How hot do you like it?

[Guest]

Nahh, not the story. Not even the sex.

I'm talking about the outside temperature.

It has been plus 95 degrees Fahrenheit (about 35 Celsius?) every day for more than a week. It's a serious, humid heat, and the infrequent breeze feels like a blow dryer. Although we expect this in the midwest by the end of July, it's a bit early for this type of heat now.

It's just past 10:30 a.m. and our kids came inside after only an hour because it's too hot to play. They'll go back out around 3:00 or so.

We have a tent-like gazebo that covers half our patio and keeps it in the shade. The other half of the patio has one of those 1-2-3-set-up pools. (You know, the middle-class version of the above ground pool?) This one is 16 feet across and almost 4 feet deep. Perfect for kids - and their friends, and even mommy and daddy at times.

Anyway, despite the pool and the shade at 10:30 in the morning, our children are too hot to be outside.

Is this insane?

I feel like we're going to be in one of those movies - The Day After Tomorrow - except it will be heat instead of cold. That, or I'm starring in a Tennessee Williams play. "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers," fanning myself rapidly, ladylike perspiration trickling down my bodice.

Geez.

 

[Guest]

I have no problems with heat. I've been in Arizona when it was over 100 for an entire week, I played golf in it and had a good time. I was in Egypt in the summer back in 83 and had a ball at the great pyramids. (except for the camels spitting on anything that moved)I have been in Florida in 85 degrees and 90% humidity and it was bearable.

When it gets below 60 I have a problem. When it gets down to freezing temeratures I can not put on enough clothing to stay warm.

 

[impressive]

I used to be VERY heat intolerant. Now, it takes 90+ with high humidity to make me wilt.

Ideally? Give me 70-80 degree temps with 35-45% humidity.

 

[Belegon]

I do better in cold than heat for the most part. MY biggest problem with heat is that there is only so much clothing I can take off and have it remain socially acceptable. When it is really hot, I don't want clothing laying against my body. I know people who love the heat, but I am not one of them. I can enjoy lying out in the sun and heat, but am pigmentally challenged from being able to enjoy that too much.

 

[LadyJeanne]

I like temperate climates. Neither hot nor cold. SF daytime temps, in the city itself, are generally between 50 and 75 all year long. Perfect.

 

[TxRad]

Heat's not a problem and the older I get the more I like it... Humidity on the other hand will drive me inside quicker than you can say Ice Tea.....

Cold????? No way, I keep moving south every so often to get as far from it as possible...

 

[Quiet_Cool]

I can live with either heat or cold, but I'd rather be too warm than too cold. Humidity... Naturally, no one likes it either too dry and too humid, but I can't sit here and spout off percentages and accurately know what I'm saying.

Basically, I can deal with heat. It's others I worry about when the sun gets too hot.

Q_C

 

[McKenna]

Desert rose I am not. Give me cool temps and mild to moderate humidity, please.

70 degrees sounds about right to me.

 

[cloudy]

Hot doesn't bother me much, but humidity's the kicker.

It's been right around 92% humidity here for the last week or so. I'm amazed I can breathe outside.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

It dosen't get to hot for me. too cold, all the time

Really, if you were raised in the dep south, 95+ with ninety percent humidity is comfortable. i can't remember it ever being to hot to play. Of course the price you pay is finding yourself shivering at 60 and bundled up like and eskimo at 40.

 

[English Lady]

I'm a cool to warm gal, I prefer it too cold, then I can pile on the layers to keep warm, I can't strip down far enough when it gets too hot. Thats why my favourite seasons are spring and autumn

 

[SummerMorning]

I recommend a constant 23°C with 50% humidity for best growing results.

 

[Wildcard Ky]

It's been hotter than a sumbitch here too. Temps have been in the mid 90's for the last several days. At 10:00 last night the temp was still 88 deg.

I lived in Arizona for three years. It's gotta be the front door to hell. Don't believe the old adage that "it's a dry heat" either. We get heat indexes that they say makes it feel like 100 degrees. Well it gets up to 115 degrees in Phoenix, and it FEELS like 115.

 

[SeaCat]

Give me the heat any time. (Sounds funny coming from someone who lived on Cape Cod huh?) I can deal with the heat and humidity but not the cold. Hell if I hold onto a beer too long my hand aches. (Frostbite.)

Cat

Besides if the humidity climbs high enough I can swim to work and save gas money.

 

[BigAndTall]

When I first left the deep south I found that I felt dried out all the time. That is part of the reason I moved south a little.

So I like it warm, and humid

Upper 80s, lower 90s with 60% feels nice to me

 

[Typo Fu Master]

Give me heat over cold any day. Unless I have to work in it, then I prefer things around 50-60 degrees F. And it's nice to sleep in cool weather. But overall, I'd rather be too hot than too cold.

 

[Equinoxe]

I'm a cool weather girl myself, I tend to prefer temperatures of around 15-18 °C/60-65 °F. Compared with high temperatures, I would prefer cold weather, even freezing or below -- you can always put on more clothes or cover up with a blanket, but there comes a point where you can't take off anymore.

 

[ishtat]

It's winter in Sydney now 18 centigrade though we don't get real seasons. Summer started last September and kept going until early June. It gets a bit boring hot & hotter with a bit of humidity around February March . Away from the coast though the heat in summer is brutal, like Arizona