I never understood books that romanticised summer. Like wow you love 40C weather at 90% humidity with a chance of getting a heat stroke in less than an hour?
The equator and its rain forests are much more pleasant. Plenty of shade and the temps don’t reach quite as high. It’s the tropics that get nasty. There was a stretch of the border between the US and Mexico that reached 115 this week. The summer I spent in Texas years ago broke a record for never getting below 90 for something like 45 days, and the apartment I had didn’t use AC. That was a nasty summer.
That’s more a function of where you live, really. For instance, I prefer summer cause you can go out and do things, go to the beach, to mountains, to the lake, eat outside and stay out until late with lots of light.
But I guess in India winter is not that harsh (at least not on the Himalayas) and probably more enjoyable than in other parts of the world.
Oh yeah, I definitely get that. This is mostly from my experience of reading Enid Blyton books as a kid lol.
Actually, the northern parts of India close to the Himalayas, the Himalayas and other mountain ranges themselves have pretty harsh winters. There are always reports of people dying because of the cold. The rest of the country, winter is pretty mild. In my place the lowest it goes to is like 8C.
I never understood books that romanticised summer. Like wow you love 40C weather at 90% humidity with a chance of getting a heat stroke in less than an hour?
I feel personally attacked :(
Where the fuck do you live? An equatorial rain forest?
In some of the hotest parts of the US it can get above 120F sometimes, and a quick google tells me that is about 49C.
39C and 30+ at night with very little humidity is less exhausting, but still horrible.
The equator and its rain forests are much more pleasant. Plenty of shade and the temps don’t reach quite as high. It’s the tropics that get nasty. There was a stretch of the border between the US and Mexico that reached 115 this week. The summer I spent in Texas years ago broke a record for never getting below 90 for something like 45 days, and the apartment I had didn’t use AC. That was a nasty summer.
Mediterranean coast. 💀
India.
These conditions are not uncommon.
That’s more a function of where you live, really. For instance, I prefer summer cause you can go out and do things, go to the beach, to mountains, to the lake, eat outside and stay out until late with lots of light.
But I guess in India winter is not that harsh (at least not on the Himalayas) and probably more enjoyable than in other parts of the world.
Oh yeah, I definitely get that. This is mostly from my experience of reading Enid Blyton books as a kid lol.
Actually, the northern parts of India close to the Himalayas, the Himalayas and other mountain ranges themselves have pretty harsh winters. There are always reports of people dying because of the cold. The rest of the country, winter is pretty mild. In my place the lowest it goes to is like 8C.
I feel you. I get a heat stroke not long ago :( it was approximately the same temperature and the same humidity ( ~ 80/70 % )