I’m from the equator.
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My wife grew up in France, despite being also from the equator, but I didn’t. I don’t associate Christmas with specific weather, nor anything with weather.
But I feel the shortening of the days acutely: that the sun isn’t on ‘full blast’ from sunrise to sunset is something that deeply unsettles my brain and my soul. When I wake up and it’s dark and foggy, I get very sad.
I’m used to sweating gently when I wake up, and to warmth in general. I’m getting used to not having it, but my soul is not
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@kf coz you don’t get any sun anymore haha
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by [email protected]
My favorite ‘we have no seasons!’ Story about growing up 1 deg north of the equator:
My family believed for a long time that we were allergic to winter. Every time we went somewhere cold, we were incredibly itchy.
One day, I announced (after googling this): WE HAVE TO MOISTURIZE WHEN WE GO TO COLD PLACES!!
Winter travel has been much better since for everyone.
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@skinnylatte I imagine the humidity is high?
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@CStamp 90%. You never need to moisturize. On the downside, the humidity is high. I’m used to it tho
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@skinnylatte My weirdest experience of seasons was when I did a bicycle trip in Norway in August.
It was too late for the midnight sun, but dusk melded seamlessly into dawn. It never truly got dark.
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Everything about my body has evolved to adapt to equator living. I have no (yes, no) hair, like nearly everyone in my family, because my body is designed for sweat to immediately evaporate off me the moment it appears. I don’t even get the patches of sweat that visitors do. In Southeast Asia, I feel the warm breeze as my ‘default’ (even without AC). This also means I’m very cold when it is only slightly cold somewhere else. I have no insulation. Lol
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@skinnylatte omg
This was me but just moving to Nevada briefly with my now-husband, after living only in New York and Nor Cal. Uh. The desert is... Dry. Not just the soil. The air. All the time. My childhood eczema came back with a vengeance, and I spent more money on eye drops and lip balm than ever before. I also put the "8 glasses of water a day" to the test, and confirm it's valid for that climate at least.
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by [email protected]
For a long time I used to think that visitors to Singapore / Malaysia / Thailand were just making up how hot and humid it is, because I didn’t really feel it. It seemed dramatic. But now that I’ve left my home zone, I’m very cold when it isn’t cold. And I get it, I guess.
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I’m only now starting to appreciate the changes in weather and seasons. To learn to seek out warmth and coziness at certain times in certain places.
But goddamit I’d rather be in tropical weather for the rest of my days *
* in SE Asia, not Florida
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@juergen_hubert oh yeah waking up in the middle of the night in the Nordic summer is weird. I need a blackout eye mask or I just lose track of time and days
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@skinnylatte Oh god I am so not adapted to humid weather. I grew up in country Western Australia where it's very hot and dry. Can cope with heat well, but not when it's humid - was in Darwin in the wet season a couple of years ago and struggled.
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@timrichards I LOVE Darwin! The weather (and animals etc) remind me a lot of Borneo. Geologically it makes sense I guess
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@seawall feels like it’s leeching the moisture out of you!
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@skinnylatte I really like it too, but in the dry season.
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@timrichards yes!
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@skinnylatte You know, on glancing at Google Earth it looks like Darwin *is* closer to Borneo than to Sydney or Melbourne.
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@skinnylatte As a long time occasional visitor to SE Asia it’s always fascinating to hear what it was like growing up there. On a related note, did you know you can tell how old a tree is here if you cut it down (or core it) and count the rings? That’s due to the seasons. You can’t do that in the tropics. #obscurefacts.
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@timrichards I think historically they were connected until a tectonic plate moved
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@CavedaleRhones I’ll always remember growing up in Singapore / Malaysia and spending vacations in Thailand / Indonesia to be warm, happy, a little wet (in the monsoon), full of delicious food and wonderful people. It gave me an unrealistic expectation of how delicious food should be and how many people want to feed me tasty things all day. Ecologically there’s a lot I’d like to return to explore, especially the birds in the rainforests
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