has been delightful the last few days, especially the 30°C yesterday!
The schwül warm (tropically humid weather that just about makes it impossible to breathe) was awful last month and in May and I hope it’s gone for good. I can’t remember it ever being that bad before.
Conversation a few weeks ago:
J: ‘ColleagueK, I don’t remember the schwül warm being this bad last year.’
CK: ‘That’s because we didn’t have summer after April last year.’
J: ‘Oh, that’s right.’
One of the things I’ve noticed in my time here in Germany is that it takes longer to warm up than in the US and stays warmer longer. I’d say the average time it reaches the maximum temperature is around 15h and then stays quite hot til at least 21h (most people I know are having trouble sleeping here in the land of no air-conditioning, but I’m not).
The good thing is that the downstairs of the J Lair doesn’t get direct sunlight (due to the buildings surrounding it) and remains at 25°C when it’s 30°C outside. The upstairs gets direct sunlight, but before the hottest part of the day (which will probably be a detriment in the winter) and also stays a bit cooler than the outside temperature (and gets a breeze in the evenings that makes it easy to sleep). I sleep with the windows open in order to cool both levels down at night (it’s just about impossible for anyone to get in) but end up closing one or two of the three upstairs windows in the night after waking up and being cold.
Germans are melting right and left, but I love this weather and hope it continues for the next few months.
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