I hate summer and can't stand heat. It's simple: It's cold? Can always add more layers of clothes. It's hot? What am I gonna do once I'm out of clothing layers and it's still too hot, remove my sweating skin?
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I for one support becoming a walking skeleton
Water becomes your friend. Humans were literally designed for hot African weather. Until it reaches the hundreds you should be totally fine even comfortable if you take the right precautions.
I never feel right in winter gear, it traps a layer of sweat and fails to cover my face. It always disincentivizes me from leaving my heated indoor environments, and no matter how much you wear you still know it’s cold. However I’m fine existing outside from 55-95 degrees.
See, this just fucking baffles me, because I know humans evolved for tropical climates, but according to science (Google) the optimal temperature for sleeping is 60-65 F?!
Go camping, night time is usually cold even on hot days.
My habitable zone is 69-71f...
The electricity bill makes me hate summer.
Enjoy this cool weather people! It's the coolest one we will have going forward.
"This is the hottest day of your life... so far!" - Homer Simpson
Nah, I'm getting older and every year feels shorter. Shit goes by quick enough already.
Also, lol @ 75F being considered hot. I'm not even close to Arizona, my guy. Completely other side of the country (both vertically and horizontally if that makes sense) and even here 75 is a joke.
Summer sucks. Especially the part where after you take a shower, you're already sweating.
Noo! I can't get enough summer! I don't feel alive during the dark cold winters..
Ha, 75, i wish. Try 95 for 3 months streight
I literally wrote about this in the post
I’m not fully there yet since this summer has been more reasonable this year here, but I’m on my way to wishing it would go by quicker.
Words cannot express how much I hate walking out of the gym after a workout, already pouring sweat, exhausted, and out of breath, into essentially an outdoor sauna, and then into my car with all-black interior that you can’t even breathe when you get in because it’s so hot. Such an all-around awful feeling.
Also, like you, I really don’t like the super long days. I don’t like the super short days either, but right now it’s still bright out when I go to sleep and it’s annoying. I like having a couple hours where it’s dark before I go to bed as it feels like a nice wind down and perfect for watching TV or gaming without glares on the TV or just my space being lighter than I want.
Enjoy this cool weather people! It's the coolest one we will have going forward.
Yeah, I personally hate the summer. I'd love to live in the kind of climate you are in, it's in the hundreds here, but I get it. The heat just saps your energy and everything seems to drag on. Don't forget to drink water! Hopefully it doesn't get hotter for you.
It has been quite nice this summer in Denmark for those that usually hate it. Usually I retreat to the coldest darkest corner of my world to survive, but not this year. Very windy and rainy with most days sub 20C (68F). It can stick around as long as it likes.
Same in Sweden. Besides, it was almost June before the spring really arrived. I'm really not looking forward to the summer ending.
Absolutely because I'm not a fan of the heat, and actually much less active during the summer because it takes longer for the outside to cool down enough where it's more comfortable than being with AC.
I'm from the UK, where people die of heatstroke above 32C (90F).
I am currently living in Texas, where it's been consistently above 41C (106F+) for a solid month now.
This summer cannot end quickly enough.
They can laugh all they like but I've been to hot climates during "winter" and heard complaints about the cold at 70F (~21C) which is a temperate spring day to me. We're all used to the climates we live in and hate when it reaches (relatively) extreme temperatures.
It's been rubbish where we live. I don't feel like we've had a summer this year. There's been the odd hot day, but it's most rained and/or been windy and/or been overcast.
Are you also in Britain?
Yup.
I live in a similar climate but it's a little warmer than where you're at now. Actually summers are the only time I don't feel like I'm suffering, since as I've grown older I'm cold all of the time. I was just in Alaska last weekend and it was chilly and rainy. Perhaps that's more your speed, though it does stay light pretty late.
I... actually kind of like feeling slightly cold. Shivering kind of feels nice. I may be slightly masochistic. I hate summer though.
Absolutely not. I love the summer and I feel far more alive when the sun's out! Unfortunately, here in Ireland we've been having lots rainy dull shite weather and not much sunshine. I wish the rainy dull shite would pass quicker.
I live in MN and 75F would be a dream right now. It's been nothing but 80s-90s for the last month or so.
Depression hits hard when it is not summer. Let it last forever!
I grew up in a place where winters got to -36°C (ok, it happened once, usually didn't go below -30/-32). Summer can touch high 30s -- low 40s.
I now live in a place with very mild winters and acceptable summers (a week of 20s, a week of 30s, etc.) but my partner wants to move to Spain and I am like, NOPE.
I hate hot days.
But, we're in for hell Beeple. Time to start mitigation from small to large scale. This global heating will take decades to reverse now and some suggestions for what individuals can do are enough to give a person heatstroke.
For example, there is a suggestion to govern A/C units to 28°C and to put timers on vehicle A/C except for public and commercial transit.
put timers on vehicle A/C
as if the first thing I'd do wouldn't be to hotwire the compressor engagement into an off the shelf temperature controller.
I don't really see the point of that other than punishing people for driving (which in the 30 years I've lived in the US has not once been a choice between driving and mass transit). It's a marginal difference in fuel consumption at best.
Measuring the commanded torque from my ECU it's about 1-2 lb-ft difference.
A lot of propositions would only make marginal differences. Does using A/C in cars emit more GHG?
Not enough that the average person couldn't make it up elsewhere with far less inconvenience. You could just leave more following distance, start coasting to stops earlier and accelerate gradually and save a lot more fuel. Most people drive like methed up maniacs.
Driver education, and proper vehicle maintenance would go much farther. Most people don't even check their tire pressures once a week, month, year.
I might be willing to support 25C or 26C but 28 seems a bit high.
Thankfully this summer in the UK hasn't been as bad as last year. I hate the heat but there's been lots of rain which is nice. The humidity is what gets to me the most.
Britain is like a sponge which soaks up ALL the rain from November to May, then it gets gradually steamed out for a few months.
Great way of putting it!
I live in MN and 75F would be a dream right now. It's been nothing but 80s-90s for the last month or so.
I live in MN and 75F would be a dream right now. It's been nothing but 80s-90s for the last month or so.
I live in MN and 75F would be a dream right now. It's been nothing but 80s-90s for the last month or so.
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