# Does the temperature feel hot everywhere? **URL:** \ **Category:** Living in Taiwan\ **Created:** [July 9, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311 "2014-07-09T21:55:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Bl4ckus-H34dus](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Bl4ckus-H34dus](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Bl4ckus-H34dus)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 11:30am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311/81 "2023-07-10T11:30:07Z")
I live in downtown Kaohsiung. It is an oven, that is why I keep all windows open allowing the ocean breeze to blow through. In the bedroom at night I use AC to sleep, but mostly at around 27 ot 25 degree. My sinus dries up easily and gets sinusitis, so I prefer sweating than being chronically ill. When you are in underwear, the termperature infron of the fan is just perfect. No freezing, no sweating, just a bit below body temperature so the body can get rid of excess heat. When sitting infront of a screen all day, this is totally fine. If I start moving around, cooking, etc, I definitely take a shower after I am finished with my actions. ---
**Author:** ![Taiwan\_Luthiers](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Taiwan\_Luthiers](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Taiwan_Luthiers)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 11:41am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311/82 "2023-07-10T11:41:13Z")
Yea, I guess that could work if you have windows. My place has none though (and it’s probably why the landlord can’t find any tenants, who wants to live in a windowless apartment??). It’s insulated from the sun’s heat and all that but at the same time there’s almost no airflow to mitigate heat either. So either you tolerate sweating or you turn on the AC. What’s worse is it has few places to install them. ---
**Author:** ![Bl4ckus-H34dus](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Bl4ckus-H34dus](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Bl4ckus-H34dus)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 11:52am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311/83 "2023-07-10T11:52:14Z")
Omg, I would go insane in a windowless apartment (since I spend sometimes weeks without leaving the house). So if I can’t at least get some sunlight through the windows I would wither like a plant without light. ---
**Author:** ![Andrew](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/andrew/32/179806_2.png) [@Andrew](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Andrew)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 11:53am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311/84 "2023-07-10T11:53:26Z")
> [@Bl4ckus-H34dus](#): > > Best way to cope with the current heat in Taiwan: I work home office and wear only boxershorts most of the year. (not the same one ofc). Yeah, working from home is great sometimes. 🥳 > [@Taiwan\_Luthiers](#): > > Last year my electric bill was over 6000, so I don’t stay home unless I’m going paid work. Do you mean for the entire year? That sounds really cheap. Or for each two-month period? > [@Taiwan\_Luthiers](#): > > I don’t stay home unless I’m going paid work. Better to try and get more paid work then, like the rest of us working for ourselves from home need to do. If I went out all the time instead of working because it was too hot, I might also have difficulty paying for the AC. 🤷‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![RickRooney](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@RickRooney](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/RickRooney)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 1:15pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311/85 "2023-07-10T13:15:35Z")
> [@Bl4ckus-H34dus](#): > > I live in downtown Kaohsiung. It is an oven, that is why I keep all windows open allowing the ocean breeze to blow through. If I leave my windows open here in Taipei all I get is the traffic breeze flowing through. ---
**Author:** ![Bl4ckus-H34dus](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Bl4ckus-H34dus](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Bl4ckus-H34dus)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2023, 2:23am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311/86 "2023-07-11T02:23:52Z")
Gotta move closer to the shore then. I am right at the ocean, so there’s that. But in winter? Different story… No matter where you go in the south, you simply cannot escape the abysmal air polution. But yeah, smoking is bad for your health - so is living in Taiwan. ---
**Author:** ![anon24369109](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@anon24369109](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/anon24369109)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2023, 8:21am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311/87 "2023-07-11T08:21:45Z")
> [@Bl4ckus-H34dus](#): > > No matter where you go in the south, you simply cannot escape the abysmal air polution. I live in the south. No air pollution where I live. Lot’s of clean O2 coming off the plantations though. ![HEIGHT FLIGHT](https://forumosauploads-12829.kxcdn.com/original/3X/2/f/2f535255e1066e53417d81f75c77ee311b495da4.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Icon](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/icon/32/189245_2.png) [@Icon](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Icon)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 7:01am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311/88 "2023-07-15T07:01:20Z")
Didn’t know if this belonged here, Funny Pictures or Wack Things. Actually, all of them: ![sWjItkB](https://forumosauploads-12829.kxcdn.com/original/3X/2/b/2be7abf1485557c7af0e9ae218cf6e6025842317.jpeg) 55 degrees? No thanks. 47 degrees in Vegas. Slow boiling frogs indeed. ---
**Author:** ![afterspivak](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ccd318/32.png) [@afterspivak](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/afterspivak)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 7:29am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311/89 "2023-07-15T07:29:51Z")
> [@Icon](#): > > 55 degrees? No thanks. An informative piece from Bloomberg, accessed via today’s Taipei Times, explains why such temperatures are Bad News for human beings and other forms of life on earth. > **[How much heat can the human body stand? - Taipei Times](https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2023/07/15/2003803201)** > > Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan This article mentions the deaths of a young family and their dog during a hiking excursion in California: _Whether a given temperature can kill depends on humidity, wind velocity and direct exposure to sunlight, as well as a person’s level of exertion, body size and clothing. Temperatures reached 48°C where a man and his young stepson died hiking last month in Texas, but it was just 41°C when a young couple, their baby daughter, and the family dog all died in 2021 while hiking in California._ _That California case was chronicled in the book The Heat Will Kill You First by Jeff Goodell. The young parents had brought what seemed like ample water. When they set out, the temperature was only in the 20s. They had planned to be home before the worst heat set in._ _However, the hike started downhill. Getting back to their car required a 701m climb up a slope in direct sunlight. They never made it._ This case reminded me of the recent death of a man in Xinbei who attempted to hike as part of a group in the Ruifang district back on that Saturday when temperatures hit 38 degrees in the Taipei City basin. I am convinced that his body simply got overloaded from the heat, leading to his death. If forumosans are interested, this case was discussed here: > [@hiking\_boot Hiking | Don't Hike Alone](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/hiking-dont-hike-alone/76595/34): > > Another death, this time in the Ruifang District of New Taipei City (hardly deep in the mountains) where a group thought that a hiking excursion on a day with a high in the upper 30s was a good idea (it was 38 degrees that day in my corner of Taipei City). One of the hikers felt unwell and excused himself from the group. Left alone, he ended up not rejoining his fellow hikers at the trailhead. His body was found the following day. Lots of basics not being followed here, with tragic results. … Guy ---
**Author:** ![Membrillo](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/membrillo/32/139669_2.png) [@Membrillo](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Membrillo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 8:23am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311/90 "2023-07-15T08:23:01Z")
> The US Congress might need to step in; as my Bloomberg Opinion colleague Mark Gongloff wrote, Texas just added a law that would allow employers to deny workers breaks for water and shade even in 46°C heat. Some heads need to be separated from their bodies. ---
**Author:** ![afterspivak](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ccd318/32.png) [@afterspivak](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/afterspivak)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 8:30am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311/91 "2023-07-15T08:30:09Z")
The government of Texas seems—at least to this outsider—to specialize in its own brand of extreme cruelty. It’s not as blantantly stupid as Florida, but in cases like this it does seem simply mean. 🙁 Guy ---
**Author:** ![ChewDawg](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/chewdawg/32/174179_2.png) [@ChewDawg](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/ChewDawg)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 11:23am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311/92 "2023-07-15T11:23:35Z")
> [@afterspivak](#): > > The government of Texas seems—at least to this outsider—to specialize in its own brand of extreme cruelty. I’ll take Texas style culture over most governance in the world 😆 😆 😆 Hurrah for God, Guns, the Cowboy culture, etc. They don’t freeze bank accounts of trucker protests in Texas like they do in some Marxist areas!!! [(70) The Yellow Rose of Texas - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LArGlfEVYqM) [(70) Marty Robbins - El Paso (Audio) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWm5WErkffQ) > We’ll sing the songs together, We sang so long ago > I’ll play my banjo gaily, And sing the songs of yore, > the Yellow Rose of Texas, will be mine forevermore. Or spend so unwisely [The limousine and luxury-suite lifestyle of our oblivious leadership | National Post](https://nationalpost.com/opinion/limousine-lifestyle-of-canadas-oblivious-leaders?fbclid=IwAR2Zw76iOjc2CpySuRtLE4A2fbT6DHHTQdUEEa6Djp0IbOknkzjtwcGiJXE) ---
**Author:** ![anon24369109](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@anon24369109](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/anon24369109)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 7:15am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311/93 "2023-07-16T07:15:11Z")
21c here and about to rain so temp will drop a bit more. ![21c](https://forumosauploads-12829.kxcdn.com/original/3X/b/5/b52220c46bf064c819da82df54c066bf3c2e1215.jpeg) ![2983](https://forumosauploads-12829.kxcdn.com/original/3X/b/3/b3ae2cd8fef47be359bcf4c6486d6b8c5e87733a.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![MikeN1](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@MikeN1](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/MikeN1)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 6:52am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311/94 "2023-07-18T06:52:40Z")
> [@ChewDawg](#): > > I’ll play my banjo gaily, And sing the songs of yore, > the Yellow Rose of Texas, will be mine forevermore. Point of interest: The Yellow Rose of Texas was originally written by a black man to his black woman lover. The original words were “She’s the sweetest little darkie That Texas ever knew” They were changed because white Texans thought it was inappropriate to sing songs lauding black people. ---
**Author:** ![tempogain](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/tempogain/32/264650_2.png) [@tempogain](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/tempogain)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 8:01am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311/95 "2023-07-18T08:01:24Z")
That doesn’t seem accurate. Just for a start you got the original lyric wrong, and the song’s history is long and convoluted. Seems hard to imagine say Mitch Miller singing the original lyrics. > **[The Yellow Rose of Texas (song)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Rose_of_Texas_(song))** > > "The Yellow Rose of Texas" is a traditional American folk song dating back to at least the 1850s. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. Many versions of the song have been recorded, the most popular of which was by Mitch Miller, whose version reached No. 1 in the United States in 1955. > The earliest known version of "The Yellow Rose of Texas" is found in Christy's Plantation Melodies. No. 2, a songbook published under the authority of ... ---
**Author:** ![MikeN1](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@MikeN1](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/MikeN1)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 4:57am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311/96 "2023-07-23T04:57:03Z")
My source was an English professor specialising in early southern folklore > **Trudier Harris** (born February 1948) is an American literary scholar, author, and Professor Emerita at the [University of Alabama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Alabama). She was the J. Carlyle Sitterson Distinguished Professor at [University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill).[[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trudier_Harris#cite_note-1)[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trudier_Harris#cite_note-2)[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trudier_Harris#cite_note-3) It appears in this [“The Yellow Rose of Texas”: The Ironic Origins of a Popular Song •](https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/perspectives-african-american-history/yellow-rose-texas-ironic-origins-state-song/#:~:text=West's%20possible%20forced%20separation%20from,was%20a%20spy%20for%20Texas). If you are referring to the line “She’s the sweetest little darkie”, it appears in most early versions of the song. Still, song origins are often obscure. > Like most minstrel songs, the lyrics are written in a cross between a parody of a generic creole dialect historically attributed to [African-Americans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Vernacular_English) and standard [American English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English). The song is written in the [first person](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-person_narrative) from the perspective of an African-American singer who refers to himself as a “[darkey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs#D),” longing to return to “a [yellow girl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_yellow)” (that is, a light-skinned, or bi-racial woman born of African/African-American and European-American progenitors) If wiki assures me it was written by white Texans to shit on black people, I certainly find that believable. (Don’t know this is in this thread, except it’s ChewDawg, and h doen’t follow any gawdblam rules about subject matter. ---
**Author:** ![ChewDawg](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/chewdawg/32/174179_2.png) [@ChewDawg](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/ChewDawg)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 7:57am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311/97 "2023-07-23T07:57:54Z")
> [@MikeN1](#): > > and h doen’t follow any gawdblam rules about subject matter. 🤠 🤠 🤠 I prefer to spin it as an elite “stream of consciousness” that educates many. 😆 In this specific thread, I was responding to Texas-bashing, which I didn’t start, and comparing such ridiculous stereotyping to real-life authoritarian practices up North. ---
**Author:** ![Icon](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/icon/32/189245_2.png) [@Icon](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Icon)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 9:38am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311/98 "2023-07-23T09:38:17Z")
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**Author:** ![afterspivak](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ccd318/32.png) [@afterspivak](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/afterspivak)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 8:59am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311/99 "2025-10-08T08:59:08Z")
It sure has felt hot in Taipei. I wonder if scientists have any theories or explanations. They do? I see. > **[Taipei sets record with 19 days in September hitting 35°C: CWA - Focus Taiwan](https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202510080014)** > > Taiwan recorded its third-hottest September since 1951 this year, while Taipei set a record with 19 days in September breaching 35 degrees Celsius, according to the Central Weather Administration (CWA). Guy ---
**Author:** ![QuaSaShao](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/quasashao/32/220200_2.png) [@QuaSaShao](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/QuaSaShao)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311/100 "2025-10-08T20:26:16Z")
High 32 low 25 forecast for today in Taiwan. I’ve never seen hot weather drag on for so long there. Meanwhile here in northern Japan high today is 14 and low 4 so endless hot weather doesn’t seem to be a universal problem in the Asia Pacific region. [Previous page](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311.md?page=4) [Next page](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/does-the-temperature-feel-hot-everywhere/83311.md?page=6)