A different kind of hot
Summer in Japan is hard. The heat builds from early June and usually lingers until the end of September.
I just saw the weather forecast and tonight it will drop to a low of 29c. Yes, seven or eight hours after the sun has set it will be that hot. And humidity is at a steady 90% – day and night. Today, during the day it was about 33c and humid. In New York it was something similar, but at night there it will drop to a cool 18c. It’s nighttime temperatures here that are the real killer.
I just checked, and in Madrid for example, it will get as high as 37c during the day but just 20c at night (30% humidity). Athens 39c daytime, 21c night (humidity 21%)
Although we still have more than a month to go, this summer has been relatively tolerable compared to previous years. A typhoon a couple of weeks ago left behind it about 10 days of unusually cool weather. Max of 25c one Sunday! Given the power restrictions here, it’s taken a bit of the pressure off the power generation system. But as the electricity can’t easily be stored it’s a day- to-day thing.
We survive on cold drinks, spicy food and salads, and the a/c is set to a constant 28c. Not that cool, but it takes all the moisture from the air which helps a lot. You tend to wake of with a dry throat, but that’s the price you pay for a chance of a half-decent nights sleep.
