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

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 30, 2002, 18:48
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 01:24:23PM -0500, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
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> 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 -- Caffeine underflow. Brain dumped.

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