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Gah, I hate the heat. It's only 10:30 and it's already 25 degrees. Yesterday was almost unbearable at 35 - there is just no escape from it. At least with the cold you can warm yourself up; when it's hot, you're stuck.

So, what's the weather like where you are? Are you suffering from a heatwave as well? And what weather do you prefer?

In unsunny Northamptonshire it's going to be humid. It's grey and overcast still. I think we're forecast pushing 30°C.
My bedroom was 28°C when I got up. Fortunately the office is cooler.

Yay public pool?

My friend's in Germany, feeling that too ^.^

But really? It's been 35ish here, WITHOUT humidex. With it, it's 40+ (all in Degrees Celcius).

It's actually disgusting. I have to go out for my daily bike ride at around 11:00 PM just so I don't die of dehydration. :rolleyes:

Yay public pool?
I went swimming yesterday evening. It's heat like this that makes me wish we had our own pool, although in fairness in our climate it would only get used about 2 weeks in the year.

09:00 - 23°C
10:00 - 26°C
11:00 - 28°C

It's crazy! I woke up not because it was time to but because the heat started getting into my appartement.

Anyway, this is gonna be the hottest day of the year (in years) so far (or so they say) - and we made plans last week to drink red wine with our professor at around 16:00.

Woohoo. Drinking in the blazing heat :D

Anyway, drink as much water as ya can, people - I managed to gulp down 5 liters yesterday.

Yeah, today where I am the temperature is supposed to get up to 39 C. Gah.

35 degrees? we had much worser heats. at least now we can hear other complain about the heat.
anyway, if you had problem with the hot weather you can buy air-conditioner (which can both cool or heat), try to avoid unneccesry time outside and drink much cold drinks. icecream can be good too.

My friend's in Germany, feeling that too ^.^

But really? It's been 35ish here, WITHOUT humidex. With it, it's 40+ (all in Degrees Celcius).
Weather forecast said that humidity levels were to rise to about 70% (from 35-40% yesterday) and thunderstorms tonight or on Friday.

It's actually disgusting. I have to go out for my daily bike ride at around 11:00 PM just so I don't die of dehydration. :rolleyes:
Ah, but it's okay at night, almost pleasant! :p

35 degrees? we had much worser heats. at least now we can hear other complain about the heat.
anyway, if you had problem with the hot weather you can buy air-conditioner (which can both cool or heat), try to avoid unneccesry time outside and drink much cold drinks. icecream can be good too.
Air-conditioning is expensive, especially considering we would only get to use it for a few weeks of the year. It's also bad for the environment. Lots of drink and ice cream is good though.

its cooler today than the least few days (30 insted of 35) but the humidity levels are way higher. a aticky day and ive got fitness training :(

Gah, I hate the heat. It's only 10:30 and it's already 25 degrees. Yesterday was almost unbearable at 35 - there is just no escape from it. At least with the cold you can warm yourself up; when it's hot, you're stuck.

So, what's the weather like where you are? Are you suffering from a heatwave as well? And what weather do you prefer?


It has just stopped raining here in Yorkshire.

Yesterday was lovely - garden party at night.

Yeah, in Britain most of the year it's cool (with maybe a few flakes of snow here or there, causing the country to grind to a halt), a few months it's warm, but only so people moan on particularly warm days, and then there are two or three weeks a year where it gets up to the high 20s, maybe 30°C and everyone dies.
It was particularly stupid yesterday, some places hitting 37°C. Quite, quite mad.

Huh. Looks like the thunderstorms are going to hit today?

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/wetter/showpicture/0,2236,337,00.jpg
First time I ever saw "40" used on a weather map for Germany!!!

(I'm located close to that cloud in the middle of Germany...)

Gah, I hate the heat. It's only 10:30 and it's already 25 degrees. Yesterday was almost unbearable at 35 - there is just no escape from it. At least with the cold you can warm yourself up; when it's hot, you're stuck.

So, what's the weather like where you are? Are you suffering from a heatwave as well? And what weather do you prefer?
it was 38 and 42 degrees down in bordeaux at the weekend... that was fucking hot. but then the rooms of the hotel were air-conditioned, and the pool was lovely and cool.... ahhhh...

no air con here means its certainly hot, but not as bad as yesterday (a nice breeze today - yay for sea air!)

Air-conditioning is expensive, especially considering we would only get to use it for a few weeks of the year. It's also bad for the environment. Lots of drink and ice cream is good though.
I heard about this arguments (except of the environment, which I would be glad to hear more). that why I suggested the air-conditioner that can be used for multiple porpuses.
as I know, the expensive part of the airconditioner is the installation. there aren't many installers in europe so they charge more than the price of the airconditioner. also, elctric devices become cheaper with the time that the majority of populace buy them.
second, because of the global warming it isn't few weaks a year anymore. it will become longer and warmer any year.
here in israel, this is developed area, the prices are lower and everybody know how to deal with hot weather (although we had problems with the collest ones). maybe this is the reason why we had airconditioner in more than 90% of the places (homes, stores, resturants and others), while in europe it is less than 20% (almost all of them from the recent years).

probably in the near future the european percent will be more than 50% or more.

it's been raining here (Warrington - NW)

It's freezing cold here!

I woke up shivering today, and I had three blankets on me already..

God damn I love a/c!

It's freezing cold here!

I woke up shivering today, and I had three blankets on me already..

God damn I love a/c!
Most buildings (or cars) don't have A/C here. At least mine doesn't. http://smiliesworld.free.fr/smileys/sweat.gif

12:00 - 30°C

It's been between 80 and 90 degrees (27 and 32 C for the curious) every day here this week. It's currently raining, which has only made the humidity worse.

It's just...STICKY! :mad:

On the plus side, they are predicting reasonable temperatures and fair skies all weekend, so that's good.

Then, next week, it's supposed to get hot and humid again.

I hate summer. :(

Its roasting here too. Its about 24 degrees and its cloudy. Sticky weather is not nice!

It's too hot...:(

*Dies*

It's too hot...:(

*Dies*

*dances on vacuumheads corpse before dying from the heat*

I'm still burning, I must be in hell! :eek:

I'm still burning, I must be in hell! :eek:

*turns on a/c*

Speak for yourself. We've got a severe thunderstorm going on.

Speak for yourself. We've got a severe thunderstorm going on.We had a thunderstorm in the middle of the night last night - it woke me up, but I'm glad it did so, cos it was cool to watch :)

However, no amount of rain has removed the sodding humidity. It's not as deathly hot as yesterday and Tuesday were, but it's still driving me mad. *Collapses*

Huh. Looks like the thunderstorms are going to hit today?

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/wetter/showpicture/0,2236,337,00.jpg
First time I ever saw "40" used on a weather map for Germany!!!

(I'm located close to that cloud in the middle of Germany...)
Oh my God - 40!

I'm at work - of all the days I could choose to go to work, it has to be today, great - (posting secretly *cough*) and it's just... awful. This is one of those rare moments where I'd actually love to have AC.

This morning at 9:30 it was already 29.5°C here in Berlin, and they said up to 40°C during the day in the region.

*dies*

*wishes she was back on her lounging on her sofa instead of sweltering in a stupid office*

*dies*

Another one? Someone should count the corpses. :rolleyes:

here in Madrid fron 2 weeks ago everyday is at least 35º :(

Heat heat heta. Its nice and all but 37 degrees C come on. What happened to the traditonal english summer. A couple hours o suni with lots of rain :p.

Oh wel more hot weather expected here in Gravesend ( 20 miles outside London) Can't complain though a large party/barbecue/sleepover at my mates at the weekend so yay

Supposed to be 34 here today by ya'll screwy system.

75°F (24°C)

It's nice here today.. It was really hot on Monday though.

It interesting to see the differences in weather. Down here in Adelaide its an unusual summer if we dont get a couple of days over forty. Last summer we had a heat wave with 4 days in a row over 40, one of them 46. I dont think we've had a day over 20 here for months. Every time I walk into the room I have to turn on the heater.

Heat heat heta. Its nice and all but 37 degrees C come on. What happened to the traditonal english summer. A couple hours o suni with lots of rain :p.

Oh wel more hot weather expected here in Gravesend ( 20 miles outside London) Can't complain though a large party/barbecue/sleepover at my mates at the weekend so yay
It was really hot here in the Western US last weekend and this week, in the upper 30sC, but we're cooling down to around 30C, which is more normal and we might get some rain, too. Probably three inches in an hour, preceded by golf ball-sized hail. :eek: As for England, you have been sweltering. Maybe now you'll learn to appreciate a gin and tonic with actual ice in it. :p I'm always reminded of the Arab guy Kevin Costner's Robin Hood brought with him who exclaimed, "Is there no sun in this country?" :D

i'm so bleedin hot, cooler than yesterday, but still damn hot. i think i'm gonna die... my favourite weather would be either a really dark wet day, with it raining buckets, or a dry cold day with frost covering the grass and windows fogged up(with the various smiley faces that i have drawn on it...:D ) i love the cold, and i love an excuse to have a fire. nothing like the smell of turf burning in the fire on a cold windy day

You Europeans are such wimps, complaining about 40 degrees. ;) Here in the US, it was 105+ degrees yesterday, and supposed to be even hotter today! :eek:

You Europeans are such wimps, complaining about 40 degrees. ;) Here in the US, it was 105+ degrees yesterday, and supposed to be even hotter today! :eek:
Be nice, now. They can't help it if their gene pool is so corrupt and degraded that anything above 75F makes them completely exhausted. However did they manage to colonize the New World, one wonders? :rolleyes: :p :D

You Europeans are such wimps, complaining about 40 degrees. ;) Here in the US, it was 105+ degrees yesterday, and supposed to be even hotter today! :eek:

hey, just you imagine living in a nice, cool bubble. now imagine someone is feeding a tube filled with steam into said bubble. yeah, not so fun....

You Europeans are such wimps, complaining about 40 degrees. ;) Here in the US, it was 105+ degrees yesterday, and supposed to be even hotter today! :eek:
Uh, 40 degrees celsius equals about 105 degrees farenheit.

Uh, 40 degrees celsius equals about 105 degrees farenheit.

That's what it was here two days ago. :p

And did you know that the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales converge at -40? :cool:

Another day at 37/98 (Metric/American) here in the lovely SE USA. Of Course, the humidity will be nearly 80%.

It's the choice between Oven and Steamed, I think.

Here in Bangor, Maine: 27C (81F) and sunny. about normal. So far our hottest day (last week) was 34C (93F). The only problem is that apparently this state hasn't discovered air conditioning, so it's actually hotter indoors.

To make our European friends feel better, I heard that Death Valley, California may come close to their record of 58C (134F). Now that's hot!

hmmmm its between 33 and 41 every day here from the middle of may to the middle of september. i start getting chilly when the temp goes below 26.

It's been hot where I live. I woke up this morning and it was 82 F (almost 28 C) in my apartment. This Saturday it's supposedly going to get up to 118 F (almost 48 C, I think?). Luckily for me, I already had plans to head up to Lake Tahoe, where it is considerably cooler, so I'll be able to escape the heat. Otherwise I would have been inside in my air conditioned apartment or at the pool.

Highest & lowest records:

58.0 °C (136.4 °F), recorded in Al Aziziyah, Libya, on 13 September 1922
-89.2 °C (-129 °F), recorded in Vostok, Antarctica, on 21 July 1983

Recorded extremes:

Highest average annual mean temperature (world): Dallol, Ethiopia (Oct. 1960–Dec. 1966), 94° F (34.4° C). (U.S.): Key West, Fla. (30-year normal), 78.2° F (25.7° C).
Lowest average annual mean temperature (world): Plateau Station, Antarctica, –70° F (–56.7° C). (U.S.): Barrow, Alaska (30-year normal), 9.3° F (–12.6° C).
Greatest average yearly rainfall (world): Cherrapunji, India (74-year avg), 450 in. (1,143 cm). (U.S.): Mt. Waialeale, Kauai, Hawaii (32-year avg), 460 in. (1,168 cm).
Minimum average yearly rainfall (world): Arica, Chile (59-year avg), 0.03 in. (0.08 cm) (no rainfall for 14 consecutive years). (U.S.): Death Valley, Calif. (42-year avg), 1.63 in. (4.14 cm). Bagdad, Calif., holds the U.S. record for the longest period with no measurable rain, 767 days, from Oct. 3, 1912 to Nov. 8, 1914.
Hottest summer average in Western Hemisphere (U.S.): Death Valley, Calif., 98° F (36.7° C).
Longest hot spell (world): Marble Bar, W. Australia, 100° F (37.8° C) (or above) for 162 consecutive days, Oct. 30, 1923 to Apr. 7, 1924.
Largest hailstone (U.S.): Aurora, Neb., 7 in. (17.8 cm) in diameter, 18.75 in. (47.6 cm) in circumference, June 22, 2003.
Costliest U.S. hailstorm: Denver, Colorado, July 11, 1990. Total damage was $625 million.

Highest & lowest records:

58.0 °C (136.4 °F), recorded in Al Aziziyah, Libya, on 13 September 1922
-89.2 °C (-129 °F), recorded in Vostok, Antarctica, on 21 July 1983

Recorded extremes:

Highest average annual mean temperature (world): Dallol, Ethiopia (Oct. 1960–Dec. 1966), 94° F (34.4° C). (U.S.): Key West, Fla. (30-year normal), 78.2° F (25.7° C).
Lowest average annual mean temperature (world): Plateau Station, Antarctica, –70° F (–56.7° C). (U.S.): Barrow, Alaska (30-year normal), 9.3° F (–12.6° C).
Greatest average yearly rainfall (world): Cherrapunji, India (74-year avg), 450 in. (1,143 cm). (U.S.): Mt. Waialeale, Kauai, Hawaii (32-year avg), 460 in. (1,168 cm).
Minimum average yearly rainfall (world): Arica, Chile (59-year avg), 0.03 in. (0.08 cm) (no rainfall for 14 consecutive years). (U.S.): Death Valley, Calif. (42-year avg), 1.63 in. (4.14 cm). Bagdad, Calif., holds the U.S. record for the longest period with no measurable rain, 767 days, from Oct. 3, 1912 to Nov. 8, 1914.
Hottest summer average in Western Hemisphere (U.S.): Death Valley, Calif., 98° F (36.7° C).
Longest hot spell (world): Marble Bar, W. Australia, 100° F (37.8° C) (or above) for 162 consecutive days, Oct. 30, 1923 to Apr. 7, 1924.
Largest hailstone (U.S.): Aurora, Neb., 7 in. (17.8 cm) in diameter, 18.75 in. (47.6 cm) in circumference, June 22, 2003.
Costliest U.S. hailstorm: Denver, Colorado, July 11, 1990. Total damage was $625 million.



Oops, I stand corrected. 134F = about 57C thanks for the correction.

Be nice, now. They can't help it if their gene pool is so corrupt and degraded that anything above 75F makes them completely exhausted. However did they manage to colonize the New World, one wonders? :rolleyes: :p :D
We sent all those weird mutated guys. :D

I'm still at the office and it feels like a billion degrees and I just heard a horse clip-clopping by down on the street and thought I was hallucinating. o.O

'Twas a real horse, though. Two, actually. Drawing a pretty carriage. Through a central Berlin office park. Oh-kay.....
Do horses get heatstroke, too? They were black, too, the poor guys.

Oops, I stand corrected. 134F = about 57C thanks for the correction.
Wasn't so much to correct you but I got curious about the extremes. :D

I like the 14 years with no measureable rainfall in Chile, the 37 - 38 feet (!) of rain annually, and *beaming proudly* my city's holding the worst hailstorm record! :p

We sent all those weird mutated guys. :D

I'm still at the office and it feels like a billion degrees and I just heard a horse clip-clopping by down on the street and thought I was hallucinating. o.O

'Twas a real horse, though. Two, actually. Drawing a pretty carriage. Through a central Berlin office park. Oh-kay.....
Do horses get heatstroke, too? They were black, too, the poor guys.That explains all the extra fingers and toes on our Founding Fathers, I bet. :eek:

Yes, horses do get heat-stroke and I hope the driver takes care of his animals.

That explains all the extra fingers and toes on our Founding Fathers, I bet. :eek: *nods*

Yes, horses do get heat-stroke and I hope the driver takes care of his animals. Think I should have dumped a bucket of water on them?

You Europeans are such wimps, complaining about 40 degrees. ;) Here in the US, it was 105+ degrees yesterday, and supposed to be even hotter today! :eek:

Maybe in your part of the US. The hottest it's been here all month was 94. It's a pet peeve of mine when people say "Well, in the US..." when they're referring to something about whatever locality they're in, as though the entire US is like where they live.

It's only 26C today, and a relatively dry 67% humidity.

Think I should have dumped a bucket of water on them?
That would be the more fun option, but I think giving them a couple of buckets to drink from would have been better.

So, has the country recovered from the World Cup yet? Or does it feel a little strange not having all those tourists wandering around?

It's only 26C today, and a relatively dry 67% humidity.
67% is "relatively dry"?! Oh my God, remind to never move to Michigan. :eek:

I've been working on a train all day. Its been like being locked in a big meatal box. It's horrible

Maybe in your part of the US. The hottest it's been here all month was 94. It's a pet peeve of mine when people say "Well, in the US..." when they're referring to something about whatever locality they're in, as though the entire US is like where they live.

It's only 26C today, and a relatively dry 67% humidity.
Come on, you know us Americans are an expansive people! :D

Relatively dry at 67%? Goodness! I grew up on the East Coast, so I understand humidity, but I don't miss it very much. Heck, here at the foot of the Rockies, a cold glass of something to drink doesn't sweat most of the time and if one does, you know it's humid. Which is why the Serene Republic of Farnhamia's motto is "Non Calor Sed Umor" - "It Ain't the Heat, It's the Humidity"

43 c here yseterday and only supposed to be 33 c here today

and i work outside, so no air conditioning for me.

67% is "relatively dry"?! Oh my God, remind to never move to Michigan. :eek:
I hate humid heat. I mean, it gets really hot where I live, but at least it's a nice dry heat. Makes it a lot more bearable; I don't think I'd survive 110 F days if the humidity was at 67%. :p

Too...hot... 30+ yesterday and today, it's finally cooling down now. Having a heath allergy in this weather sucks greatly T.T

67% is "relatively dry"?! Oh my God, remind to never move to Michigan. :eek:


I live in Maine now, but I grew up in Texas, just off the Gulf of Mexico. Imagine 95F (35C) with that kind of humidity for six months out of every year.

I hate humid heat. I mean, it gets really hot where I live, but at least it's a nice dry heat. Makes it a lot more bearable; I don't think I'd survive 110 F days if the humidity was at 67%. :p
110 with high humidity would be hideous. I'd be like that character in Deep Space 9 who poured himself into a bucket periodically.

That would be the more fun option, but I think giving them a couple of buckets to drink from would have been better.
Yeah, but that would have entailed going down there and actually giving it to them, which would have entailed moving, which would not have been a good idea at all.

So, has the country recovered from the World Cup yet? Or does it feel a little strange not having all those tourists wandering around? Nah, it's kinda nice actually. :p Summer holidays are about to start here, too, so the city is starting to empty out, which is really very nice - it gives the whole thing some sort of serenity. And lots of available parking spaces. :D

On an unrelated note: I know that most Americans post on forums during work - how do you guys even get any work done?
We just recently got internet connections for all our work stations here in the office, and I really have to keep myself from just posting on here all the time. Sucky.

Well. I'll go home now. If I don't melt on the drive home, I'll probably be back online in half an hour. if I know myself. :rolleyes: Curse you, NS General!

Yeah, but that would have entailed going down there and actually giving it to them, which would have entailed moving, which would not have been a good idea at all.

Nah, it's kinda nice actually. :p Summer holidays are about to start here, too, so the city is starting to empty out, which is really very nice - it gives the whole thing some sort of serenity. And lots of available parking spaces. :D

On an unrelated note: I know that most Americans post on forums during work - how do you guys even get any work done?
We just recently got internet connections for all our work stations here in the office, and I really have to keep myself from just posting on here all the time. Sucky.

Well. I'll go home now. If I don't melt on the drive home, I'll probably be back online in half an hour. if I know myself. :rolleyes: Curse you, NS General!
Work? Oh, sh*t, I knew there was something I should be doing! :eek: Double curse you, NS General.

Imagine 95F (35C) with that kind of humidity for six months out of every year.
Do I have to? :S

I hate humid heat. I mean, it gets really hot where I live, but at least it's a nice dry heat. Makes it a lot more bearable; I don't think I'd survive 110 F days if the humidity was at 67%. :p Yeah, absolutely. I can do hot, but I simply cannot do humid. The one time I was in South East Asia, I hated it (well, the weather).
I lived in Indiana for a year and as much as I liked it there, I wouldn't move there because of the humidity - it was literally the first time in my life that I saw weather that was both cool and humid. WTF? How's that even possible? Logically, that should mean it rains, but no, it was just humid like hell. I don't get it.

The hottest I've ever "lived through" was probably on a vacation in Arizona where it was over 40°C, but it was totally bearable because of the deserty dryness. Very nice.

My favourite weather would be 24°C and dry. And the thick, honey-coloured light of late summer. Any suggestions where I should move for that?

Come on, you know us Americans are an expansive people! :D

Relatively dry at 67%? Goodness! I grew up on the East Coast, so I understand humidity, but I don't miss it very much. Heck, here at the foot of the Rockies, a cold glass of something to drink doesn't sweat most of the time and if one does, you know it's humid. Which is why the Serene Republic of Farnhamia's motto is "Non Calor Sed Umor" - "It Ain't the Heat, It's the Humidity"

I lived in Colorado Springs for a while, and I always felt dehydrated and got nosebleeds due to the lack of humidity. I got used to it after a while, but it really sucked for a while.

67% is "relatively dry"?! Oh my God, remind to never move to Michigan.

Well, with over 15,000 lakes in the state, and bordering 4 of those 5 really big ones it's bound to get a bit humid :p

Curse you, NS General!

..you don't mean the Dutch trainsystem, do you...? I have to go through half the country by train tomorrow TT.TT It better be cooler then... >.>"

Yeah, absolutely. I can do hot, but I simply cannot do humid. The one time I was in South East Asia, I hated it (well, the weather).
I lived in Malaysia for about four years. Nice temperatures year round, and not a bad place to be, if you can stand the humidity. It was like living in a rainforest.

My favourite weather would be 24°C and dry. And the thick, honey-coloured light of late summer. Any suggestions where I should move for that?
San Diego?

I agree about the humidity. I'm more uncomfortable in the 80's with high humidity than I am near 100 in low humidity. I don't remember what the humidity is today, but they're talking about temperatures of 105 or higher, with a heat index of 115-120!

I agree about the humidity. I'm more uncomfortable in the 80's with high humidity than I am near 100 in low humidity. I don't remember what the humidity is today, but they're talking about temperatures of 105 or higher, with a heat index of 115-120!

Ugh. I'll gladly put up with Michigan snow to avoid that crap. When it's cold out I can always put more on to keep warm. When it's that hot out you can only take so much off before they arrest you.

My favourite weather would be 24°C and dry. And the thick, honey-coloured light of late summer. Any suggestions where I should move for that?

I lived in Colorado Springs for a while, and I always felt dehydrated and got nosebleeds due to the lack of humidity. I got used to it after a while, but it really sucked for a while.

San Diego?

I was going to say any of the Mediterranean climate areas, like, uhm, parts Europe around the Med, or Southern California, or I hear Western Australia is quite nice in that regard, if you can get used to having Christmas in the summer. :p Though SoCal does have that little pollution problem, and if you're near the coast you'll have humidity.

Colorado, where I live, can be nice, though we do get some pretty good heat waves in the summer. It's usually dry here, as Wallonochia found out. I do buy moisturizer in the really large economy size bottle. But we do have 300+ days of sunshine, and in the winter it's frequently nice enough to sit outside in the afternoons if you have a sunny, sheltered spot. The snow comes mostly in the Spring, and also in the autumn though not as much. It will get very cold but only for short periods when one of those big blobs of Canadian air slips over the border (that fence is going to have to be made much, much higher). And that's because there's nothing between here and the North Pole. If the world were really flat, I could see Santa's house from here.

Here endeth the civic recruitment schpiel.

It's 12:45 am, I just got home, and it's still 30°C (86°F).

I'd cry but I'm all dried out.


Huh. Looks like the thunderstorms are going to hit today?

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/wetter/showpicture/0,2236,337,00.jpg
First time I ever saw "40" used on a weather map for Germany!!!

(I'm located close to that cloud in the middle of Germany...)
WTF?? I saw & quoted that earlier today - where did the 40 go? o.O Did you make a Harry Potter picture that changes along with the actual temperatures? :eek:

..you don't mean the Dutch trainsystem, do you...? I have to go through half the country by train tomorrow TT.TT It better be cooler then... >.>" o.O Er... no. I actually had to look that up. For future reference: when I say "Curse you, NS General!", chances are I'm just cursing all you guys. :p

San Diego?I was going to say any of the Mediterranean climate areas, like, uhm, parts Europe around the Med, or Southern California, or I hear Western Australia is quite nice in that regard, if you can get used to having Christmas in the summer. :p Though SoCal does have that little pollution problem, and if you're near the coast you'll have humidity. Hmm, I never actually got further south on the west coast than Los Angeles - I always thought Southern California would be way hot? I would tend more to Central / Northern California, except I remember how lousy cold San Francisco would get in the middle of the summer. I did spend a lovely christmas day in Palo Alto, though, sitting in a street café and enjoying the sun, so that's a plus.
Mediterranean is out, that's too hot (hence why I can't see Southern California being better).
Don't know about Western Australia - but yeah, Christmas in summer just isn't right. :p
Meh, I guess I'll just have to get rich and decadent enough to have homes all over the place and change location according to the weather.

Here endeth the civic recruitment schpiel.Or I'll just move to Colorado - because that sounded rather perfect indeed. :) I hope the chamber of commerce lets you in on the profits. :p

... I remember how lousy cold San Francisco would get in the middle of the summer ...

Yeah, someone famously said, "The coldest winter I ever spent was one summer in San Francisco."

Yeah, someone famously said, "The coldest winter I ever spent was one summer in San Francisco."
I've heard that attributed to Mark Twain, but I don't know for sure. Anyway, it doesn't really get all that cold in San Francisco in the summer.

Hmm, I never actually got further south on the west coast than Los Angeles - I always thought Southern California would be way hot? I would tend more to Central / Northern California, except I remember how lousy cold San Francisco would get in the middle of the summer. I did spend a lovely christmas day in Palo Alto, though, sitting in a street café and enjoying the sun, so that's a plus.
As far as I recall, the weather in San Diego is actually pretty temperate (http://www.weather.com/weather/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/USCA0982?from=search). Of course, it can get really hot, but in my experience it doesn't really get scorching. The humidity isn't that bad either. Of course, I've never lived there, so you might get better info from a native of the area.

Palo Alto weather is usually really nice. Doesn't really get cold (at least, not in comparison to a lot of places), just rainy. I was able to wear flip flops to class year round, which was great, and I didn't really need a heavy coat. Damned expensive to live there, but I love it.

As far as I recall, the weather in San Diego is actually pretty temperate (http://www.weather.com/weather/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/USCA0982?from=search). Of course, it can get really hot, but in my experience it doesn't really get scorching. The humidity isn't that bad either. Of course, I've never lived there, so you might get better info from a native of the area. Wow, according to your link it *is* pretty temperate. All these years I had no idea!
When I hear San Diego, I automatically see the border crossing from "Traffic" (which probably was really supposed to be somewhere else entirely) and it just looks like it would be stiflingly hot. Of course, those scene were probably filmed in that bright yellowish tint, so that might not be very reliable. :rolleyes:
Hmm, so maybe Southern California isn't that bad after all...