I have been monitoring the weather in Basel and Baltimore, and am surprised at how similar they have been, though I haven't been keeping track of the humidity. I hope the trend doesn't continue into summer because it gets too hot and humid in Baltimore for me. I just looked up the average temp for Basel, and found this:
Average Annual Precipitation: 42.3 inches
Average January Temperature: 49 degrees F
Average July Temperature: 65 degrees F
That sounds pretty good to me! If it gets much over 75 it's getting too hot for me. Especially if I'm walking everywhere.
The high for this April has been about 74F/23C, the low 30F/-1C and the average 50F/10C.
Yesterday I found another possibility for funding - another fellowship to apply for. MrB just has to check with his postdoc advisor and see what he thinks of the fellowship. Yay! I can't help getting excited...
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Wow..those averages don't look right to me. I just checked weather.com and they show the average high for Basel in January as 39˚ and the average high in July as 78˚. During the summer of 2003, we had a stretch of several weeks where it was over 90˚ every day, and sometimes it was over 100˚. Hopefully, that'll never happen again.
Usually you only have a couple of weeks worth of really hot weather during the summer. Those are the two weeks where you sleep with a fan blowing six inches from your head!
Yeah, I thought that might be a bit low for the July high, but I was hoping, 78 is still manageable! I was checking for fun on lunch hour and ran out of time to confirm. 90-100 without air conditioning sounds like such fun. I nearly went off on a soapbox about global warming but managed to restrain myself. :) Have you ever gone swimming in the Rhine? I'm surprised it is actually clean enough that people swim in it.
I've never gone swimming in the Rhein, but I know people who have. There's an annual Rhein swim where hundreds of people swim from one side to the other simultaneously. One of Mrs. TBF's co-workers cut her foot getting out along the shore, and she had to go to the hospital to have glass removed. No thanks, I'll stick to the local swimming pools.
Ouch! I guess that is why the things I've read about it say you should wear shoes at all times. I'm not much on swimming myself, but if it is really hot out it might be nice to take a dip somewhere to cool off.
In our experience, summers here don't even remotely compare to DC/Balt (although we weren't here for the awful summer of 2003 that The Big Finn referred to). There are two big differences in summer: (1) it tends to be much less humid; and (2) nights tend to cool off much more. So even if it's 90 degrees during the day, most evenings cool off comfortably, which was seldom the case in DC. The flipside of that is that there is very little air conditioning here, so when it is hot, fans are an absolute necessity. Winters tend to be chilly and gray, with less extremes than DC. It seldom gets much below the 20s here, but by the same token you don't tend to get warm winter days in the 50s/60s like in DC. Also, because it's often damp here, it's the type of cold that just cuts right through you. Hope that helps.
Oh, and I'm with TBF on swimming in the Rhine...it's popular here so I suppose the water is reasonably clean, but I have no desire to swim in any body of water that is lined with chemical plants.
Thanks Kirk, that does help! Yeah, that is true about the chemical plants...*shudder* I like kayaking, maybe we can try that somewhere along the Rhine.
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