MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Record hot January for Argentina with thermal factor 47.6 Celsius in Buenos Aires
January 2014 is becoming the hottest month in 53 years for Argentina with the thermal factor reaching an unbearable 47.6 Celsius mid afternoon before rain poured bringing some relief to most of the country an particularly in cement city Buenos Aires. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWhat the he!! is the “thermal factor”?
Jan 24th, 2014 - 03:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0“...the thermal factor had climbed to 46.8 and temperature 36 Celsius.”
So the temperature was 36C! This is usually the air temperature taken in the shade. So what is 46.8C the temperature in the sun?
I tried to look this up but couldn't come up with an answer.
Let's just say that last week we had 4 days with temperatures over 40C. Tuesday last week got to 42.8C IN THE SHADE followed by 1 days of 41C and then two days of was 44C IN THE SHADE!
I can only shudder at what the thermal factor was on those days.
THERMAL UTILIZATION FACTOR?
Jan 24th, 2014 - 03:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0ummm... 'thermal utilization factor'
“Probability of a thermal neutron being absorbed by fissile material whether causing fission or not in an infinite reactor core. Symbol f.”
http://thesciencedictionary.org/thermal-utilization-factor/
No, I still don't have a clue either....
Sounds too hot to even think where you are....
Aaah but it was a nice 23C with rain here this morning Ilsen. Melbourne's weather is extremely variable. On Friday the temperature dropped nearly 15C in 30 mins - depends in the wind is coming off central Australia's deserts or south from the Antarctic.
Jan 24th, 2014 - 04:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0sounds cool. I'm temporarily back in the UK, weather as to be expected, and body-clock still on Vnzla time.....
Jan 24th, 2014 - 04:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Still, nice to see MP is reporting more on Vnzla now. Have had interests there now for over 15 years, but never seen it this bad. The missus tells me prices have gone up nearly 100% in the past 10 days...
@1
Jan 24th, 2014 - 04:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0Thermal factor is an artless mercopress translation for “Sensación Térmica”, this is known in some countries as Heat Index, in others ex-Argentina countries as Indice de Bochorno, in others as Indice de chaleur, in others as Hitzeindex, and in others as índice de calor.
Most civilized countries record thermal factor.
Those that do not, force tennis players to play in 5o celcius Heat index, putting in severe risk their lives and those of the spectators, not to speak of the horrible, unpresentable sport spectacle that playing in such conditions causes.
@1. like Narine has said - its the temperature that it is perceived by the body taking into consideration humidity, wind speed, radiation and other factors.
Jan 24th, 2014 - 05:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0Thank you Troneas @6 for the succinct info. Happy to be enlightened. But no, Narine didn't say that, just attempted to translate it... Didn't actually say anything of value, as usual...
Jan 24th, 2014 - 06:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0@5 ahhh! yes, 'artless MP translation' agreed. In Europe we have something called “Wind-chill factor”, must be similiar, (in reverse tho!). Something you are no doubt familiar with?
Last paragraph completely unnecessary, why the hate? Seriously, please do explain.
Surely the players, spectators etc choose of their own unfettered free will to participate? The massively well-paid players were forced? This is not gladiators in the Roman Empire.....
“unpresentable spectacle” hmmm... forgive me, but the Tennis was 'presented' via a uncensored global media to the world.... perhaps you should choose a different word to express your somewhat random hatred of? hmm... of what exactly?
Glad you're back.
Jan 24th, 2014 - 06:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0We will do our uttermost to attend to your needs, of attention.
In the meantime, enjoy South America from the sadness of your lives...
Lets talk about Argentina, your topic of choice, to set the mood...
We must just be a hardier bunch down under than some wussy foreign tennis players. But at least those tennis players had electricity and air con in their accommodation and change rooms. So we are obviously doing better than other poor countries that can't handle temperatures in the 30s and have fortnight long blackouts.
Jan 24th, 2014 - 06:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0I know what the heat index is. Pity Mercopress doesn't employ native English speakers for its English edition. Though considering no one comments on the Spanish version it is hardly surprising.
It's because you attention seekers can't keep your tongue in check when trying another language and everything comes out in a bigger mess than usual.
Jan 24th, 2014 - 06:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0As for the poor, we already did this. You lived off your father until he went broke. After that, your 7/11 salary is your main income.
You are poor in every aspect of life.
So here you are, like everyday, seeking attention in an effort to forget.
Ummm yeah.......anyway..... back to the heatwave.
Jan 24th, 2014 - 06:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0But it's true.
Jan 24th, 2014 - 07:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0You'll be here tomorrow again...
We ARE your life.
Your mood depends on how we sleep.
Everyday..
Really?
Jan 24th, 2014 - 07:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0And where are you everyday Stevie?
At least I don't have a child I ignore while being on here.
Or worse ignore my partner. Is your family life really so vacuous that you need to spend so much time on here? You must have a woefully pathetic relationship with your wife and your little daughter to want to escape from them online for so long. Or aren't they around as much now? Bit of a Christmas bust up?
You spend so much of your time chasing people like me around fora.
And you'll be here tomorrow and the day after.
Because chasing people like me IS YOUR LIFE.
I'm here, Anglolatino.
Jan 24th, 2014 - 07:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Where you want me to be.
Attending your thirst for attention.
Every day.
Every single day.
;)
Well at least I get your attention. Unlike your daughter and your wife.
Jan 24th, 2014 - 09:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are definitely where I want you to be. Unhinged, incoherent and ineffective. But unlike you, I don't need to be here everyday.
You're currently outposting me about 5 to 1 which I'm quite comfortable with. I guess I'm not escaping from an unhappy family life. I mean where else could you possible be?
Such a shame you are currently the last comment on so many articles and will now have to sit around waiting for someone to reply so you can post again. I counted at least 10. LOL
So be my guest and outpost me all weekend. Unlike you, I can easily leave and will.
See you on Tuesday. Happy Australia Day.
But you ARE here every single day.
Jan 24th, 2014 - 10:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Seeking attention.
From me.
From us.
Each and every day.
I'd never heard of this 'thermal factor' - guess that makes me 'uncivilized' lol. 35 degrees C is pretty much the average temperature this time of the year where I live and I'm perfectly comfortable with it, but add in high humidity ( rarely an issue here ) and that's another story...
Jan 24th, 2014 - 12:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@5 Narine
Hyperbole aside, I agree with you. The sight of players passing out and even hallucinating is an unedifying one. The Heat Policy though, was conceived in conjunction with the A.T.P. so they bear equal responsibility for the consequences IMHO.
Heat waves with electricity outages for weeks on end
Jan 24th, 2014 - 02:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0oil shortages
running out of international currency
settling defaulted debt
internet restrictions
lifting the U$ restrictions
cutting taxes
restricting imports
decreasing trade surpluses
strikes from police
price controls
food shortages
skyrocketing inflation
massive currency devaluation
increasing crimes
pickets, protests and riots....where does it it? They have absolutely no clue what they are doing. They are so far over their heads I am not surprised they do not pack their bags and escape before the lynch mobs start.
Yes, it's great, Poppy
Jan 24th, 2014 - 02:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not as exciting as your school shootouts, but we'll manage...
Awwww
I said we... Now I'm from Argentina...
If I call you you, does that makes you a Pilipino?
I call them you...
Where were we?
Stray dogs, yes...
There won't be too many stray dogs/cats around when hyperinflation takes ahold
Jan 24th, 2014 - 02:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0yum yum
In Sayago there were 1547 cats, now there's 48.
Jan 24th, 2014 - 02:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Faltan gatos!
-Jorge Lazaroff
Poor cats! What HAVE you been eating Stevie?
Jan 24th, 2014 - 03:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Must be a shortage of mogs in Solimar if you have to go to Sayago to stock up.
Liebre por gato?
Its said that the castrated cats are the first to go as they are fatter,but as a gourmet of feline flesh I am sure you know that.
What's your recipe? Asado or made into chorizos?
Where is Solimar?
Jan 24th, 2014 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Actually.....ever been to Asia? Not to many strays on the streets. Not like seeing a splayed calico or a mutt hanging in the open food markets.
Jan 24th, 2014 - 03:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You know yankee I am beginning to regret my travel plans to Argentina, but I really cannot avoid it. Over the next month, that place is in a flushing vortex.
stevie no matter what makes your puppet master today happy....go for it. The USA has problems but pale in comparison the Argentina's. I've seen Argentina's first hand.
Yes, because school shootouts are so hyped...
Jan 24th, 2014 - 03:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0People tend to overreact...
23. You tell us you're the one who posted about living there.
Jan 24th, 2014 - 03:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 024. As long as you stay away from downtown it will be fine. I used to stay at Hotel Del Casco in San Isidro when i was just visiting friends. It is lovely and secure. Bring U$ and negotiate at the table, taxi, store. Your wife's family must be besides themselves. I've been on chat with friends asking me to find them a job here. They're tired and scared.
I stay in Recoleta and it's not too bad they. Fortunately I do not need a hotel....only if I leave the area and may be going down south for 4 or 5 days.....to the glaciers.
Jan 24th, 2014 - 04:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I've never taken dollars with me....however I may this time. The last time they were getting reluctant to take cards....you would get a good discount for cash.
They family is just really pissed how these .....mmmm.....I can't recall the word they used......something akin to a brainless asshole, pissed how they actually made the country far worse off then it was.
yanqui... the word you are looking for is “yanqui”...
Jan 24th, 2014 - 05:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How mean of them!
They call kirchner yanqui? I don't think so stephan.....the word my Argentine family call's kirchner is not a flattering word.
Jan 24th, 2014 - 05:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do you drive cabs stephen? Perhaps when I am there you'll get lucky and get me as a fare....I tip well and I promise not to close to the door hard. I always tend to slam the tin can cars of the cabs thinking they are as solid as my cars. I tip more than the RG 10% standard stephen
Stephan or Stephen?
Jan 24th, 2014 - 05:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't tip more just to show off, you'll get hurt.
Take it from a friend ;)
I don't tip to show off. I tip because I am accustomized to the process. I tip well for service......and at times next to nothing for the lack of it. I was more concerned when I slammed a cabbie's door to hard....then from tipping the way i am use to.
Jan 24th, 2014 - 05:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't know....are you a Stephan.....my cousin married a Chilean from Santiago so the name dwells on me. Are you Stephen.....or Steven...or Stephan?
“...are you a Stephan.....my cousin ”
Jan 24th, 2014 - 05:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, I'm not.
That's a selective crop of words. It looks like I am asking are you my cousin.
Jan 24th, 2014 - 06:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We'll go with Steven then.
Does it? Weird....
Jan 24th, 2014 - 06:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My family is of Italian original, Lavergotta, from southern Palermo.
Myself was names after a Charruan musician, Chupamé.
Hence “Stevie”...
mmmmm funny my Argentine wife is of Italian descent. Interesting article to read here. Yopu realize that it's not the country nore the people obviously, it's the kircher's I have disdain for.
Jan 24th, 2014 - 06:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/149995/holed-up-in-the-pink-house
where captain poppy lives?
Jan 24th, 2014 - 06:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0if he lives in Boston his “fruit of loom” underwear might be frozen...
(34) Stevie
Jan 24th, 2014 - 08:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Aren't you THE Stevie married to Japanese Kabuki actress; Ms. Tuteta Sekae?
Well tinkaroo one of us was right and one of us was wrong...
Jan 24th, 2014 - 08:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0very wrong indeed
If you are wondering it was me that was right and you that was wrong
on ever discussion we've ever had
Ex, if I may, my dear Think.
Jan 24th, 2014 - 08:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She left me for the Arabic charlatan Mohamed Lajetah...
Yes, him from “Love in Tel Aviv; If kisses could kill”
...
I prefer not to talk about it.
(38) Stevie
Jan 24th, 2014 - 09:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I understand your pain....
Ms. Tuteta could raise any man's “Thermal Factor” (Heat Index:-)
Poppy
Jan 24th, 2014 - 10:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I was just kidding :)
My mother is Tierno, Portuguese I think. Some family say the Tiernos were Galegos though...
My father is a Cámela, a direct decendant of the French painter/life artist of the same name.
Me?
I am Benito.
Glad to meet you.
Who are you?
Go BUY a TCLLLLLLLLLLL AIRE CONDICIONADO!
Jan 25th, 2014 - 01:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0American
Jan 25th, 2014 - 03:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0I thought the thermal factor was a bit like the Krypton Factor. Thermal Factor is a new Argentine game show where a group of contestants complete a series of mental and physical challenges in order to try and change some of their worthless Pesos into US Dollars.
Jan 25th, 2014 - 11:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Great Poppy
Jan 25th, 2014 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Me too!
We have loads in common.
I too have a South American wife.
Elba.
Daughter of Rosalín Gallo. Never recognised by her father, that pig...
Tell me more about you.
Stevie I am not getting into a dick measuring contest over the term “American”, because you very well now I am using the term in the contestual sense of a country while you use it on the sense of continent......apples and oranges. Argentina are Argentines , Brazil as Brazilians, England as the English, Russia as Russians, Chian as Chinese, United States of America are Americans and the world refers to me as an American and you as an Argentine.
Jan 25th, 2014 - 03:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Have you lost electricity there yet? On two summer visits I've lost electricity........it sucks. Maybe the new acting president of Argentina will start to encourage the electric companies to invest in the electrical infrastructure via tax credits......now that asslips is out of the picture.
@44 Elba?
Jan 25th, 2014 - 03:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The ultimate in Napoleonic palindromes.
“Able was I ere I saw Elba”
No, you are yanqui, I am yorugua and we are both Americans.
Jan 25th, 2014 - 03:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Like it or not. Which goes for both of us...
I must correct my foolish mistake in last post.
Mom in law isn't named Rosalín.
It's Rosamel.
Rosamel Gallo.
She had 12 children. 11 boys and my Elba.
Tell me more about you, don't be shy...
Common Freudian slip not to remember your mother in laws name Stevie.
Jan 25th, 2014 - 04:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And you say your father in law was a pig?
Interesting genetic combination as far as I know unknown to science.
Write it up Stevie and go for a Nobel Prize and the money that goes with it.
(47) Stevie
Jan 25th, 2014 - 04:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Elba Gayo, Benito Camela & Chupame Laverga.......
Sugestive latino names, indeed ;-)
Hahahaha Think
Jan 25th, 2014 - 04:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm a distant relative to Monkeymagic.
My great uncle's cousin was a member of the Galindo's, his mother's side.
Lamonaca, a Spanish traveller and historian married a young Galindo and they supposedly moved to England...
Continentally you are an American but not nationally nor does the world refer to you as such. My last post on that matter.
Jan 26th, 2014 - 02:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0The world doesn't refer to either you or me in any way whatsoever.
Jan 26th, 2014 - 08:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0Don't magnify your importance...
@1 Think of it as the reverse of “wind chill factor”.
Jan 26th, 2014 - 12:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps all this heat has caused Argentina to become contagious and go viral:
Jan 26th, 2014 - 12:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.foxbusiness.com/investing/2014/01/24/investors-cry-over-argentina-as-contagion-fears-resurface/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxbusiness%2Fallnews+(Internal+-+All+News+-+Text)
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