-----Original Message----- From: Roger Oberholtzer [mailto:roger@opq.se] Sent: June-18-12 10:34 AM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] so massively off topic that you should just delete this thread [off-topic]
On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 10:15 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> [06-18-12 10:04]:
Ted Byers said the following on 06/18/2012 09:34 AM:
> Maybe I am extra grumpy because it is insanely hot here, over 27 degrees Celsius (for our 'merkin cousins, that's over 80 degrees Fahrenheit ;-), [...]
I am still grumpy, though, because it is still insanely hot here.
No its not. Anything under 30 degrees Celsius north of the Tropic of Cancer is just "summer in the northern hemisphere". And we get proper winters too, not like the poor people who live between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn around the equator. "Insanely hot" year in and out for them.
lets face it, anything under 35 degrees Celsius you can still cool off by radiation, you don't _need_ to sweat! :-)
And here I sit in a sh*t Swedish 'summer' that is just cold and rain. It was actually 3 degrees C when the Stockholm Marathon started a week or so ago. Yesterday I sat indoors contemplating starting up the fireplace. And it has been like this the whole season. I want to complain about the heat. I'm jealous...
Hey Roger, do you want to trade places? ;-) I'd do so in a heartbeat if I could afford it. ;-) But it is as much one of perception and acclimatization as it is ecophysiology and physics. When I worked in Singapore, just a few kilometers from the equator, it almost never got above 25, or below 20, and there was usually a cooling afternoon rain. Much better than you average summer in Toronto. And while there, I never heard anyone complain of the heat or dampness as it was warm and damp all the time. Everyone was used to it, or acclimatized to it. But, when I worked in the Punjab, the first month I was there, it averaged 45 degrees Celsius, and then the temperatures moderated to an average of 35 degrees, and everyone, including my Canadian colleagues, remarked at how cool it became, and then laughed when we saw the thermometer and considered that our colleagues back home would consider us insane for referring to 35 degrees as cool. And while there, I met Indians who lived in such hot climates, they regarded anything below 30 degrees as cold and would start dressing warm, with whatever coats they could afford, once temperatures dropped below 35: but that is a rather local phenomenon and depended on what tribal group you happen to meet. Your/our perception of heat depends as much on what you're used to in the past few weeks as it does on physics and ecophysiology. It takes weeks, and sometimes months, to adapt to a new thermal regime, and one really does suffer when the temperatures are volatile as they have been here for several months, with wild swings between unseasonably hot to unseasonably cool in less than a week. Cheers Ted -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org