Re: CHAT: Temperature (was: I'm back!)

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 01:24:23PM -0500, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
[snip]
> Y'all have nothing on Texans.  The Dallas Morning News a couple
> weeks ago had an article about how meteorologists were rather
> shocked that North Texas had, up to that point, gone a whole
> summer without temperatures reaching 100F (38C).  In Houston,
> several hundred miles to the south, the *normal* ambient humidity
> is above 80%. (Of course, Texans compensate for such wretched
> climatic conditions by having air-condition available everywhere;
> when I came to Chicago, I was truly shocked that a great many
> apartments did not come with central air-conditioning.)
[snip]

Y'all know nothing of what's really hot. I grew up in Malaysia, where the
humidity is >90% every single day, the *average* temperature is 32C (about
90F by my rough estimate), for TWELVE months a year. We have no concept of
"winter"; every day is summer. :-) Plus, there is only one air-conditioned
room in my house, and it's not my room... You don't know what's "real"
heat until you see people walking around with umbrellas on a clear day,
just so they don't catch fire. :-)


T

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