Re: CHAT: Temperature (was: I'm back!)
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 30, 2002, 18:24 |
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Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:
> En réponse à Andrew Chaney <adchaney@...>:
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> > ...and my car doesnt have A/C
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> Nor does my bike :))) (yes, I go to work on bike. At 7:00am it's rather
> nice, but I'm gonna go home within a few minutes and then it's less nice :
> ((( ). And the laboratory doesn't have airco, and the office I'm in is
> the hottest of them all :((( (and humidity is way above 70% here. We're
> expecting a storm tonight.
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.)
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Thomas Wier
Dept. of Linguistics "Nihil magis praestandum est quam ne pecorum ritu
University of Chicago sequamur antecedentium gregem, pergentes non qua
1010 E. 59th Street eundum est, sed qua itur." -- Seneca
Chicago, IL 60637
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