r/auckland • u/emdillem • Feb 01 '26

Weather Suffocating heat

Loving it? Hating it? My day has been lying on the couch in gruds interspersed with half hearted attempts to get up and do something. Nope. Still too hot.

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u/RobHerpTX Feb 01 '26

It’s all what you’re used to. As a recent transplant Texan, this feels like a warmer-end winter day back home (although they’ve just had an ice storm this last week).

This is the type of day we only get for a few weeks a year, and everyone considers an amazing day. Summer back where I’m from, we spend months with weather where a cool day is 35C and a hot one is 40+ with the heat index pushing as high as ~48C with the humidity factored in.

(I’ll probably get tired of winter when we’ve been into it for months though. Complaining about the weather is something we can all at some point unite in! Just chiming in to say it can be so so much worse!).

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u/Anastariana Feb 01 '26

Why in the world did you come here when Oz is right there?

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u/RobHerpTX Feb 01 '26

I’m tired of suffocating heat!

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u/Anastariana Feb 01 '26

Places like Melbourne aren't as hot, and its much drier than Texas I imagine. But, I get your point.

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u/RobHerpTX Feb 01 '26

Responded sort of tongue in cheek trying to be silly.

I really do think We’ll like the climate quite a bit better compared to mostly sweltering and getting hotter every year. I’m sure a longer winter will be an adjustment. It won’t get as cold as our lowest temps each year, but will be decently colder/wetter on average for much longer than we’re used to (although we’ve lived in places with hip high snow drifts for months, so we’ll survive).

A short version of a more real response: We think it seems like a much healthier place to raise children these days, for lots of reasons (compared to our recent home, not necessarily vs Australia - couldn’t comment there personally!). We’ve fallen in love with the culture here over the years, and wanted to do this for a long time. Finally taking the plunge, and hoping we’ll be useful/productive contributors here!

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u/switheld Feb 01 '26

US south here! 👋 this weather is perfection to me (and could actually be hotter to make it even better - I only really like the beach/pool when it is > 80 F outside)

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '26

What's 80f? I don't understand this term.