On Oct 14, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> Hi Gunnar,
>
> Thanks for your thoughts! Responding only to a couple excerpts out
> of order:
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 01:48:15PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
>>> - one of the lodgings has air conditioning, though others don't
>>
>> Is it really _that_ bad? I mean, I know we would have hated it in
>> Cáceres if we didn't have A/C all over, but I don't expect NY to be
>> as
>> extreme as Extremadura.
>>
>>> - it's more relevant that some lodging lacks air
>>> conditioning, though
>>> fans plus open windows will likely be an effective substitute
>>> (…)
>>
>> I hope this not to be too much of a killer issue.
>
> Indeed it won't; as I said in a follow-up, apparently the conference
> housing
> people will be providing window A/C units for those lodgings that
> don't have
> it. And regardless, yes, NY temperatures will be much milder than
> Extremadura.
>
>>> Cons: - The weather may be a bit hotter and more humid
>>
>> How discrete are your bits? If it is 2°C higher avg. as I understood,
>> no big deal
>
> Yes, that's correct, though NYC weather varies a lot more than many
> parts of
> the world - we can have hot periods right before or after cold
> periods. The
> humidity is really the subjectively bigger change. It feels
> different enough
> for me to have mentioned weather as a factor, but personally I don't
> think my
> preference for the June weather outweighs all the other advantages I
> see in the
> July/August dates.
I can't resist telling my favorite New York weather story! In the
beginning of May 1996 it was -15C for almost a week, far from normal
for mid-Spring. The next day, it got up to -5C. Then one later later
it was 35C for 3 days. While that's extreme for NYC, that's just a
good illustration of what's possible in this region, where arctic
chills meet gulf stream warmth and do a dance with the jetstream :).
.hc
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