Windows 11's latest endearing mess rigorously and wrongly enforces Britishisms
Microsoft's patchwork OS will now sometimes auto-translate Zip files to postcode files for UK users.
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Carnifex
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Right now, as I type this message, the current heat index outside is thirty-eight C. So, I'm hanging indoors and getting my music festival on!
Here it's 27°C and will continue to be around that warm several more days. Mid June in Sweden, that's considered a heatwave.
Redglyph
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Here it's steadily rising, now about 29°C, but what concerns me more is that we haven't seen a single drop of rain in about one month.
Carnifex
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Heat index here hit forty, then a brief shower spared us more searing, at least temporarily.
Couchpotato
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At least most of you weren't suffocating in smoke particles from the Canadian forest fires. Luckily the winds have shifted, and the air is back to being normally polluated.
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I'll still take the heat over ice and snow any day. 
pibbuR
Feeling ... lonely?
Hah!I'll still take the heat over ice and snow any day.
pibbuR who can accept the current 18 C (23:00), but fears that temperature will rise to 26 tomorrow.
PS. It's true. Temperatures above 20C makes me uncomfortably numb. The wife is visiting relatives and friends in the north (Tromsø) where tomorrow will bring a healthy 10C. Wish I were there. DS.
PPS. I still remember the first time I was in the US. Landed in Houston, temperature above 38 hit me like an invisible wall. Ouch! DS.
Mid winter here, so it only gets up to about 25 C during the day where I live. My daughter lives further north in the tropics where 28 is the winter norm. I'll be up there for a few weeks from next week!!
Carnifex
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Oh man, one of the things that I don't miss about Alberta: the forest fires, literally the MOMENT after the snow stops falling. I had a lovely patio that we literally couldn't use some weeks/months during the summer time, simply because of the poor air quality.
Yeah, that's too hot. I'm not a fan of the climate in the Southwestern U.S. The combination of heat and how dry it is makes you feel like you're in an oven.
Otoh, 10C is a little too cool for me.
20-23 and rain now and then for me10-20°C and some water for the trees would be my ideal environment.
Carnifex
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Seventeen to twenty C is literally perfect for me. Right now it's thirty-two and feels like thirty-four.
Payback for all the years sending Canada acid rain?
Couchpotato
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Actually that hasn't happened for a while as an agreement was reached in 1991.
Canada-United States Air Quality Agreement: overview - Canada.ca
Canada-United States Air Quality Agreement Progress Report 2008
Carnifex
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Speaking of the heat and no idea if it was a factor or not, my mobile literally blew up on the porch yesterday. Fortunately it happened after all the family calls due to Father's day, so at least those happened earlier. I was sitting on the porch reading and I heard a text come in, figured I'd check it in a few minutes and then saw something out of the corner of my eye and heard a slight noise. I put the kindle down and looked, saw the mobile protector lying on the concrete and the phone itself had parted face from base, I could see the glue holding some parts still together yet there was a separation of at least two cents all the way around. So, I had to get a new mobile, fun times.
I keep telling myself at least I wasn't holding it when whatever happened happened.
I keep telling myself at least I wasn't holding it when whatever happened happened.