• eletes@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    I love summer, but you have to do it right. Going to the store and walking across a hot blacktop parking lot is asking for a bad time.

    Hanging out in a park, going for hike, swimming, hitting the beach, more daylight hours, ice cream, grilling and admiring the greenery. That’s peak life on Earth 🌎🌍

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I’ll take the dry heat of a desert before the cold. But, I’ll take the cold before humid heat. It’s humidity that drives me nuts.

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      8 hours ago

      I had family in Nola, I’m good lmao. Everyone thinks Southerners are dramatic or exaggerating, but the Southern States hands-down have the worst climate in the country thanks to the humidity and heat mixture.

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        7 hours ago

        Especially if you’re away from the cost, it’s all the worst parts of tropical temperatures without an ounce of the good.

        The high right now is 99, the feels like is 109, and having just come inside, there’s just enough breeze right now to piss you off rather than cool you. We have an extreme heat warning from now until the fuckin 3rd, and a lot of us have zero legal protection from working outside in this God forsaken heat.

        I’ve been hearing of some local construction crews threatening the bosses if they have to go outside in this heat, and I know many people in my industry are currently quitting because our northern us based corporate overlords decided this week to get a stick up their ass about uniforms, insisting upon heavy ass cargo pants, a thick cotton undershirt, an even thicker polo, and the most unnecessarily heavy duty safety vest. My crew of 10 lost 2 people this week because they refused to go out in this bullshit wearing all that. The rest of us also refused, but corporate made an example out of them.

        That being said, Louisiana is still worse. And I’d argue most of Alabama.

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        8 hours ago

        I’ve been there in August, and it and the rest of the PNW is uncomfortable in Summer. But as someone from Mississippi, nowhere in the US has the heat and humidity mixture that the Gulf States do.

        From June to September, it feels like you’re breathing in a full sauna when you step outside. You never cool off, you just learn to tolerate always being wet and wondering if it’s sweat or moisture in the air that condensed on your skin

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          8 hours ago

          I’m typing this from an inflatable pool in my back yard. The water bill is going to be outrageous but that’s a small price to pay to be able to go outside.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Love the summer. I love my skin not feeling cold as balls as soon as I step outside. Love not taking a cold ass shower in the morning before work. Love the sun being out later into the evening. Love doing outdoor shit. Swimming. Love the warm nights. Hanging out naked.

    Winter is the sad time.

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      10 hours ago

      Why do you take cold showers in the winter? That seems like a poor personal choice if you don’t enjoy the cold

  • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Summer used to be hot but it also used to be perfectly fine to sit in the shade and feel fine. Nowadays the temps even in the shade are over 30-35°.

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    10 hours ago

    I can easily survive temps in the around 35-37 C with just a fan and ice.

    You haven’t lived until you’ve jerry rigged the front grill of your fan with tubing; using a cooler full of ice water and gravity to circulate cold water through the tubing to create a poor man’s AC.

    If it was up to me the AC would get 1-3 weeks of use. My wife wants the AC; and what baby wants, baby gets.

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      8 hours ago

      I can easily survive temps in the around 35-37 C with just a fan and ice.

      Human and animal safety: High wet-bulb temperatures impair the body’s ability to cool itself, increasing the risk of heatstroke and hyperthermia. A WBT above 35°C (95°F) is considered critical, beyond which even healthy individuals can survive only a few hours without cooling. Recent studies suggest dangerous conditions may occur at lower thresholds, around 31°C (87.8°F) in humid environments

      My wife wants the AC

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    14 hours ago

    I love summer.
    I’d rather have 90° than 9°.
    I like having daylight past 4pm.
    I like seeing blue skies and the sun.
    I like being able to go outside without bundling up under five layers, and still being cold.
    I like not having to shovel my walks, snowblower my drive, scrape off my car, etc.
    I like swimming.
    I like seeing green trees, colorful flowers , bumblebees, and nature.
    I like taking my kid to the park so he can ride his skateboard.
    I like going to the beach.

    Fuck winter, man.

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    12 hours ago

    Winter makes my lupus act up terribly and I can hardly function. Summer heat nowakes my heart condition act up and I can hardly function. There’s a period of like 2 weeks in the spring and fall that are perfect

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    15 hours ago

    Right?
    I’m done with summer. Looking forward to that first early morning air nip with a dusting of frost on the ferns, presaging the arrival of snow.

    • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Summer just started (here in the northern hemisphere). I’m soaking up every last bit of warmth in hopes it lasts until it comes around again. (It never does.)

    • Donkter@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      Unfortunately for us, the best times of the year are about half a month in the spring and half a month in the fall