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[Darth Vader]

^ I'm sure everybody in the region knows and feels it. Going outdoors has become an ordeal. I've always had a personal little gripe with nature about the extremes of weather which are all found in our region. The dry heat, the furious rains, the indifferent fall, the biting cold. Each of them can become potentially lethal. But right now is the sun's prime time to let her rip. The one assuage, to me is that the mosquito are biting the dust and I say to them, its good to see you die my friends, for now. Otherwise there is nothing to be had from this. Feeling like being in a sci-fi movie on a distant planet where the sunlight can burn you to ashes being a vague exception, in a certain weird way.

I keep checking the weather forecast and see no rains incoming in the next 10 days. So my friends I feel that I should request that everyone prays for it. Otherwise there is going to be a awful waste of time being forced to take shelter and hibernate in cool places we can find. And then there is the month of Ramadhan fast approaching. Now I'm no gung-ho at all when dealing with this much heat.

Take care.

[Marbles]

All of us resident folks share your thoughts and anxieties, bro. That's what I call the heatwave. Temps here are almost touching 50 C. I wonder if we in the Central-to-Southern plains are going to break last year's record of 52 C?

If you notice, there's only one more day of the extreme heat. The wave would break on Saturday, I hope. I don't see any rains either but there are going to be storms, sandstorms to be precise, and they always bring down thermometers a few degrees. Normal/average temps for summer months in my part of the country fluctuates at the maximum of 40-43 C. This range sounds like heaven.

I am having to spend a lot of time on site in the sun and sometimes I think I ain't gonna make it to the home on the driving seat

[*Sayyeda*]

Darth Vader, on 23 May 2013 - 01:22 PM, said:

And then there is the month of Ramadhan fast approaching. Now I'm no gung-ho at all when dealing with this much heat.
Take care.

Hopefully by Ramadan it will have cooled a little and InshAllah you will be rewarded more for fasting in these difficult conditions.

Marbles, on 23 May 2013 - 02:24 PM, said:

All of us resident folks share your thoughts and anxieties, bro. That's what I call the heatwave. Temps here are almost touching 50 C. I wonder if we in the Central-to-Southern plains are going to break last year's record of 52 C?

Reminds me of the summers in Dubai

[Marbles]

*Sayyeda*, on 23 May 2013 - 03:23 PM, said:

Reminds me of the summers in Dubai

I'm sure it does - except that there are no 12-hour a day power outages and A/Cs run even in bathrooms 24/7

Dubai is hot and humid. I still prefer it hot and dry. I can't breath in humidity. I spent 2011 Ramadan in Dubai cursing my stars.

[*Sayyeda*]

Marbles, on 23 May 2013 - 03:40 PM, said:

I spent 2011 Ramadan in Dubai cursing my stars.

Ramadan in Dubai may be hot but the day's aren't long and as you mentioned, there's the amazing air conditioning

[Darth Vader]

Air conditioning. Whats that? Oh, never mind. I heard its their plan to take away power, as in electrical power, from the people eventually and completely and I thought it absurd as I couldn't think of a reason. But I can clearly see deliberate deprivation by electric supply company. Top up the knave company grunt's mobile phone with a mere 100 rs. and they turn on your line for 15-30 minutes. Bloody hell. I get to switch the generator on and off all night, charge batteries, put water in the room air cooler in kids' room and at times, curse profanities at the administration when they get mischievous and start playing hide and seek, turning power on and off every 5 minutes.

[Ruq]

Dry and hot sounds good to me atm. Its 7 degree's here, but feels like less >.< although 50 is just being silly... i would be in hospital with that kind of heat.

[Marbles]

Ruq, on 23 May 2013 - 05:03 PM, said:

Dry and hot sounds good to me atm. Its 7 degree's here, but feels like less >.< although 50 is just being silly... i would be in hospital with that kind of heat.

Aye, we're silly people to have these silly temperatures. We also don't learn from heat.

[AnaAmmar1]

guys seriously,its like hell here on roads of lahore.

itni garmi ha k bhook bhi ni lagti.

a block of ice which costs 200-300 pkr per piece is now being sold on 3200 pkr.

and we had to go to all the way to the anarkali to buy it.

Edited by AnaAmmar1, 23 May 2013 - 05:43 PM.

[Brained]

^Yup, and summers are just the perfect time for the freezer to break down ..

[ShiaBen]

Thankfully I moved to an area of Tehran, Iran just outside the city where there's constant breezes, even during the summer so it kind of acts like a natural air conditioning. Also not much mosquitoes and the ones that dare emerge are rather wimpy.

[Wind Chimes]

It is so hot and no electricity all night. I think I am going to have a nervous breakdown or something of that sort.

Edited by Wind Chimes, Yesterday, 12:39 AM.

[Marbles]

Wind Chimes, on 24 May 2013 - 12:37 AM, said:

It is so hot and no electricity all night. I think I am going to have a nervous breakdown or something of that sort.

The grids in Upper Punjab tripped due to over heating caused by heavy load. We have this old and decrepit system that's getting ever so hard to maintain and the rapacious bureaucrats after they steal much of the development funds are left with nothing to upgrade the systems.

[Gypsy]

I wouldn't want to be in Pakistan with that sort of weather and with no air-conditioner unit.

[IbnSohan]

set a modern wind catcher in your house.

[Darth Vader]

Why not all pray for a rain storm or cloud cover or something..... it might work.

[Askari1]

IbnSohan, on 24 May 2013 - 07:51 AM, said:

set a modern wind catcher in your house.

back to the stone age with dust and flies and uncontrollable, passive methods that are earthquake prone. pakistan cant afford it as its area is half iran and population double or triple.

the method is to make solar cells, steel, and underground basements, and water storage, for protection against heat, earthquake, and the EMP during Malhama.

build houses using welded H beam and not ribar. you need steel.