It's tooo hot!!!!

[light_sabe_r]

Okay Aussie girls. While our Northern Hemispherian friends are battling the cold weather slump... I'm finding myself unable to ride because of the title of this thread!!!

IT'S TO HOT!

You've either got to have finished up by 7am or start riding after 5:30pm in order not to show up looking all red and puffy and sweaty.

Considering two weeks ago we had that unseasonable COLD weather rip through... NOW we're well and truely IN SUMMER up here in QLD... The humidity, the haze, the "I can't sleep because the sheets are stuck to my back" kind of nighttime heat.

So this is my first summer of riding. how do you girls keep it cool here?

[Thistle]

I hear you Light_Sabe_R I said to DH during winter this year, "i'll never complain about summer again, i cant wait to ride with only one layer of clothes, i dont care that i'm hot and sweaty"... well i'm complaining it's too hot

I still ride to work, but i leave home at the ungodly hour of 6.30 (or 6.45 if i cant drag my butt out of bed like this morning) and get here by 7.30 at the latest. Then i shower all the sweat off and look halfway respectable.

I wont leave work til 5.30pm at the earliest and then huff and puff all the way home before showering again! This from someone who does not like to sweat

On the weekends, if we ride, we literally meet friends at 7am and plan to be home by 10.30 or 11am.

All this and i live in a city where it cools down overnight... unlike brissie

But... we dont have aircon at work, so most days i'm sitting in an office that's 28 - 29 degrees.. and our aircon is broken at home

[Thistle]

http://www.diegov.com/projects/dweather/

this is kinda cool

it's currently 26 degrees in canberra. hoping we dont get to the 32 they forecast

[Veronica]

I refused to read this post this morning as I headed out in my tights and wool jersey.

28 - 32 C sounds like my kind of ride. That's 80 - 89 F. I like to be warm.

V.

PS Sometimes I think I ought to flip hemispheres every season.

[mimitabby]

yayaya

People in Western Washington have their cars stuck in the snow and they don't have power in their houses and the temp lingers around freezing. and you guys
are too hot. Isn't it just crazy??!?

[crazycanuck]

Umm light & theav..Apparently it's not hot yet..

I know it's getting hotter but not really hot yet because the fire danger signs aren't up to extreme yet..just one more notch..!!!

Australia's the only country i've ever seen commercials advising people to clean thier gutters etc in case of bushfires.

All we ever get in Canada are windchill warnings and the suggested shovel, blanket, candles & chocolate in your boot.

c

[Thistle]

Umm light & theav..Apparently it's not hot yet..

I know it's getting hotter but not really hot yet because the fire danger signs aren't up to extreme yet..just one more notch..!!!

c

uh oh... that's not good... i know 30 isnt that bad (that's what it is here right now)... and we had 34 and 36 over the weekend... i just dont want it any hotter ... i'll be riding home at midnight!

cant complain, it cooled down to a beautiful 24 yesterday about 3pm.... if only the weather people could predict that, we could plan rides accordingly

not leaving til the burn goes outta that sun ... thank god for TE website when i get tired of shortcircuiting my brain with data, data and more.... data

[Trekhawk]

Okay Aussie girls. While our Northern Hemispherian friends are battling the cold weather slump... I'm finding myself unable to ride because of the title of this thread!!!

IT'S TO HOT!

You've either got to have finished up by 7am or start riding after 5:30pm in order not to show up looking all red and puffy and sweaty.

Considering two weeks ago we had that unseasonable COLD weather rip through... NOW we're well and truely IN SUMMER up here in QLD... The humidity, the haze, the "I can't sleep because the sheets are stuck to my back" kind of nighttime heat.

So this is my first summer of riding. how do you girls keep it cool here?

LOL - I was talking to my sister-in-law last night she lives in Brisbane and she was telling me that it was super hot. Now this girl just loooooves the heat (unlike this little duck who hates super hot weather) and even she said it felt like she was going to burst into flames. You have my sympathy - Aussie Summers can be a killer. Thats why I want to live in Tassie - up north is just too hot for me.

[moo bean]

You have my sympathy - Aussie Summers can be a killer. Thats why I want to live in Tassie - up north is just too hot for me.

It's 32 degrees C in Sydney at the moment. *swelter, swelter* I'm about this colour when I get to work -- -- but my facial expression is usually more like

[Trekhawk]

It's 32 degrees C in Sydney at the moment. *swelter, swelter* I'm about this colour when I get to work -- -- but my facial expression is usually more like

Yep 32 in Sydney always seems so much hotter than in other places I think maybe its the humidity.
We lived on the South Coast before we came to the USA and I think it was the humidity that did me in there. I sure did like those big electrical storms though, never have seen such amazing lightning shows before or since.

[mimitabby]

so if a person lived to the farthest south of Australia, the weather wouldn't be too hot?

[Trekhawk]

so if a person lived to the farthest south of Australia, the weather wouldn't be too hot?

It still can get hot but most of the time it is cooler down in Tasmania.

[susanm8048]

I hear you light sabre r!!

It is STINKING hot here today....and humid too.

I am trying hard not to complain too much because it is still only November and it is a long , long time till we get the blankets out again.

In answer to your question re bike riding....sh.....I must confess, I have been hitting the airconditioned gym, and using the treadmill right in front of a huge fan, and taking off as many clothes as decently possible. It is not a glamorous look! Alternately, I have been repeating the above exercise except in a Spin class.

Good luck for your next triathlon. Can't wait to hear a race report.

Sue

[crazycanuck]

HArumph i say..We had a thunderstorm this morning..(haha..Ian got caught in it.. ) but i missed out on the rain as it started to pour just as i got to work.

It's going to be a fun ride home tonight with the nasty headwinds.

c

[caligurl]

i'll trade you! i prefer the heat to the cool..... low 90's (f) is PERFECT weather for me! 60's is cool.... 50's is downright cold.... and 40's.... BRRRRRRR

but then.... the majority of spring/summer/fall months the temps here are over 100... with plenty of 110+ and even 120+ days (i set out to ride several 128 degree days this past summer!)