...or disgustingly sweaty and grumpy [after 3 weeks of no sleep] babes ? not so great.

phil, rich, simon complaining at the same time?
now that's what i call MENstrual cycle synching...

The mods are here... this thread is going to the trash in 3...2...1... kaboom!

Oh, only merged? Phil, you're climbing up the ladder!

No - my 'Move Thread to Trash' finger is too hot to function. My 'Merge all Weather Rant Threads' finger is still working though, so I managed to do that.

When I lived in MN in the US it would be nearly 80 degrees celsius difference between winter and summer. Now that was extreems

exactly, i don't know if in the states we are a bit more used to the extremes of temperature differences or what, but in new york it was just 103.5 f the other day and compared to temperatures that easily go below freezing in the winter the difference i've felt here is minimal. usually i'd say it's cold and cool, but the delicious heat of the last couple of weeks is making me very happy, at least until i get to ny in a few weeks for the heat and humidity, which is, for me, paradise!

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Evaporative cooling is the "technical" term for this, and it really works. Here's a site with more tips on how to make your own. Edit: Another instructional site.

(Still waiting for the photo, Begga.)

Well it's pouring down rain, with occasional hail south of Bern. Perhaps you'll get it soon too....

Temp has dropped quite a bit.

Many a true word spoken in jest. Massive thunderstorm going on overhead here. Just saw another flash of yellow forked lightening. Here it comes....3...2...1...kaboom!

Nil: Weather now's just like in Ontario, ey?

really???? not yet here in lausanne- still quite nice, i've been looking forward to a great boom boom thunderstorm so i'm happy! hubby wanted to go to montreux tonight however, wonder if it'll be worth getting on the train for it tonight?

Yup really. There's some big storms about in Vaud - though not over Lausanne
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S-h-a-m-e on you to even dare putting me and Ontario in the same sentence!

I am Quebecoise Monsieur! And yeah, the weather is hot there too!

In Quebec, we don't say ey, we say sti!

So yeah, the weather is hot there too sti!

Bahaha. When my hubby and his brother came to California this summer to help me move out here to CH, it was the first time either one of them had experienced California heat (but it's a dry heat, right? haha).

Poor guys...the day we moved all my crap out of my apartment, it was over 100 degrees F.

Anyway, my hubby had been complaining before (in early June) about all the rain you guys were getting here, and I told him that as soon as I came out here the warm weather would undoubtedly follow. I love the cold, the rain, storms, etc. and HATE hot weather...the past week I've been afraid that I'm going to melt away I am used to hot weather but definitely NOT used to not having an a/c.....

Being from California, I am no stranger to hot weather. However, I'm NOT used to living without air conditioning. It's freakin' hot!! It is SO warm in my apartment right now, and I can't keep the windows at night because there's a very curious neighbor kitty that will come in my apartment if I do.

I can't wait for fall/winter to roll around...

Yep, I agree. I am a spring and fall girl b/c the weather is more moderate. I hate extreme heat. And supposedly this is "abnormal" for Switzerland, but when I interviewed here last summer at this time, it was the same.

Blech! I hate feeling like I need a shower one foot out the door after just having taken one...

There's a thread out there somewhere about it being so damn cold. Suggest you read that and then post back which you'd prefer.

I think you'll find that it's the humidity that drains you and makes you feel sticky and uncomfortable. I've worked in temps at 50 deg C in the desert out near Edwards AFB and although it's obviously hot, it was a dry heat that seared, but didn't make you feel sweaty and generally unclean.

Yep, I agree. I lived in dry heat my whole life and never felt like I feel in humidity (which is everywhere I have been since then).

And I remember that thread (about the cold). And I always prefer cold to hot. The thing about cold is that there is always something more you can put on. But in the heat, there is only so much you can take off. If you strip down into your birthday suit and you are still hot and sweaty, there is nothing more to do...