Ask Lemmy

After living for thirty years in oceanic climate, and now the last two years in subtropical and tropical climate. I definitely prefer tropical. It's nice to never worry about being cold and not needing a dozen layers.

For personal physical comfort? Between 23-30 (75-85) with plenty of rain & humidity, not dry air. Am ok with hotter as long as it's not too dry.

For the world? Well down here before the warming the summers topped around the same they do now, just fewer days of it, so almost 37C, with daily afternoon thunderstorms, and winters were longer (not long, but longer) and likely to have a few days below freezing most years, so I guess for emotional comfort I'd take that, thanks.

Cool without snow

Kind of humid, and cool (by cool I mean 17–21°C in winter and 20–26°C in summer), without much temperature variation. I don't know if this climate exists exactly as described, but it would be ideal for me.

Edit: also, somehow, lots of sunlight. I love the sun but hate how warm it gets. Give me an LED sun.

I'd prefer somewhere under 90F and even more preferably like at most 60F at nights. But mostly not humid. Fuck humidity, that's the killer. I'd like some heat cause I'd like to continue gardening and some plants I like like the heat.

Cool to cold. Essentially a cold 3-month winter of sub-zero (0℃ to -30℃) temps and lots (1+m) of snow, a short “warm” summer of only 2 months with temps never exceeding 30℃ at the absolute worst, with most highs not exceeding 24℃ and most nights in the 10-15℃ range, bookended by long spring and fall seasons that are cool and moist with daytime highs rarely exceeding 24℃ and nights never dropping below 0℃.

Thanks to a heat exhaustion event when I was 17, I have become increasingly sensitive to heat over the last 35 years.

As an example, whatever comfort you feel at 24℃, I feel that same level of comfort - while wearing the same general clothing - at 14-16℃. Whatever comfort you feel at 30℃ is what I feel at 20-22℃.

So when local temps spike to 35-45℃ during our (much more frequent, hotter, and longer) heatwaves, imagine being forced to exist and do all normal outdoor activities in 60-80℃ temps.

Yes, it really is that f**king bad for me.

And I sweat just as badly at the lower temps as you would at the higher temps. For heat waves, think wet sauna temps at their dangerous extremes. It’s why I shave myself bald for six months out of the year… because I would look like a drowned rat during that time otherwise. And yes, I still have to carry a “sweat towel” with me during that time to avoid looking like I just stepped out of a shower. I have to wipe down my head and face several times an hour even when temps are in the high 20s, and especially when I physically exert myself.

Climate change is going to be a right b**ch to me as it ramps up into overdrive over the next decade.

tropic semi-warm, i.e. 26°C and frequent rain

ideally it rains a lot (almost daily) but otherwise the air isn't moist, sothat it still feels cool

Warm and humid, with regular brief showers.

So, tropical.

Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get. -- Lazarus Long