I have been riding up into the mountains every afternoon. A couple of days ago I rode up a 15% grade for two miles at 99 degrees in direct sunlight. By the time I got to the top I was drenched with perspiration and it felt like 140 degrees. I think it was a new record heat index and I want it published in the Guinness Book of World Records.
My bicycle was the hottest location in the history of earth, except for under Al Gore’s house where it is millions of degrees.
There is a heat advisory today IN ONLY 12 STATES! It is the first week in August!
Sadly, I bet mine is one of them. Its been merciless. ……… didn’t those dumbasses just get done telling us a warmer world causes more precipitation?
Riding here has been quite a joy of late!!Took tonight off, but will put on a few K tomorrow (for my American friends K mean Kilometers…just in case…)
Extreme heat in Europe — 1852:
“THE WEATHER IN ENGLAND.
FOR many years past there has not been experienced in this country such severe heat as within the last three weeks. The thermometer reached at one time to 90° in the shade. This extraordinary state of the atmosphere has not been confined to England ; we have similar accounts from Madrid, Paris, and other places on the continent…”
~24 Nov 1852
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2958157?
I know the feeling. hich part of YOUR bike get hottest?
except for under Al Gore’s house where it is millions of degrees.
Don’t you mean millions of dollars?
I tell you the Autoindex is higher still. I kept a meat thermometer near the steering wheel of my company truck and there were many times it showed a well done turkey at 165. I had to either wear gloves or keep a towel over the steering wheel to be able to handle it and the shift lever was as bad. Of course that was a location with 115 in the shade but no shade. A co-worker would place an open can of soup on the dash to have a hot lunch.
Don’t forget to add your Sun proximity figures into the heatmidity indextreme.