioners broke down. Even the locals were affected badly.

Temperatures that high are just plain dangerous to humans. We had many fellow workers who got sick.

My years in Texas, with a maximum of 114 degrees, seemed pretty tame by comparison.

[Desertrose]

7. we've been very hot here,too....

in the AZ desert...but at altitude 4500 feet its not quite as hot as Phoenix.

Its bad enough at 110-115 when its dry, but when the monsoonal moisture flows up from Mexico & you factor in humidity & dewpoints above 55...for me, my brain just quits functioning....and like the poster from 29 Palms says...I can't imagine uniforms or full body armor.

I can well imagine why some of our troops feel they've been sent into a torturous hell...

my heart goes out to all over there...I wish Bush would just bring em all home...I feel deeply for all the Iraquis who have had thier lives so disrupted and ruined...how can they deal with the heat on top of allthe emotional trauma they've been put through....??

And what does * do? He cuts the f**king brush on hos faux ranch??Why doesn't he go tour Iraq or Afghanistan to see what his greed has done??

:grr:
Peace...
DR

[diamond14]

8. it's been great weather here in DC...much cooler than normal...

only exceeded 90 degrees a couple times...temps all summer have been in high 80's with lows in high 60's to low 70's...it's been real pleasant compared to last year, where the temps were smoking hot over 95 degrees for weeks in a row...

[diamond14]

10. that heat wrecks havoc on machinery, plastics, o-rings, and

all that military stuff...explosives shouldn't be stored in that kind of heat because the heat causes unstability, and could go off....add a little sandstorm to that...and what a mess


bring OUR soldiers HOME....NOW!

[alfredo]

11. Spent time in Massawa

a port city on the Red Sea. It would get up to 130 degrees at times. It shares the distinction of being the hottest port in the world. Yes, it got very uncomfortable, and the sea was not cool either, it felt like a bath tub with the added feature of sharks.

To sleep you drank until you passed out. Waking up nude and hungover on Gurgusoms beach is an Army tradition.

http://home.planet.nl/~hans.mebrat/eritrea-massawa.htm

[jfkennedy]

12. 128 degrees

128 degrees is a hot one. I thought Bush said the war was over and they (the troops) were all being sent home. The problem is Bushs vision of democracy leaves out democrats, in Iraq. So the only ones that will be able to vote or be in power are the same extremists, conservatives, the Republicans installed in power some 40 years ago.

http://antiwarmonger.com