My neighbour's roof. James Taylor would have reconsidered.
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  • 74 points Duyfkenthefirst

    now lets measure the black roofs. Whole suburbs jump 10 odd degrees where the roofs are black and houses are jammed in so tight that there's no room for trees

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    21 points alexanderino

    No black rooves in the vicinity, but I measured the green grass vs. brown grass in the same spot: a difference of 10–15 °C. And in general, darker areas are hotter.

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    9 points Kirikomori

    Lets build new suburbs with no trees full of twisting streets far away from public transport and McMansions with black tile roofs and cool it all down with air conditioning. This is the exact opposite of what Australians should be doing.

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  • 41 points WontThinkStraight

    The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire

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    24 points alexanderino

    The footpath wasn't much better: 69 °C.

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    8 points BarryCheckTheFuseBox

    Nice

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    3 points alexanderino

    ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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    0 points Cheeseisatypeofmeat

    r/69nice

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    4 points Few-Gas3143

    We don't need no water, let the mutha fucka burn.

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  • 14 points Bagelam

    That's enough for spontaneous combustion. 

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    6 points alexanderino

    Or for cooking an egg.

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  • 6 points bakedfarty

    Why are there two temperatures?

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    3 points alexanderino

    The smaller reading above is the ambient temperature.

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  • 4 points Sumpkit

    Forgot I put a thermometer in the roof space. Just checked and it capped out at 36.8° when it was 40.5° outside. I stand by my choice on having a white roof with an r1.8 roof blanket.

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  • 6 points dlanod

    Is it tin? And do you have a cat spare...?

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    7 points alexanderino

    Red terracotta tiled roof. Have to check where the spare cat is…

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    4 points jack3t_with_sl33ves

    Schroedingers roof

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  • 2 points Cheeseisatypeofmeat

    that's a no from me haha

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  • 2 points DecalageVersLeRouge

    I'm not getting the James Taylor reference?

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    2 points alexanderino

    On the roof, it's peaceful as can be
    And there the world below can't bother me
    Let me tell you now

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  • 1 points yolk3d

    Is that humidity and dew point too? What thermometer?

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    1 points alexanderino

    Yes and yes. It's a MESTEK IR02C.

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  • 1 points Wooden-Consequence81

    Monument folks be trembling !

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  • -5 points Pauli86

    Peter Garrett would still get a young worker to install bats

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