Are you a heat hater?

I am!

We're constantly informed by the weather reports as to how hot weather is really good news, giving the impression that anybody who doesn't like it is somehow freakish or at the very least, wrong.

I personally prefer much colder weather and rain, and think that is much better news, weatherwise.

Fortunately, I know a few other people who are of a similar disposition, but it seems to me that we are the minority.

So, what about you? Will you be lapping up the rays, or hiding in-doors with the curtains closed?

I don't like sitting there sunbathing but I'll quite happily walk around in it. I do prefer to be cold rather than being hot, but I can do without the rain though.

I have a love/hate relationship with the sun. On the one hand, it makes crops and trees and shit grow, and the English countryside beautiful. On the other hand, it is hot and is bright and that.

Bring on winter please.

What reeeeeeeeeeally annoys me is in winter, when I'm PRAYING for snow, the weathermen still insist on acting like a bit of clear sky is wonderful weather sent from heaven and the possibility of snow is terrible, awful news.

FUCKING MORONS.

It's a medical fact (or urban myth) that men have a naturally higher body temperature than women, hence all the arguments about the thermostat.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5106854.ece

I cycle to work as much as I can and on a nice summers day it's like being on holiday - gentle breeze, sunshine into the evening, lovely. On a rough winters day I nearly get blown off, frozen and soaked in the dark on the way home, so I'd love more summer months thanks.

Although on the down side I burn easy and moan when it's too hot indoors, but then most of our homes aren't designed too well for the heat are they?

Jx

ps I cycle on the greenway - otherwise cycling in London would be nothing like a holiday at any time of year!

Quote: Aaron @ May 29 2009, 1:28 PM BST

Bring on winter please.

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Damn straight.

Quote: zooo @ May 29 2009, 1:49 PM BST

FUCKING MORONS.

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And that.

I love the sun I love the sun, it makes me wanna skip along and sing songs.

Why is it though that when you walk along singing a song everyone thinks you're mental?

I love the sun I love the sun. <3 <3

Quote: Darren Pomroy @ May 29 2009, 1:58 PM BST

I love the sun I love the sun, it makes me wanna skip along and sing songs.

Why is it though that when you walk along singing a song everyone thinks you're mental?

I love the sun I love the sun. <3 <3

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Darren, do you love the sun, by any chance?

Quote: Darren Pomroy @ May 29 2009, 1:58 PM BST

Why is it though that when you walk along singing a song everyone thinks you're mental?

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That's just you. On SO many levels.

I like it being bright, but too hot isn't fun. I get angry when I'm too hot.

Quote: Darren Pomroy @ May 29 2009, 1:58 PM BST

I love the sun I love the sun, it makes me wanna skip along and sing songs.

Why is it though that when you walk along singing a song everyone thinks you're mental?

I love the sun I love the sun. <3 <3

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I'm the same singing along to my ipod quite happily until someone hears me. Especially if I'm trying to rap along to Eminem.

It's also not so good on the bike when I ingest several bugs along the way.

See, I haaaaaaaaaate being too hot, but the sunshine and blue skies are nice.

I get verrrrry excited when Autumn comes around: orange leaves, evenings getting darker, bonfires, yum. But at the same time I quite like it when summer comes around too, all the seasons have their place!

Quote: Darren Pomroy @ May 29 2009, 1:58 PM BST

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That's bad, but not quite as bad as some people I've seen, walking around central London, Air-Drumming! They are very intense!

Hot and humid? Hellllll no. But I hate cold weather (freezing and below) even more.

With the exception of 7 years in miserable Indiana (frigid winters and hot, sticky summers) I've spent all my life in states which form the southern border of the U.S. and that's the way I intend to keep it.

The weather in Orange County, California, was perfect. Rarely above 80F (26C) and cool breezes every night, seldom cold in the winter. For the first 4 years I didn't even have an air conditioner in my condo. The weather is the main reason that all the nation's CEOs want to live there and and are willing to pay a million dollars for a rather puny house.

I liked Las Vegas, too. Never humid, but the summer temperatures were almost always in triple digits. You learn to hydrate and avoid spending too much time in the sun.

San Antonio is nice. It'll be 95-105F (35-40C) every day for the next several months, but everything is air conditioned and it's seldom humid. Great weather for a leisurely float down the river in an inner tube. (Floating cooler filled with beer is MANDATORY.)

South Florida sucked. Always humid, always hot. I don't like to sweat and that's what you do the minute you step outside.

Quote: DaButt @ May 29 2009, 2:26 PM BST

Hot and
San Antonio is nice. It'll be 95-105F (35-40C) every day for the next several months, but everything is air conditioned...

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That's a good point actually. So many buildings I've worked in have been either badly air-conditioned or not at all.