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.