Yeah. Even here in Sweden where I had -17 C the other day, the summers can be pretty warm.

Outdoors is "refrigerator" temperatures only in perhaps March-May and September-October.

But that still doesn't make sense, since we usually keep cheese indoors, where it is is nice and comfortable.

-17C is 27C lower than what we have over here! We're definitely not in agreement with definition of "pretty warm" in absolute term. Stockholm had one day exceeding 30C throughout 2023, here we had entire August above that. 89 days total above 30C in the capital, in fact.

Definition of warm or cool can't be the same with this kind of difference - and I'd imagine similar could be said about the US, they have southerly regions where hot and wet indoor ambient atmosphere can't be cheese-safe most of the time. You guys are having it easy when it comes to food safety.

The US south is all air-conditioned, nobody could tolerate the natural indoor temperatures in houses built in modern styles.