[QUOTE=OvB;48062586]It was a big deal.
[url]http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/air-conditioning-and-the-rise-of-the-south/?_r=0[/url]
It didn't make the south habitable, it made it tolerable.[/QUOTE]
I really doubt air conditioning was the big turning point. The south is tolerable without ac and there are plenty of other causes for an increase in population
[QUOTE=godfatherk;48064868]Is there any place on earth with 20-30celsius all year round, and no excessive humidity? I suppose it might be just south of South America and Africa's rainforests, perhaps around the mediteranean basin aswell(South Turkey, S. Italy, S Greece, S. Spain, Israel, Morocco, N. Algeria?), could be parts of Mexico aswell, how about Texas, Florida or South California?
And how's the weather in SE-Asia?[/QUOTE]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Islands[/url]
100F? Psshhhh
I live on Venus where it regularly reaches 800, they have it so easy.
[QUOTE=elevate;48060932]Air conditioning is the only reason anyone in America lives in the desert.[/QUOTE]
My favourite part of the wild west is the fact that they had air conditioning
Apparently upcoming week gives temperatures up to 37c here.
[T]http://i.imgur.com/8LBOEif.png[/T]
Median temperature of 30.88c oh boy.
[QUOTE=elevate;48065729][url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Islands[/url][/QUOTE]
Spent a week at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in December once, it was lovely, would recommend to anyone.
[QUOTE=Demache;48061663]I'm gonna be honest, the sudden humidity and temperature change is actually sort of uncomfortable. Its even worse when you go from indoors to outdoors and your glasses fog up immediately and you just feel damp.[/QUOTE]
Oh yea, you don't wanna set the AC on too cold/cool where it's hot outside, which is why I mentioned setting the temperature "just right." It can make people become ill, as if catching a cold.
Plus yah, it's uncomfortable too if the change is way too big.
[QUOTE=Starlight 456;48061275]It's not like people in the south (and other hot regions) didn't live there until AC was invented.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but, getting into my car in the middle of Summer down in Florida is like sitting in an oven for 10 minutes before the AC finally gets cool.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;48060886]That's hotter then the human body temperature (37C or 98.6F).
Fucking christ that's hot.[/QUOTE]
36.6 is the normal temperature though, 37 is when you go "oh boy I think I'm getting a fever"
Grew up in the Middle East, 48 (118.4 F) - 50 degree celsius (125.6 F) summers during July and August were the norm. I've watched workers get sunstroke and fall to their deaths from buildings while I was waiting for the school bus.
The Pakistanis really have it bad this year around (and summer was pretty bad here in India as well). I hope they actually focus on developing the electricity infrastructure in these areas to atleast allow for [I]some[/I] form of cooling.
That's not even hot?...
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;48071120]Oh yea, you don't wanna set the AC on too cold/cool where it's hot outside, which is why I mentioned setting the temperature "just right." It can make people become ill, as if catching a cold.
Plus yah, it's uncomfortable too if the change is way too big.[/QUOTE]
We have a freezer where I work, -15 to -20f, and the guys that work in there are in there for 8 to 10 hours every day. Then when they go home its been in the 90s for the past week so it fucks them up.
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