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re: Is the Cold Really Worse Than the Heat?
Posted on 9/17/24 at 8:52 am to VADawg
Posted on 9/17/24 at 8:52 am to VADawg
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Summers in the South are every bit as miserable as winters in the Midwest.
Summer is our winter. To me, the weather is usually quite pleasant here in December and January.
You just have to get through that stretch from about mid-May to mid-Sept. The other 8 months it's usually tolerable to nice.
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Posted on 9/17/24 at 8:54 am to fallguy_1978
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Yeah I've been in Denver for work in May and it snowed
yep, same here. went to Denver May of 2018. Cold AF!
Posted on 9/17/24 at 8:55 am to fallguy_1978
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but I don't think I'd enjoy a climate that was 76 degrees all the time
Same. I love variety.
It doesn't get bitterly cold here, just mildly cold. Rarely gets hot, might hit 80 twice a summer.
Its a maritime temperate climate, which is perfect. 4 seasons, but no crazy temp flucuations.
Posted on 9/17/24 at 8:57 am to SaintlyTiger88
Seriously cold climates tend to be cold most of the year. Central Europe has a summer but it only lasts about 8 weeks and it can be cold and rainy even then. Given a choice between that and the tropics I will take the tropics. If I am going to live somewhere with only 1 season I choose summer. I prefer Florida, Louisiana and Texas climate to even ours in Georgia....we have some cold days in north Georgia in the winter and it is miserable. The Carribean is IDEAL for me...year round.
Posted on 9/17/24 at 8:58 am to SaintlyTiger88
I used to think that. After living half my life in Louisiana and South Florida I’ve changed my mind a bit.
At this point a mild summer is more important to me than a cold winter. Very few people I know spend the whole summer in Florida anymore.
At this point a mild summer is more important to me than a cold winter. Very few people I know spend the whole summer in Florida anymore.
Posted on 9/17/24 at 9:00 am to TexasTiger08
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I’ve constantly told my family I’d rather live up north. My dad and his side of the family is from Ohio and they say I’d move back after 1 summer of shoveling snow. I don’t believe them.
Our first winter in Europe I LOVED shoveling snow the first winter. I shoveled the entire neighborhoods sidewalks. Our neighbors thought I had lost my mind. It got old by the third winter and by the sixth I was sooooo done with shoveling that shite. Washington State was worse...how an area that gets less than 4 inches of precipitation a year can have snow 60 days a year is beyond me but they do....
Posted on 9/17/24 at 9:02 am to OMLandshark
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Cold causes physical pain, so no.
I agree that extreme heat feels uncomfortable where extreme cold is painful.
Posted on 9/17/24 at 10:02 am to lowhound
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Snow is fun to visit, but I don't want to live in the bone chilling cold all the time.
This is a big one. If I get a hankering for some winter time fun I'll jump on a plane and head to Park City. I'm not forced to deal with the worst version of it for ~4 months in Chicago.
This post was edited on 9/17/24 at 10:03 am
Posted on 9/17/24 at 10:05 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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but i do get a bit jealous when i see people at big ten football games (just an example) wearing long pants and maybe a sweatshirt or something this time of the year.
Funny you mention this. I was the other way around. I'd be watching games in the bar in late October with it gray, drizzly, and 47 degrees outside and the CBS afternoon SEC game would come on with sun and short skirts all over the place and I'd get real angry
Posted on 9/17/24 at 10:11 am to SaintlyTiger88
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I have a hard time believing living in a cold environment is worse than living in the heat.
I love the cold but frick iced roads, plowing snowy mud mush, and getting snowed in. Harshest conditions of warm weather climate require you to drink water and get a few minutes of A/C (if you’re dumb enough to not be fishing)
Posted on 9/17/24 at 11:17 am to fallguy_1978
quote:I have family in San Diego & visit regularly. Year-round mid-70's days with mid-lower 60's nights. ALL sun ~ NO rain.
I love the change in seasons. The leaves falling, turning colors, spring and everything blooming. It might sound odd, but I don't think I'd enjoy a climate that was 76 degrees all the time
My cousin (raised in the South) says on the rare occasion they get rain, it's nostalgic.
Posted on 9/17/24 at 12:05 pm to SaintlyTiger88
IMO...cold is way better than hot! Born in Nola and grew up bouncing all around S. La. and have lived in Atlanta, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Houston, Asheville, Pensacola. Charleston, SC and now I live in Vermont 1.5 hours from Canadian border and I absolutely love this weather and will die here. I get that if you had to shovel snow all the time, that would absolutely suck! But I live in a cabin on 50 acres out in the country and only have to shovel a small area at the front door and just walk over the rest. It only snows enough for me to plow the driveway about twice a year and if the path from house to driveway gets icy...you just toss some sand on it. Well worth it to me to have only hit 90 degrees twice this year and actually have days in July and August that don't need AC. I love it!!
Posted on 9/17/24 at 12:39 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Cold is nice but really cold ain’t worth a damn. I’ll take the heat a couple months a year
Posted on 9/17/24 at 1:10 pm to Chucktown_Badger
quote:definitely an example of "the grass is always" greener. like i said, i prefer the weather down here but it's pretty close.
Funny you mention this. I was the other way around. I'd be watching games in the bar in late October with it gray, drizzly, and 47 degrees outside and the CBS afternoon SEC game would come on with sun and short skirts all over the place and I'd get real angry
i miss northern weather from July-October. the south wins the rest of the calendar though.
Posted on 9/17/24 at 1:26 pm to SaintlyTiger88
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Is the Cold Really Worse Than the Heat?
Not at all. I’ve lived in both. There really isn’t a worse climate in the United States than humid subtropical in my opinion. Hot desert is a close second
This post was edited on 9/17/24 at 1:29 pm
Posted on 9/17/24 at 1:48 pm to North Dallas Tiger
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I prefer the cold, but I'd never live somewheres that you gotta shovel snow. No thank you.
That's not very cold then! OK, Antarctica is the exception, it's technically a desert, very little precipitation, but it never melts (some lost to sublimation, but I guess too cold for much of that either).
But most populated areas with cold weather have snow. And you can pay people to take care of it. No one can make my yard cool enough for me to want to be active out there in the heat and humidity.
Lived in the Midwest my whole life, and even I'm surprised sometimes that it can be 0F (don't get confused by that metric stuff, 0F is 32 F points below freezing), and if there is no wind, and the sun is out (0F weather is usually accompanied by clear skies, cloud cover holds the heat in), and snow on teh ground to refelct that sun, it actually feels 'brisk', just a jacket, hat and gloves. It just doesn't really feel that cold. I enjoy taking a walk when it's like that.
OTOH, if it's 40F, windy, rainy - that chills you to the bone. Need to come in, get a fire going and sip some Bourbon.
And we do get some occasional heat/humidity that's almost as bad as Southerners can get. So I can compare. Bottom line, I like 4 seasons and take the good with the bad. Fall can be fantastic around here.
Posted on 9/17/24 at 1:50 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Come to East Tennessee. (or don't actually)
We have 4 seasons. It's the best.
We have 4 seasons. It's the best.
Posted on 9/17/24 at 2:00 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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definitely an example of "the grass is always" greener.
Except it really is greener for me since the move. I live in SEC country and love it
Hell, I've worked outside on my balcony just about every day this entire summer. When the sun comes around I just pop the umbrella up.
This post was edited on 9/17/24 at 2:03 pm
Posted on 9/17/24 at 3:04 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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I've worked outside on my balcony just about every day this entire summer. When the sun comes around I just pop the umbrella up.
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Chucktown_Badger
Goes to show you...to each their own! I know right where you are Badger. I lived in Chucktown myself for about 12 years, including West of the Ashley in Northbridge Terrace for about 5 years. Spent a little too much time at the Sports Pub back when it was Bobby Hartins place. Moved from there up here to Vermont largely because I barely even wanted to step outside during the daytime June through Sept, much less work outside on my balcony...I would die! My comfort level is AC running until below 60 and no heat on until it is in the 30s. But I still have love for Charleston!
Posted on 9/17/24 at 3:26 pm to SaintlyTiger88
quote:The cold is worse. Yes it may be more “comfortable” to be in cool or even cold weather if you have proper clothing, but there are disadvantages.
Is the Cold Really Worse Than the Heat?
For one, many vegetables and fruits cannot grow in cold climates. So it can be difficult to grow crops.
Secondly and most importantly, heat sucks, but it won’t kill you as easily as cold will. With heat, you can get in the shade and drink liquids and cool off. In cold weather, if you don’t have access to a warm shelter or a fire, your arse is freezing to death.
In a survival situation, I’d easily choose a hot climate (not a desert) over a cold climate.
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