"Heat" in America
Dec. 18th, 2006 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gemfyreJust 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.
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.
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Date: 2006-12-18 01:14 pm (UTC)I find the water at Perth beaches cold in summer, hence I don't go in until it hits the mid thirties whereas in the tropics, I was alwas in the water and I was never worried about the water being cold until I was 17 when I came to Perth for boarding school. The first rude shock was enough to instil that fear.