So How About the Weather?

Taiwanese history is replete with waves of invaders and mass immigrations/fleeing in terror from mainland China. I have to think that all of those groups had to have come to Taiwan in the fall or the spring. If they happened to come during the summer they would have simply turned around and gone back as soon as they experienced weather here.

Summer weather in Taiwan is like this: image waking up and having a wet blanket thrown over you and then walking into a sauna. That would be pretty similar.

The lows in the last week have barely dropped below 80 at night with some serious humidity and the daytime temperatures are usually about 94 plus that serious humidity. How people survived before AC is a mystery to me.

When I first came to Taiwan I people told me it would take 3 months to get used to the weather. After 3 months I was still sweating. Then I realized that “getting used to it” means getting used to sweating. If you don’t have the AC on at night and try to just turn a fan on you then you wake up sweating. When you take a shower you dry you left arm then the right and then the left again since you are already sweating. If you can be ok with that then you are as used to it as you will ever be.

That is also the reason I am writing this from a coffee shop. Save on my electricity bills by staying out of my apartment as much as possible.