Yeah no. I’ll take cold over heat any day. At least when it’s cold I can just add a few layers or do something to mitigate it. When it’s hot theres only so many layers I can take off without becomming a sex offender.
A lot of people say that, but it does fuck all for my hands and face, and I’m still breathing in cold ass air.
I have heat retention issues, not heat rejection issues.
Perhaps the grossest feeling I’ve ever experienced was while I was stationed near Chicago during the winter and my nose hairs were freezing inside my nose, all while bundled up in as many layers as possible.
Fuck the cold; I’d rather be in the heat.
That being said, extreme heat is still miserable.
I prefer the cold because our insects are small and non-poisonous. I love in a brutally cold climate as well, it’s worth it.
The best part is Spring and all the fresh life blooming all around… it’s amazing.
Living with such extremes makes me appreciate the warm months so much more than I otherwise would.
To each their own but I’d still rather have numb limbs and frozen snot than be stuck in the heat. I live in minnesota so I’m more than used to snapping off snotcicles at -20F while shoveling the driveway. At least when it’s cold you can still move your body without it making things worse. When it’s opressively hot all you can do is sit there sweating and feeling miserable. Any activity just winds up making matters worse. There’s nothing you can do except suffer. It’s the temperature equivalent of having congested sinuses.
Of course like you said, you have heat retention issues. Meanwhile my body runs like a damn furnace. I just wish it also burned calories like one.
“People that grew up in warm climates prefer warmer climates. People that grew up in cooler climates prefer cold climates”
Not always, am Aussie grew up in, and still live in miserable humid heat, it’s fucking terrible. Though our 3 days of ‘winter’ per year are rather nice
What’s your preference between the two though? Not being a dick, just curious. I grew up pnw US. I’ll take the cold any day of the week.
Cold, you can mitigate it much easier. On a serious note our winter months are great, shorts and t-shirt and it’s just good temp all round, and cool enough at night for a blanket at times! But yeah the warm months are not a good thing!
I’m the opposite. Grew up in a cold climate and hated it. Moved to the warmth now and loving life at the moment
My statistics professor said nearly the exact same thing just today, no joke. He only didn’t say the “without becomming a sex offender.” part.
Ha I’ve said that my whole life except for the last part. I’d say “there’s a legal limit to how much you can take off”
I was thinking the other day, if all the “sensors” in your body for making you feel hot are in your skin, then surely removing the epidermis would be the last layer needed to be removed to avoid feeling hot.
Actually yes. People with severe burns over a large part of their body wind up with massive issues as far as keeping their body temp up. But if you’re burned that bad then you usually have much bigger things to worry about anyways. However your epidermis is mostly dead tissue so to have any real effect you need to go a little deeper and remove the dermis too. So if you skin yourself it can help keep your body temp down.
If you know, you know.
160°F = 71.11°C
Thanks for that … I can never understand those freedom units.
That’s alright. Americans don’t either.
Not really hot enough to burn you instantly if you fall on it, usually only if you lose consciousness. Could be a heat stroke or something else.
This guy was in Phoenix, AZ. The pavement he fell on was bare minimum that hot this summer. Multiple people, including kids had severe burns after falling this year.
The biggest problem is it isn’t instant. Every try to stand up by pushing your hands down on 100°C pavement? How about when you fall hard on your side and then the skin on your leg, as you try to stand, sticks and doesn’t come up with the rest of you? It’s pretty fuckin brutal.
You think can there be anything much worse than being in a motorcycle crash? Yeah, being seriously injured in a motorcycle crash, stuck laying on the asphalt in Phoenix in the Summer. Like cooking in a frying pan.
Motorcycle will even peel the skin off for you.
And here I was looking forward to the crispy skin :(
Yeah, I was wondering as well, if there’s something more to it.
If my cup of tea is at 70°C, that does burn my tongue, but that’s in particular, because water conducts heat very well. I guess, if it’s very smooth asphalt and he gets full contact with naked skin, then it would conduct heat well, too…
it’s a dry heat
found the perthican.
So how did you die?
I touched the ground…
I’m content with my 6 months of snow. My weekend lows are supposed to be 20 and 17 Freedom degrees and I’m here for it.
Fuck yeah. I look forward to winter. Maybe it’s because I was born up north, moved to the US’s swampy dick halfway through my childhood, and then spent most of my formative years being hot and miserable, but I love the shorter days, the cold weather, gray skies…then again, I like all of those things partly because they cause me to slow down more and appreciate the respite FROM the cold.
I’m a winter person at heart, though. I like hot drinks and long pants and sweatshirts and reading under the covers and jackets and having my hands in my pockets as I walk. I love the winter, but I also love the warmth of the winter. And I have so many memories from my childhood that I was robbed of living in Florida. Of course those years I spent on the beach and in the pool and shit, and sure, I love those things too, but winter is just where it’s at.
(Also, I’m not sure “20 and 17 freedom degrees” was meant to be a joke on the imperial system, but it was funny. Maybe even funnier if it were accidental)
Whoa where are you at? 6 months of snow sounds like a dream come true
Colorado
Why bother moving at this point? Your climate will warm up for you
Anthropogenic Climate Change, aka global warming, isn’t only warming. It’s exacerbation of temperature variants, especially extremes:
-Hot climates will get hotter.
-Cold climates will get colder.
-Hurricanes and tornadoes will happen more often, and they will be stronger.
-Wildfires will be bigger and more frequent.
-Mudslides will be more frequent.
-Extreme cold snaps more frequent and longer lasting.Etc.
cold climates generally won’t get colder, but weather extremes will become more common and more pronounced (think snow in Texas)
In general, the jetstream becomes less intense and moves less, leading to longer periods of the same weather, and both extended drought and extended rain are not great for food production. And the chance of it snapping and letting out part of the polar vortex increases by a lot, causing freak weather anomalies
Montreal used to be solid snow from November to April, now it’s weird waves of snow and melt. Slush half the time and garbage weather. Thanks climate change!
Don’t forgot the increase in seismic and volcanic events.
Wait, what? How?
Idk, maybe the lava heats up too
This is literally Russia’s current plan for Siberia. They want access to the vast mineral deposits under the permafrost, and if they wait, getting at those minerals gets a lot easier.
Releasing millions of tons of trapped carbon deposits frozen in the ground … what could go wrong?
Get your dogs some summer shoes.
The floor is lava
The world is lava
Gotta love climate change
i once walked around in the desert barefoot for so long i couldn’t feel it anymore on the soles of my feet. my feet were like shoes. i was miserable otherwise. can’t recommend it.
Meesa man.
I can deal with standard cold and the snow. It’s the lack of sun and extreme colds that get me. Minnesota’s a good place, but Colorado looks awful tempting.
that’s just shitty city planning
Yeah I agree, they couldve chosen to build it somewhere not so warm 😊
People lived in hot deserts without AC or melting their skin off for thousands of years.
You maximize shade, maximize plant cover, maximize wind carrying away heat, maximize heat being reflected or radiated away. That means you implement passive cooling techniques like wind catchers or qanats, build narrow streets to shade the ground, make everything brightly colored, you have as many trees as possible, open waters for evaporative cooling etc…
You can do that in modern times too, look at Masdar city. US city planning is just completeley backwards. You can’t plop the same city that “works” in a temperate climate and expect it to work in a desert.
Asphalt heats up way beyond ambient temperature, and trees generate their own microclimate with over a dozen degrees lower air temperature, not to speak of shade. So yes, this absolutely is a consequence of car-centric city planning and our grand quest to turn the world into a parking lot
Or they could’ve designed the city to catch the chill breeze more, damn those city planner
I agree to a point. But you can’t make Phoenix have a 70° day when it’s 100° outside.
But you can decrease massive stroads and add more trees and local grasses. Make walkability more comfortable with more shade. Accessible clean water. Walkable cities where commutes are shorter. Etc.
But that’s also the problem Phoenix was hoping to solve when they declined interstate highway expansion post war. They didn’t want to demolish large swaths of town to build them so they just kept widening the grid of roads they did have, in order to accommodate their ever expanding population
Issue, do they have watet for the unatural tree in that area?
Depends on the tree, of course.
