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news-today.world | Hello! I've just been away in La Rochelle, France so please do check out my Instagram to see all the photos and videos from this trip. I had some hot weather in La Rochelle, you see it is a lot further south than London - so whilst the weather has cooled down somewhat in London, it was still very much shorts & T-shirts weather there. This trip though probably marks the end of the hot weather for me this summer as I am back in London now where it is significantly cooler. I had more than my usual share of summer weather this year as it came early for me with a long trip to China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan in May and whilst it was still spring in London, it was already extremely hot there. I then had trip to Singapore and Malaysia as well this summer along with what had been a remarkably hot summer here in London as well with temperatures reaching a sweltering 35 degrees. So - here are six good reasons why I won't miss the hot weather.
1. No more sweating
Urgh, I truly hate sweating. There's little we can do to regulate that activity, our bodies naturally produce sweat when we get hot and the sweat is to try to cool our body temperatures down. I get it, it's natural - but imagine I'm out sightseeing in Taipei, it is 33 degrees and I am sweating. My body is begging me to slow down, cool down - I know I need to head to an air-conditioned environment, stop exerting myself, take a break and have something to drink: yet I have a long list of things I want to see and do in this amazing city. So I brave the heat and push on, only punishing my body further and I keep sweating, before long, I look as if I have just fallen into a swimming pool as I am that drenched with sweat - not a good look: it is highly unpleasant and uncomfortable. I'm not any cooler, I feel sticky and dirty, like I just need a shower really badly. How quickly we sweat is pretty much dependent on the air temperature - when it is above 30 degrees, it doesn't take much to make one sweat, even just sitting quite still, you could end up sweating anyway. However, once it drops below 20 degrees, you're far less likely to sweat from regular physical activities though I remember sweating profusely when I was cross-country skiing in Finland earlier this year and it was -25 degrees. When my sister visited me in London, she went jogging (it was about 5 degrees) and she was delighted that she barely sweated at that low temperature, compared to the way she would normally sweat in Singapore - which brings me neatly on to the next point.
2. Goodbye tropical lethargy
My sister was able to run faster and further in London than she ever did in Singapore for a simple reason: it was a lot colder in London when she ran. When you run in hot weather, your heat beats faster, you sweat more and lose more water quickly and as a result, you become a lot more tired a lot more quickly. Seasoned runners like my sister would simply battle through the pain and the discomfort from running in the tropics, but when she ran in London, she was amazed at just how much better her performance was. The world records for marathons are usually set in cooler climates - the London marathon for example are run during spring and the Berlin marathon is run during autumn, so the racers are not battling against high temperatures and humidity and are able to perform very well, hopefully setting world records. The winning time in the 2018 London marathon is 2:04:17 but the winning time in the 2017 Singapore marathon was 2:22:47 - a significant difference. We all know that we get tired a lot more quickly trying to do sports when the weather is very hot, however this kind of heat-related lethargy extends way beyond sports. It has a substantial impact on daily activities - from working to studying, high temperatures just sucks all the energy out of you. That's why people in hot countries go to great lengths to install air-conditioning to combat the effects of tropical lethargy - it's not just for the comfort of the workers, but it does increase productivity. It is currently just 14 degrees in London and very comfortable.
3. No more insect bites!
I had more than my fair share of insect bites in France, but then again, I had plenty of bites all summer because of the hot weather. I think most of these bites are mosquito bites, but there may have been some sand fly bites as well. In Hong Kong, I stayed with my friend and his wife had at least six different kinds of insect repellents for me to use, none of which kept the insects away from me. But here's the thing about mosquitoes, the ideal temperature for them is in the high twenties to low thirties and they can still operate between 10 and 25 degrees, but as they are cold blooded, their bodies will shut down from around 10 degrees Celsius. In places like Canada for example, they experience an outbreak of mosquitoes whenever they get hot weather above 26 degrees - but the crafty mozzies hibernate in the winter and their eggs can lie dormant when frozen, so even the bitterly cold winters do not kill them off. Furthermore, when it is colder, not only are mosquitoes far less active, we naturally wear more clothing and would cover our arms and legs to stay warm - so even if there are mosquitoes around, they have far less surface area to bite. Conversely, when it is very warm, you really don't want to be wearing too much, but that also means exposing far more skin for those horrible insects to attack.
4. Getting a better night's sleep
I don't have air-conditioning in my home in London and that's because we don't usually get weather that's hot enough to justify air-conditioning. I do have a thermometer in my bedroom and usually I like my bedroom to be around 18 degrees - that's usually a lot cooler than what I get in the warmer parts of the year. Usually, in the summer, my bedroom is between 22 to 25 degrees which is warm but just about bearable. Once it goes above 25 degrees, I must use a fan or else I just won't sleep. And because I live right next to a busy junction, I can't open my windows at night to cool down the room as the noise of the traffic would keep me up. I naturally sleep a lot better when my bedroom is cold: your body's internal temperature does drop before you go to sleep in order to induce a deeper, continuous sleep. That's why a colder room will allow your body to do that a lot more easily and sleep will come a lot more quickly as a result. A quick check on Google for 'ideal bedroom temperature' comes up with a range from 15 to 19 degrees Celsius, that's quite a few degrees colder than even more air-con bedrooms in Singapore. During the winter months, not only do I fall asleep faster, I also tend not to wake up more during the night - the quality of the sleep is much better and I wake up feeling a lot more refreshed in the morning than in the summer. months. It is usually something I take for granted when it is much cooler.
5. Now I can dress up nicely without sweating!
Look, I work in corporate finance and I am always very formally at work. However, when the temperature is above 21 degrees, I usually start sweating quite easily when I am all dressed up in a suit and tie. Ideally, I need the temperature to be below at least 16 degrees for me to feel comfortable and not too hot in a suit and tie. I remember some meetings I had attended in summer when it was over 30 degrees but I still had to wear a suit - you see, in London, dressing down for the weather is really not an option as you risk showing disrespect to the other party and wearing a suit when it is so hot is so uncomfortable. Yes you may choose to dress down primarily because of the high temperatures, but you may be sending out the wrong message that you really can't be bothered to make an effort to look formal for the other party. For most of the year in London, this really isn't an issue for me as London has a cool, temperate climate but just for that period from early June to early September, it is way too hot for our usual business dress yet somehow, we have not adapt a dressed-down form of more acceptable dress code in the hotter summer months despite not having air-conditioning like in Singapore. I have enough to contend with at work everyday without worrying about feeling too hot!
6. I look forward to being more healthy.
I am generally more healthy in the colder months than in the summer months - there is a direct correlation between colder weather and better health. Have a look at the list of countries for life expectancy here on Wikipedia: 19 of the top 20 countries are located in colder climates and the one exception of course, is Singapore where you have the wealth to invest in excellent air-conditioning. But yes, as expected countries like Japan, Switzerland, Iceland, Canada, Norway and Sweden are right up there and these are very cold countries with frigid winters indeed. Looking at the bottom 20 countries on that list, all of them are in Africa and 19 out of the bottom 20 countries have hot, tropical climates. The sole exception on that list is Lesotho which is cold enough to have snow in winter, but it is also a country devastated by HIV which has made a huge dent in life expectancy in this small country. The data demonstrates that there is definitely a correlation between human well-being and temperature: sometimes an extreme summer heatwave can result in people dying even these colder countries, but ultimately the cumulative effects of having to contend with hot weather every single day in a hot country is enough to significantly reduce the life expectancy in those hotter, tropical countries. For all the points covered above, the cooler autumn temperatures will bring health benefits. I feel more energetic, I do more sports because I sweat less, I am not attacked by insects, I sleep better at night: the combine health benefits of all of the above make me feel much better when the weather is cooler. Hot weather is simply not as conducive for better health.
So that's it for me from now. I am waiting for my insect bites from my latest trip to heal - autumn is slowly settling here into London. We're still expecting day time highs to hit the low twenties but the evenings will be a lot cooler which is essential for my quality of sleep. Here's to autumn! That's a short and fun article from me before I return to a far more serious topic on my next post. Do let me know what you think please, leave a comment below. Many thanks for reading.
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1. No more sweating
Urgh, I truly hate sweating. There's little we can do to regulate that activity, our bodies naturally produce sweat when we get hot and the sweat is to try to cool our body temperatures down. I get it, it's natural - but imagine I'm out sightseeing in Taipei, it is 33 degrees and I am sweating. My body is begging me to slow down, cool down - I know I need to head to an air-conditioned environment, stop exerting myself, take a break and have something to drink: yet I have a long list of things I want to see and do in this amazing city. So I brave the heat and push on, only punishing my body further and I keep sweating, before long, I look as if I have just fallen into a swimming pool as I am that drenched with sweat - not a good look: it is highly unpleasant and uncomfortable. I'm not any cooler, I feel sticky and dirty, like I just need a shower really badly. How quickly we sweat is pretty much dependent on the air temperature - when it is above 30 degrees, it doesn't take much to make one sweat, even just sitting quite still, you could end up sweating anyway. However, once it drops below 20 degrees, you're far less likely to sweat from regular physical activities though I remember sweating profusely when I was cross-country skiing in Finland earlier this year and it was -25 degrees. When my sister visited me in London, she went jogging (it was about 5 degrees) and she was delighted that she barely sweated at that low temperature, compared to the way she would normally sweat in Singapore - which brings me neatly on to the next point.
2. Goodbye tropical lethargy
My sister was able to run faster and further in London than she ever did in Singapore for a simple reason: it was a lot colder in London when she ran. When you run in hot weather, your heat beats faster, you sweat more and lose more water quickly and as a result, you become a lot more tired a lot more quickly. Seasoned runners like my sister would simply battle through the pain and the discomfort from running in the tropics, but when she ran in London, she was amazed at just how much better her performance was. The world records for marathons are usually set in cooler climates - the London marathon for example are run during spring and the Berlin marathon is run during autumn, so the racers are not battling against high temperatures and humidity and are able to perform very well, hopefully setting world records. The winning time in the 2018 London marathon is 2:04:17 but the winning time in the 2017 Singapore marathon was 2:22:47 - a significant difference. We all know that we get tired a lot more quickly trying to do sports when the weather is very hot, however this kind of heat-related lethargy extends way beyond sports. It has a substantial impact on daily activities - from working to studying, high temperatures just sucks all the energy out of you. That's why people in hot countries go to great lengths to install air-conditioning to combat the effects of tropical lethargy - it's not just for the comfort of the workers, but it does increase productivity. It is currently just 14 degrees in London and very comfortable.
I had more than my fair share of insect bites in France, but then again, I had plenty of bites all summer because of the hot weather. I think most of these bites are mosquito bites, but there may have been some sand fly bites as well. In Hong Kong, I stayed with my friend and his wife had at least six different kinds of insect repellents for me to use, none of which kept the insects away from me. But here's the thing about mosquitoes, the ideal temperature for them is in the high twenties to low thirties and they can still operate between 10 and 25 degrees, but as they are cold blooded, their bodies will shut down from around 10 degrees Celsius. In places like Canada for example, they experience an outbreak of mosquitoes whenever they get hot weather above 26 degrees - but the crafty mozzies hibernate in the winter and their eggs can lie dormant when frozen, so even the bitterly cold winters do not kill them off. Furthermore, when it is colder, not only are mosquitoes far less active, we naturally wear more clothing and would cover our arms and legs to stay warm - so even if there are mosquitoes around, they have far less surface area to bite. Conversely, when it is very warm, you really don't want to be wearing too much, but that also means exposing far more skin for those horrible insects to attack.
4. Getting a better night's sleep
I don't have air-conditioning in my home in London and that's because we don't usually get weather that's hot enough to justify air-conditioning. I do have a thermometer in my bedroom and usually I like my bedroom to be around 18 degrees - that's usually a lot cooler than what I get in the warmer parts of the year. Usually, in the summer, my bedroom is between 22 to 25 degrees which is warm but just about bearable. Once it goes above 25 degrees, I must use a fan or else I just won't sleep. And because I live right next to a busy junction, I can't open my windows at night to cool down the room as the noise of the traffic would keep me up. I naturally sleep a lot better when my bedroom is cold: your body's internal temperature does drop before you go to sleep in order to induce a deeper, continuous sleep. That's why a colder room will allow your body to do that a lot more easily and sleep will come a lot more quickly as a result. A quick check on Google for 'ideal bedroom temperature' comes up with a range from 15 to 19 degrees Celsius, that's quite a few degrees colder than even more air-con bedrooms in Singapore. During the winter months, not only do I fall asleep faster, I also tend not to wake up more during the night - the quality of the sleep is much better and I wake up feeling a lot more refreshed in the morning than in the summer. months. It is usually something I take for granted when it is much cooler.
5. Now I can dress up nicely without sweating!
Look, I work in corporate finance and I am always very formally at work. However, when the temperature is above 21 degrees, I usually start sweating quite easily when I am all dressed up in a suit and tie. Ideally, I need the temperature to be below at least 16 degrees for me to feel comfortable and not too hot in a suit and tie. I remember some meetings I had attended in summer when it was over 30 degrees but I still had to wear a suit - you see, in London, dressing down for the weather is really not an option as you risk showing disrespect to the other party and wearing a suit when it is so hot is so uncomfortable. Yes you may choose to dress down primarily because of the high temperatures, but you may be sending out the wrong message that you really can't be bothered to make an effort to look formal for the other party. For most of the year in London, this really isn't an issue for me as London has a cool, temperate climate but just for that period from early June to early September, it is way too hot for our usual business dress yet somehow, we have not adapt a dressed-down form of more acceptable dress code in the hotter summer months despite not having air-conditioning like in Singapore. I have enough to contend with at work everyday without worrying about feeling too hot!
I am generally more healthy in the colder months than in the summer months - there is a direct correlation between colder weather and better health. Have a look at the list of countries for life expectancy here on Wikipedia: 19 of the top 20 countries are located in colder climates and the one exception of course, is Singapore where you have the wealth to invest in excellent air-conditioning. But yes, as expected countries like Japan, Switzerland, Iceland, Canada, Norway and Sweden are right up there and these are very cold countries with frigid winters indeed. Looking at the bottom 20 countries on that list, all of them are in Africa and 19 out of the bottom 20 countries have hot, tropical climates. The sole exception on that list is Lesotho which is cold enough to have snow in winter, but it is also a country devastated by HIV which has made a huge dent in life expectancy in this small country. The data demonstrates that there is definitely a correlation between human well-being and temperature: sometimes an extreme summer heatwave can result in people dying even these colder countries, but ultimately the cumulative effects of having to contend with hot weather every single day in a hot country is enough to significantly reduce the life expectancy in those hotter, tropical countries. For all the points covered above, the cooler autumn temperatures will bring health benefits. I feel more energetic, I do more sports because I sweat less, I am not attacked by insects, I sleep better at night: the combine health benefits of all of the above make me feel much better when the weather is cooler. Hot weather is simply not as conducive for better health.
So that's it for me from now. I am waiting for my insect bites from my latest trip to heal - autumn is slowly settling here into London. We're still expecting day time highs to hit the low twenties but the evenings will be a lot cooler which is essential for my quality of sleep. Here's to autumn! That's a short and fun article from me before I return to a far more serious topic on my next post. Do let me know what you think please, leave a comment below. Many thanks for reading.
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