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Ideal summer conditions: between 25 and 30°C and sunshine. Ideal winter conditions: –5°C, lots of snow on the ground, but not snowing.

–20°C is too cold and +40°C too hot. I don't like it when it's hot and humid.

PeterMollenburg wrote:

IronMike wrote:While deployed to Djibouti

Is there actually that much French actually spoken there by the general populace?

Yes. Uh, I mean: Oui.

My position has hardened, 32-33°C daily is not normal for this country.

I have 28.8° C in my flat right now, and I don't mind. I do however mind that my mother's garden is drying out because the heat is combined with a dry spell that has lasted for weeks now. The cure might be to go on holiday with a plan that included zoological gardens and long walks - then it would probably start to rain at my destination, though not necessarily at my mother's garden.

Perfect temperature depends on activity of course. 15-19° C is good for working or hiking, 20-22° C is perfect for sitting in the shade, reading. If there is a cooling wind blowing, 23 or 24° are okay too. Everything above 25° C is unbearable!

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

Though some would argue that humans have been doing something about it... unfortunately.

Nogon wrote:Perfect temperature depends on activity of course. 15-19° C is good for working or hiking, 20-22° C is perfect for sitting in the shade, reading. If there is a cooling wind blowing, 23 or 24° are okay too. Everything above 25° C is unbearable!

Same here. And I am Bulgarian, our summer are too hot for me. Every summer I'm envious of Swedes and Czechs for their summer temps (but less storms/clouds than Germany and Poland).
Sofia can get too cold in winter and too hot in summer and it's also probably the capital with the most occurances of lightnings in Europe.

thibaultbul wrote:

Nogon wrote:Perfect temperature depends on activity of course. 15-19° C is good for working or hiking, 20-22° C is perfect for sitting in the shade, reading. If there is a cooling wind blowing, 23 or 24° are okay too. Everything above 25° C is unbearable!

Same here. And I am Bulgarian, our summer are too hot for me. Every summer I'm envious of Swedes and Czechs for their summer temps (but less storms/clouds than Germany and Poland).
Sofia can get too cold in winter and too hot in summer and it's also probably the capital with the most occurances of lightnings in Europe.

Well the cold Czech weather (basically autumn for vast majority of the year) had always been one of my primary sources of motivation to move abroad

See, nothing pleases everybody I would love to see the Sofia lightnings one day. But of course preferably from a window. And the rest of Sofia of course. Your description of the weather just moved it up on the list. I heard it's a beautiful city.

I hate the monotony and extreme heat in Singapore. There is no need to check the weather report since the temperature is around 30 everyday all year long. With high humidity. So a lot of time is spent indoors in air conditioning. Lee Kuan Yew has a famous quote in which he said that air conditioning is the most important invention for Singapore and the tropics in general. With climate change, air conditioning is becoming more common in places where it wasn't necessary before.

I have lived for 2 years in Australia and much longer in central America. In Central Australia, the dry heat was sometimes up to 48º in the non-existing shade, without Airco. You drink about 6 litres a day.
As a result, my thermostat has adapted.
I live here in the truly arctic part of the Ardennes, the aptly named Eislek and I suffer. The first heat was 9 months of winter and 3 months of rain.

Luckily, this year I can go back to my cordillera for the entire December and January. Masha will warm the cat while I am away and thrive in my 25-30º during most days. After that, 3 more winters and back to the tropics .