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Post by Kimby on Aug 4, 2010 19:02:59 GMT
(maybe you could post the picture of the desecrated Paris streets on the Food Abominations thread, K2, since it's mostly food-related garbage and definitely an abomination!)
I almost wish AC hadn't been invented. With such a short period of the year that one can wear tank tops and shorts outside, why do malls and supermarkets and restaurants make it SO cold that you have to bring a SWEATER! I would linger longer - and spend more money - if I wasn't freezing to death.
Conversely, in the winter when you have to dress warmly to GET to the mall in your not-yet-heated-up car, and to scramble from car to inside, you then sweat to death in the overheated mall, hauling your coat along with you. What are they thinking? (Don't they know you could carry more packages if you weren't carrying your coat?)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2010 19:26:35 GMT
Montréal is the worst city ever for the overheated mall problem, as far as I am concerned. Anywhere indoors is the tropics, even if it is -30° outside.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 4, 2010 19:46:17 GMT
It defies logic, because they defeat their own purpose (enticing customers to stay longer and spend more money) as well as wasting an opportunity to spend less of their own money on heating and cooling and justify it by saying they've "gone green".
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2010 10:46:07 GMT
Today,we will get a break from the scorching heat wave that has hovered over us for about ten days or more,with record breaking temps. It's not supposed to get over 92F today,a most welcome departure. Currently,its only in the upper 70F's. It hasn't been that low in a while.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2010 11:21:08 GMT
Back to 3 digit Farenheit temps today. I should have been out the door 15 minutes ago...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2010 14:27:26 GMT
The air conditioning does not work properly in my office building, but since the French don't understand the utility of air conditioning anyway, nobody cares.
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Post by rikita on Aug 15, 2010 19:51:57 GMT
rain rain rain. i don't want anymore rain.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2010 22:30:14 GMT
Well, same here Riki,we had a reprieve over the weekend,and today,although a heat advisory, again...We are supposed to get the same Tropical Depression #5 swinging back around to dump more of the same from last week on us tomorrow and Wednesday.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2013 15:58:19 GMT
Heat index of 105F today...... It didn't even get below 85F last night.... Hopefully, we will get a thunderstorm to cool things off if only briefly.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 28, 2013 16:14:10 GMT
Gorgeous today but "they" are predicting that full-on summer will arrive this weekend, bringing with it the onset of the dreaded "fire season"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2013 15:42:00 GMT
After a relatively mild July thus far, the 'dog days' arrived today and apparently everywhere East of the Mississippi will be experiencing the same including the whole East coast . I went out for a bike ride at 6a.m. and by 7:30 it was positively sufferingly hot and humid.
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Post by bjd on Jul 18, 2013 16:06:17 GMT
It has been quite hot here for the past 2 weeks, but they are predicting a heat wave for the beginning of next week, with southwestern France the hottest. I just hope it doesn't last too long.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2013 23:15:41 GMT
Time to start ordering coffins.
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Post by htmb on Jul 19, 2013 0:21:59 GMT
I'm going to stop complaining about my North Flroida weather. It's cooler here than it is in the Northeastern U.S. where they are having a terrible heat wave. We are also more used to it and have more air conditioned buildings.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2013 13:05:48 GMT
I'm going to stop complaining about my North Flroida weather. It's cooler here than it is in the Northeastern U.S. where they are having a terrible heat wave. We are also more used to it and have more air conditioned buildings. I agree HTMB. One of the hottest summers I ever experienced was in NYC in the 1970's. NO ONE (no one I knew anyway) had AC and many elderly people did indeed die. The libraries and movie theaters were packed with people escaping the heat in the AC. At least here we are accustomed to it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2013 19:05:27 GMT
It is getting hotter and hotter in France but nobody is really complaining yet since we had such horrible cold weather for so long. It is sort of like getting your three wishes but not wanting to complain because you made a sloppy wish.
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Post by rikita on Jul 22, 2013 18:24:10 GMT
very warm. i like the heat, but it is causing some cranky mood and sleeplessness for the little one.
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Post by mossie on Jul 22, 2013 18:45:29 GMT
Getting hot and sticky here. They keep promising storms, I wish they would hurry up.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2013 16:39:43 GMT
Our huge thunderstorm did not drop the temperature by even one degree when the sun returned, but boy oh boy did the humidity go up. I am living in a sauna.
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Post by bjd on Jul 23, 2013 16:41:35 GMT
We had some thunder and the temperature has dropped to 27°! No rain but it's funny that it feels cool.
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Post by htmb on Jul 23, 2013 17:12:56 GMT
While here it's 80 F. So cool I can tolerate cleaning my garage in the middle of the day.
Strange.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2013 5:01:51 GMT
Yesterday was tolerable, but now we're headed back to several unbearable days.
It must be really hot in Mexico, too, either under the collar or in the sky.
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Post by bjd on Jul 25, 2013 6:01:01 GMT
Last night at 9pm it was still 30° here. (86F). In the morning at 6 it's still 24 (75), so it's really too warm. No rain so it's not humid but not very pleasant for sleeping. And we have mosquitoes.
No air conditioning, no screens.
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Post by htmb on Jul 25, 2013 12:18:38 GMT
I hope you have some good fans, bjd.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2013 15:04:59 GMT
Our huge thunderstorm did not drop the temperature by even one degree when the sun returned, but boy oh boy did the humidity go up. I am living in a sauna. Well, a sauna is dry heat K2. What happens here is it is more like a steam bath. Or, as a former patient of mine used to say and what I thought to be not only brilliant but a perfect description of it was "it's like living inside a watermelon". We had a heat index of 108F yesterday....heading that way again today.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2013 16:35:51 GMT
My indoors has now coordinated with my outdoors: the dual thermometer reads 30° on both settings.
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Post by fumobici on Jul 25, 2013 17:15:18 GMT
Well, a sauna is dry heat K2. What happens here is it is more like a steam bath. It's a dry heat until the water hits the rocks. I had some Finnish friends I helped build a sauna for. They even had imported Finnish rocks They insisted it was the best hangover cure and they were well qualified to judge.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2013 17:34:22 GMT
Yes, that's what I was thinking, too -- a sauna is dry, but you throw water on the rocks to make steam. That's exactly what the storms have been doing. Very unpleasant, but perhaps healthy if one adheres to the concept of the sauna.
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Post by bjd on Jul 25, 2013 18:02:15 GMT
I just put the thermometer inside. It's 30° inside, 34 outside. at 8 pm.
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Post by htmb on Jul 26, 2013 1:06:27 GMT
I can't imagine you are sleeping very well at night, bjd.
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