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Whew, Sandra can be happy that she’s not living in Bandung, Indonesia, the home town of Powree. Here is its climate chart (average daily temperature by month in *C and °F, the additional day and night temperatures are from a different source so the numbers don’t match up exactly):
Jan: 23.9 °C (75.0 °F) | day: 26.7 °C, night: 19.3 °C Feb: 23.3 °C (73.9 °F) | day: 26.8 °C, night: 19.1 °C Mar: 23.4 °C (74.1 °F) | day: 27.5 °C, night: 18.9 °C Apr: 24.1 °C (75.4 °F) | day: 28.1 °C, night: 19.0 °C May: 24.2 °C (75.6 °F) | day: 28.2 °C, night: 18.7 °C Jun: 23.5 °C (74.3 °F) | day: 27.9 °C, night: 17.2 °C Jul: 22.9 °C (73.2 °F) | day: 27.9 °C, night: 16.5 °C Aug: 23.4 °C (74.1 °F) | day: 28.6 °C, night: 16.7 °C Sep: 23.6 °C (74.5 °F) | day: 29.2 °C, night: 17.1 °C Oct: 23.7 °C (74.7 °F) | day: 29.0 °C, night: 17.8 °C Nov: 23.7 °C (74.7 °F) | day: 28.1 °C, night: 18.7 °C Dec: 23.7 °C (74.7 °F) | day: 27.6 °C, night: 19.0 °C
I’m beginning to sweat just by looking at those numbers ;-).
Update: I’m surprised how many people don’t seem to know the meaning of an average daily temperature. You should definitely read Zephr’s comment (comment # 21).
- Sandra: It’s hot. It’s too hot. It’s like a thousand degrees in here!
- Sandra: I can feel my brain melting. Soon, it’ll become a slimy gray goo…
- Sandra: … that’ll drip out of my nostrils. Eventually, there’ll be nothing inside my head but a large hollow and two eyeballs rolling around in it.
- Sandra: …
- Sandra: Great. Now I’m exhausted AND I’m feeling sick.
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Eeew. She has a great mind.
Looking at your Temperature, I’d much rather have that kind of weather than how it is here. It’s about 90 degrees Fahrenheit where I live right now and if it was 70 I’d be shouting for joy!
Wait, 70’s? year round? Thats Florida!
I remember a summer whet it reached 44º… Thanks god i love heat 😀
I’ve done that before, made myself sick.
And that’s hard to do.
Feh. Those temps are quite cold compared to the ones we get here in Mexico. You Europeans are wimps.
70s? That’s considered nice weather in the Midwest. Ranges from under 0 Fahrenheit to a little over 100 every year here.
it was 99.F here with 99% humidity >< i would love 69.F year round that my sleeping temp… well my summer sleeping temp my winter like 58.F
Those temperatures don’t seem that hot to me. I live in the northeast US and it gets hotter than that here.
I live in Northern Florida, and my job has me standing outside holding a sign on the side of the road for 4 hours a day, 7 days a week. I must say, I’d kill for those averages. It was roughly 95 “F outside today while I was out there.
Not to mention I have a farmer’s tan from hell.
Funnily enough, Pittsburgh’s been below average for a decent while. We’ve finally gotten some hot (90 degree) weather.
Did you know that Greenland was once, well, Green?
I WISH i lived in a place that never got much about 75F – i don’t think we’ve had a day in the last two months that didn’t have a high of at least 80F, and most in the high 80s – low 9s.
I’m glad i live in the Appalachians, the last couple of days is the first time we hit 90s this year.
Sandra has a warped mind to be able to gross herself out like that. poor thing.
@hariman: That and Iceland is not that much of a snowball either. Just blame the vikings for their twisted and awesome sense of humor in naming places.
The real problem in Indonesia is not the actual temperature, it’s the humidity. [Was there just two month ago for work]. In the city it was around 30°C but it was so humid it was hard to breath. In Bahrein on the other hand it happens to be more than 40° but there the humidity is so low that it get quite tollerable.
Yeah, no. It’s been a solid 85-90 F here, occasionally it jumps to around 100.
70-75 is our Autumn.
I also live in the Appalachians, but it’s been 90+ since early June and 100+ several times here…
i’m thinking one part overactive imagination, one part plain old heat stroke.
do they not have a desk fan she can use, or any cold drinks? 😀
(or a paddling pool, outside, or some kind of creek in the parkland?)
I must say, sitting here in Britain, I’m enjoying the idea of Powree’s climate based on temperature. Though I expect it’s rather humid which makes it less comfortable… and maybe a bit politically dangerous.
Oh, and i don’t think i’ve ever been in a house with air conditioning built in … except maybe on breaks in apartments in hotter climates! A good heating system, plenty of insulation and IR-retaining glass is where it’s at, here 😀
Though my car does have AC… it was a big day when I first moved up to one with air-con (the one before being pretty much a metal crate on wheels that somehow moved around). It makes de-misting the windows so much quicker and easier 😉 … and occasionally is a godsend in summer when turning it on for five minutes brings the cabin down to a more comfortable temperature instead of driving with all the windows open for fifteen. Fuel costs too much to leave it running continuously, at least for me, though I have friends who leave it on all the time even when it’s not needed… they’re not really the most overall money- or environmentally-concious people though. The same economics apply to home AC really. Suppose we could probably get a scrap food-freezer with rotted seals and shove it in a large window with the element facing outwards, door open and a desk fan sat in front of it?
Well, that’s what you gain from an overactive imagination.
As a long time resident of Colorado, US we get much hotter (and much colder) but I will take my 10-25% humidity at any temp over Indonesia’s humidity at 85º F any day.
an old trick I used to cool down was to have a fan blow thru some yarn wrapped around a frame sitting in water (home made swamp cooler) again only something you can do in <25% humidity.
Seems to me like people here don’t know the difference between average daily temperature and average daily high. Here’s the average daily temperatures in Seattle for comparison.
Jan – 40 °F (4.4 °C)
Feb – 44 °F (6.7 °C)
Mar – 46 °F (7.8 °C)
Apr – 48 °F (8.9 °C)
May – 55 °F (12.8 °C)
Jun – 61 °F (16.1 °C)
Jul – 65 °F (18.3 °C)
Aug – 66 °F (18.9 °C)
Sep – 61 °F (16.1 °C)
Oct – 54 °F (12.2 °C)
Nov – 45 °F (7.2 °C)
Dec – 41 °F (5.0 °C)
Now keep in mind that Seattle is not even remotely a cold place. We barely get any snow here, and when we do it usually melts within a couple days. It never lasts more than a couple weeks. We just had temperatures over 100 °F (It actually hit 40 °C!) a week and a half ago. Can you imagine what a heat wave must be like in Bandung? And they can get them any time of year. Ouch.
Maybe the rest of you will melt with your brain and you’d be one big lump of goo… you’d be like a T-1000! 😀 Or maybe not.
You think THAT’S hot? Buddy, I live in Florida: 96 degrees Fahrenheit and 90% humidity; you think your temps are melting hot, try visiting here… That is, if your pale skin doesn’t burst into flame upon contact with the sunlight down here. It tends to be rather strong, like the Jägermeister of sunlight. 😉
I felt exactly like that last night, I was surprised that I actually woke up today in one piece!
I could barely sleep last night for the weather in DC. It’ll be hotter still tonight. How can it be over 90 with the sun down?
That’s it?! Just 23 degrees?! God dang it! And here in summer I’m trying to deal with 39 degrees Celcius!!!
I live in south Georgia.It usually stays hotter than a politician’s teet down here.And god forbid if it rains,anytime Britain gets rain it rains here,and then it only last for about 10mins and it gets friggin humid as hell soon after.27 C isn’t nearly as bad as 37 C.
I agree with the above commenters: instead of listing the average daily temperatures, it’s better to list the average highs and lows.
And, if the second chart is right — that Powree’s highest average high is 29.2 degrees in September — then that climate is WONDERFUL. No matter the humidity.
Frankly I would like to see someone post average temperatures for the South regions of the U.S. please. We’re very nearly tropical where I live.
The high temps in Kansas in August are usually between 90 and 105 F (about 32 C to 40.5 C), AND we get the humidity on top of that. About the only place in the US that is consistently hotter and more humid than us I believe is Louisiana.
We have a pretty mild week coming up in the forecast, considering the time of year–the average temp is supposed to be about 81 F (27C). Last week it was so hot I could barely get to work. x_x
Man my house is AIR CONDITIONED to 78 F. Outside it’s roughly 95 F and 100% humidity.
Glaub mir wenn ich es dir sage, Florida ist nur geil so lange mann heir nur ein urlaub verbringt. Enschuldige mein Deutsch mein Ami vater hat uns nach Amerika gesogen als ich nur 5 war.
Pretty cool strip I like it a lot.
Where I live in summer the temperature is usually from 30°C to 44°C (86°F to 111.2°F). The only thing that makes it bearable it’s that the weather is not too humid.
Ahhh… I absolutely LOVE 70F! That is like paradise:)… Oh Sandra, why did you do that? It is pretty hilarious though :). I wonder how Woo is doing?
As a Hong Kong native who has lived in Singapore, that doesn’t sound remotely hot.
Texas.
110 degrees today. 76% humidity.
And I’m at Band Camp.
Yay Band Camp!
I’m British. Every temperature is either too hot or too cold. Wouldn’t be British if I wasn’t complaining about the weather!
@Atty: Band Camp? did you hear what they did to the flutes… 😉
(if you didn’t get that, it’s a movie refrence)
74 Degrees???? That’s room temperature! Come back when it’s 80-something. Light-weight!
I’m from minnesota, so in the winter, I’m used to 20 degree weather (if we are lucky).
Are you serious?! I agree with fesworks. I am from MN as well. I can guarentee you (as I’ve done my own research) that there is NO SUCH THING as “global warming. I took the daily, monthly, AND yearly average temperature of MN and then the daily, monthly, and yearly average temperature on the opposite side of the world (Southwestern Australia) and there was only a 10 degree (F) over the past 120 yrs. not to mention that 70 odd deg. is beautiful weather.
Where I live, things only start getting hot when it hits 27’C.
http://www.weathersa.co.za/Climat/Climstats/PietermaritzburgStats.jsp
Sorry for linking off-site, but there have been times where we endure temps of 35’C +
72° to 93 °F from the pedia entry of singapore =p
And being at the equator…i try to avoid the sun in the afternoon. XD
Meh, if for you guys its hot, for me its like 0 °C, i live in a place where most temps are around 35-42 °C
The average temperature for this month is 84.5 degrees, and the record high in this month is 108 degrees. Also note that I live in a fairly large city.
August 1st saw us with our 36th day of 100+ temperatures, and it hasn’t been any cooler since then …
Here. These are the average temperatures by month in Atlanta:
Jan – 43 °F (6 °C)
Feb – 46 °F (7 °C)
Mar – 53 °F (11 °C)
Apr – 62 °F (16 °C)
May – 70 °F (21 °C)
Jun – 77 °F (25 °C)
Jul – 79 °F (26 °C)
Aug – 79 °F (26 °C)
Sep – 73 °F (22 °C)
Oct – 63 °F (17 °C)
Nov – 53 °F (11 °C)
Dec – 45 °F (7 °C)
So Atlanta is a few degrees hotter in the height of summer, but Bandung is pretty close to a Georgia summer all year round. That seems pretty hot to me.
This is a good time for ICE CREAM. Who wants some?
I wonder how much ice cream Sandra, Woo and company can consume on a day like this?
Sid wants nuts on his, you just know he does. 😉
I wish we had average temp’s in the 70 degree F range here. In the summers we get uber humidity and no rain mixed with 80s to 90s on average, and often several days over 100. Welcome to the Mid. Atlantic seaboard, USA.
@Rocket_T_Coyote: ….(faceplam) that was bad…..
Wimps!
true austinite here, thats a cool day for us!
http://web2.airmail.net/danb1/climate.htm#Austin
an i might also add the 3 digit streak that we’ve had this week
I’m south of you, Handgunman! (San Antonio.)
Where I’m from is nice and cool. I miss Oregon. :'(