Tony Don't Surf.
We don't go to the beach to get into the water... it's too cold.
We were living in Hawai'i when Jaws came out. We stopped going to the beach too.
As I'm getting older I lost weight and I can not tolerate cold weather. I use a blanket when it's 74F.
It really is what you get used to.
When we lived in O'ahu.. there was one New Year's Eve when the weather dropped to 69F. We were freezing. Had no blankets, so we had to use the large beach towels as blankets. Lot of towels... brrr.. closed the windows, turned off the fans. The house had no heating, only AC.
I enjoy the NW in the late spring and summer, but I only suffer it in the winter and we put up with the horrendous driving conditions because of family.
One year we all flew to the island of Hawai'i, to Kailua-Kona, and we rented a place right on the water. Our Christmas dinner was tuna sashimi, white rice, japanese veggies, cold beer and mai tais.... pool side. Nice rum and cigars after dinner. They got a Costco in Kona.. you know?
We don't go to the beach to get into the water... it's too cold.
We were living in Hawai'i when Jaws came out. We stopped going to the beach too.
As I'm getting older I lost weight and I can not tolerate cold weather. I use a blanket when it's 74F.
It really is what you get used to.
When we lived in O'ahu.. there was one New Year's Eve when the weather dropped to 69F. We were freezing. Had no blankets, so we had to use the large beach towels as blankets. Lot of towels... brrr.. closed the windows, turned off the fans. The house had no heating, only AC.
I enjoy the NW in the late spring and summer, but I only suffer it in the winter and we put up with the horrendous driving conditions because of family.
One year we all flew to the island of Hawai'i, to Kailua-Kona, and we rented a place right on the water. Our Christmas dinner was tuna sashimi, white rice, japanese veggies, cold beer and mai tais.... pool side. Nice rum and cigars after dinner. They got a Costco in Kona.. you know?
We take our shirts off at 20º (properº, not that silly Fahrenheit scale)
I hope you realize how funny that is.
Awesome Tony.
Sorry to hear that.
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Ay... why would you be sorry about Costco in Kailua-Kona? They sell big chunks of sashimi grade tuna for awesome prices. It keeps the tourists disembarking from the cruise ships away.
And, let's face it, even Celsius is just a French invention. In Physics we use Kelvin. No need for none of that funky floating point to do our calculations... everything is a proper integral type ( always positive ). You ought to see how not using floating point speeds up the calculations!
Nothing funny about freezing when it gets to 69F, it is what you get used to. And, actually being cold at that temp is a good thing... we keep the labs at a proper temperature ( 20C, 55%, sea level )... and we have to wear smocks. If we had to take our shirts when it got to 20C, we'd be in serious trouble. I wonder what being bare chested will do to the ESD on the bench.
In our winter, at Disneyland, you can tell the locals from the tourists... the later are walking around in jeans and short sleeves. The former are walking around in shorts and heavy winter jackets. ;-)
Depends if you have a pelt like Chewbacca or not. We have dogs that will draw an arc in the winter - and one of them does kind of remind me of Chewy.
I don't believe Celsius was French, and of the two layman's scales, it's the one that makes sense. Kelvin makes the most but not practical in everyday use, or is it? I suppose we could get used to 293º as room temperature and 323º as being almost too hot to survive.
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Fahrenheit is only used in the USA Belize Liberia and Caiman islands ( wherever that is ).
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The thought of a bunch of engineers in the lab taking their shirts off because it's too hot at 20C is scary.
For some reason I can suddenly see why we need more women in engineering, and thermostats turned up.
That was Réaumur. BTW Celsius defined 0° as the boiling temp of water and 100° as the freezing temp of water. It was reversed later.