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Here in Wyoming, we have to acclimate every year. In the fall, when the evenings start dropping in temperature and the cattle need fed at 5am, you'll often find us in a hoodie and a jean jacket. Come Feb when the temps are below zero, you'll still find us in a hoodie and a jean jacket. But we might add gloves.
I wear shorts unless it gets below zero (Fahrenheit) or a wind chill of -10. For upper body, I can get by with a shirt, a light sweater or hoodie, and gloves until it drops below mid 20s (or a wind chill in middle teens). I suppose I would seriously anger some people here if they ever meet me in the winter
I wear shorts unless it gets below zero (Fahrenheit) or a wind chill of -10. For upper body, I can get by with a shirt, a light sweater or hoodie, and gloves until it drops below mid 20s (or a wind chill in middle teens). I suppose I would seriously anger some people here if they ever meet me in the winter
^^ Wow!
I usually want pants below 65 F,
long sleeves below 60 F,
gloves (or good pockets) below 50 F
jacket or coat below 45 F
a warm winter hat below 40 F
gloves mandatory below 40 F
*Zero risk of hypothermia after all I wear to keep my skin from stinging.
I live in Sacramento. It really isn't cold here overall, but relatively chilly in the winter compared to other low-elevations cities on the West Coast. I think the low 60s are comfortable, but there are times when I wear a light jacket not because I'm cold, but because I don't want to carry it until it does get cold enough to wear it. Afternoons near 60 and nights in the upper 30s aren't uncommon here in the latter part of the winter, so it becomes a compromise.
There is also the factor of acclimation. It was mildly chilly and wet here for about a month (low 50s). We had a few afternoons that reached into the mid-60s and it felt warm. I've also been in places where the afternoons temperatures ran near 110 for an extended period of time. The 100 degree days after that heatwave felt refreshing.
The amount of moisture in the air also affects the apparent temperature. We have a tendency to have very wet air here in the winter. The rest of the country, while much colder, usually has dry air. A lot of people come out here from the East Coast during the holidays and don't understand why they feel so cold when the temperatures are in the mid-40s.
Pansie? Because I wear a coat when it's 60 something degrees outside?
Well, Excuuuuusssssseeee Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
Course maybe you would like to know why. But then I would have to bore you with stories about going to the beach. In February. When it's 75 degrees outside. And surf's up. And how I've never shoveled my car out of 5 feet of snow. So that, yeah, when it plunges to 60 degrees outside I put on a bleedin' coat 'cause I was raised a California girl and my blood is thin.
Yeah you are a pansy. In my room it is less than 65 degrees and that's indoors. People cold at 60 degrees, my my, how very http://bestsmileys.com/silly/4.gif (broken link) LOL . Living where 62 degrees is the average summer max temperature I have learned to tolerate cold temperatures however. First time I came to Buxton I got hypothermia and it was scary. I can handle any temperature now. I prefer hot weather and I am moving to somewhere hot in a few years, or at least with hot summers. My ideal maximum daytime temperature would be around 40C / 104F every day, with a bit of humidity thrown in.
And with stone walls, would be like me sitting in my cement block basement, which is maybe 55°F!
If I stay down there any length of time I plug in my little ceramic heater.
LOL. Our bathroom is 10C / 50F, and the hall is about the same. Just in my computer room does it get up to 18C /64F with heating. And that level of heating costs about $500 per season.
Simple fact is I am a hot weather lover and have never had any trouble with high temperatures (I have had hypothermia however in only slightly cold (just below freezing temps)) but I have had to learn to adapt to cold because we can't afford that much heating. As a result I can tolerate nearly any temperature now.
We had a very cold January this year, in Buxton the mean temperature was just 31F and on 30th the temperature in my bedroom dropped to 6.6C / 44F, so when people start saying 60F is cold I get pissed.
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