What's your stance on hot weather?

[Le Baron]

Well, it's 27.5°C (81.5°F) inside the house now. A bit warm, since we don't do airco here. It means I have no trousers on, which is unusual. I'm also wearing one of those things the youth refer to as a: "T, shirt."

Was it a mistake to put cayenne pepper in my food?

It's no Ibiza here and I would like a better balance, but I despise excessive heat. like that 36°C the other day. It's unnatural. It makes you lose salt and water and I often feel depressed and a bit deranged above 20-odd degrees. Having to slap on sun cream all the time; sweating in an ungainly fashion and having to take endless showers; dressing like a surfer in the middle of a city, and generally feeling lethargic.

I think a lot of the people here like the heat, cavorting about in it having barbecues, but also complain about it like they complain about the cold. I don't like excessive cold, who does, but I like sunny days that have reasonable temperatures, like those in mid-spring.

Anyway, a storm is brewing. Excessive rain predicted tomorrow. There's no middle ground now.

[iguanamon]

Heat? Don't talk to me about heat. I live in the Caribbean without a/c. Never have had it. It's 86F/30C outside right now (and inside too), going down to a chilly 79F/26C for a low tonight. It usually gets up to a high of 90F/32C from now until mid-November We have all four seasons here- Summer, mid-Summer, late Summer, and next Summer, as the joke goes!

[rdearman]

Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it.

[lichtrausch]

It has to reach around 35°C before I feel oppressed by heat (assuming low humidity and mild activity). And even on those days the evenings are really pleasant.

[luke]

97F/36C here. I think it's healthy to take a walk and break a sweat, even when it's the heat that's inducing the sweat.

I like cold showers - all cold and no warm water.

In the summer, cold showers are not nearly as cold as in the winter, when a cold shower is cold.

Drinking water is good. Add a bit of apple cider vinegar and two bits of lemon juice to make it a refreshing beverage.

[Iversen]

I don't mind heat. I visited Portugal in 2018, and apart from the Universal Esperanto Congress in Lisboa I also visited Tomar and a few other places. The main sight in Tomar is the Convent/fortress erected by the Ordem de Cristo (the local Templars under a new name) on top of a hill - and since I didn't know whether there was any public transport to the place I walked up and down again. Nullo problemo...

I have a rule: above 30°C I tend not to wear a sweater under my jacket, but I keep my long trousers on no matter what the weather people say. I don't even own a pair of shorts... like in 1994, when I visited Ross River in The Eastern MacDonnels. We had three nights there, and the first full day I participated in a trip to an old mine of sorts, but after that I had one empty day. So I grabbed a gallon of water in the morning and walked to N'Dhala Gorge some 8 kms away and back, and when I had returned to the homestead it started to rain. A couple of days before I had photographed the thermometer below in the shadow behind our tourbus - it says 65°C so that may also have been the temperature in the sun at the gorge. But I didn't care as much about the temperature as I did about the buggersome flies.

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And at the other end of the scale: I first visited Windy city Chicago in the USA in January 1997, and it was about 20°C below zero (something like 13°F below zero). Some schools apparently had closed, the lake was frozen stiff and TV told people to keep their dogs indoors or dress them up with fluffy footwear and a shawl if they had to leave their nice hot homes - but if there is a zoo in the neighbourhood I have to visit it, and I visited both Lincoln and Brookfield zoos. During my second visit there later in 1997 it was pouring down, but then I just donned a yellow top-to-toe raincoat and visited both zoos again. I'm generally not willing to let the weather influence my doings.

[Le Baron]

I have a rule: above 30°C I tend not to wear a sweater under my jacket, but I keep my long trousers on no matter what the weather people say. I don't even own a pair of shorts...

I laughed heartily at this. Are you sure you're not British? I remember going on a coach trip to Blackpool and the inside of the coach was a like an oven, but several of the jolly good chaps were wearing tweed jackets. I remember that Mr Walker said: "I think I'll have to take off my tie..."

I do own shorts, but this is the first time I've admitted it in public. I admire your gumption sir.

[Elsa Maria]

I didn’t mind the dry heat of summer when I lived in the desert (SW USA) but now I live on the East Coast and the humid summers are gross.

I loved the weather in Denmark

[zenmonkey]

My stance in hot weather?
Rather Balzacian.

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[Le Baron]

That's splendid, I hope it's true.