"Heat" in America

[gemfyre]

Just been reading a lot about how it's unusually hot in the U.S. right now.

Well, people say it's "hot". Hot it seems is a slightly chilly 21C. At that temperature I have a jumper on and am getting cold.

Apparently 80F is scorching. Turns out that's a balmy 26C, pretty much ideal operating temperature for me.

Right now here in Australia, we're averaging over 35C (95F) and often we top 38C, which is 100F.

Then again I was talking to a woman from New Zealand who said 18C was perfect weather. By that time I have a heater running. If it gets too much below 16C (61F), I stay in bed under the covers and refuse to go outside.

Comments

[pinkjubie.livejournal.com]

Well, 21 C in the middle of what is now winter over here IS pretty hot, relatively speaking. However if it were July, 21 C would seem near freezing. I'm not in the US, but I lived accross the river from Detroit most of my life. Here in Newfoundland it's cold 8 months out of the year, today was 5 C and that was considered "mild" for this time of year.

I love posts about the weather, so I had to comment :) I'm such a dork that I did a specialization in climatology for my BSc, lol.

[pinkjubie.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, and 24 C is my perfect temperature. I do well with temps anywhere from 10 C to 28 C, but once we start going over 30 C I need my fan and some cold drinks. I tend to prefer cold. This summer while sleeping in 42 C heat at night (in Quebec) nearly killed me.