Hot (and wet)

[eumelia]

It's raining.
And it's 24 degrees outside (that's 75 degrees for you Yanks).
I just came back from a walk with Libby, Robbie and Shvo doing grocery shopping for a Sunday lunch (too late fro brunch).
It's disgusting, I feel as if the sky sweat on me.

It's not natural!
Okay it is, but still it should be 30 degrees and sunny, not 30 degrees and overcast.
Clouds and rain in summer is wrong, it's bad.
Where is my sunshine?!
Where is my beach?!
Why do I go outside hot and come back in hot and wet without sand between my toes!?

*sigh* I don't like this latitude.
The weather sucks, and I thought the Tommies were obsessed with the weather.

Comments

[aesiron.livejournal.com]

Summer showers are nice. They give you a break from the heat so long as they aren't short-lived in which case they just excacerbate it. I hate those.

What's a Tommy?

[orcabee.livejournal.com]

yeah this weather does indeed suck. makes me feel all blue. Israel's not that humid I gather, being in the desert in all. humidity is way worse than heat, or rather makes the heat seem a lot hotter. when i was in colorado the humidity was so low i barely felt the heat at all. it was nice.

[tamara-russo.livejournal.com]

Actually, Israel is very humid, but we still don't have rain in the summer.Plus, not all of Israel is in the desert, we have many kinds of climates here because we're smack in the middle of Asia, Europe and Africa. In the north the weather is Mediterranean, and has a lot of rain (still only in the winter) and in the south there is a desert. The most humid place I've ever been to was Florida... Now that's disgusting...

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

A "Tommy" is a British Person, like a "Yankee" is an American, extremely generic and insulting I know since I'm sure you don't consider yourself a "Yankee" and most British people aren't English.

[orcabee.livejournal.com]

yeah, florida's a steam bath! I didn't know that about the climate in Israel- that's so interesting!

[aesiron.livejournal.com]

Ah. Our generic slur for a Briton is "limey". Is that used in Israel or is it an Americanism?

And despite being a Southerner, being called a Yank or Yankee doesn't offend me personally (I consider it kind of quaint, actually; like calling me a Colonial) but, yeah, you might want to be careful about using that term with others from my general geographical region.

Some people still bristle at it. They're stupid. :p

[hagar-972.livejournal.com]

I understand that the common US parallel to Israeli climate is California.

TMI:

North Israel is very rainy in the winter, gets frost couple of times a year (temp around the -8C). Same for Jerusalem (mid-Israel, mountain range) where it would usually snow couple of times per winter. The coastal plain is almost as rainy, but not as cold. (It would get about 4C in a cold winter night.) When you move east into Israel, the climate gets drier until you reach the Jordan Valley, and then it's all horribly humid again.

Summer is about 30C day temp all over. Can get up to 36-38C down in the Negev (south), and up in the Golan Heights. Night temps would be 16-24C, depending on where you are. Humidity would be up to 100% in the coastal plains and the Jordan Valley, and down to 30% in the drier areas. (Hills/mountains.)

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

And the area of the Deep South that isn't all desert.

[ayellowbirds.livejournal.com]

Sounds a lot like California to me. Granted, from what i understand, there aren't rainforests in Israel

[orcabee.livejournal.com]

nice. i always love to learn random geeky stuff! :)