• humanamerican@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    I have some hot takes regarding this scale.

    • 68/20 isn’t chilly - it’s room temperature during Winter. (Also, 75/24 is room temperature in Summer and whatever-temp-it-is-outside is room temperature during Spring and Autumn.)
    • How can 78/25 be warm, but 28/82 (dry) is “little warm”?
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      1 day ago

      It’s said in the same manner as a mild sarcasm. I’m not sure the word for it, but deliberate understatement that specifically plays on it being hotter than ‘warm’ is.

      As far as 20/68 being chilly, to me it’s downright hellish. During the summer, we would keep the house temps around 85/30, because you’d be so used to the sweat and heat of the sun that it wasn’t too bad with a light fan… and that was in the houses lucky enough to have heating/cooling. The rest just made do with shade and designs that promoted a breeze.

      Anyway, as I said, this is a hot climate’s weather terms. If you were able to keep the room temperature the same as the outside in spring or autumn, you probably aren’t in a hot climate.

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        23 hours ago

        We have long stretches of 90/32+ and high humidity in the Summer and long stretches of <30/-1 in Winter. And our Spring and Autumn are both notoriously ephemeral, so those rules only apply for a few days to a week most years.

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          13 hours ago

          90+ is cute. ;) I once lived in an apartment without AC because a roommate and I were trying to get out on our own. I went up there early to start working during the summer, and the city set its record for longest period where it never (even at night) got below 90. I was working for some rich girls with horses, so the days freaking sucked, and the only relief I got was the short showers. I think we usually hit 90 during the day by february. I’ve moved away because screw all that. I can’t imagine what it’s like now as the average temperatures keep climbing.

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              2 hours ago

              Without being specific (some family is still there and it’s small enough I’m identifiable by this account), it’s near the tropic of cancer, and a pretty decent sized body of water.