How warm should a house be?!

Metrication hasn't reached upstairs yet?

David

:) The clock (!) downstairs is set to read in deg. C; the thermometer on the wall here reads both; I use both interchangably, although I must confess a propensity to reading warm summer days in deg. F, but cold winter ones (not that we're there yet!) in deg. C. I have no idea why.

You and me both - I do exactly the same. Looking in uk.sci.weather it would seem we're not alone in this :-)

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You're all wimps :-)

Mary

Apparently it's common, much to the despair of metrication fascists (hurrah!)

They call it "centiheit".

Balls to 'em. Anyway, wot jew bleedin' mean, common? Centigrade was originally 100=freezing, 0=boiling, just goes to show.

In the winter we have our programmable stat set to 16 overnight, and between 18 and 22 at other times of the day. Can cope with upto 25 without too much problem, but 27 or more starts to get too hot for me and SWMBO.

Not always true, and in fact often the reverse. Skinny people often have more brown fat cells and as a result can matabolise faster and better regulate their temperature.

Fahrenheit also ran from 0 = freezing point of saturated brine to 100 = blood temperature. There is a theory that the average blood temperature in his day could have been higher than today, because of a background of low level infections in the population.

Colin Bignell

I think I was a desert lizard in another life.

Colin Bignell

Oh you can. When I lived in Thailand the temperature was c 30 degrees and near 100% humidity all the time, except once when it got REALLY COLD and we were all shivering and buying any woolly clothing we could find. The temperature was 24 degrees.

Anna

~~ Anna Kettle, Suffolk, England |""""| ~ Lime plaster repairs / ^^ \ // Freehand modelling in lime: overmantels, pargeting etc |____|

When did they reverse it to 0=freezing, 100=boiling, then? Oh, sorry, that's Celsius!

I'm sweating just reading that :-)

But yes, I think people MUST be able to acclimatise to different temperatures. My Indian and African neighbours don't wear any 'warmer' clothes than we do, their houses aren't over-heated, in my opinion.

Mary

Once when we were on holiday in Kenya, we stayed at a camp in the Masai Mara where a chap would come and escort you to dinner each night because of the danger from animals (*). We would be wearing short & T-shirts & he had a woolen overcoat (and wellies!) on.

(* For theatrical effect, I suspect)

Celsius is centigrade.

Yes, we went to Crete for 3 weeks this year and noticed that the overnight setting for the aircon had to be gradually increased to avoid waking up cold

But there was still the opposite sex differential to contend with

Regards Jeff

That's true for everyone.

Women included :-)

Mary

I dealt with that by adjusting the stops on the radiator thermostat heads. She thinks it's flat out (it only has 2 settings apparently, on and off, she can't comprehend thermostatic action. :-) )

So the head shows setting 5, but it is actually about 3, 65 degrees.

So teach her. Properly and patiently. I know both at the same time are difficult for you but if you try you can do it :-)

Mary