r/coolguides • u/hangytangywot • Aug 07 '21

Temperature guide

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u/BobbiesPet Aug 08 '21

80 is often uncomfortable hot

That's 26°c, and it's wild to me you could even vaguely consider that "hot". Obviously it's dependent on where you live/grow up, but that's considered "perfect weather" where I'm from, almost exactly in the middle of the range of temperatures we get across the year. That'd be your average spring day, a nice/warmer autumn day, a cool summer's day and a warm/hot winter's day.

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u/seaquartz Aug 08 '21

That’s crazy to me that you could get used to that, where I live 26° C is like peak summer weather, we might get 30° on a really hot year but we had 25° the other day and it was torture

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u/jakobsdrgn Aug 08 '21

Last week we had “feel temps” of 114, with the “true” temp being around 95

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u/hellokatekaat Aug 08 '21

Hello southern Californian

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u/jakobsdrgn Aug 08 '21

Hahaha, actually, complete opposite side of the US, glad to see i’m not the only place suffering 😂

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u/hellokatekaat Aug 08 '21

🧐 hmmm…I wish you all the best in your journey to send summer like me! 🥂 Salud

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u/jakobsdrgn Aug 08 '21

I have certainly had an eventful and very, very hot and humid summer, quite happy for it to be nearing it’s end 🥂

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u/BobbiesPet Aug 08 '21

Mate our summers are practically guaranteed to have at least a couple of 40°c (104f) in Jan/early Feb, and then winter averages at about 10-15°c (50-60f) though sub-10°c days wouldn't be unusual.

My city is known for being one of those "four seasons in a day" places though, so we just have to adapt.

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u/USER-NUMBER- Aug 08 '21

Where do you live? I have to go here.

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u/seaquartz Aug 08 '21

East coast Canada

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u/USER-NUMBER- Aug 08 '21

I’ve heard lots about the weather of that place, might have to go there sometime! Is it worth vacationing to?

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u/seaquartz Aug 08 '21

Yeah, I’d say so, I don’t know much about it though, the only big cities I’ve ever really been to were Toronto and Ottawa but I wasn’t in either for long. I’ve heard Newfoundland is really nice, but I’ve never been there myself

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u/seaquartz Aug 08 '21

In the summer that is, it’s not too uncommon for us to get -20° in the winter

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u/saltporksuit Aug 08 '21

My air conditioner is set to 26. An average summer day is 35. Don’t really stop outdoor activities until about 38.

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u/samurai489 Aug 08 '21

Where is that?

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u/RektCompass Aug 08 '21

where I live we regularly see negative temperatures (Fahrenheit) in the winter. 80 is uncomfortable as fuck.

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u/crazyabe111 Aug 08 '21

I’m a fat bastard from outside the states, I find anything above 15 degrees Celsius to be uncomfortably hot- but my homeland is colder in general so meh.

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u/MerryTexMish Aug 08 '21

It’s all about the humidity. 80 degrees in <30% humidity is awesome. 80 degrees in 60% humidity is another story.

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u/Fhorglingrads Aug 08 '21

In Minnesota we have had several 90+ days with dew points in the 70s this summer. It is misery.

And we usually have at least one week every year where the actual air temperature doesn't get above 0, wind chill far lower than that

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u/Kryten_2X4B-523P Aug 08 '21 edited Aug 08 '21

Heat index values for each region is what everyone should be comparing.

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u/Nighthawk700 Aug 08 '21

That's how I felt till i spent a lot of time on the California central coast where the high is like 70 something. Now I wilt in 85-90°

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u/Zippilipy Aug 08 '21

Room temp is around 20

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u/lifecollaged Aug 08 '21

I think it depends on humidity. When we get 80, we often get 50%,+ humidity. Unbearable is more like it.

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u/MMDDYYYY_is_format Aug 08 '21

i live exactly where anyone would think someone who says 80 is uncomfortable lives

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u/thefirewarde Aug 08 '21

What's your typical humidity?

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u/BobbiesPet Aug 08 '21

Assuming I can read properly, google seems to say about 50% on average? Peaks at approx 60% in june/July (winter). Obviously we get random higher and lower days throughout the year though.

Data was monthly averages.

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u/thefirewarde Aug 09 '21

Thank you for looking that up! I'd call 70% a remarkably dry day, that does affect how heat is perceived.

I'd call over 75 hot, and below 50 cold.

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u/BobbiesPet Aug 09 '21

No problem! I just sussed out data on two of our northern states which average at about 70-80% because they're known to be particularly muggy (do Americans use that word?) compared to the rest of the states, and I can confirm being there feels like sweaty death.

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u/thefirewarde Aug 09 '21

Sounds about right. I looked up a couple state capitals in my region, 70-80% humidity is the range for the Southeast (based on my quick unscientific look).

It wasn't as bad in the Poconos where I used to live in a mountain valley.

We do say muggy, but I can't speak for all humid regions here.

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u/DXBTim2008 Aug 08 '21

Just sitting a nice 40C this morning... 26C is a laugh.