ROBIN F enjoy your warm weather on the weekend!

LISA and CAROL yes to keeping various clothes for various weather scenarios close on hand!

Angie and I (and others who live in our general area) live in what is known as a warm summer Mediterranean climate - with warm, dry summers (as the name suggests) and cool rainy winters. We get a lot of cool ocean breezes all the time, and summers get almost no rainfall. Hence, low humidity.

SUZ Fascinating! On the Black Sea coast we don't get much summer rainfall yet it is so humid.

Yes, I think the difference is that yours is an inland sea and ours is the biggest ocean on earth.

Actually, your climate sounds similar (if much warmer) to what I know from having lived most of my life on the shores of Lake Ontario -- not a sea, but one of the Great Lakes. There, too, we had very humid summers and cold winters.

Thanks for answering Star, Suz!

Now you know, Star We have a lot of humidity when it's COLD because it rains a lot - (rainforest geography) - which is why it feels much colder here in the PNW than the temperature suggests. A WET cold is much colder than a dry cold.

Star and Peri, I LOVE wearing long sleeves in hot weather and hot and humid weather! Cotton and lightweight. I scrunch my sleeves, and feel protected from the sun. I cannot handle exposing my skin to the sun (hence my legs are covered too). I will only wear sleeveless on a hot night! No sun! Star, contrary to you I expect, I do not like South African weather or Mediterranean climate in general. Too sunny for too much of the year. I love a sunny Summer! But I love a distinctively four season climate with moody weather best of all (the sun is much more tempered).

Our climate is much colder than Jaime’s but the difference from winter to summer is not extreme. And right now in early winter we have had weeks of sunshine whereas summer was quite stormy this year. It’s unpredictable!!

SUZ Now it makes sense.

ANGIE light weight cotton long sleeves are very useful in summer, agreed. It's the other fabrics I need too stop buying.
Johannesburg weather is very different to Cape Town, not only the obvious of not being next to an ocean, but also is at a high altitude although not a mountain. Similar only to Mexico City I think. This ensures moderate warmth all year round. Plus the high altitude is very energising. I find sea level very exhausting.