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OK, I thought this might be an interesting discussion to take us away from the usual silly debates about whether one type of weather/temperature is better or not.
Funny because this thread will be exactly about that. Lol
The only time I've actually been hypothermic is when I sat on the sidelines on a rainy, cold September evening at a frisbee game, and immediately after that went to a swimming lesson. I took a brief shower and went into violent shivering fits as soon as I entered the 27 degrees C pool area. I went back and showered at the highest temperature I could tolerate for a full 20 minutes before the shivering stopped.
I also contracted a bad cold one April day when it got unusually hot (105 degrees). I was not acclimated and my immune system probably took a hit.
I was doing my conscription and we were on a march in early April. A part of it was that you had to wade/swim a small route in 3-4C water and return on the ground. The air temperature was around 5C and prolonged my exposure to the cold temps when climbing up (naked). The fatigue and my body being exposed to those temperatures damaged my immune system and gave me pneumonia. I was hospitalized for a week and sent home to recover for another.
I have a metal plate in my leg, and I have pretty bad aches in the bone when the weather gets cold. We're having our first cold spell here and yesterday I could barely walk.
I was doing my conscription and we were on a march in early April. A part of it was that you had to wade/swim a small route in 3-4C water and return on the ground. The air temperature was around 5C and prolonged my exposure to the cold temps when climbing up (naked). The fatigue and my body being exposed to those temperatures damaged my immune system and gave me pneumonia. I was hospitalized for a week and sent home to recover for another.
I've never been ill because of the weather, but the phrase 'close shave' and 29th December 2000 brings back my own memories of that particular date: it turned out the ice on the Leeds-Liverpool canal wasn't thick enough to hold my weight after all
That was in the very cold winter of 1995-1996 where even ice floes had piled up on the beach of Norderney Island (where i spent my christmas vacation at my grandmothers house).
Some day, i had the stupid idea to try a bath in the ice, so i put of my clothes besides my underwear and ran into the icy water which was maybe about 1 or 2°C then. When i came back from the water, less than maybe half a minute later i was really freezing to the bones, put my clothing on and ran back to my grannys house which was just maybe 300 meters away from the beach.
A few days after that i got a flu as a "reward".
I got heatstroke in Spain once, but I was walking around all day with no sunscreen on, which was a stupid thing to do when it was around 30C. I remember spending the next two days in bed vomiting.
That's my only instance I recall of the weather having a direct impact on my health.
And you think sunscreen would have prevented that ?
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