A local meteorologist has this guide he uses to try to convey relative comfort levels of the temperature. His prediction for today was “jackets in the morning, sweater whether mid day, then shirt sleeves for the drive home”.
Wait, what? You mean it gets colder during the day?
You see, to me, a jacket (or coat) is what you wear when the weather outside is going to be cold, a sweater is what you wear when the weather inside is going to be cold. Or else the weather outside is going to be cold, and you will be outside for a long time, in which case you wear the aforementioned sweater under your jacket (or preferrably coat, since it’s cold enough for a sweater).
To me his guide makes no sense. And that ignores the presumption that I would put on a jacket to go to work, then take it off and put on a sweater to go around for lunch. Um, no. If I wear a coat to work in the morning, and by lunch it’s not warm enough for just shirtsleeves, then I’ll just be wearing the same coat, not swapping it out for a different clothing item.
I don’t think he’s literally describing an actual intended progression of changing attire for a single person going to work. He’s just saying cold in the morning, warmer but cool midday, and even warmer by the evening.
Why are you baffled by the idea of it getting colder mid-day or warmer in the evening? That happens frequently during the winter. It’s usually Canada’s fault.
But sweater weather being as high as the mid-60s…it’s only warmer that that 4 months of the year here! Sweaters without a coat are okay from 45-60F. Maybe as low as 40F if it’s not windy.
I think the idea is that in the am you put on your shirt, a sweater over top, and then your jacket. By lunch time you’ll be able to leave the jacket off and be comfortable in the just the sweater and shirt. On the drive home, just the shirt is needed.
Of course, I would have thought it was cooler than that in Ireland at the moment, but I’m not really nearby to check.
Cool but not biting cold, not wet and not raining (sweaters won’t do much for rain and wind).
Low 40s to low-mid 50s. Rather a subjective call, since Person A might be freezing at 60 in just a tee shirt and sweater, while Person B likes colder weather and would roast at 60 degrees F with a sweater on.
Also depends on activity level, no? I’d be chilly on an overcast 50-degree day sitting or standing around for 30 minutes. But during a brisk 30-minute walk at 50 and sunny, I’d be down to my tee shirt.
Depends where you live.
I have lived where it is cold (Chicago, NYC and Berlin) and probably 50’s would be sweater weather.
Now, living in Las Vegas where it is over 100 most days in the summer, people here think anything below 70 is freezing and wear down jackets! Wimps…
It seems to me as if it is warming up. Most of my jackets are heavier than my sweaters, so cold enough for a jacket in the morning, then only a sweater in the afternoon (50s or 60s), then just a shirt in the afternoon (70sand up). I wish it were sweater weather here now!
I live in Houston, Texas. The standard weather pattern is for it to start cool, warm up through the day, peak around 3 pm, then slowling cool down, but not really start to cool down until the late evening/early morning.
Sure, it can have an odd winter pattern with a front move through. That’s why I reacted as I did. The weather he described was the typical weather pattern. Start in the 40s, slowly warm to the 60s by mid day, hit 70 by drive home. Then he says “jackets, sweater weather, shirt sleeves.” Thus my confusion.
To me, a sweater is for cold weather. Not merely cool weather. Because I’m going to spend most of my time indoors, where the air is either heated or cooled. There just aren’t that many days I want to wear a sweater. And the few I do, I usually end up having to take it off - which is for some reason strange to me.
You’re the second person to be confused by my username. I live in Houston, Texas. I have never been to Ireland.
Then why does it matter to you what the temperature is outside or whether you need a sweater?? By your own admission, you spend most of your time indoors in hermetically-sealed environments. In Houston, Texas.
And why “Irishman” if you’ve never even been there?
I think I confused you with Irishgal who is from Ireland.
Anyway, wearing a shirt with a light cotton sweater over it seems like a perfectly normal thing for people to do - I see men wearing a similar outfit to the one I linked to all the time from fall right through to early spring. If you get too warm indoors I think that’s about you and has nothing to do with the reasonableness of your weatherman’s temperature descriptors.
This seems almost comically obtuse, particularly the bold part. Obviously the weather man, when referring to sweater weather, isn’t referring to what you should wear inside. It’s almost like that Louis Black joke about the weather man saying it’ll be raining tomorrow, but if you stay inside it will feel dry.
When it’s really cold you wear a coat. When it’s nice and warm you wear just a shirt. There’s a middle area where it’s warm enough that you can get by in a sweater instead of a coat, but would be cold without a sweater.
None of this really matters whether you’re indoors or not if your house is sufficiently cold.
Ahh, Houston. Sweater weather would likely be between 60 and 70F, humidity below 60% and light or no wind. Outdoors.
Obviously, YMMV, depending on whether you are warm or cool natured and where you live.
