om21braz
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Strangest weather experience I have had was in Las Vegas. Walk down the street in the sunshine and be sweating, then cross the street to the shady side and be cold. Coming from North Carolina that was a different experience.
Weather and logic, people are strange
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gwstang
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Dear Lord it gets hot down in the deep south. Hot and very Humid in the summer. 90-100F and 80% humidity sucks. Not too cold in the winter....but summer is blazing from around mid-may until oct.
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I don't know anyone that keeps their air conditioning set freezing cold because it's cost prohibitive. I know several people that complain about the hot and keep their wood burners cranked up and it's over 80 degrees in their house.
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I leave our house set at 72. Winter, summer, spring and fall, 72. And all I hear from wife and kids is "It's hot in here'" No, it's 72. "It's cold in here." No, it's 72. Over and over.... :laughing:
Mendonsy
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EXACTLY!! It "feels" cold in the winter because the dew point is low and "feels" hot in the summer because the dew point is high. Controlling the humidity has as much to do with comfort as controlling the temperature.
Also because your body gets acclimated to the temperatures. Right now 60' would feel hot to me, as my body is accustomed to sub freezing weather; yet the same temp in August would have me running for a sweatshirt, as I will be used to 80' + weather.
dmccarty
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Bingo! I can deal with the cold because I can dress for it. BUT, I do hate the snow and ice.
People from up Nawth complain about Southern drivers in the snow and ice. There might be some truth to it but I suspect it is the people from up Nawth that are the bad drivers. Most Southerner's try to just stay home when that mess is on the road.
One year, for some reason, a local TV station was in New York state and I think they were in Buffalo. We had some bad snow and of course it was MUCH worse in Buffalo. The TV crew was live streaming with a park and road in the back ground. As the reader was talking about how people in New York where MUCH better drivers in the snow and ice, you could see an out of control car doing 360s in the background at a high rate so speed from the right side of the screen to the left. It was a flat road too. :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing: It was perfectly timed and was very funny. If it was in a movie it would have been a great scene. Me thinks people with 4x4 or AWD do not realize that just because you can get the vehicle to go fast on snow and ice, it does not mean that one can stop, much less stay in control, when going fast....
With heat and humidity you just have to suffer through it all. :thumbdown: You can get acclimated to some extent, but at some point, you just have to suffer if one does not have AC.
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Dan
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Hey Bruce,
There seems to be a meme somewhere in there- 'cause I have this one in my backgrounds/screensavers files:
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That's me all day at work- all the [non-menopausal] women I work with are always cold.
I'm all like, 'I'd wear less clothes, but nobody wants to see that...- maybe you could put a sweater on...'
I already wear short sleeve shirts all summer, and scrubs whenever I can justify it.
Then they use space heaters under their desks, which makes the thermostat thinks it's hotter, and fires up the A/C even more.
Oh well, I'm happy. :dance1::cool2::thumbsup::laughing: