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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl
Bless you and your strange foreign heat.
I get distressed when it goes above 20 (68) here.
Now that it regularly hits 30+ (86) in the summer I seriously think I'll have to leave my beloved England by the time I retire...
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Americans are often amused at what the English call a terribly hot day -- just ghastly. Americans are used to that being where the hot weather is only barely beginning to get serious -- "What'samatter with you guys? It's nice and warm!" It's our lower latitudes.
It takes a day to make Australians wilt -- 43 C in the waterbag -- to really impress the Americans, and even then this only means some of the Americans. Las Vegas born and bred would feel right at home in, say, Coober Peedee. Though they'd reckon it's definitely hot enough for them.
Just went there, and it's summertime for sure. The dry lake south of town is the abode of dust devils. Drove through one of those once, right there as it was crossing the road, and the whole car bounced and jigged. Startled the wife -- "What was that?"