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Is this true? That's hotter than most days here in tropical Singapore! Where are the photos and videos of the locals sunbathing? I’m really curious how they are
by jasonlingx 6y ago
Is this true? That's hotter than most days here in tropical Singapore! Where are the photos and videos of the locals sunbathing? I’m really curious how they are reacting to the unusual (for them) warm weather.
- paganel 6y agoPeople don't always sunbath when it's hot outside, quite the contrary, we're actively searching for the shade. At least in the parts of Europe from where I'm from (Eastern Europe, to be more precise).
- brabel 6y agoIf you live in a place like Australia or Brazil, the best place to be is on the beach!! It has a nice cool breeze, usually, and the water is very refreshing... But you really need shade, for sure, and very strong sunscreen :)
- unixhero 6y agoNever forget your Slip Slap Slops! Slip on a shirt, Slop on the 50+ sunscreen, Slap on a hat[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip-Slop-Slap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip-Slop-Slap
- chippy 6y agoif Siberia is anything like Canada or Scandinavia during a warm summer then the very last thing people want to do is to be outside. Outside when the frost melts means the air is full of newly hatched hungry mosquitos looking to bite and drink blood.
- bregma 6y agoSure, the mosquitoes are bad. They're nothing compared to the blackflies that come earlier and the deerflies that come later. In a northern temperate climate there are two seasons: frostbite and bugbite.
- aerique 6y agoWhat I saw on the local (Dutch) news is houses being severely damaged due to the melting permafrost. And who in his right mind would sunbath at 38 Celcius, especially when you're not used to it. We went past 40 last here in the Netherlands, but I guess moving north for cooler weather is out of the question now.
- growlist 6y agoOutside NL there are these things called hills. Sorry couldn't resist :)
- contravariant 6y agoMight not be a good idea to tell the Dutch that hills are useful for more things than just keeping water out.
- mercer 6y agoNo, no. the hills are there to keep the Dutch /in/ so they don't claim more of it.
- ImaCake 6y agoSydney routinely beats Singapore for daily maximum temperature during summer. This is because the variation in daily maximum temperature is much much higher in sub-tropical regions than near the Equator. So Sydney's average maximum temperature in January (27C) is lower than Singapore's (30C), but the variation is enough that the record high in Sydney is 10C hotter (45C vs 35C). If you like stable warm weather, your sweetspot is probably Brisbane, where it never really gets too hot or cold (rare exceptions).
- sk0g 6y agoI find the summers in Brisbane disgusting, though I do come from a colder country. I thought Melbourne was the sweet spot, albeit rather temperamental, weather wise.
- TMWNN 6y agoI'm surprised that Hobart and/or Tasmania in general isn't more populated. Is its climate too cool?
- brabel 6y agoNot at all, the climate of Tasmania is excellent. The problem is probably the isolation (even in terms of Australia... Tasmania is relatively quite far south and separated from the mainland by a stretch of sea that takes a half day to cross on the ferry) and the terrain which is very mountainous... the fact that nearly half of the island is still wilderness has mostly to do with that, I think.
- dmurray 6y agoSri Lanka is about the same size and equally mountainous, and about half as far from the Indian mainland as Tasmania from Victoria, but its population is forty times bigger at 20 million people. It's got to come down more to historical accident than the isolation or the topography.
- redis_mlc 6y ago> tropical Singapore Singapore is always hot and humid, but places of all latitudes can be hotter for a short period, but usually with low humidity. So San Jose (Silicon Valley) has a couple weeks of over 100 F weather each year. But almost no humidity.
- voqv 6y agoAs mentioned in another comment, this is not very unusual (summer days are often above 30 degrees C). The town Verkhoyansk is in an extreme subarctic climate, and along with other famous places like Oymyakon and Yakutsk they're known to have the largest amplitudes of temperature in the world, the only places with "a temperature range higher than 100 °C " between coldest and warmest throughout the year.
- ornxka 6y ago>a temperature range higher than 100 °C Uh, you meant Fahrenheit, right?
- zaarn 6y ago+38C to -67C, so about 105C temperature range. It's close to 200°F range in case you're interested.
- koolba 6y agoPretty sure GP means Celsius. A range of +/- 100F is common all around the world. Anybody living in New York has felt a 100F summer and 0F winter.
- minitech 6y ago> Verkhoyansk holds the record for both the hottest and the coldest temperatures ever recorded above the Arctic circle, with 38.0 °C (100.4 °F) and −67.8 °C (−90.0 °F) respectively. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkhoyansk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkhoyansk
- amarshall 6y agoNo. > Verkhoyansk holds the record for both the hottest and the coldest temperatures ever recorded above the Arctic circle, with 38.0 °C (100.4 °F) and −67.8 °C (−90.0 °F) respectively.
- Thlom 6y agoI just checked and Verkhoyansk lowest temperature record is -67.8 deg C, and highest is 38.0 deg C. That is 105.8 deg temperature range. In Celsius. In Fahrenheit the range is almost 200 degrees!
- catalogia 6y agoAFAIC, somewhere around 25C / 80F is ideal sunbathing weather. 38C / 101F is brutal; well beyond the point at which finding air conditioning is my number one priority. When it's that hot out, I'd sooner sit in a tub of ice cubes than lounge around under the sun.