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It is cool here.
It is cooling here.
Do the sentences have the same meaning?
Thanks.
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No.
It is cool here - a state. It is hot outside, but it is cool here. 'It' as a dummy pronoun describes the state of 'here'.
There is a cooling breeze here. The breeze cools you if you sit here, so it is a comfortable place to sit.
But 'it' is not cooling here. That is not the state of 'here'.
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Helsinki is one of the first cities in the world to have introduced the central cooling, with the same pipes they use for central heating. That's cool.
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thar wrote:No.
It is cool here - a state. It is hot outside, but it is cool here. 'It' as a dummy pronoun describes the state of 'here'.
There is a cooling breeze here. The breeze cools you if you sit here, so it is a comfortable place to sit.
But 'it' is not cooling here. That is not the state of 'here'.
Thanks, thar.
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Jyrkkä Jätkä wrote:Helsinki is one of the first cities in the world to have introduced the central cooling, with the same pipes they use for central heating. That's cool.
I like that Jyrkkä Jätkä it is 'very cool'!  (Of course, not in NY where the temps have been in the single digits...brrrrrrr!) 
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Yeah, well ... all those denuded frogs and Punxsutawney Phil are among the reasons I bailed from Philly, many years ago. I've since lived among the palm trees and swimming pools. <sigh!> 
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Sometimes it might happen that the weather here turns strange. Then we need cooling. We are not used to constant heat. Except in sauna ;-)  Celcius, not Fahrenheit.
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Jyrkkä Jätkä wrote:Sometimes it might happen that the weather here turns strange. Then we need cooling. We are not used to constant heat. Except in sauna ;-) Celcius, not Fahrenheit. Is that current?? Good grief! In Celsius, we've been running 0 to, say 7. That's roughly normal for us this time of year. It can be colder, but usually not for long. January, however, we had several 10s, which is definitely abnormal.
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Not in winter, Ruth ;-)
Now we have some zero grades, which is quite warm.
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Oops! I used the wrong term. It's district cooling.
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You relieve my mind, JJ! I could not imagine Finland with midwinter temperatures I would expect to see here in much of the (non-extreme part of) summer.
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