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July 24

Northernmost location that reached 40 C

After some searching I found that Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai at 52° 3′ 0″ N reached 43.2 C. Count Iblis (talk) 05:46, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

43.2° C. is 109.76° F. 40° C. is 104° F. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 25#Why can Labrador get so hot? discusses a temperature of 107° recorded at latitude 53 1/2° N. 2A00:23C5:C708:8C00:B0C8:D69:FA32:D1C8 (talk) 09:22, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If your Labrador is too hot, try giving him some cool water to drink. :-) 12:12, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

Not an answer, but Yakutsk (62°02′N) reaches 38.4. Granted it has unusual geography, but I'd be surprised if there weren't somewhere between Chita and Yakutsk which qualifies. Henry ^Flower 20:35, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

So far I have found 52d23m with many decicelsiuses to spare. I will check another country later. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 00:18, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Tara, Omsk Oblast, Siberia, 56°53′N, 40 Celsius exactly on the hottest day in Tara history (one of those days the wind came from the Central Asian desert). Altitude 70 meter, population 27,318. World record might be norther. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 03:22, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Beerenberg 71°4′36′′N during its 1980 eruption.--Wikimedes (talk) 06:47, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A weather station that gets overrun by a volcano doesn't count for weather records. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 02:26, 28 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, so we're just short of 57° as far as the known data from measurements is concerned. Count Iblis (talk) 03:51, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

"A Mounty always gets his man!" If we ignore the sexism for a moment, are there any instances where the RCMP have not managed to " get their man"? Thanks Anton 81.131.40.58 (talk) 16:09, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If you google "do mounties always get their man" you will find various commentaries. This one is interesting.[1] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:03, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Are you seriously asking if there are no unsolved federal crimes in Canada? Matt Deres (talk) 13:05, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'd take the Q seriously. I mean, some people believe Canadians never lock their doors because no one in Canada has ever been a victim of a crime. --M @r ē ino 21:16, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dudley Do-Right may be the only Mountie with a 100% success rate. SinisterLefty (talk) 20:22, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

As they serve as municipal police in many jurisdictions, and we have lots of unsolved crimes, yes, it is a regular occurrence that they do not "get their man". There are far too many instances to provide a particular instance. Mingmingla (talk) 03:35, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Is this website real or a scam?

I came across this website: https://beautyofthemoment.com/product-category/foundation/

It may look like a cosmetics on-line store, but if you look carefully, one of the products is actually a "BitCoin Code" scam.

Now my question is, is this a real cosmetics on-line store that some malicious cracker hijacked, or is the entire website part of the scam? JIP | Talk 21:57, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The website is less than a month old, which is one of the warning signs of a scam. I'm also suspicious of how few google hits it has. --M @r ē ino 21:23, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. They also hide who set up the site, and the contents are mainly javascript. I wouldn't trust it. Dbfirs 17:19, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I did a little research of my own and looked at their contact page. They state a physical address, a telephone number and an e-mail address. The physical address is at "Spadafore Drive" but according to Google Maps, such a street doesn't exist. I didn't want to call or e-mail them as that would give away my own contact information to them. Also, if you put items into your cart and go to check-out, it's not actually possible to pay for them. The site doesn't offer any payment methods. JIP | Talk 19:21, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]