Its 45 degrees outside, and I am freezing.  FreeZING!!!   I'm so cold.   Plus, tonight is a Red Bull night, as opposed to a drink night, so I am supercold!!  I need a hot cocoa.

I can't imagine if I still live north.  I'd be extremely, way beyond cold.

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? 

sharke

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

70?  Yep, that's sweater weather.

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

Its all what you are used to. 

I don't mind the cold when I'm working or skiing... 

And it is also a large part... your mental attitude towards it

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 was born in San Diego, moved all of 80 miles north to Orange County in my mid-20's and didn't move up to the Pacific Northwest until I was almost 40.  Most of those years down in So. Cal. I was always too warm (especially when doing any physical activity like playing sports).  My favorite season was winter but, even then, many times we'd still have 80 degrees and clear, sunny weather on Christmas day when I was young...  Now, it seems to average about 45 degrees up here from October thru May and I love it.  Fall is by far my favorite season with Winter coming in next.  The end of Summer with its hot sun and too many bugs still ranks as my least favorite time.

I also definitely don't miss the smog down there or all the dust (it IS desert area after all).  I'll take Evergreen trees over cactus and palm trees any day!

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. 

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 don't even own woolly socks but I do have the heat on. I keep it about 68 degrees in the winter.
And yep, also sitting here in shorts and T-shirt.


Mike

-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.