Probably TMI, but what the hell...

[caddyman]

Now here's a thing.

It is possible to sweat and shiver on one side of your body only.

It involves the heat. It always involves the heat these days.

The temperature reduces you to sitting in your skivvies with the fan at full belt blowing warm air on you at virtually point blank range. Now what happens, is that you sweat cobs, but the side with the fan stays dry because of the warm air blowing over you. The other side, in the lee as it were, continues normally and soggily.

So the one side is kept warm and dry, the other is soggy and cool. So that side shivers. The side with the fan doesn't.

Odd.

And disconcerting.

Sort of.

Comments

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Well normally we don't need such things. Central heating yes, air conditioning no.

This current spell of weather is virtually unheard of in the UK. We generally get the odd very hot day (and hot is normally classed as mid 80sF). A prolonged spell in the upper 90s is so unusual as to be news (and grumble) worthy.

Having said that, if Global Warming does exist, and I'm not convinced that it does, we can probably expect this sort of weather more frequently. So I would expect air conditioning to become more usual.

If it wasn't for the Gulf Stream, the country would be a lot colder on average - don't forget we're on the same latitude as soyuthern Canada!