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You can STILL do things in hot summers (i.e. go to the pool, stay in the shade, etc.) but when it's negative digits outside, the roads are frozen over, and you risk frost bite...you are limited in what you can actually do.
Las Vegas is regularly 1xx degrees and that doesn't stop people...not does it stop Americans from visiting HOT Italy, Spain, etc. in the summer.
"Roads are frozen over" not likely. Roads freeze over from freezing rain, which usually happens between 28-32 degrees. You sound like my aunt in Miami who thinks I have to scrape ice ice every morning in winter lol. When its below zero, there may have been a snowstorm prior to the temp drop, but anywhere that gets that cold should have adequate snow removal and salt.
There's plenty of winter activities you can do, even in the negatives. Ice fishing, ice skating, hockey, etc. Its not as enjoyable as in the teens and twenties, true, but swimming in a pool is more enjoyable in the 80s and 90s than 100s and 110s so its the same deal. We all manage.'
Funny you bring up frost bite but not heat exhaustion or heat stroke. Its a lot easier to prevent frostbite. You have to be an idiot to get frost bitten in winter. Its as easy as wearing proper clothes. But you can be naked and covered in sunblock and still get heat stroke.
You can STILL do things in hot summers (i.e. go to the pool, stay in the shade, etc.) but when it's negative digits outside, the roads are frozen over, and you risk frost bite...you are limited in what you can actually do.
No you're not. You can always be dressed appropriately for even the most severe cold. And roads don't "freeze over" unless they're not being plowed/treated, which of course is never the case in places that get cold winters.
No you're not. You can always be dressed appropriately for even the most severe cold. And roads don't "freeze over" unless they're not being plowed/treated, which of course is never the case in places that get cold winters.
This country is so lazy that snow shovelling has become a hardship...
At least you can remove snow from your driveway. You can't remove humidity from the air outside. The bugs are worse in the heat as well. Even up north. Mosquitoes have been awful and its not even summer yet, but down in Florida, they are pretty much a year round thing, getting only slightly less worse during the winter.
In my mind the most brutal summer in the Lower 48 exists right on the Oregon coast. Daily highs around 60 even in July and August. Drizzle and rain every other day.
That's probably worse than living in a place with cold winters but glorious dry sunny summers.
In my mind the most brutal summer in the Lower 48 exists right on the Oregon coast. Daily highs around 60 even in July and August. Drizzle and rain every other day.
That's probably worse than living in a place with cold winters but glorious dry sunny summers.
This isn’t true. Summers on the Oregon coast are generally very dry. Though there might be some fog or overcast.
It must have been Murphy’s Law. I’m excited in an 86 degree weather thinking of booking the Xmas/New Year vacation in Montreal. I get tension headache in the extreme heat, especially dry desert heat. I also notice I’m the type that gets a bit too comfortable and too relaxed in warm, “resort-y” weather which is very scary because then I would get sucked into this leisure, happy mode.-it’s too relaxing. No wonder people take siesta in tropical islands.
Cold weather seems to make you perk up, forces you to have a little grit, you somehow have to get yourself together to keep moving. People in Scandinavian countries, despite the cold weather, are constantly voted as the happiest country/people in the world (of course their well-run socialism system contributes much to the credit.), they don’t seem to be bothered by the weather.
I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m the type who needs grit. Or I’ll be too happy-go-lucky.
I’ll take cold, Russian cold, over siesta, food-coma hot.
Last edited by achtung baby; 05-30-2023 at 06:48 PM..
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Brutal winter to me means cloudy, gloomy, dark, short days, windy, icy and frigid. Brutal summer blazing hot, dry with an abundance of sunshine and long days.
Brutal summer >>>>> Brutal winter.
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