temperature extremes
Jul. 10th, 2008 12:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indigo_rose99Texas is miserably hot. Really, really hot. According to my data collection, this summer ("summer" = "really hot weather", which started long before it should have) is at the top end of hot compared to the last few years. The website where I collect my historic weather temperatures says, "June 2008 became the warmest June on record with an average daily temperature oF 87.4, with most 100-degree days on record at 20. Records date back to 1854." Seriously, seriously hot.
Ireland is, by comparison, relatively cool. Ok, not too surprising, being farther North. I walk to and from my car without a jacket and just feel a tiny bit chilly. When I walk out to dinner with my students (nice traveling students), I wear long pants and my travel jacket. Even the occasional dripping rain is SO much better than heat. My students don't quite seem to believe me... Though I have caught them several times just standing outside the hotel staring up at the cloudy blue sky.
The difference between this and Texas is so wildly extreme that it boggles my mind a bit.
Ireland is, by comparison, relatively cool. Ok, not too surprising, being farther North. I walk to and from my car without a jacket and just feel a tiny bit chilly. When I walk out to dinner with my students (nice traveling students), I wear long pants and my travel jacket. Even the occasional dripping rain is SO much better than heat. My students don't quite seem to believe me... Though I have caught them several times just standing outside the hotel staring up at the cloudy blue sky.
The difference between this and Texas is so wildly extreme that it boggles my mind a bit.
