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What makes hot overnight lows so dreadful? If you can deal with the temperatures during the day, why not at night?
If you don't have A/C, opening the windows at night when its cool is a good way to cope with a hot summer day (and then close the windows and curtains during the day). That only works if the nights are cool... Also if you're trying to sleep, you need to be very comfortable, a slight discomfort isn't so bad during the day when you're distracted by other stuff and don't need to be sleeping.
People sleep on hammocks outdoors during hot days, though, right?
I sleep in AC, but when everyone is running their system at full blast, CPC takes over and jacks up the ambient temperature. That's when night sweats take over and annoy me.
Stop with the Celsius already. No one in the USA knows what it means. Our government wanted to go metric in the 1970s be we all refused. The only metric we have is imported junk.
I live in Tennessee. The USA. Converting from metric to English units is no problem for me. I post in both metric and English.
And where I live, lows above 80 probably happen about once a year on average.
Also notice severe weather just after extreme heat to cool things off. The same thing happens here in NJ. One day in mid August, the temperature dropped from 95 F to 78 F in 1.5 hours after an extreme thunderstorm+wind+hail combo. The next day morning, it was a beautiful, sunny, and refreshing 59 F (Thank God for relief), and highs were in the low 80's F. What a change in weather. We never had heat + humidity after that storm, and highs were limited to the mid 80's at worst. Nights remained cool well into September, and fall started early after an intense but short summer.
I live in Kuwait most of the year on an energy project and we have WEEKS in the summer with lows over 80F with usually HIGH 80's, even low 90's for lows June-September with highs 115-120 typically. All time high was nearly 129 officially at the airport in 2011 and unofficially 135 in the inland desert.
You fail to have an option for me! Beyond a couple of times a year, add a couple months a year! It's a trip for somebody like me from the upper Midwest to go for such a long time when you are hot even at 3 AM!
Stop with the Celsius already. No one in the USA knows what it means. Our government wanted to go metric in the 1970s be we all refused. The only metric we have is imported junk.
Many weather geeks in the U.S. can do instant conversions in their head or have memorized all the conversions for temperatures that occur in their area. I know the basic conversions but do use an online translator when not sure if a specific temperature when rating a climate that's presented in Celsius. I say each poster should use the system they are most comfortable with- converting is no biggie when all those apps online.
Anyone have any funny stories about F vs C temperatures lost in translation? Like an American travels to London and hears that the temperature is 20 C when the pilot lands the blae but doesn't know that there's a such thing as Celsius and thinks, OMG, "I only packed light sweaters and it's below freezing outside!" and then buys a bunch of heavy winter clothes at the airport cuz he thinks it's it's gonna be super cold and then he steps outside to find it room temperature. That's how dumb some Americans are unfortunately.
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