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I like 18C-20C nights in summer.. max temperatures are always more important though. 26C is a decent enough maximum temperature though, certainly warm enough for me if I had to trade for it to have genuinely warm nights. But yeah not much difference anyway
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I like 18C-20C nights in summer.. max temperatures are always more important though. 26C is a decent enough maximum temperature though, certainly warm enough for me if I had to trade for it to have genuinely warm nights. But yeah not much difference anyway
We had 29C/17C today with RH being below 40% most of the day, with some convective clouds here and there and some mountain breezes also, and this way is nice enough for me.
We're just having an incredible thunderstorm, this means that summer more or less started, 8 mm in more or less 20 minutes since it started.
Anyway prefer to have a higher high and a lower lows, i think that about 15-18 C° is an ideal summer low , anything more than that is already uncomfortable for me, especially if coupled with high humidity.
Lots of thunderstorms and cool weather (for our standards) in Greece from the beggining of June. If that barometric lows happened in winter it would be just a snow party
Because the feel of intensity of the sun changes from day to day depending on the clarity of the atmosphere. The sun won't feel as hot after a few days of muggy humid northerlies as it does after a southerly blast brings clear skies from deep in the Southern Ocean.
If it's hazy, the sun won't feel as strong. But once it's blue, the sky is rather transparent. Muggy decreases not increases the comfort.
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I'm not saying 26C isn't sunbathing weather, just that there are 26C days where no one regards the feel of the sun as nice.
As I said, it's not ideal comfort but some people don't mind it much. Particularly sunbathers. Your comment about sunbathers is odd; much cooler than 26°C and you don't get many sunbathers. This conversation is rather off topic. But it seems like you're making assumptions based off your climate that aren't that applicable in other climates.
If it's hazy, the sun won't feel as strong. But once it's blue, the sky is rather transparent. Muggy decreases not increases the comfort.
I'm not talking about heat, but the sensation of sun on skin. The sun feels worse on days straight after a southerly change brings low humidity, than after a period of clear skies with higher humidity. That's why the UVI changes from day to day, even if skies are clear.
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As I said, it's not ideal comfort but some people don't mind it much. Particularly sunbathers. Your comment about sunbathers is odd; much cooler than 26°C and you don't get many sunbathers. This conversation is rather off topic. But it seems like you're making assumptions based off your climate that aren't that applicable in other climates.
People sunbathe because of the sensation of sunshine on the body, not air temperature. I don't think it's about specific climates, but about intensity of sunlight. If people in your area don't sunbathe at 26C, then that says that the sun has little strength at that temperature.
I'm not talking about heat, but the sensation of sun on skin. The sun feels worse on days straight after a southerly change brings low humidity, than after a period of clear skies with higher humidity. That's why the UVI changes from day to day, even if skies are clear.
I know. But comfort is from both heat and sun. If it's actually humid enough to feel muggy, the somewhat weaker sun isn't going to compensate unless it's very hazy.
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People sunbathe because of the sensation of sunshine on the body, not air temperature. I don't think it's about specific climates, but about intensity of sunlight. If people in your area don't sunbathe at 26C, then that says that the sun has little strength at that temperature.
I didn't say the bolded. People generally sunbath when it's hot out; 85°F and sunny is popular for sunbathers, few go to the beach for sunbathing when it's 72°F out.
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, anything more than that is already uncomfortable for me, especially if coupled with high humidity.
