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NannerBanner@literature.cafe 5 days agoListen, I need to introduce you to any hot climate’s weather terms (done in american and rest-of-the-fucking-world-but-liberia units for funsies):
You can be very cold and freezing. You can’t be very cold and not freezing. ;)
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”?
It ain’t the heat, it’s the humidity.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 4 days ago
In freedom units, as viewed from New Mexico, where humidity is typically under 50% and often below 10% in the summer:
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 4 days ago
I reserve sweltering for when you can see the heat waves in the air. It is a great word. New mexico is a weird one though, being high desert, right? Ya’ll actually get a wildly cold winter, don’t you?