Re: Fall has fell
- From: prd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Paul Dormer)
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 10:47 +0100 (BST)
In article <gc3luh$hds$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Keith F.
Lynch) wrote:
Paul Dormer <prd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Around here, summer seemed to coincide with when I was away at
Worldcon. Sometime between the Saturday before I left for the US
and the Saturday after I got back (a period of three weeks) the
warmest temperature recorded on my weather station gadget was
30.3C.
You call that a summer? At 30.3 C (81 F) I don't open the windows
or turn off the furnace, and if I go out, I will wear a sweater
or jacket.
At work, before we had air-conditioning, I used to say I'd take my jacket
off only when the temperature was above 30C. (Conversely, I once worked
with someone who'd come in from the outside on days when I'd be wiping
icicles off my beard, and he'd have his jacket off and complain how warm
it was outside.)
After I moved to an office with air conditioning, well, the British can't
do air conditioning properly and it often got far too cold, and I wasn't
the only person to say that. In the record breaking summer of 2003 -
temperatures in the upper thirties - I was working in a section of an
open plan office that had until recently been a manager's office. When
the partitions for that had been removed, the air conditioning hadn't
been, or couldn't be, re-adjusted, and this section of the office was
freezing, and all who sat there agreed. By the end of the day, my feet
felt like blocks of ice, and still hadn't thawed out after a 3km walk to
the station in 35C heat.
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