What's your stance on hot weather?
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Re: What's your stance on hot weather?
I still remember the weather report I watched in Egypt in 1992: the wall behind the presenter was painted with a redhot sun above a scorched desert. Presumably that was the normal weather situation there, so why change the image?
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Now that autumn is fully here, with tons of rain and the need to dress warmer, I miss the hot weather.
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Cavesa wrote:Now that autumn is fully here, with tons of rain and the need to dress warmer, I miss the hot weather.
Me too. It's always the same, grass is greener ...etc. If it could only stay at September temperatures it would be ideal.
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Re: What's your stance on hot weather?
I don't experience extremely cold or hot days in southeastern China where I live. The temperature is usually from around 37C to 5C from summer to winter.
Well, there are people who complain weathe is very hot or cold but that is fine for me.
When I concentrate on something I like, I don't feel it's that hot as other people feel. Occasionally I do feel it is hot, and I comfort myself it will just last a few months.
There's a Chinese saying which roughly means when a person has a serene mind, there's coolness in his/her heart. I do say this to myself when I feel physically hot, emotionally irritated, etc.
Well, there are people who complain weathe is very hot or cold but that is fine for me.
When I concentrate on something I like, I don't feel it's that hot as other people feel. Occasionally I do feel it is hot, and I comfort myself it will just last a few months.
There's a Chinese saying which roughly means when a person has a serene mind, there's coolness in his/her heart. I do say this to myself when I feel physically hot, emotionally irritated, etc.
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allf100 wrote:I don't experience extremely cold or hot days in southeastern China where I live. The temperature is usually from around 37C to 5C from summer to winter.
I know this isn't "southeastern China", but I live in Hangzhou and the winters here are absolutely brutal if you do not have central heating (as almost nobody in the south does) and you aren't able to use the AC for heating. I was quite strongly quitting my job at one point simply because I just could not handle how cold it was indoors, until I was able to come to a compromise with my employer. I swear 5C in the south is legitimately much harder to deal with than -20C in the northeast.
As for the actual question, I really enjoy hot weather for a few months a year (was routinely around or above 40C this past summer) as somebody who runs extremely cold, but as somebody who also likes layering on a lot of clothing, I prefer it to be very cold for most of the year (as it is e.g. in northeastern China).
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Re: What's your stance on hot weather?
Le Baron wrote:Cavesa wrote:Now that autumn is fully here, with tons of rain and the need to dress warmer, I miss the hot weather.
Me too. It's always the same, grass is greener ...etc. If it could only stay at September temperatures it would be ideal.
Spring here, generally nice weather - today max 22C and much warmer to come. I prefer autumn though, since I could seriously do without the hooikoorts (hayfever)! I'd prefer 40C over 22C with stuffy sinuses and eyes so itchy I want to stab them out of existence!
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