It’s the middle of August and very hot. In fact, I think this has got to be the hottest summer I’ve ever experienced in Tokyo. This afternoon while walking down the street I thought I would die. I felt like Sanada Hiroyuki in Sunshine as he gets blasted with a big fat fireball from the sun. This evening when I got home I checked the clock in my den and it said 41 degrees celsius. I quickly turned on the aircon which cooled the room before I could get a photo of the temperature. Surprisingly, even though I was covered in sweat the humidity was not too bad at around 50%. I bought a couple of these clocks a while back and they have been quite useful. Last month, the temperatures were quite cool but very humid because of the rainy season. One day it got up to 70%. It’s a toss up as to which is worse, the heat or the humidity. While the heat is unbearable, the humidity does damage to things which is probably worse in the long run. Anyway, what do you think of this clock? The time is always accurate because it syncs via radio waves to some master clock somewhere. Ugly but does the job.
I won a radio controlled clock a while back and lurve it. I wish mine had a humidity and heat section too.
I hated the humidity in Japan, even on cooler days it was just awful. I remembered taking showers, only to be covered in sweat again a few minutes later. Changing into fresh clothes was equally a waste of time.
Here in Australia we often get often get days over 40c and it’s very dry so not really any problem, just whack on a hat when you go outside so you don’t get sunburnt.
When we went camping in the country last summer it was showing 45c. It was beginning to feel like your skin was baking in an oven, even when we were in the shade. Still, people will flock in their thousands to the beach to sit, swim or lie out in the sun.. even on the most extremely hottest days.
My car doesn’t have air-con, neither does my house and it didn’t bother us much. We just opened the windows to let a breeze through.
The heat is remarkable. Everywhere. I was in Zurich last week and it was 30 degrees one day and 20 the next. Here I have a Muji desk dial which shows heat and humidity. On my first day back it stayed at 30 degrees for hours even though I had the air con on. I thought it was broken. Wrong. Just endless oppressive heat.
Roy,
Sorry to hear you are getting unnerved by the heat. Yeah, 40C is real bad. I wonder if this is just one of those things or if there is worldwide significance? Here in Silicon Valley it has been unusually pleasant. We usually get over 34C in August, but this year we have not had much over 29C. It makes for great weather but we wonder where summer went.
Drink lots of water and stay away from carbonated sodas.
Hank
I don’t think they are ugly at all. I wish we had cool clocks like this in the states.
Yesterday must be the hottest day in my 3 years of living in Tokyo. I felt as if my skin was going to burn off while cycling to work ( around 1 in the afternoon ). In Singapore we average 30-33 degrees every day, but the heat here was impossible.
Your clock kicks ass dude!
I think the clock actually looks fine. We have a couple of iMac clocks (from the gumdrop design days) which show the temperature but not the humidity.
I think the heat is worse in Tokyo because breezes don’t come easily depending on where you place is located and it never cools down much. Back home, it almost always reached its zenith during the day but could be 20-30 degrees (F) cooler at nights so you weren’t always cooking like you do in the city. I could live with an A/C back home because of this but not in Japan. It’s just inescapable.
It’s a little plain, but I think it nice. I’ve never had a radio controlled clock that had temp. and humidity. I wonder if I can still get one or two of these…
I have lived in both Florida and New Mexico, so I understand high humidity and scorching heat. In the end I find heat bearable, where the humidity is hard on me. Also humidity can damage things quicker than heat, just like you pointed out.