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Right. 70 Fahrenheit can feel cold when you are used to highs in the eighties.
Exactly, to this day the coldest I ever felt was on 50 degree night in October. Weather was cooling down and a cool front was sweeping through knocking down night time lows , it was one of the first 50 degree nights of the second half of the year, remember being used to warm summer nights, then feeling this, I was shivering and really thought I would get hypothermia that night, but that was because was wearing shorts and being hard headed and not going inside, all I know is it was icy. Then as winter set in and I got used to the weather 50 degrees was gorgeous , even a 38 degree day after an ice storm in January felt good enough to go outside in shorts in.
I'm not sure about the exact meaning in English, but do you guys necessarily associate the word "jacket" with something warm / heavy ? These days it's about low 20s C in the afternoon and I generally wear a jacket, but more like a polycotton jacket, a denim jacket or maybe a light rainjacket when necessary, but that is for spring and fall, it would not be enough below, say, 10c, even with layers underneath.
In the summer I generally don't need it because it normally stays warm enough at night, but in France it was common for me to pack a hoodie in the backpack just in case when I was going out at night in the summer, as it is usually cooler at night with large diurnal ranges. It is normal there to have like 17 / 32c in a july day for example.
But if I lived where Joe90 lives, maybe a light jacket would be sufficient in the coldest month, because it never really get seriously cold apparently.
"Jacket", at least in North America, does not have to be heavy. It is associated with stereotypical "spring" weather (think 15-17C). "Coat" is like "giubbotto" in heaviness and more associated with freezing temperatures or at least conditions under 10C.
Why? You learn it here in middle school, and again in high school.
Well, here students learn it in fourth grade and never again. I remember, but I am also a geography nerd. I'll bet that most people forgot what they learned at age nine if they didn't use that information much.
Geography is my favorite subject, I learned geography in a peculiar way through a peculiar hobby for a peculiar 6 year old. When I was a young boy, by young boy I mean 4-9, I started collecting maps, drawing maps, spending time looking through the atlas, looking at cities, countries, mountains, everything. I took a whole notebook and dedicated my time drawing maps of the world, I maybe ended up drawing 100+ maps! I remember getting in trouble one day and being sent to my room, I had a poster and used my time in my room to draw a huge map of the world. Still have it to this day. Remember the first globe I ever got, I was so excited and happy, I was only 6 at the time too lol!
I know people who cant name the 7 continents to this day, despite that being what we started with in every history class I took up to the 8th grade.
You sound like me! When I was around 10, I could draw a map of the world by heart. Now, I'd still have a good idea, but it wouldn't be as good of a map as I would've drawn back then.
The US state capitals are almost impossible, as they tend to be obscure small towns. I know that the capital of Maryland is Annapolis, for Rhode Island Providence, and for NY it's probably... Albany?
I think Southern and Central Ostrobothnia are the most difficult. And then maybe Southern Savonia and Kymenlaakso. If you don't know Finland Proper or Uusimaa I'll kill you.
Oh my goodness, why do you know that?
Annapolis isn't an obscure small town. It's in the Baltimore suburbs.
I'm sorry, the best I could've given you is Helsinki...
Exactly, to this day the coldest I ever felt was on 50 degree night in October. Weather was cooling down and a cool front was sweeping through knocking down night time lows , it was one of the first 50 degree nights of the second half of the year, remember being used to warm summer nights, then feeling this, I was shivering and really thought I would get hypothermia that night, but that was because was wearing shorts and being hard headed and not going inside, all I know is it was icy. Then as winter set in and I got used to the weather 50 degrees was gorgeous , even a 38 degree day after an ice storm in January felt good enough to go outside in shorts in.
Indeed. After the snowstorm in January, I was outside for a few minutes around 9C in short sleeves and it felt warm. The other day I was waiting outside and I was pretty cold, though it was in the mid 50s Fahrenheit.
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