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Swain encouraged participants of the chat to meet at a set of coordinates one year hence and fight for the right to use the name "Josh." The event, though initially intended as a joke, drew a crowd of nearly a thousand on the day of the event. The gathering was lighthearted and there was no actual violence involved.
At an average temperature of 28.0 degrees Celsius (82.4 degrees Fahrenheit), June is the hottest month of the year. January is the coldest month, with temperatures averaging 18.6 °C (65.5 °F).
This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F. Summers typically feature warm daytime temperatures between 75 and 85 degrees Fahrenheit, and can occasionally top 90 degrees. Lake breezes are common, which can help temper the warm daytime temperatures.
Cocoa Crater is located in Cassiar Land District of northwestern British Columbia, Canada, just southwest of Mount Edziza at the southern end of the Big Raven Plateau. [2] [3] [8] It has an elevation of 2,117 metres (6,946 feet) and is the largest subaerial cone in the Snowshoe Lava Field, one of the largest areas of Holocene lava flows in the Mount Edziza volcanic complex.
Gibbonsville, nestled in the Bitterroot Mountains, has a climate rather typical of its region, although it is warmer than stations located at higher elevations.The climate is of the Warm Summer Humid Continental type (Köppen Dfb), but is quite different than most climates with this classification, owing to characteristics shared with its climatic brethren in the Bitterroot range, as well as ...
Santo Domingo de los Colorados, [3] often simply referred to as Santo Domingo (Quechua: Tsachila), is an Ecuadorian city and seat of the canton that bears its name and the Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas Province.
On January 15, 1919, on the same day as the Great Molasses Flood, temperatures quickly rose from an expected 30 degrees Fahrenheit to over 80 degrees.This unprecedented heat wave caused excessive fermentation in the beets that were processed at the plant, causing them to produce an inordinate amount of ethanol which catalyzed the corrosion of their pewter containers.
In the words of Gess and Lutz, in a firestorm "superheated flames of at least 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit ... advance on winds of 110 miles per hour or stronger. The diameter of such a fire ranges from one thousand to ten thousand feet ... When a firestorm erupts in a forest, it is a blowup, nature's nuclear explosion ... " [10]: 101