We had -20/-25 the whole week. Humidity 70% and over..... Plus windy. I am not talking Moscow - they were very close to - 40. I miss spring/summer time.
Yet that heat as Yell describes is worse, I guess. I had hard time to adjust to +35 and humidity over 90% in Jakarta. Can't even imagine how it could be when it's +40.
SE Asia always been a pain to me, too. Last year in South Africa we hit 42 as well, can't stand it. I'm more like FB, skiing is way better than sun bathing.
I definitely prefer cold over heat. So of course I get sent to a mission in the hottest place in the world. Summers on the Yucatan peninsula were just brutal. 100 degree heat andd 100 percent humidity. Some days it got close to 115. Yikes !!!
Quote:I went to Dallas, TX this summer in July and it was like 102 and like 80-90% humidity. I think that is probably the only time in my life when I could say that I would take my 122 with 10% humidity in Phoenix.
I'm just the oppostite of most of you - I can't tolerate the cold. I lived in Germany for a year in an appartement that did not have central heat or air. All I had a was a crappy little radiator that barely worked and it was the worst winter thay had in ages. I was never so miserable in all my life and couldn't wait to get back to Texas!
VERY funny - actually it was in 98. They don't have a lot of hte conveniences we have. I had to buy a heavy coat for the first time since I was 11 and lived in Colorado.
You also can't get iced tea or water with meals when you eat out and the stores close at like 3 on Sat. and are closed Sunday also. The town I lived in had only a few restaraunts and the non-german ones were bad: I did lose a lot of weight, however, becasue the food was so nasty. I don't like fried food or potatoes and thats pretty much all they had.
Some little town in East Germany? You must be very unlucky to get to the wrong place. Didn't they offered you juicy porky? Actually, I thought food in Germany was ok. Once I stayed at so called "farm hotel" in small town. Food was good, the only thing is the house was made of @#%$ (literally it was cow @#%$). And it smelled around like that too. But so close to the nature.....
We have a crazy warm spell going through Sothern Alberta the last week. We were the hot spot in Canada at 19c. I am ready to jump off a tall building depressed about it. Apparently February is supposed to be awesome though, according to the farmer's almanac.
Notty, it's not that bad. it's kinda cool. They use for inner walls cow @#%$ mixed with clay and with twig enforcement. But green grass and fresh air make you to relax. Though the small pig farm was just next door.... that's just special hotel for those greenpeace people. It was the whole story how we got there. Our Italian partners booked it for us saying it is nice and quiet and not expensive place outside of a small Westfalian town. We barely found the hotel in the dark night. When we arrived we let the taxi driver go and only then discovered that Italians were not there. Well, hotel was closed, we were enjoing farm air and silence. We thought something about italian sense of humor...Finally we got inside and our partners arrived only in the next morning...