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From: John Zimmerman <>
Subject: Re: UK Weather
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 09:11:50 -0700


Jan Johnson wrote:

> If baked in the Summer is what you'd like to be, come on to my house.
> I'll open up the couch and you can enjoy our toasty 51 degrees (Did I do
> my math right? I looked for the formula for converting Farenheit to
> Celcius, but the only sources I could find are so old they call it
> Centigrade. Guess I'll just have to check it out at school Monday.) At
> any rate, the average temperature in July and August in our "sunny city"
> is about 110 degrees Farenheit. When my twins were younger, one of them
> had a baseball game on a "sunny" June afternoon. They cancelled the
> 4:00 game because the temperature was 122 - but by 6:00 the sun was
> going down, the temperature had dropped to a chilly 118, so the
> officials decided it was safe to play. YUCK!!!
>
> Jan in (rainy) Arizona
>

Hi, Jan,

As I remember, that summer was also when they had to ground all the Boeing
737s from flying out of Phoenix Sky Harbor airport, since the operating
envelope for those aircraft had only been tested up to 120 degrees
Farenheit. Testing has now been completed to 130 degrees, but Arizona might
just break the limit again, if el Nino ever lets us get past the rinse
cycle.

John Zimmerman (in soggy Arizona)

Researching - Buzza, Costello, Davis, Dewey, Hesson, Zimmerman
Ignorance is its own reward :-)

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