I much prefer autumn/winter. Only when it gets really slippery from frozen over streets it starts to suck, i can always dress warmer. I cant wear less than nothing, and it is still way too hot.
Remember when the wet bulb temperature was evolutionarily advantageous for sweat-monsters like me? Now I'm just as hot, and infinitely more wet than everyone around me.
I love summer.
I’d rather have 90° than 9°.
I like having daylight past 4pm.
I like seeing blue skies and the sun.
I like being able to go outside without bundling up under five layers, and still being cold.
I like not having to shovel my walks, snowblower my drive, scrape off my car, etc.
I like swimming.
I like seeing green trees, colorful flowers , bumblebees, and nature.
I like taking my kid to the park so he can ride his skateboard.
I like going to the beach.
This is why I love living in a place that has more than 2 seasons.
Spring is short, but features temperatures in between 90 and 9, increasing daylight into the evening, blue skies and sun, moderate temperatures that don't require that much in the way of bundling if at all, very little (if any) wintery precipitation, all the nature stuff at its earliest pristine moments, lovely parks, and the beach never goes away around here regardless of the season.
Okay, so limited to no swimming in the spring because most water is still kinda chilly.
We also have Fall. It tends to be longer than the Spring, but with fewer of the benefits.
I never sleep better than in a near-freezing room with warm blankets. Well maybe on trains. Cold room with warm blankets is like the definition of cozy.
A room so warm you don't want blankets is miserable.
Winter people probably like bundling up inside. Summer people are outside doing things. Most of my summer people friends, also enjoy winter activities, just maybe not as much as summer.
I am terminally online, but I spent winter in Kazakhstan, xinjiang, northern China, and Hokkaido, wearing a jacket doesn't stop me from going outside, it just stops me from looking like someone just dumped a bucket of water on me after 5 minutes.
Nah, man, it's a good theory but I know a guy who wore shorts in Antarctica. 30 years ago, too, not the pussy above freezing summers we get now. Totally mad outdoorsman, loves the cold. He's not the only one, either.
Remember, moving warms you up. That's why skiers can wear those sexy Ned Flanders outfits and not die. Even though they are insulating, they're only good for people doing exercise.
Edit: And then there's me, a guy who hates exercise and loves summer, because of all that beautiful cheery sunlight. Goddamn SAD.
Honestly the cold grey weather is second best weather. Just after cold winter night, as far away as possible from the blazing ball of fusion in the sky blinding and boiling us alive.
I'd love polar night.
Summer just started (here in the northern hemisphere). I'm soaking up every last bit of warmth in hopes it lasts until it comes around again. (It never does.)
Love the summer. I love my skin not feeling cold as balls as soon as I step outside. Love not taking a cold ass shower in the morning before work. Love the sun being out later into the evening. Love doing outdoor shit. Swimming. Love the warm nights. Hanging out naked.
I imagine oop refers to the water in the pipes getting cold over night in winter, and they're probably not patient enough for the hot water to start flowing.
The air in the room is cold, showering in a cold room is a cold shower compared to showering in a warm room. I have a steam shower now and I use it year round, even in the summer I will do steam and let the shower its self be cool water. Showering in cold air SUCKS
I'm sure it would be expensive to replace but my current place has heated exhaust vents that reverse direction, I've seen the modern versions, but these straight up look like stove elements in the ceiling, they might not pass modern safety standards but they are really nice.
Canada's expensive. Maybe Russia will stop being fascist and I can head up there some day. Or maybe China will chill the fuck out and let me go to Tibet. It'd be pretty cool to do visa runs through Napal or India if they ever normalize relations with China.
I've done undershirt - overshirt - jacket 1 - jacket 2 in the dead of winter. If the Sun vanished and the temperature plummeted to -100 I'm pretty sure i could figure out how to add a third jacket and then a blanket on top of that.
I actually love the feeling of a hot wall of furnace hitting me when I go outside. Thick smell of life in the air, chlorophyll, baking earth. The hot blanket of the sun. The sweat, the sweaty men, the shirtless men. OK I am getting off track, we were talking about sweaty men I think?
Assuming you are talking in Fahrenheit you don't really need a jacket for everything above 35° as long as it doesn't rain or is particularly windy. 100° just make me feel as if I am getting cooked alive with nowhere to escape
I'm the dude you'll see wearing a sweater in 60 cause that's when I start feeling cold. It's been hitting the triple digits where I live lately and I'm loving it. Been going for long walks at local parks.
90+ and humid is the worst type of environment this planet has to offer. Everything else, from Death Valley to the center of Antarctica, is infinitely better.
We should have switched places the last week then. I had 91°F and high humidity in my BEDROOM for the whole week. I would have rather camped at freezing temperatures than experience this
I had family in Nola, I'm good lmao. Everyone thinks Southerners are dramatic or exaggerating, but the Southern States hands-down have the worst climate in the country thanks to the humidity and heat mixture.
Especially if you're away from the cost, it's all the worst parts of tropical temperatures without an ounce of the good.
The high right now is 99, the feels like is 109, and having just come inside, there's just enough breeze right now to piss you off rather than cool you. We have an extreme heat warning from now until the fuckin 3rd, and a lot of us have zero legal protection from working outside in this God forsaken heat.
I've been hearing of some local construction crews threatening the bosses if they have to go outside in this heat, and I know many people in my industry are currently quitting because our northern us based corporate overlords decided this week to get a stick up their ass about uniforms, insisting upon heavy ass cargo pants, a thick cotton undershirt, an even thicker polo, and the most unnecessarily heavy duty safety vest. My crew of 10 lost 2 people this week because they refused to go out in this bullshit wearing all that. The rest of us also refused, but corporate made an example out of them.
That being said, Louisiana is still worse. And I'd argue most of Alabama.
I've been there in August, and it and the rest of the PNW is uncomfortable in Summer. But as someone from Mississippi, nowhere in the US has the heat and humidity mixture that the Gulf States do.
From June to September, it feels like you're breathing in a full sauna when you step outside. You never cool off, you just learn to tolerate always being wet and wondering if it's sweat or moisture in the air that condensed on your skin
I'm typing this from an inflatable pool in my back yard. The water bill is going to be outrageous but that's a small price to pay to be able to go outside.
I love summer, but you have to do it right. Going to the store and walking across a hot blacktop parking lot is asking for a bad time.
Hanging out in a park, going for hike, swimming, hitting the beach, more daylight hours, ice cream, grilling and admiring the greenery. That's peak life on Earth 🌎🌍
All of those things happen outside in the blistering heat with the sun beating down on you as your sweat makes your clothes stick to your body. No thanks. You can also do them all far better in spring or fall.
Heat index was about 42°C and humid today. Just being outside for 30 seconds was miserable, let alone walking. Can't even think about any outdoor activities.
The high desert portions of the state like Flagstaff and Sedona get snow every year and aren't nearly as bad as the Phoenix valley. It still gets pretty hot but it's not the unmitigated hellhole of constant 100 degree days.
Being a "summer lover" means I hate cold and love sunlight. It doesn't mean I wanted the burning hellscape we're all going to have to get used to. Wish we had listened to climate scientists and taken action...
Winter makes my lupus act up terribly and I can hardly function. Summer heat nowakes my heart condition act up and I can hardly function. There's a period of like 2 weeks in the spring and fall that are perfect
I can easily survive temps in the around 35-37 C with just a fan and ice.
You haven't lived until you've jerry rigged the front grill of your fan with tubing; using a cooler full of ice water and gravity to circulate cold water through the tubing to create a poor man's AC.
If it was up to me the AC would get 1-3 weeks of use. My wife wants the AC; and what baby wants, baby gets.
I can easily survive temps in the around 35-37 C with just a fan and ice.
Human and animal safety: High wet-bulb temperatures impair the body's ability to cool itself, increasing the risk of heatstroke and hyperthermia. A WBT above 35°C (95°F) is considered critical, beyond which even healthy individuals can survive only a few hours without cooling. Recent studies suggest dangerous conditions may occur at lower thresholds, around 31°C (87.8°F) in humid environments
Texan here. Winter used to be a nice break from our hot, humid, miserable summers. Now some years I don't even need to wear a jacket. It's just hot all year round now. I hate it.
Spring/autumn and winter is all i need, summer has become just a nuisance.
You need sun block 1000 to go to the beach for a couple of hours and it's not certain which gives you cancer faster, so i'm very much fine without summer.
Polyester isn't needed. Layers of cotton (and sometimes linen) work well enough. Or any other plant fibre spun and knitted or woven into fabric. Wool and downs are also good at insulating, but they come with a slew of other issues (like everything else made from animals).
Because polyester is the cheapest option. But there were people living in the Arctic before plastic bags sewn into clothing became a thing. And sometimes even these ancient ethnic clothing adapts into modern eras, like Sámi gákti that originally made from deer hide is nowadays made from wool, silk or even cotton.
Also, the Arctic isn't the only place where a linen shirt won't suffice all year long. But you can be veyr comfortable wearing a shirt, a nice hoodie and a light to medium jacket even in sub zero weather (though for some that's more an autumn combination for single digit temperarures above zero).
just wait a few more years and the traditional cold weather kit won't be needed.
all my winter coats, mittens, gloves, scarves, and boots. all completely unused the last two winters.. except for one light knit hat... the two winters before that, same-except i wore gloves a couple times.
I don't even have a dedicated cold weather kit anymore, I play the onion game for a few years now. My "winter clothing" consists of undershirts, t-shirts, hoodies and a rain jacket. If it gets too cold, I wear sweatpants under my regular cargos and start stacking underlayers, but that doesn't happen all too often.
Because for me, temperatures above 25°C just mean suffering, getting steam-cooked in my own juices, and the sun just burns me. Couple of years ago I got sunburned so badly I got sexond degree burns, blisters and all included. I'm most comfortable around 17-19°C, 20-25°C is beach weather to me.
You know, the human body is amazing. Given the right conditions, one of us thinks 25°C is hot, and the other, cold. 20°C at the beach? That's a jacket, jeans, and flannel shirt for me.
Sorry about your sunburn. That's never fun, regardless of temp.
after that snowcrete we had here in the midlantic, I swore I'd never complain about the heat again. It's tough, but I'm holding to my promise. (It's only 98 out so far.)
It snowed a few inches, then sleeted on top of it for hours. The sleet caused the snow to compact, and by the time it was done, a shovelful of the stuff weighed 50 pounds. People were breaking it up with metal shovels and building igloos out of it. Big highway plows on dumptrucks were riding right over the top of it. The only way to move it was with those little skid steer things with shovels on the front. Even they would get jammed up under it and their front wheels would come off the ground.
Cities dug the stuff up and put it in dumptrucks and took it to places like the parking lots of sports arenas and piled it three and four stories high, and it didn't completely melt until, like, May. I forget where it was, maybe Baltimore, where the snow/ice pile was so heavy it cracked the surface of the parking lot it was piled on.
Oh no, not the time of year where I don't need to wear a bunch of layers and I can sleep outside without dying! What will I ever do? Maybe go for a swim? A bike ride? A hike? A barbecue? Beers in the park? How will I ever make it through this?
No its the time of the year where you cant go outside because 5 min after leaving you have a sunburn and are sweat drenched. Oh and insider your flat its way to hot.. Even If you are naked. Climate change fucks us.
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I much prefer autumn/winter. Only when it gets really slippery from frozen over streets it starts to suck, i can always dress warmer. I cant wear less than nothing, and it is still way too hot.
Can always put on more clothes, but can't undress more than naked...
and when yer nekkid, the mosquitoes have a bigger target.
mosquitoes are not a problem in the winter.
You fool! Thinking only in terms of conserving body heat.
Light clothing is the cooler option, compared to being naked.
Evaporative cooling using just your sweat. We're literally built for this as a species.
Wear a hat and have a mai thai. It's like you don't even know people have lived in the Sahara for longer than language has existed.
The Sahara was a lot more habitable back then.
Go swimming or wear light cotton.
Ah yes, because i want to swim all day and do nothing...wait my boss is callin! I can't now though, i have to swim!!!
I do. But in the next heatwave the local lake water might reach 38°C or water became so scarce from the drought...: now what?
Remember when humanity had not almost eradicated two seasons through climate change and you could be a spring or autumn lover?
Remember when the wet bulb temperature was evolutionarily advantageous for sweat-monsters like me? Now I'm just as hot, and infinitely more wet than everyone around me.
This is me. Always hot, wet, and dirty ... the definitions change depending on the time of year, however ...
I love summer.
I’d rather have 90° than 9°.
I like having daylight past 4pm.
I like seeing blue skies and the sun.
I like being able to go outside without bundling up under five layers, and still being cold.
I like not having to shovel my walks, snowblower my drive, scrape off my car, etc.
I like swimming.
I like seeing green trees, colorful flowers , bumblebees, and nature.
I like taking my kid to the park so he can ride his skateboard.
I like going to the beach.
Fuck winter, man.
This is why I love living in a place that has more than 2 seasons.
Spring is short, but features temperatures in between 90 and 9, increasing daylight into the evening, blue skies and sun, moderate temperatures that don't require that much in the way of bundling if at all, very little (if any) wintery precipitation, all the nature stuff at its earliest pristine moments, lovely parks, and the beach never goes away around here regardless of the season.
Okay, so limited to no swimming in the spring because most water is still kinda chilly.
We also have Fall. It tends to be longer than the Spring, but with fewer of the benefits.
Summer people are all masochists.
Yeah, but we are warm and happy.
Y'all cold weather people don't make sense to us either. Nobody wants to sleep in a cold bed. We describe nice people as warm, icy people are bad.
Nobody wants to relax in a hammock when it's icy and windy out.
Are you sleeping without comfy blankets? That's on you.
If you want a comfy blanket then you want to be warm. Warm is good.
I want to get comfortably warm when i want it, not hellish ass HOT when the weather says so
Warm is innate, a primal need.
How are you going to become warm in the depths of hell?
No need to become, already am.
I never sleep better than in a near-freezing room with warm blankets. Well maybe on trains. Cold room with warm blankets is like the definition of cozy.
A room so warm you don't want blankets is miserable.
You can heat up a cold room and a cold bed in winter much more easily than to cool down during summer.
I think that's the problem.
Winter people probably like bundling up inside. Summer people are outside doing things. Most of my summer people friends, also enjoy winter activities, just maybe not as much as summer.
Winter people must be... Terminally online? 🤷♂️
Put on a nice warm jacket and you can get out in winter too duh
I am terminally online, but I spent winter in Kazakhstan, xinjiang, northern China, and Hokkaido, wearing a jacket doesn't stop me from going outside, it just stops me from looking like someone just dumped a bucket of water on me after 5 minutes.
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Nah, man, it's a good theory but I know a guy who wore shorts in Antarctica. 30 years ago, too, not the pussy above freezing summers we get now. Totally mad outdoorsman, loves the cold. He's not the only one, either.
Remember, moving warms you up. That's why skiers can wear those sexy Ned Flanders outfits and not die. Even though they are insulating, they're only good for people doing exercise.
Edit: And then there's me, a guy who hates exercise and loves summer, because of all that beautiful cheery sunlight. Goddamn SAD.
Right?
I'm done with summer. Looking forward to that first early morning air nip with a dusting of frost on the ferns, presaging the arrival of snow.
I'll enjoy winter as long as it lasts. Probably not for long, snow has become a distant memory
Unfortunately for us, the best times of the year are about half a month in the spring and half a month in the fall
Cool. We don't get snow anymore though... just gray weather, cold and humid enough to be uncomfortable but not enough to be fun.
Honestly the cold grey weather is second best weather. Just after cold winter night, as far away as possible from the blazing ball of fusion in the sky blinding and boiling us alive. I'd love polar night.
Summer just started (here in the northern hemisphere). I'm soaking up every last bit of warmth in hopes it lasts until it comes around again. (It never does.)
Love the summer. I love my skin not feeling cold as balls as soon as I step outside. Love not taking a cold ass shower in the morning before work. Love the sun being out later into the evening. Love doing outdoor shit. Swimming. Love the warm nights. Hanging out naked.
Winter is the sad time.
Why do you take cold showers in the winter? That seems like a poor personal choice if you don't enjoy the cold
I imagine oop refers to the water in the pipes getting cold over night in winter, and they're probably not patient enough for the hot water to start flowing.
The air in the room is cold, showering in a cold room is a cold shower compared to showering in a warm room. I have a steam shower now and I use it year round, even in the summer I will do steam and let the shower its self be cool water. Showering in cold air SUCKS
I have never once had a living arrangement where the shower didn't warm the room
I'm sure it would be expensive to replace but my current place has heated exhaust vents that reverse direction, I've seen the modern versions, but these straight up look like stove elements in the ceiling, they might not pass modern safety standards but they are really nice.
Hello, hot weather person. Congratulations on how we're going to INHERIT THE EARTH FROM THESE COLD WEATHER WEAKLINGS
That's fine im moving to canada the northern part that's my retirement plan lol
Canada's expensive. Maybe Russia will stop being fascist and I can head up there some day. Or maybe China will chill the fuck out and let me go to Tibet. It'd be pretty cool to do visa runs through Napal or India if they ever normalize relations with China.
well, until nuclear winter, anyways
No cold seeping so deeply into my bones that it lodges itself there to radiate outward through my whole body so I can barely move.
No aching dryness making it almost impossible to breathe.
I know many aren’t built for heat but cold causes me near-debilitating pain and drains my soul of life. I’ll enjoy the warmth and sun while it lasts.
I thought 2 of those writhers of pain over on the left were boobs so yeah
lol. I was starting to wonder how stoned I was. Definitely the first thing I saw!
hey, it's you from the past. you got too stoned so we had to dilate your time.
when you read this, you'll be in tomorrow. reading this from yesterday. we are you. you are everywhere. why is gamora
it's happening to you now and then and will isn't free so stop calling him willy.
There's no limit to how many layers I can wear in winter, but there's a limit to how many I can take off in the summer. Simple as
You don't have a knife? They're not nearly as expensive as a good coat.
Even with a knife scraping off everything that makes you human, you will eventually encounter a limit.
And eventually the coats will crush you, create their own weather system, collapse into a black hole. What's your point?
Yeah but putting that layer back might be very expensive 😄
There is definitely a limit to how many layers you can put on.
I mean a shirt, sweater, and insulated jacket can keep me very warm flying down a windy mountain at <-20C so do you really need that many layers?
I've done undershirt - overshirt - jacket 1 - jacket 2 in the dead of winter. If the Sun vanished and the temperature plummeted to -100 I'm pretty sure i could figure out how to add a third jacket and then a blanket on top of that.
Summer used to be hot but it also used to be perfectly fine to sit in the shade and feel fine. Nowadays the temps even in the shade are over 30-35°.
Yeah it's obviously not Kelvin or whatever mental illness the US uses.
I actually love the feeling of a hot wall of furnace hitting me when I go outside. Thick smell of life in the air, chlorophyll, baking earth. The hot blanket of the sun. The sweat, the sweaty men, the shirtless men. OK I am getting off track, we were talking about sweaty men I think?
Yess hello it is me, the sweatiest man, I sweat for hours every day just for the fun of it.
People in their skimpy summer clothes is enough for me to enjoy summer, everything else is just a bonus
Prefer snow to ticks and mosquitoes ngl.
Finally, someone who understands. I want snow!
Yes I will gladly take the pits of hell over anything from Jack Frost or temperatures going anywhere below 70.
You can always put more on, but there's a hard limit to what you can take off.
But I enjoy being hot
I'm a bit cold blooded myself. What's that, you want me to go in the unheated pool? Fuck you! I just got warm!
then wear a black hoodie outside?
70°C??? You summer people are crazy!
Hence the picture. Above 70 F is where it begins to get uncomfortable. Then it gets much higher than that as well
Assuming you are talking in Fahrenheit you don't really need a jacket for everything above 35° as long as it doesn't rain or is particularly windy. 100° just make me feel as if I am getting cooked alive with nowhere to escape
I'm the dude you'll see wearing a sweater in 60 cause that's when I start feeling cold. It's been hitting the triple digits where I live lately and I'm loving it. Been going for long walks at local parks.
Rather have 95 and humid than a negative wind chill every single time.
90+ and humid is the worst type of environment this planet has to offer. Everything else, from Death Valley to the center of Antarctica, is infinitely better.
We should have switched places the last week then. I had 91°F and high humidity in my BEDROOM for the whole week. I would have rather camped at freezing temperatures than experience this
Come visit me in south Louisiana.
I had family in Nola, I'm good lmao. Everyone thinks Southerners are dramatic or exaggerating, but the Southern States hands-down have the worst climate in the country thanks to the humidity and heat mixture.
Especially if you're away from the cost, it's all the worst parts of tropical temperatures without an ounce of the good.
The high right now is 99, the feels like is 109, and having just come inside, there's just enough breeze right now to piss you off rather than cool you. We have an extreme heat warning from now until the fuckin 3rd, and a lot of us have zero legal protection from working outside in this God forsaken heat.
I've been hearing of some local construction crews threatening the bosses if they have to go outside in this heat, and I know many people in my industry are currently quitting because our northern us based corporate overlords decided this week to get a stick up their ass about uniforms, insisting upon heavy ass cargo pants, a thick cotton undershirt, an even thicker polo, and the most unnecessarily heavy duty safety vest. My crew of 10 lost 2 people this week because they refused to go out in this bullshit wearing all that. The rest of us also refused, but corporate made an example out of them.
That being said, Louisiana is still worse. And I'd argue most of Alabama.
Alaska's LOL...
Na I can barely handle the light purple areas. I'd rather not die.
People do die
I've been there in August, and it and the rest of the PNW is uncomfortable in Summer. But as someone from Mississippi, nowhere in the US has the heat and humidity mixture that the Gulf States do.
From June to September, it feels like you're breathing in a full sauna when you step outside. You never cool off, you just learn to tolerate always being wet and wondering if it's sweat or moisture in the air that condensed on your skin
I'm typing this from an inflatable pool in my back yard. The water bill is going to be outrageous but that's a small price to pay to be able to go outside.
The water here comes out super cold from the hose too, that sounds like a fantastic way to keep cool!
How's the humidity?
Houstonian here. Let's just say I'm... moist.
In the winter months it's humid. In the summer the Willamette Valley isn't very humid. Currently it's 46% humidity as I type this.
It's mid 80s here right now and 100° so I don't wanna hear it lmao
Today the high was 67 and it will top out in the low 80s through the next week.
I love summer, but you have to do it right. Going to the store and walking across a hot blacktop parking lot is asking for a bad time.
Hanging out in a park, going for hike, swimming, hitting the beach, more daylight hours, ice cream, grilling and admiring the greenery. That's peak life on Earth 🌎🌍
All of those things happen outside in the blistering heat with the sun beating down on you as your sweat makes your clothes stick to your body. No thanks. You can also do them all far better in spring or fall.
Heat index was about 42°C and humid today. Just being outside for 30 seconds was miserable, let alone walking. Can't even think about any outdoor activities.
Yes, but not at more than 36°C. Possibly swimming though... in the shadows, so the sun doesn't kill you with cancer rays.
This is everyone in Arizona in the summer. “At least there is no windshield scraping!”
AZ people are delusional.
Peggy Hill was right
Phoenix is a monument to the hubris of man.
Phoenix and Vegas are competing for worst place to build gigantic cites.
Amen! I may not believe in a god but if I did, it's obvious that land was not meant for humans.
Ooh, Arizona, sounds exotic!
Where is that? Somewhere in Africa?
*Everyone in Southern AZ
The high desert portions of the state like Flagstaff and Sedona get snow every year and aren't nearly as bad as the Phoenix valley. It still gets pretty hot but it's not the unmitigated hellhole of constant 100 degree days.
Being a "summer lover" means I hate cold and love sunlight. It doesn't mean I wanted the burning hellscape we're all going to have to get used to. Wish we had listened to climate scientists and taken action...
Here in Australia I'm hosting a snow trip next week.. there is still no snow in the mountains where we're goin
Also f summer. Hayfever and bushfires suck
I have several friends in Australia. Most of them have never experienced snow so how unusual is that really?
My wife when I show her this:
The only season I can enjoy outside is Fall. Summer is too hot, Winter is too cold, and I get allergies in the Spring.
Fall is perfect.
Fuck winter. I need Sunlight.
I'm in this picture and I like it.
"Got any questions about propane?"
"Or... propane accessories?"
Winter makes my lupus act up terribly and I can hardly function. Summer heat nowakes my heart condition act up and I can hardly function. There's a period of like 2 weeks in the spring and fall that are perfect
I can easily survive temps in the around 35-37 C with just a fan and ice.
You haven't lived until you've jerry rigged the front grill of your fan with tubing; using a cooler full of ice water and gravity to circulate cold water through the tubing to create a poor man's AC.
If it was up to me the AC would get 1-3 weeks of use. My wife wants the AC; and what baby wants, baby gets.
Human and animal safety: High wet-bulb temperatures impair the body's ability to cool itself, increasing the risk of heatstroke and hyperthermia. A WBT above 35°C (95°F) is considered critical, beyond which even healthy individuals can survive only a few hours without cooling. Recent studies suggest dangerous conditions may occur at lower thresholds, around 31°C (87.8°F) in humid environments
Texan here. Winter used to be a nice break from our hot, humid, miserable summers. Now some years I don't even need to wear a jacket. It's just hot all year round now. I hate it.
Me, at 80 degrees: "A little chilly in here."
Anything below 60° and I'm bitching
I'm visiting a desert country this summer where it might be above 60°. I hope I'll survive.
Spring/autumn and winter is all i need, summer has become just a nuisance.
You need sun block 1000 to go to the beach for a couple of hours and it's not certain which gives you cancer faster, so i'm very much fine without summer.
I'll take the dry heat of a desert before the cold. But, I'll take the cold before humid heat. It's humidity that drives me nuts.
In Greek, the word for summer is kalokairi. It literally means "good weather."
Snow can suck a fuck. Totally overrated. Why go somewhere that you need to add layers of polyester just to survive? 1 layer of linen and I'm set.
Edit: Every downvote from you churns a server in a data center that makes the earth heat up. Bring it on. Let the leopards eat your faces!
Polyester isn't needed. Layers of cotton (and sometimes linen) work well enough. Or any other plant fibre spun and knitted or woven into fabric. Wool and downs are also good at insulating, but they come with a slew of other issues (like everything else made from animals).
Or, just like...don't go places where you need to steal insulating layers from animals just to have a nice time.
And I've been to the arctic. No one wears wool when it's -20. Down, yes. But it's all encased in petrochemicals.
Tell us how you really feel.
Because polyester is the cheapest option. But there were people living in the Arctic before plastic bags sewn into clothing became a thing. And sometimes even these ancient ethnic clothing adapts into modern eras, like Sámi gákti that originally made from deer hide is nowadays made from wool, silk or even cotton.
Also, the Arctic isn't the only place where a linen shirt won't suffice all year long. But you can be veyr comfortable wearing a shirt, a nice hoodie and a light to medium jacket even in sub zero weather (though for some that's more an autumn combination for single digit temperarures above zero).
just wait a few more years and the traditional cold weather kit won't be needed.
all my winter coats, mittens, gloves, scarves, and boots. all completely unused the last two winters.. except for one light knit hat... the two winters before that, same-except i wore gloves a couple times.
I don't even have a dedicated cold weather kit anymore, I play the onion game for a few years now. My "winter clothing" consists of undershirts, t-shirts, hoodies and a rain jacket. If it gets too cold, I wear sweatpants under my regular cargos and start stacking underlayers, but that doesn't happen all too often.
Yeah, OK, that's a fair point.
Still, I think you all cold-loving people are strange. Why rebuke the loving embrace of Father Sun? Mangoes and wine are your reward!
Because for me, temperatures above 25°C just mean suffering, getting steam-cooked in my own juices, and the sun just burns me. Couple of years ago I got sunburned so badly I got sexond degree burns, blisters and all included. I'm most comfortable around 17-19°C, 20-25°C is beach weather to me.
You know, the human body is amazing. Given the right conditions, one of us thinks 25°C is hot, and the other, cold. 20°C at the beach? That's a jacket, jeans, and flannel shirt for me.
Sorry about your sunburn. That's never fun, regardless of temp.
My seasonal depression is late Spring to early Fall.
Womp, go outside and suck up some sun, you'll feel better.
Womp, go feel the refreshingly crisp air of winter and you'll feel better.
See how unhelpful your comment was? People are allowed to have different preferences.
after that snowcrete we had here in the midlantic, I swore I'd never complain about the heat again. It's tough, but I'm holding to my promise. (It's only 98 out so far.)
Is snowcrete melted+refrozen snow?
It snowed a few inches, then sleeted on top of it for hours. The sleet caused the snow to compact, and by the time it was done, a shovelful of the stuff weighed 50 pounds. People were breaking it up with metal shovels and building igloos out of it. Big highway plows on dumptrucks were riding right over the top of it. The only way to move it was with those little skid steer things with shovels on the front. Even they would get jammed up under it and their front wheels would come off the ground.
Cities dug the stuff up and put it in dumptrucks and took it to places like the parking lots of sports arenas and piled it three and four stories high, and it didn't completely melt until, like, May. I forget where it was, maybe Baltimore, where the snow/ice pile was so heavy it cracked the surface of the parking lot it was piled on.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/maryland/prince-georges-county/prince-georges-county-snowcrete-residents-struggle-plows-work-clear-ice-packed-roads-weather-maryland/65-b8bf963f-55b3-480c-8cb7-1699288cf9e3
Someone remarked that his yard looked like the Shackleton Expedition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition
Oh, and this was in the midst of several days of overnight lows in the single digits and days in the teens.
I love snow!
Ice. it was ice for 2 weeks solid.
My name is Sam McGee.
they will and then y'all be bellyaching for summer again. yoyos
Summer only gets up to about 20°C where I live
So far!
Norway?
Iceland
Saving this one to post again in January, it's too good.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ this but unironically
ITT:
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I love winter 😘👌
Well, yes, I am glad there is no snow.
That's like threatening a dog with a sausage.
I don't like the many layers that winter requires but at this point I could bite down a bullet on that. But I just don't handle the short days well.
I'm sure in a year or two that would be preferable as well.
Fuck cold weather.
I wish I could. We would have so many cool children. /j
this has a mtg feel to it.
Nah. Heat is way way better.
Oh no, not the time of year where I don't need to wear a bunch of layers and I can sleep outside without dying! What will I ever do? Maybe go for a swim? A bike ride? A hike? A barbecue? Beers in the park? How will I ever make it through this?
No its the time of the year where you cant go outside because 5 min after leaving you have a sunburn and are sweat drenched. Oh and insider your flat its way to hot.. Even If you are naked. Climate change fucks us.
I wear sunscreen and really only sweat indoors, which is great because I don't want to be indoors when it's beautiful out.
I'll take a heatwave over snow ....