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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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lowpo
Joined: 01 Mar 2007
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| I_Am_The_Kiwi wrote: |
monsoon season......what monsoon season.
It rained for 2 days when the koreans said 'Its monsoon season now, it will rain for one month"
My ass! it hasnt rained since then. Someone needs to pay more attention to that electronic dictionary translation of what a monsoon season is....
As for the heat - *beep* me its hot! |
Last year it rained just about every day fpr two or three weeks. |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Yesterday all the teachers at my school had to hike all over the mountain and all the way to the top. Yep. |
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Bigfeet
Joined: 29 May 2008
Location: Grrrrr.....
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Won't work well in hot humid weather. |
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DrOctagon
Joined: 11 Jun 2008
Location: Chicago
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25-32 degrees celcius is pretty typical for summers in Chicago as well. Although, it's more like 28-35 degrees with high humidity in July and August. It's 90 degrees celcius today, but feels like 98. I usually stay in air conditioning until the sun goes down (around 9pm!). Korea seems more moderate compared to where I'm from, where winters are ridiculously cold and loooong, and summers are short but insanely hot and humid. Not that you guys care though. I really don't know what this brings to the thread, but I'm bored...
I've spent a lot of time in Puerto Rico (my family lives there), and you're right, no one has air conditioning. If you live up on the mountains and have a lot of open space around you, it's not so bad. But if you live in Ponce or Southern P.R., forget about it. You have to take 4 showers a day to survive. You can literally fry an egg on the ground. |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| The 'real' heat hasn't hit us yet. Just wait until the end of July/August! |
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I_Am_The_Kiwi
Joined: 10 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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| DrOctagon wrote: |
| It's 90 degrees celcius today, but feels like 98. |
Are you sure???? |
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Stormy
Joined: 10 Jan 2008
Location: Here & there
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| Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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| I_Am_The_Kiwi wrote: |
| DrOctagon wrote: |
| It's 90 degrees celcius today, but feels like 98. |
Are you sure???? |
 If it was 90 degrees celsius we'd be dead. |
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Mr. Pink
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China
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They always say the rainy season is here a few weeks too early. It happens every year.
Last year the rainy season really started around July 23-25th and it lasted 4 weeks straight. That was some hot and humid weather!
The last couple days have been bad I agree, usually it isn't that bad until late July and throughout most of August.
My hometown in Canada isn't even close to as humid as Korea is, so while the summer can get hot, you don't feel drenched in sweat as much. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Bigfeet wrote: |
Won't work well in hot humid weather. |
So says you. You'll be sorry though when when you're outside sweating and you see a guy (me) walking down the street with a puffy jacket looking all cool. |
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xtchr
Joined: 23 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| caniff wrote: |
| Bigfeet wrote: |
Won't work well in hot humid weather. |
So says you. You'll be sorry though when when you're outside sweating and you see a guy (me) walking down the street with a puffy jacket looking all cool. |
Be careful though. Fan death can and will strike at any moment. |
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Humidity will be a bit more reasonable, but you can look forward to 열대야(熱大(?)夜) (I think that's the right 대? not sure).. |
熱帶夜  |
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aka Dave
Joined: 02 May 2008
Location: Down by the river
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| Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm from L.A. which is a seabreezed desert (no humidity) and I cannot stand Korean summers. The rest of the three seasons I enjoy but the greasy, oppressive summers I really don't like. I have air conditioning, but it's a crap one and it's not getting the job done. Yesterday was really hot here in Cheong-Ju. Ugh. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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Woah, the principal allowed the central airconditioning to be turned on. IMO it's not even hot today, compared to what it will be like later in the Summer. And the principal is notorious for being an 'energy saver'. He turns off lights and so on. The catch is five kids from each class must ride stationary peddle bikes to generate power back into the system.
Seriously, first class today it's so hot, but the aircon is on. I'm sweating all over, slimy. I look at the kids and they're gleaming with sweat. I say hey Kcoteacher take a look at the aircon controls will you? She does and, for the last 20 minutes heat has been coming out of the vents, instead of cooled air. The homeroom teacher turned on the heater! Then walked off hoping her class would die (and the English teachers). |
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KYC
Joined: 11 May 2006
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| DrOctagon wrote: |
25-32 degrees celcius is pretty typical for summers in Chicago as well. Although, it's more like 28-35 degrees with high humidity in July and August. It's 90 degrees celcius today, but feels like 98. I usually stay in air conditioning until the sun goes down (around 9pm!). Korea seems more moderate compared to where I'm from, where winters are ridiculously cold and loooong, and summers are short but insanely hot and humid. Not that you guys care though. I really don't know what this brings to the thread, but I'm bored...
I've spent a lot of time in Puerto Rico (my family lives there), and you're right, no one has air conditioning. If you live up on the mountains and have a lot of open space around you, it's not so bad. But if you live in Ponce or Southern P.R., forget about it. You have to take 4 showers a day to survive. You can literally fry an egg on the ground. |
If you're going to stick with Celsius, make sure you have the numbers right If it was 90 celsius, we'd all burned to death  haha...
Where I'm from we also have long, freezing cold winters & blazing hot short summers. If you want the same in Korea, come to Norther Gyeonggi-Do. The winters were quite long & cold though not as cold as back home. However, back home I had heat wherever I went (work, school, car, malls, etc). Korea..I had to teach in cold weather for a few months before they decided to turn the heat on. |
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