Community Chat

[Tinkrbl44]

How does hot weather affect you?   Not the ordinary 75 degree summer weather, but the extreme heat most of us have been experiencing.

I have a male friend who is totally energized by hot weather ....   and his idea of a great day is golfing in 100 degree weather!   Predictably, he plans to retire in a desert community.

A neighbor of mine gets literally nauseous if  she's out in the heat too long.  Personally, hot weather exhausts me ... I just want to lay down and sleep.  

How does the extreme heat affect you?

[LyndaGee]

No appetite.  And, sometimes air-conditioning bothers me (headaches).

[Kachina624]

I've lived in hot climates my whole adult life so I'm pretty much used to it.  My house is so well air conditioned with an evaporative cooler that I wear a fleece jacket most of the time at home.  I certainly don't suffer.  Everything, everywhere I go is well air conditioned.  It's cool in the mornings so that when I do anything that needs to be done outside.

[Chicagosuburbangirl]

Trying to block all this out until October.

[spent2much]

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@Chicagosuburbangirl wrote:

Trying to block all this out until October.

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My feelings exactly!  I absolutely hate summer heat and humidity.

[Sweetbay magnolia]

I think a lot has to do with whether you are out as an optional activity, or if you work in it.  It is much different  to earn a living in the elements, then it is to choose to play golf.

Consider yourself lucky if you are not in it for a livelihood.

[OKPrincess]

With age, the heat bothers me more now but I still dislike the cold. However I can enjoy the winters from my recliner now.

[Evie2004]

I would love to have this hot weather 10 months a year! Then cooler temps in November & December, for the holidays..then back to summer..we would almost consider moving to get this weather! DREAD cold, icy, frigid, windy winters..brrrr.....

[Meowingkitty]

I wish 75 degrees was considered hot in Arizona. That’s considered winter and jacket, sweatshirt weather. I’ve lived here all my life so I don’t know any better. We just stay inside in the a/c. Everything has air conditioning. Can’t wait till Halloween when it finally gets below 100. We just try to do errands early in the day and wait for winter. Day after day of heat does take a toll, that’s why people have been loving the last three days of our monsoons and rain. 

[DiAnne]

Luckly I live where there is little to no humidity but once the temperature gets above 75 degrees I start to whine.  I have difficulty breathing when it gets above 80.