When my sister picked me up from the airport, I told her how cold it felt outside.
I live in the south, where the temperature doesn’t drop below 75 degrees until the middle of October.
My sister lives up north, where there’s a chance it could snow by this time. Even though I used to live up north at one point, I still forget how different the weather can be during the seasonal transitions. When I packed for the trip, I knew it would be chillier than what I was used to, but I didn’t think it would be anything extreme. However, when I stepped off the plane onto the tarmac, I knew that I made a mistake in what I packed. When my sister realized how cold I was, she immediately turned up the heat in the car and then handed me her phone. She told me to find the app for her thermostat so I could adjust the temperature of her house before we got there. I don’t own a smart thermostat myself, so I was shocked when she told me that I could change the temperature remotely. I clicked on the app when I found it, and immediately the temperature of her house was displayed. She had her furnace running and it was set to 67 degrees. She told me to turn the temperature up a few degrees, so I changed it to 69 degrees. When we arrived at her house, I found the thermostat and checked on the temperature. The thermostat said that her house was already 69 degrees and it felt wonderful!