To each his own, I guess - I love the heat and humidity of summer.
Yup … same thing … can’t stand that.
Once I have my millions and millions, my winter home will be in Boston and my summer home will be in Anchorage. Oh, and I’ll have a beach house in New Hampshire or Maine.
That probably tells you how I feel about sitting in 100 degree heat with a window fan blowing at me.
Wel, when y’all are complaining about the winter cold, and I’m comfortable, I’ll be the first to tell you you’re being silly. Summer makes me miserable. Even during a good summer, the heat bothers me.
A couple of years ago I was with some family members at Deerhurst and the temp. was about 70. My brother and sister had the AC on and I was dying it was so cold. I guess that I have lived in Texas too long, but I don’t set my AC below 78, because 20[sup]o[/sup] cooler than outside is cozy. I’ll be back at Deerhurst in a week - I’m bringing a sweatshirt this time.
I’m certain that the people who originally settled in Texas got here in October and thought “Hey, this is pretty damn nice”. Why they didn’t come to their senses the following June is something I don’t understand.
I guess I’m one of those who expects heat in the summer. And I expect lots of heat. A few years ago my sister and her husband came to visit. The temperature was in the 90’s and when my BIL commented that it was hot I just said “No, it’s not hot yet, the temperature hasn’t gone over 100.”
Then my sister and BIL moved to Las Vegas NV. Recently my Dad called my nephew, who is very interested in the weather. Dad asked him what the temperature was; my nephew looked at the thermometer and then returned to the phone announcing it was 115.
You probably don’t want to hear this, but I’ve been camping in Yellowstone for the past coupla weeks. It was warm, but my thermo indicated around 40-45 most mornings.
:: runs away, ducking the rocks ::
By the way, Denver is not in the mountains. The foothills begin about 10 miles west of me. It cools down about 30 degrees by sunrise, but we don’t get that marked drop right after sundown that the mountains do.
Psssh. Nebraskans don’t know heat. 'Round these parts, once the monsoons come, it usually cools off to about 105 in the middle of the night.
I don’t think we had a high under 115 last week (though the highs have been hovering around a balmy 112 or so this week, a nice break), and all the news stations are saying that we’re very likely to see 120+ this year.
And here’s the thing about those idiots that say, “Yeah, but it’s a dry heat.”: They don’t understand that it’s a tradeoff. Sure, shade doesn’t help when it’s humid, but rolling the window down in your car does. Try rolling your window down in the “dry heat”; it feels like a hair-dryer is being pointed directly at your face on full heat. The exact same effect occurs when the wind blows. Not to mention that if it’s 115 outside, the inside of your car is going to be somewhere in the 140s. Try to imagine how long it takes the best air conditioner to bring 145 degrees down to a temperature that feels reasonably comfortable to the average human. Remember that your dash, seats, steering-wheel, etc are all that temperature and all the metal in your engine is likely even hotter. CDs melt and metal object become 1st degree burn hazards.
I definitely prefer winter to summer, especially if I have to be working outside.
- If it’s cold, you can always add layers. There are only so many clothes you can take off, especially in public and double especially at work. Those nice camo uniforms don’t breathe that well, either.
- When you go inside to warm up from the cold, you’re usually dry. If you’re cooling off from the heat, you’re soaking wet.
- Put it in
- Swampnuts. There, I said it. Swampnuts. Gold Bond Medicated Powder is literally washed away by the sweat. I’ve seriously considered getting some maxipads to absorb the nasty.
Hee - us Canadians like to tell stories about visiting hot places (not THE hot place, thankyewverrymuch), and how we’re out running around in our t-shirts and shorts and swimming outside and stuff, and the locals looking at us like we’re nuts because it’s only 25° C (77° F). 25 °C is about my UPPER limit of comfort. Then they visit here in winter, and look at us like we’re nuts for running around outside when it’s only -20° C (-4° F).
Course, I look at immigrants like they’re nuts when they’re wearing a parka in a 20° C day.
Well then, let me be the first to tell you you’re being silly!
We are all different. Heat can be uncomfortable but, for me, cold is painful. It really hurts. It’s sharp; heat is soft (until you get into the range where it can inflict burns, that is).
Although my indoor-outdoor thermometer tells me it only got down to 79F last night. That’s pretty unusual for Denver.
If I had air conditioning I might have thought about turning it on last night. I probably wouldn’t have–but I might have thought about it.
I went for a walk about 1 am, and was sweating pretty good by two minutes into it. Here’s hoping that today is not the fifth straight day of record-setting heat!
Fully agree with the OP, I love winter. Too cold outside? Step inside, problem solved. Too hot? Nothing you can do but suffer, air conditioning is a rarity up here in Canada.
I went for a bike ride a couple of hours ago (in Boulder). I filled my water bottle with ice water from my fridge and within a half hour it was too hot to drink. It got over 100 here but right now the sky is dark and I hear thunder! If it rains I’m going outside to stand in it.
Well…I think it’s over. sob I spent the last day of record-setting heat shopping in a mall and when I came out, it was cloudy.
Power went out about 10 last night. Still out. Fortunately it’s supposed to be cooler today. Why does the power go out just as the heat wave ends?
Oddly, my apartments seem to have two different power mains. Some people have power; some don’t. More oddly, there is a line of outlets on one side of my apartment that work. Laundry room, shower, and one side of my bedroom.
This morning, after I again reported the outage to Xcel, I took an extension cord census. I have enough extension cords to power either the refrigerator or the computer, but not both.
It should be obvious which I chose - am I a nerd?
Just heard on the radio that the heat index today is supposed to be almost 120F/49C (that’s a predicted high of 102F/39C with high humidity). And I don’t have AC! Boy, this is gonna be fun.