I quite like it! If only the little jazz club and theatre would open up again!

Where I live summers are hot, but it is a dry heat, so not sticky. We have a mantra “Slip, Slop, Slap” being slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen and slap on a hat to protect our skin from the damaging sun. In full summer heat, I can get sunburn after 10 minutes of exposure, so staying covered up in light layers is what works for me.

10 minutes!?! Yikes! The count on one hand times I've burned have been 6+ hours in the sun. I'm surprised the sun would be that much stronger there.
Eta-DH burns more than me, but he's good for a few hours too.

This probably sounds like a tinfoil hat conspiracy, but I feel the sun's effect is very different in different places. When I used to live in Brazil, I could be out all day on Copacabana Beach but would only turn a deeper, golden brown. Even in Pakistan, I would tan but it was usually more yellow than brown. The first time I ever got sunburnt was here in Hong Kong - I'm not sure if it's the pollution or what, but the sun here feels really harsh on my skin. I'm starting to invest in big hats & long sleeved hiking clothes here for that reason

PS - Sorry for the tangent!

You're probably right. I'm surprised Hong Kong would be harsher than Brazil and Pakistan!

I just don't really remember people I know burning, aside from at the beach or pool, even my very fair skinned blonde friend. Sunscreen was just something we'd use at the beach/pool.

Suntiger, I have burned here at home with as little as a half hour of exposure, and have been that way my entire life! I have the kind of skin that will freckle and burn, and after a couple of days, if I avoid peeling, the burn becomes a slight tan. I cannot achieve a real tan so I no longer try. In my teens I certainly tried, since my two best friends had beautiful olive skin and tanned in no time — of course this was back in the 80s when a tan was so much more desirable than it is now. I wear sunscreen for outdoor activities — or at least I mean to! Sometimes I get out on a bike ride and then realize I didn’t put any on my arms.

It's true! There are places where the sun is more damaging than others; it has to do with how much damage humans have done to the ozone layer (so yes, pollution is a factor, along with proximity to poles, because the ozone layer is naturally thinner at the earth's poles):
https://www.nationalgeographic.....zone-layer

Interesting - thanks for sharing, @La Pedestrienne! I always knew about the ozone layer thinning, but HK isn't close to any poles. I do always get respiratory problems whenever I go back home to the UK & then return (I even got ulcers & a bad cough when I first moved here!), so my body certainly doesn't agree with the air here...

Thanks LaPed! Despite being a nonburner, I've been better about sunscreen since YLF. I make sure to use it when biking, long hikes, and SUP

What's SUP, @suntiger?

Stand up paddleboard

Tropical humid heat above 80 deg. F with no breeze, which means sleeveless tops & wide-legged pants that do not fit too close to my body, with sandals & a sweater to put on when at restaurants & other places where they keep the A/C frigidly cold.

I love the look of wide leg pants and sleeveless tops, but for much cooler weather

This is a really interesting thread! I am pretty much in line with Suz, or as my Mom used to say, the only thing she learned about Canada in school was in Gaelic:

An-fhuar sa gheimhreadh, an-te sa samhradh - "very cold in winter; very hot in summer". How succinct was that geography lesson!

We barely have transitional weather; it just swings wildly from cold to hot before settling in for the winter or summer season.

To me, transitional dressing (the most fun kind) is what I'd define as "seasonally confused lite" - booties but without thick socks, blazer and jeans with slides, shorts and a light sweater with sneakers. And layers, which I avoid in both summer and winter - too hot in summer and too bulky under a puffer in winter!

Exactly torontogirl- but I want to hear you pronounce that

No can do ... The only Irish words I ever figured out were swear words

*wipes tropical smoothie off phone*
DH is studying a telenovela, and he's teaching me lots of words my mother never taught me! He says he'll thank the Urban Dictionary is his diss