No more North for me!!

You southerners! 45 degrees? I wouldn't even break out the woolly socks for that! Right now is 37 outside, 26 with the wind chill taken into account, and I'm sitting here in t-shirt and boxer shorts with no heating on. 

I hear people in Florida wear sweaters when it's 70. Is this true? 

Sheesh.....there is nothing like a bit of cold, bracing weather to stouten the constitution. 

I used to tell my wife that I had husky blood - I rarely felt cold, unless it was insane weathers like sub-zero °F. 


That's not taking winds into account - things get pretty brutal back home. But I had a pretty good tolerance. 

Oddly enough, here I do feel it a whole lot more, even if it's nothing by comparison. I guess it just like back home, where I was more inclined to feel cold when I was inside. It's like your guard is off or something...

I've lived the extremeness of both ends of the world; from downunder to way 'up' north, USA.   

In Australia it can get so dang hot and humid you'll sweat like a hog all without tha' butt leaving the chair.    

Having lived in Australia for decades I can tell you it's very refreshing to be where I am right now (Wi, US) yet I'm still not sure where I'd rather be; 

Both offer the good, the bad and the ugly; in tropical humid regions you put up with lots of bugs, snakes, gators, flies and mosquitoes whereas in the far north where I am now all the little critters seem to be in a state of cryostasis. 

-2C (or 28F for you yanks) here and this is super mild. Where I grew up it would usually be -20 by now and -30 to -40 was pretty common over Jan/Feb. 

I don't deal with the cold as well as I used to though. It cuts into me and cripples me up. When I was a kid I'd run around in that crazy cold weather in a T-Shirt and jean jacket... yanno... 'cause I had to look cool for the chicks.

Yeah, I was stupid.

Hi,

Weenies!

I delivered newspapers in Madison, WI at 5AM with 25 degrees below zero and wind chill factor at least to 35 or 40 ... it was a challenge with all the ice and snow on the ground, of course ... but fun ...

Thick socks, cowboy boots (great for that) ... and off you go!

Over here in Portland/Vanvcouver, we get more rain than anything else and it has been hovering around 35/40 every night and 45 during the day ... and it is boring, when the wind picks up ... but it's really good for them windsurfers just further up the river around Hood River!

Santa Barbara was kinda nice ... but needs some rain really bad to wash off all those Channel 69's and Mercedes 69's, or Diesel 69's and bring some of those richies down to earth a little!

Humidity and wind are the killers when we talk about tolerating cold.  A temperature of -20 C (-4 F) on the seashore in Finland is far worse than -30 C (-22 F) in central or northern Finland, where the climate isn't humid.

If it's calm, dry -20 C weather, you can easily go to get the firewood from the shed or  see the dog take a pee wearing just a t-shirt and sweatpants, but with high humidity and the slightest wind you start to shiver in 30 seconds.

Feeling cold is also surprisingly much a mental thing.

Then again, I don't like too warm weather. When it's over 25 C (77 F) my batteries start to fail. At 30 C (86 F) I pull the curtains down and don't feel like going out at all, I feel so uncomfortable.


The whole temperature thing is strange. Think of how narrow tolerance we humans actually have. It sounds like the feared global warming of 3-5 degrees Celsius isn't so much, but if our body temperature rises 3 C, to 39,7 (103 F) we are seriously ill and immobilised,  two degrees more and we're dying.

mmmm...I remember spending a few years in Yellowknife and seeing temperature go to -50F with windchills hovering around -70F or so....