Gloat.....

Well, that's it for now. I'm off to the airport for a spell of winter sun.

Fuerteventura here I come.

Lucky you!

lol, any room for one more in your luggage!?

Bugger - and here I'm headed to Chicago and a snowstorm next week.

Have fun and when you fly over Texas drop some sunshine on me. I'm freezing down here. I swear some day I'm going to move to a place it NEVER, EVER drops below 65 degrees Fahrenheit. Or rope this cold front and drag it back up where it belongs. Brrrrrr.

Make sure your plane hasn't been on the Moscow route recently.

flyingrose, I'd take your current weather anytime. I know it can't be as cold as where I'm at (90 mi west of Chicago @ 20 degrees or less).

For me, ideal temperatures would be a steady 60 to 70 degrees year around outside, no colder and no hotter. I know of no place on earth like that. I dislike the Chicago winters, but I like my location otherwise.

g1smd said:

Make sure your plane hasn't been on the Moscow route recently.

Why do you say that?

I'm with you. There are some places where it never freezes or gets really hot. None of them happen to be in the U.S. though. The most beautiful weather I know of is in Cape Town, South Africa. The residents there think 86F and mildly sticky is hot.

Summer there is December to February and the temperature range is 60-80F (15-27C). Winter is June to August and temps range from 45-70F (7-20C). Still too cold for me but at least it won't be freezing, snowing, sleeting, miserable. I found those temps at Cyber Cape Town weather.

There are probably many Mediterranean and Caribbean countries with similar weather. I'm convinced I have a genetic or nutritional deficiency when it comes to cold weather. I remember huddling crouched down on the playground in New Mexico winters when I was nine or ten miserably cold wishing they'd let me skip recess to stay warm. Young people count your lucky stars you can wear pants. It is a lot colder in a dress - even with thigh high socks.

I used to go to the track during training hours in southern California wearing four layers including thermals, a flannel shirt, a wool overshirt, a down jacket, knit cap, hood, scarf, down ski jumpsuit, two pairs of socks (one wool), two pairs of gloves and still miserably cold. I looked like that cartoon tire guy in the commercials.

As I type this I'm sitting over one heater in a room with a propane wall heater running. This is the warmest room in the house. Unless I move somewhere it never gets cold I think I better send to Antarctica for something warmer to wear.

While I dislike cold temperatures, my physiology does not tolerate hot temperatures and would rather tolerate cold temps. When it gets higher than 90 with humidity, I tend to over-heat easily and get sick if I'm not careful. When working in hot temps, I must go through lots of drinking water or risk dehydrating more easily than the average person.

I can do physical work in cold temperatures without much problems. Put me out in zero temps to do snow shoveling and all I need is a face mask, very warm gloves, warm boots, and just a regular coat (nothing real heavy for coat) and I'll work up a sweat with the need to remove the face mask periodically to cool off. I seem to generate lots of heat once I get to doing something physical.

Despite being tolerant to cold, I'd still take 60-70 degrees as the ideal.

flyingrose, you might have a problem with blood circulation unless there's a condition where some people are not able to maintain a warm core temperature easily. Me I'm the opposite. My core temperature gets hot readily.

It's kinda funny when my sister comes over for a visit and I have my thermostat set to 66 in winter. She's wearing her coat to stay warm and I'm in my shirt feeling comfortable. However, it's bad for me to visit her in the summer because she sets the A/C to 85 or higher and she's comfortable while I sit there sweating in her house. Guess who has the higher electric bill for A/C in the summer?

I'm with your sister. I'm comfortable at a much higher temperature. My utilities are higher in the winter (for staying warm) than in the summer for keeping cool. Heat doesn't bother me but humidity is draining.

I've got to go find those heaters I saw in the spring. A company in Houston imports one that looks really promising for keeping warm at low cost. It mounts flat slightly out from a wall and is supposed to cost very little to operate.

They look like a picture on the wall and were around $100. If I can find that link I'm going to order one and test it out.

Well, it was between 22 and 27C (72F and 81F) during the day and never below 18C (65F) at night so quite comfy really.

Is it summer or winter there now?

Winter, but the temperature doesn't vary very much all year round.