Oh to be in England ...

Oh to be in England now that summertime is here.

It's late Spring here in Sydney, Australia. Outside temperature today peaked at 39C (102F) with WNW (hot dry) winds at 30 kpH gusting to 50 KpH. I turned on my printer in the back room of my house and before I had begun warming the print bed the reading was 35C.

Temperature in my favourite town in England (Broadway, Worcestershire) was 7C with rain.

By the look of things, December to February is going to be hot and dry in Australia and cold and wet across the northern hemisphere.

Old Man Emu

6.2 on my roof, 16 in my loft. Oh to be in Aus.

1.6 Celcius (up from -2 on Wednesday), In the deep south part of the US. Pretty sure all my plants are completely wrecked.

Some of my friends up north have had their roofs cave in from nearly 2 meters of snow in the past 3 days.

Here's a recent picture from space of the US East Coast. In case you're really lamenting your hot weather.

(to put it back on the topic of the board, another friend of mine found that a print he was planing to do some vapor smoothing on must have had some moisture in the ABS, because it nearly completely delaminated in the sudden cold.)

-16C in Canada (Montreal) One of the earliest snow storm has hit on us. Yet, those poor guy from the USA just hit 2meters of snow...

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Originally Posted by Mjolinor

6.2 on my roof, 16 in my loft. Oh to be in Aus.

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Click here for Burnley, Victoria, Australia weather forecast: http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml

Click here for St Leonards, Sydney, Australia (closest English name to correspond with a Montreal locality): http://www.weatherzone.com.au/nsw/sydney/st-leonards

Old Man Emu

Is it humid over there? Here we have ABS spool that just absorb all the moisture in the air within few days. The lab where the printers are next to the heat power station. Lots and lots of humidity screwing all the print. Adding the fact that the cold weather just hit us, make print failing miserably.

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Originally Posted by old man emu

Oh to be in England now that summertime is here.

It's late Spring here in Sydney, Australia. Outside temperature today peaked at 39C (102F) with WNW (hot dry) winds at 30 kpH gusting to 50 KpH. I turned on my printer in the back room of my house and before I had begun warming the print bed the reading was 35C.

Temperature in my favourite town in England (Broadway, Worcestershire) was 7C with rain.

By the look of things, December to February is going to be hot and dry in Australia and cold and wet across the northern hemisphere.

Old Man Emu

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Mate, I am up past Kempsey now...

Let me put it this way. It was so hot today, I could probably print in ABS on kapton without even heating my heatbed. The Humidity has been really bad tho, usually its the opposite here but constant overcast weather makes for a very sticky day.

35C at Camden (NSW) Airport which is 5 kms straight line distance from my house. Humidity between 9:30 am and 5.30 pm did not exceed 49%. (That's 8:30 am to 4:30 pm solar time as we are on daylight saving (UTC + 11)

It is supposed to get to 40C tomorrow. My boss, Old Ma Emu, has directed that I will not be working outside, and that includes the garage where my vehicle restoration is going on. Looks like tomorrow is the day I upgrade Marlin to auto bed leveling.

OME

Well, today.. I am inside and check this out.

My extruders are at 40c without even being turned on lol

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Now is Winter here in China. But its around 29C here! Can't believe it!!!

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Originally Posted by Geoff

Well, today.. I am inside and check this out. My extruders are at 40c without even being turned on lol

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Did the heat muck up any of your printers? Not worried about filament issues.

OME

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Originally Posted by old man emu

Did the heat muck up any of your printers? Not worried about filament issues.

OME

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The opposite, the entire room acts like a heat chamber :) adequate cooling fans keep the boards below critical temps.

And the critical temp is .........?

OME

we had frost and fog today.

I'll take that over 40c any day !

That's too hot for me.

Today we have 10C in Northern Canada, it's very cold that I cannot step outside

do you mean -10c ?

'cos 10c is pretty warm for winter.

10f probably, doubt it's 10K but one never knows. :)

34F here in Baltimore, MD USA with 2 inches of wet snow on the ground. First of the year and a bit early. I turn my printer on and open the window in my small office and it saves my heating bills...lol...

I was in Oxford for a couple of days... rain, fog, rain, some more fog.
Glad to be home in the riviera.

For printing purposes though I think I'd be doing better where I used to be in Haerbin (china) : humidity was below 50% most of the year. The newcomers all had nosebleeds and headaches for a few weeks.

24C at 10:00 am. Humidity dropping and it's the First of December.

I'm going off-line for a few hours while I go mow my garden lawn and then start pulling out the Christmas lights and statuary to decorate the street side of the house for the Festive Season. It will be the first Christmas that my grandson will be able to sort of appreciate the effort.

The beauty of it is that I get to do ALL the work myself! Where's a Grinch when you need one?

O me
O my

Written 6 hours later ...
I must be getting old! Two hours of moving garden furniture; cutting grass along the fence line with a whipper snipper (US: weed whacker), then pushing a petrol lawn mower around, and I've had it. The temperature was only 28 -29C with 50% humidity. Years ago I could have done that bit of work standing on my ear. Still, the cold beer had some restorative powers. I better look to my health and well-being, so I'll just sit here at my desk and play with OpenScad for the rest of the afternoon.

OME