What is your ideal climate temperature?

[MexThorn]

I'm in Michigan and it's FREEZING today they said it's 7 degrees and it's going to go below 0! I want some hot weather! Maybe in the 60's hehe.

My ideal temperature is around 60-65 where I can breathe but it's not muggy.

What is your ideal temperature?

[Fontainhas]

I love the cold. Cold cold cold cold. I must say I do not apreciate summer very much *blerrrrc*.

[Logos]

MexThorn, you should edit the poll to include CELCIUS temps for the non-American members, of which there are quite a few ;)

"The United States of America, Liberia, and Myanmar are the only countries who have not officially adopted the Metric System"

For me the ideal would be between 15-25'C

[beer good]

Depends. In the summer, 20 to 25C. Not too hot, not too cold.

In the winter, -3 to -10C. Below zero so the snow stays fresh, but not so cold you can't go outside. Few things are as invigorating as a long walk on a clear winter's day.

[MexThorn]

MexThorn, you should edit the poll to include CELCIUS temps for the non-American members, of which there are quite a few ;)

For me the ideal would be between 15-25C
I didn't think about it. Thank you. Hmmm maybe we can do metric system, I think it's universal.

[Wirhe]

About 20 degree Celcius around the year. Since this is impossible in Finland, I'm thinking of moving to New Zealand and Northland. "The Winterless Land" sounds like a promising nick. :)

Just try freezing your *** in -20 C plus wind for a few times and you see my point.

[MexThorn]

I'm okay with cold because here we get winter 4 or 5 months a year. Warm would be okay with me too but the dry heat like in California not the moist muggy heat like in Florida or Texas. But hey i'm in america I haven't been on the other side of the world.
Anyone wanna send me their way? ;)

[Ryduce]

I live in Virginia right across the water from norfolk and VA beach,it has been 55-70 pretty much the entire winter. It's like 68 right now and its the middle of Feburary.Personally though I love cold weather,and I would be so much happier if it were 30-40.

[Virgil]

Frankly I don't like the winter. With each year I hate it more and more. I don't mind a cold day here and there, but I hate the two months from Jan 2nd to through Feb 28th. Cold wind, snow - yuk. Except for one huge snow day, this has been a mild winter; makes up for the last few really cold ones. Ideal temperature for me is around 80-85 F (25-30C). I don't even mind if it gets hotter, as long as the humidity isn't high.

Right now here in the New York City area: 52F (11C)

[Petrarch's Love]

I'm a native Californian currently freezing in Chicago. I'm hoping to survive enough winters to get my degree and get some nice So. Cal. university to employ me. :lol: The current 20F (-6 C) is not my ideal temperature and I'm not at all looking forward to tonight when the wind chill is expected to drop temps to -10F or more. :cold: :cold: :cold: Oh to be in California now that winter's here! :cool:

[papayahed]

HeHe, it's 22F (-5C)in Kansas City. My ideal is 70's F (20'sC).


I don't really miss Michigan all that much today - Thanks Mex!!

[Pendragon]

Since the Jet Stream changed and doesn't pass over Southwest Virginia anymore, our winters are milder, and our summers hotter. I live in the mountains, so it's not too bad. I need it fairly cool, since my medication makes me sensitive to light and heat. :p

[kilted exile]

The perfect weather is 13C, with a light drizzle of rain preferrably no wind.
I dont mind it being cold so long as it is a dry cold, if it is cold and damp my shoulder plays up.
I cant stand it if the temperature gets above ~ 25C

[higley]

exactly 70 degrees is my preferred temp...Ohio's weather is schizophrenic, it was sixty yesterday and thirty today. I remember last April, when we had an 80 degree Thursday and a snowstorm two days later. :P

[IrishCanadian]

Just try freezing your *** in -20 C plus wind for a few times and you see my point.
Its like that here too. It doesn't usually get this cold .. about once each winter. Just this time it reached that point in the middle of the day instead of night. Yikes. I would like a nice 24 degrees celcius.

[emily655321]

My ideal temperature in spring and summer is about 60-65F/15-18C. When it gets above 75F/23 C, I start to get really cranky and stay indoors all the time (and of course it always does, and I always do). In the winter, providing it's a "real" winter (20-25F/-5C during the day, lots of snow) I am in my element (no pun intended). I love the feeling of freezing nostrils, and the smell of sparkly, crunchy, squeaky cold snow.

Unfortunately, I've been very disappointed in the past few years, because it's been getting warmer and warmer. I've hardly seen any snow this winter (and by "hardly any" I mean about half the storms we've had have been rain, and wash all the snow away.—I'm in southern Vermont, by the way.) We got a good snow this Sunday, but today it rained and hailed and now all of it's gone. This is not normal. Also, this past Fall the leaves didn't really change color, because that is caused by the frost, and it stayed in the -->80's<-- (30C) through September. So the leaves just sort of slowly withered on the branch. All this made me very, very unhappy. Stupid global warming.

[Virgil]

Unfortunately, I've been very disappointed in the past few years, because it's been getting warmer and warmer. I've hardly seen any snow this winter (and by "hardly any" I mean about half the storms we've had have been rain, and wash all the snow away.—I'm in southern Vermont, by the way.) We got a good snow this Sunday, but today it rained and hailed and now all of it's gone. This is not normal. Also, this past Fall the leaves didn't really change color, because that is caused by the frost, and it stayed in the -->80's<-- (30C) through September. So the leaves just sort of slowly withered on the branch. All this made me very, very unhappy. Stupid global warming.
Well your memory is not the greatest then. You're right this year has been mild (in the Northeast USA), but last year it was absoutely frigid. And the year before that was pretty cold too. I personally can't wait for global warming. :nod:

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Anything below 25C (77F) is below my specification (Do I live in the wrong place, or what? :lol: )

/Claes

[Virgil]

Anything below 25C (77F) is below my specification (Do I live in the wrong place, or what? :lol: )

/Claes
Yes, I couldn't handle your winters. On top of that is the amount of daylight. No one has mentioned that about winter. I hate the shorten day light hours as well. I would imagine your day, Claes, gets down to about six hours or so in the winter? But I would find it absolutely cool in the summer to have 20 hours of daylight. How can one go to sleep with that?

[Virgil]

"The United States of America, Liberia, and Myanmar are the only countries who have not officially adopted the Metric System"

And if I have any say in it, the US will keep it's own measuring system. I love the units of inches, feet, yard, and mile. It's so much more charming and interesting than the sterile method of dividing everything by ten. Funny story: I once worked on a project with a company from the United Kingdom, and we had to use metric for them. So I would kid around with the english and tell them they don't know the English unit system. The English don't know English units. You guys came up with it. :lol:

[ClaesGefvenberg]

I would imagine your day, Claes, gets down to about six hours or so in the winter? That is entirely correct... unfortunately. I manage though. If you go further north though, you have to do without the sun alltogether in mid winter. Not me, thank you very much...


But I would find it absolutely cool in the summer to have 20 hours of daylight. How can one go to sleep with that?Sleep? In the summertime? Why? :D

/Claes

[papayahed]

And if I have any say in it, the US will keep it's own measuring system. I love the units of inches, feet, yard, and mile. It's so much more charming and interesting than the sterile method of dividing everything by ten. Funny story: I once worked on a project with a company from the United Kingdom, and we had to use metric for them. So I would kid around with the english and tell them they don't know the English unit system. The English don't know English units. You guys came up with it. :lol:

bleck! I really dislike our system. When I used to do research I would do everything in metric then I would have to convert it back for the old timers. I remember my boss telling me she needed 4 oz of a substance. 4 fluid ounces or weighed out 4 ounces???? It's much simple - a gram you weigh a mL you pour - simple!!!

[Virgil]

bleck! I really dislike our system. When I used to do research I would do everything in metric then I would have to convert it back for the old timers. I remember my boss telling me she needed 4 oz of a substance. 4 fluid ounces or weighed out 4 ounces???? It's much simple - a gram you weigh a mL you pour - simple!!!
:lol: I suspected most engineers prefer the metric. But I want to say that I went out and jogged a mile, not 1600 meters.

[Logos]

bah, I was taught Imperial and Metric in school, so I "think" in both, it's confusing sometimes. :goof:

With the windchill today it is -25C today :eek2: :cold: :eek2:

[papayahed]

:lol: I suspected most engineers prefer the metric. But I want to say that I went out and jogged a mile, not 1600 meters.


hey your talking to the one woman crusade to change it to the "2.54 cm worm".

[Virgil]

bah, I was taught Imperial and Metric in school, so I "think" in both, it's confusing sometimes. :goof:

With the windchill today it is -25C today :eek2: :cold: :eek2:
"Imperial," that's how the British engineers refered to our units. We call them English units. If it were still called english units in England, I wonder if they would have changed. It seems to me it should be a point of pride. I work in both English and metric, and I don't find one being any better than the other. Once you understand the english, it becomes just as easy and natural as metric, but with a whole lot more charm.

[emily655321]

I don't find it charming when I'm trying to have discourse with... well, almost anyone else in the world, and I have to keep doing Google Calculator to understand what both of us are talking about. It's easier for me because I grew up with it, but I think it would make a lot more sense on the whole if America would join the rest of the world on this point.

[kilted exile]

I am able to function using both unit types, which is useful when dealing with cross-border contacts.
I can also use some of the wierder imperial units, and to annoy one of my lecturers at college I once gave an answer for density in slugs/cubic yard. as he had not stated on the test paper whether or not he was looking for metric units.

[Virgil]

density in slugs/cubic yard.
Oh, that's beautiful! Density is one of those variables with multiple units, so converting in your head is usually out of the question. With density, I can only think in pounds per cubic inch.

[papayahed]

"Imperial," that's how the British engineers refered to our units. We call them English units. If it were still called english units in England, I wonder if they would have changed. It seems to me it should be a point of pride. I work in both English and metric, and I don't find one being any better than the other. Once you understand the english, it becomes just as easy and natural as metric, but with a whole lot more charm.

hehe one's person's charm is another persons antiquated stodginess. The english units seems so old school to me, sure it's just as simple to understand as metric, but slightly more cumbersome to use. Do you still use a slide rule too?

[Virgil]

hehe one's person's charm is another persons antiquated stodginess. The english units seems so old school to me, sure it's just as simple to understand as metric, but slightly more cumbersome to use. Do you still use a slide rule too?
:lol: I've never used a slide rule. I'm not that old. We had calculators in school, although they were kind of simple compared to what's out there today. Old school has charm. As the man from "Fiddler On the Roof" says, "Tradition!"

[AimusSage]

Using the metric system, one would assume to use kelvin as a measurement of temperature, but since it uses the same scale as degrees celcius, it doesn't really matter, just add up some 273 degrees to the temperature to get it in kelvin.

Anyway, my favourite temperature is 39.1 degrees celcius and I like cybernetic implants.

[rachel]

Using the metric system, one would assume to use kelvin as a measurement of temperature, but since it uses the same scale as degrees celcius, it doesn't really matter, just add up some 273 degrees to the temperature to get it in kelvin.

Anyway, my favourite temperature is 39.1 degrees celcius and I like cybernetic implants.

Hey Aim where have you been, stuck on a highway surrounded by cows?
I really miss you when you are not posting. Perhaps you could do some postdated quotes and find a way for them to post themselves when you are busy.

I love that you have that for an ideal temp. I like it about 27 I guess. But I really love all seasons and just don't want it too arctic in winter or too saharah desert in the summer. Anything in between is fine.
The U.S.A really needs to get into the flow with metric. We Canadians madly loved the British system but you have to get into the real world , right? :nod:

[MexThorn]

WHOA! I'm suprised this thread got 3 pages long! haha I didn't think anyone would post because i'm a newbie here.

Anyway i'm glad to see so much feedback. It's snowing here! OMG! It's not too cold though. I didn't get a chance to see the forecast before I left home but it's not really cold like a few night's ago. I'm in Michigan and like Ohio, the temperature is like someone with a bi-polar disorder. A few day's ago it was warm like it was going to be spring, then the next few days it got COLD. Now today it's not really cold but it's snowing. I wish the weather would make up it's mind and just give us some warm weather.

-Mex

[Nightshade]

OH my well lets see I cant deal with heat (One of the reasonsI am soooo glad I left egypt mind yu they had heard of Airconditioningf and fans which the english dont appear to so come the beautiful high 30s in the summer Im on killing sprees and crying with lack of sleep as I have this problem with slepping in a room thats warmer than 19 degrees C at the very most.
As for imperial and metric welll As far as I see it the english pretty much still use the IMperial distances (At least in thing like the HIghway code and actually come to think of it most things. But Icant get used to Imperial weights I mean exactly how much is a Stone anyhow?
and theres always the delightfiul differances between an american pint and an english pint ( which leave me panicking when Im trying to cook somthing)
:D :rolleyes:

[MexThorn]

YAY! It's warm today I think i'm going to go for a walk. :D

[Nightshade]

can I ask what the poll is in F/C/Kelvin??

[Taliesin]

Hmm.
An ideal temperature?
A hard one. You see, in the end of the winter you are so bored with it that you cannot wait for the coming spring, but the same thing counts for the end of spring, summer and autumn too.

Well, we'd say about 8-18 degrees (celsius) at the moment. It is nice, quite cold/warm and it reminds us of spring and autumn, demanding a light jacket but nothing heavier.

The imperial system gives us headaches, to be honest.
In physics we use Kelvin anyway, since it is more sensible than Celsius and much more sensible than Fahrenheit, and it is strange to imagine more complicated physical units in imperial system.
Inches, pounds and other such things remind us of victorian times.

Dogheaps, leagues and other such units might sound nice and archaic, but they just seem so unpractical and strange to us.

Besides one doesn't have to jog a mile. One can jog a kilometre or two.
Using beforementioned logic: Do we jog 0,625 miles or a kilometre?
The sword cuts both ways.

[Koa]

My ideal temperature is between 15 and 25 degrees celsius (so I dont know what I'm meant to vote in the poll). I hate it when it gets over 25, which is basically costantly from June to late August, generally... I don't like summer at all.

[Virgil]

Koa
15C equals 59F
25C equals 77F

[AimusSage]

Hey Aim where have you been, stuck on a highway surrounded by cows?
I really miss you when you are not posting. Perhaps you could do some postdated quotes and find a way for them to post themselves when you are busy.

I love that you have that for an ideal temp. I like it about 27 I guess. But I really love all seasons and just don't want it too arctic in winter or too saharah desert in the summer. Anything in between is fine.
The U.S.A really needs to get into the flow with metric. We Canadians madly loved the British system but you have to get into the real world , right? :nod:

I can't believe I missed this. :brickwall

Rachel, my ideal temperature of 39.1 degrees celcius comes from a wonderful movie, Star Trek: First Contact. (Yes it is a good movie, even for non trekkies.) In this movie the borg invade the enterprise and they change the temperature to 39.1 degrees celcius. My actual prefered temperature isn't nearly that hot. It's more like 20-25 with about a 40% humidity.

[AttorneyGonzo]

Where the seasons never change it seems.
The sun always shines– it warms my heart.
Young black-haired, dark-eyed senoritas
contrasting harmoniously with white Hispanic architecture.
They walk by, pushing strollers, happily chatting.
They radiate a natural, proud elegance, so carefree
it fills my chest with joy and woe at once.
I lean back against the ragged trunk of a palm tree,
gazing at the dark blue of the ocean
where it blends with the light blue of the horizon.
I watch the seagulls glide through the air with ease
and I know they carry with them my worries.
I envy them for they can stay. I can not.

Here the seasons tend to change violently.
Fog, rain and snow are predominant– they cloud my soul.
Old white-haired, gray-eyed Damen
become indistinguishable from decayed, old structures.
They walk by, holding on to canes, reminiscing of better times.
They convey a natural, innate sadness, so oppressing
it weighs on me like a giant, invisible millstone.
I sit down on the low concrete wall next to the road
staring at the grayish smoke from the chimneys
where it mingles with the dull grayness of the sky.
I see the pigeons flutter hysterically
and I know they only want food from me.
I dislike them for they never go away. I can go away…
and one day I will… perhaps to California.

[rachel]

Nothing over twenty five degrees is bearable to me. I like coolish weather, or that beautiful very first days of spring weather.


i like that very much Attorney. :D

[Petrarch's Love]

Oh Attorny Gonzo, you've made me homesick. It's a good thing I'm flying back for a visit in a few weeks. Have you ever lived in CA, or were you inspired by a visit?

[AttorneyGonzo]

Oh Attorny Gonzo, you've made me homesick. It's a good thing I'm flying back for a visit in a few weeks. Have you ever lived in CA, or were you inspired by a visit?
:) I was lucky enough to live there for 1 1/2 years.

[MexThorn]

Oh Attorny Gonzo, you've made me homesick. It's a good thing I'm flying back for a visit in a few weeks. Have you ever lived in CA, or were you inspired by a visit?
Can I hitch a ride? I'v never been to CA I have always wanted to go though. :D