But during the long, southern summer, from November through April, a cold current flows up from the Antarctic, sending cooling breezes inland that ward off the heat.
But it also removed the power that kept the vital water pumps running, sending cooling water around the hot core.
"They did basketball, sponsored concerts, sent cool kids onto campus, talked up Sprite in Internet chat rooms.
— once more sent cool fingers through his lower gut, and he caught himself in a momentary swooning motion that he concealed behind a contented sigh.
The front features a huge air intake, which sends cool air to the engine bay and wheel wells, and air vents on the hood, which exhaust hot air from the radiator, the heat exchanger connected to the engine which regulates engine temperature.
"We had an old window unit that could barely cool the living room, and certainly couldn't send cool air back to the bedroom," he said.
Mr. Gadomski explained that a persistent high-level jet stream has sent cooler air streaming from the north and northwest.
After what seemed like an hour, but was really only a minute or two, the pilot came over the speaker system and told us that he had unintentionally hit the wrong control button while trying to send cooling air into the main cabin.
At the extreme, this could trigger one of the more catastrophic "tipping points" of climate change - the switching-off of the "thermohaline circulation" which brings warm water from the Tropics to the northern Atlantic and sends cooler Arctic waters south - events which were dramatised, if somewhat fancifully, in the film The Day After Tomorrow.
The portions were sent cooled and via express mail to BDS (0.2 ml, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) for the ER-CALUX® assay, and to the Ecotox Centre Eawag/EPFL (0.3 ml, Duebendorf, Switzerland) respectively, for the YES-assay.
