Cabins were as temperate as a meat freezer, and skull-numbingly loud.
For a Baghdad summer, that counts as temperate, and a divine gift.
On the other hand, when did you ever hear a production of "American Buffalo" described as temperate?
These ancient places, found above the Vale of Ffestiniog, are two of Europe's best remaining examples of Atlantic oak woodland, otherwise known as temperate rainforest.
In his May 10 column, William Safire described Representative Christopher Cox, Republican of California, as "temperate and judicious" and deserving of a lifetime judgeship.
They are described as temperate rainforests owing to similarities with the flora, structure, and ecology of tropical rainforests that are found in similar environments to the immediate north.
Delicate moss seemed to drip from the branches of the firs and cedars, filling the air with a damp, earthy smell - some forests in the region are classed as "temperate rainforests".
Grasslands, he says, are the unsung purifiers of the earth's atmosphere, locking up as much carbon in the organic matter of their soils as temperate forests, and far more than tropical rain forests.
In the high Nilgiri hill towns of Coonoor and Ooty (famous as temperate refuges for Raj officials and tea planters) back in Tamil Nadu, the air was much cooler and, unusually, we needed a sweater in the evenings.
While the Conservative Party under Cameron's leadership had little of the right-wing ferocity of the Margaret Thatcher years—he rebranded the Party as temperate and green Labour still seemed the more natural fit.
But the northwestern Antarctic Peninsula has heated up faster than almost any other place on earth, as temperate air has streamed in from the north and warming ocean currents have swept along the peninsula.
