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Old 08-21-2008, 05:46 PM
 
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What is colder; Cool or Chilly?
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Old 08-21-2008, 06:16 PM
 
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Old 08-21-2008, 06:51 PM
 
Location: Covington County, Alabama
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What is colder; Cool or Chilly?
Go with which ever one is registering the lowest on the ole thermometer.
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Old 08-21-2008, 07:12 PM
 
Location: O-Town
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Chilly
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Old 08-21-2008, 09:18 PM
 
Location: So. Dak.
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UMMM, I'll pick "chilly", too.
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Old 08-21-2008, 10:40 PM
 
Location: Subarctic maritime Melbourne
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chilly is cooler than cool.
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Old 08-21-2008, 10:46 PM
 
Location: Seattle-area, where the sun don't shine
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Cool implies comfortably cold. Chilly implies very cold. So chilly.
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Old 08-22-2008, 03:01 AM
 
Location: Seattle area
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chilly
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Old 08-23-2008, 07:23 AM
 
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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I agree.

Cool to me (and not to Canadian Meteorologists ) implies pleasant weather, possibly erring to a slight chill on the comfort scale. So short sleeves would be fine, perhaps a sweater at most.

Chilly is "probably not comfortable," depending on what you are doing.
Chilly implies to me that most people would want at least a jacket.


***Canadian Meteorologists are crazy; () they'll say in early December that when we're already say 35 F (or 1 C), a front will move through bringing us some COOOOL weather (spoken stressed or accented) pushing our highs down to 28 F or 25 F (-2 C to -4 C). Sometimes it is also spoken with a look of worry or concern on their face.

Any overnight low above 13 F (-11 C or higher) is fair game for a Canadian Meteorologist do describe an overall "Cool" weather pattern.
However they are in no way meaning "comfort" when they say "Cool." I really don't know what they mean.
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Old 08-23-2008, 09:15 AM
 
Location: Subarctic maritime Melbourne
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to me, when they say "cool", it means jumpers, when they say "cold", it means jackets ....... and that's year round
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