There’s no point in firing off pictures of your car’s thermometer reading (or any other thermometer reading in fact) and just expecting us to believe what it says. For a genuine and accurate measurement, you need a laboratory thermometer calibrated by the Cape Metrology Centre and then you need to pop it outside at ten past three on a Tuesday afternoon and see what happens.
Which is this:
It should probably be noted that we actually got a high of 50.9°C, but were too slow with the camera. However, with another scorcher on offer tomorrow and records to be broken, there may be a case for doing a repeat reading during our lunch break, when it may be even hotter.
As eagle-eyed readers will note, our Thermamite 1 is very capable of taking on up to four times what the South African sun can throw at it, infra-red wise.
(You should see what the Thermamite 2 can do…)
So we’re completely ready for tomorrow: Bring it on! (just as long as we can skulk back to the safety of our air-conditioned laboratory immediately afterwards. Thanks.)
UPDATE: Repeated experiment at 1300 CAT the following day yields unsurprising result:
And yes, obviously that’s in the sun – just like those cricketers down the road are…
Meanwhile back in the UK… It’s anything between -2 and 4 degrees depending on which car model’s thermometer you believe 😆
And if you do it in the shade 1m off the ground? Dying to know what that says
Cazpi > Will try now…..
37.1C – at 1405
Cool, thanks – that’s apparently the scientifically correct way [says she lol]. Still, 37 is hot…..
Cazpi> Close.
Aah ok cool. Stephenson screen probably best for that sort of thing 😛 Thanks hun!
I love the way you tell Cazpi it is 37.1’C, and she replies ‘cool, thanks…’
37.1’C is NOT cool. Caz! 🙂
Haha Jacki – 37.1 is SO much cooler than 66.2! – and not the 45 or so I was expecting 🙂 So in a way, cool meant super and it also meant – less hot 🙂
Cazpi > That’s what Mr Stephenson thought, too.
JJvR > Ah, the different meanings of the word “cool”.
Later, we can discuss the different meanings of the word “African”, if you wish?
Cazpi > and today was cooler still. Thank goodness.
@6k -> as always, am in stitches
@Jackie – eish, good luck lol