Local warming

After two months in sunny Malaysia, I can confirm it is pretty warm here. Global warming isn’t ever going to touch this place. As a guy who's written hundreds of school science experiments called 'how can we keep warm', I'm stumped to find a need to monitor beakers of hot water cool down. Stay here any longer and I'm going to have to rewrite a life's work.
But here we do have questions about heat. Just off the equator, Malaysia does not have 'seasons' like autumn and winter. They aren’t part of the language. We have the 'monsoon' which means that it rains for an hour at 2pm each day. The regularity is weird.
Office life is strange. The boss has a jacket on their seat back but it doesn’t mean that they are briefly away from their desk and they’ve not gone home yet. It’s there to cope with the air conditioning which really chills and gets to you. Last week I shivered through a 3-day meeting. We closed the office door to stop the cold from the air conditioning in the corridor. We opened the outside windows to warm up. The way to understand this world is to read thermometers upside down. Then, when it's cold inside the temperature goes up and it's time to open the window.