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Frigid winters or sweltering summers, which can you tolerate more?
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Definitely winter. I can deal with the cold much better than the hot. Especially DC heat where it can get up to the mid to high 90s with almost 100% humidity.
Stupid Fahrenheit, I can never tell if 30 is actually cold? or 90 is actually hot. Lets find a system that actually makes sense people cough**Celsius**cough
I'll lead by example one this one, -30 or less is a little too cold, on the other hand, 35 above is a little too hot (especially with humidity). Luckily, where i live its wickedly dry and almost never gets colder than 35. On the other hand -40 isn't uncommon
I'll lead by example one this one, -30 or less is a little too cold, on the other hand, 35 above is a little too hot (especially with humidity). Luckily, where i live its wickedly dry and almost never gets colder than 35. On the other hand -40 isn't uncommon
I'll take the heat any day, I can't function in the cold.
You obviously have never experienced a true New England Winter.
i take sweltering heat over balls freezing off cold. well, it might be because im from india and we have like rly hot temps with a lot of humidity there but i like heat more than cold. If its cold, i hate the cold and snow that comes with it. in recent yrs, the snow has been coming down a lot more and that means more shoveling his long driveway in the (insert swearword) cold. u can always go outside and just drink some cold water feel cool, but the cold is dif. if ur rly cold, ur fingers and stuff can fall off due to frostbite. btw, i live in wisconsin to winters are evil here.
I definitely prefer colder weather. My comfort zone is 10-20 C. 30 C is nearly unbearable, I sweat like crazy and even wearing only a Speedo wouldn't help if temps got higher than that. Below freezing is no treat, but I can always put on a coat, gloves, and hat. I can build a fire, but I can't build an air conditioner. I can't live with zero humidity either, my throat and sinuses get dried out and I get nosebleeds.
Being from California, I can tell you that we usually have Winter and Summer with smatterings of those other two seasons...
"And Summer gave Fall a miss and went directly to Winter...and in the frozen land of Naydor, the brave knights ate Robin's minstrels. And there was great rejoicing."
I'm trying to fondly recall the 40-degree temperatures of six months ago.
"And Summer gave Fall a miss and went directly to Winter...and in the frozen land of Naydor, the brave knights ate Robin's minstrels. And there was great rejoicing."
I'm trying to fondly recall the 40-degree temperatures of six months ago.
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It gets down in the low 20's in January here by San Antonio. Plenty cold enough for me to shiver
Tomorrow said:Definitely. I hate Texas.
I'd rather be freezing and shivering then hot and exhausted.
I live in Texas, and I'm not sure I've ever shivered here for any length of time. It doesn't get cold enough.
I'm pretty hot-natured - I don't really start wearing long sleeves until it drops below about 50, and below about 40 I'll start bringing a jacket with me to work. I don't own a coat.
There was a time I was driving home from Austin and my car broke down in the middle of nowhere at 4:00 am. It was around 40 degrees outside, dark, and I hadn't packed anything with long sleeves. I couldn't run the engine for heat. It took a tow truck nearly three hours to get to me, and by that time I was seriously starting to worry if I'd make it for the cold (I was in a t-shirt and jeans).
All that said, I'd still rather go through that again than break down on a day like today and wait it out with no air conditioning.
It gets down in the low 20's in January here by San Antonio. Plenty cold enough for me to shiver
Moving from the Midwest to CA I can tell you that CA has one only one season and that's Mild Summer w/a few weeks of relative hot and cold.
I've been in the desert in the summertime and it sucks, IMO. I prefer a dry heat to a humid heat but when it feels like I'm standing in front of an open oven set on broil I draw a line. Speaking of humidity, going outside in summer humidity so bad you almost instantly sweat through your shirt is miserable.I'll take mild summers and cold winters over scorching summers and mild winters any day. Snow does suck to shovel but sledding, snow ball fights and snowboarding more than make up for it, IMO. Of course, I'm spoiled in SoCal 'cause I get the best of both worlds.
Lethal
Okay, so your body generates heat, right? So that means in summer if you were to do something you would get hot, with no way to lose the heat naturally/easily. But in Winter, you stay cooler naturally and hence more comfortable.
So it'll be unbearably cold for me. I can concentrate on the task if I'm cold but I can't concentrate if I'm sweating into my clothes.
So it'll be unbearably cold for me. I can concentrate on the task if I'm cold but I can't concentrate if I'm sweating into my clothes.
whenever someone asks me this I always say Winter.
You can throw on a blanket, or some heavy clothes to warm up in the winter, you can't just throw on anything to cool down during the summer. It's just a lot easier to heat up than it is to cool down.
I live 20 mins out of Los Angeles BTW.
You can throw on a blanket, or some heavy clothes to warm up in the winter, you can't just throw on anything to cool down during the summer. It's just a lot easier to heat up than it is to cool down.
I live 20 mins out of Los Angeles BTW.
I live in Southern California but go to uni in Fairbanks, Alaska sooooo... I GET BOTH EXTREMES. Summers at home reach up to 130 degrees and Winters in uni go down to -50 and I must say, I STILL prefer the winter in Alaska!
Here in western NY we get extremes in both. I can tolerate heat a bit better if I have to be outside - but throw in humidity and it's living hell. If it get too cold I start having a hard time breathing. BUT I have light skin so I burn easily if I'm out in the sun.
It gets to well below zero in the winter (-15º) and today it's creeping up to 90º.
It gets to well below zero in the winter (-15º) and today it's creeping up to 90º.
That's easy...I'd rather be in my car enjoying the AC in 100F weather than driving in a snowstorm or cleaning snow/ice on my car off every morning...
Cheers.
-J.-
Cheers.
-J.-
Like the OP im in Atlanta too.
AND THE SUMMERS ARE HOT AS F____! I can tolerate our winters though. Bring on the cold please!
AND THE SUMMERS ARE HOT AS F____! I can tolerate our winters though. Bring on the cold please!
Moving from the Midwest to CA I can tell you that CA has one only one season and that's Mild Summer w/a few weeks of relative hot and cold.
I'll take mild summers and cold winters over scorching summers and mild winters any day. Snow does suck to shovel but sledding, snow ball fights and snowboarding more than make up for it, IMO. Of course, I'm spoiled in SoCal 'cause I get the best of both worlds.
Lethal
It is true that California's winters are relatively mild, which is probably why I prefer them. If I had to endure -20 degree temps for three months out of the year, I would probably long for summer too.
A college buddy of mine, your Typical SoCal Surfer Dude, who never met a beach he didn't like, visited relative in Missouri one summer. He came back regaling me with how miserably hot it was. This from a guy to whom anything under 80 degrees was "cold" and 95 was "average." What we wasn't used to was the 95%+ humidity. "Now I know why they call it The Show-Me State -- Show Me the way outta there!"
Seconded.
I never have a problem keeping warm even in the dead of winter so I'm much more comfortable when it's cooler out. I hate being baking-hot more than anything. I s'pose I prefer autumn and spring if I'm honest!
I like the heat...born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona.
I visited my sister in Durango, Co during winter. I thought I was going to freeze when I stepped outside.
I visited my sister in Durango, Co during winter. I thought I was going to freeze when I stepped outside.
1. you don't have to shovel heat
2. nothing worse walking through a parking lot full of slush
3. getting into your car and realizing there is more windshield that needs to be scraped.
4. icestorm knocking out power for over a week and temps not getting out of the 30's.
5. shoveling snow at 430am so I can get to work.
6. sitting behind plows for 15 miles going 15MPH
After living In MA, CT, VA, WA, GA, FL I would take the heat 9 months but October, November and December I insist in being in New England
2. nothing worse walking through a parking lot full of slush
3. getting into your car and realizing there is more windshield that needs to be scraped.
4. icestorm knocking out power for over a week and temps not getting out of the 30's.
5. shoveling snow at 430am so I can get to work.
6. sitting behind plows for 15 miles going 15MPH
After living In MA, CT, VA, WA, GA, FL I would take the heat 9 months but October, November and December I insist in being in New England
Same thing I was thinking. When you're getting up in the morning, walking on the cold bathroom floor, and then sitting in your car for 7 minutes to warm it up with a ice block as a steering wheel....summer will cry out to you.
I hate the winter, can't stand the cold.
I do like to snowboard but I'd rather travel to do it than have snowboarding weather outside my house for 5 months out of the year.
It's 95 outside today and I'm loving it. I'd move to Phoenix in a heartbeat.
SLC
I do like to snowboard but I'd rather travel to do it than have snowboarding weather outside my house for 5 months out of the year.
It's 95 outside today and I'm loving it. I'd move to Phoenix in a heartbeat.
SLC