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Cold vs Heat. The title is not very good. What is cold? What is heat?
-30 °C is cold. +30 °C is heat. Which is better? Heat, of course.
-5 °C is cold. +45 °C is heat. Which is better? Cold, of course.
Based on this, how can we reply?
If 20 °C is a "comfort temperature", and knowing that -10 °C is much more bearable than 50 °C, we can say that we can better tolerate lower temperatures shifts from our comfort temperature as opposed to higher ones.
Cold vs Heat. The title is not very good. What is cold? What is heat?
-30 °C is cold. +30 °C is heat. Which is better? Heat, of course.
-5 °C is cold. +45 °C is heat. Which is better? Cold, of course.
Based on this, how can we reply?
If 20 °C is a "comfort temperature", and knowing that -10 °C is much more bearable than 50 °C, we can say that we can better tolerate lower temperatures shifts from our comfort temperature as opposed to higher ones.
But 50C has been only experienced very few places on earth.
Better to compare a room temperature of 30C to 10C.
30C would be far more comfortable indoors for stationary activity than 10C (way too chilly for room temp).
I'd also prefer 30C over 10C for almost every outdoor activity except jogging.
As Majami (who showed a great deal of compassion for the homeless population) has said, no homeless person in Miami has died of heatstroke despite the incessantly humid summers but homeless people have died of hypothermia in when sleeping out in the elements places that don't even have that cold winters (cold spell with temps just around freezing at night).
That being said, extreme cold if you are not dressed properly for it is not fun.
I remember getting frost bite skiing .
I have a tough time with extreme heat.
I was really sick from the heat in Las Vegas once and had to stay in my hotel room
during the day and only come outside at night.
I hated Laughlin, NV....Bullhead City, AZ and Phoenix for the same reason,
I couldn't wait to head up to higher elevations in northern AZ and NM.
In the world's second-most populous country, many of the major cities have developed a heat action plan in order to prevent the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people (which happened in 2010):
But 50C has been only experienced very few places on earth.
Better to compare a room temperature of 30C to 10C.
30C would be far more comfortable indoors for stationary activity than 10C (way too chilly for room temp).
I'd also prefer 30C over 10C for almost every outdoor activity except jogging.
Inside, maybe, but outside I vastly prefer 10 °C as I'm perfectly comfortable. 30 °C is hot.
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