OT: Heat vs Cold

[superjohn]

Was the poll in this thread always? I feel like below 20 is not extreme enough. I’d take 19 over what it’ll be like tomorrow I think. 19 is not terrible. If you’re going to call 100+ the extreme of hot you need to get to at least 10 and under for cold.

A few years ago we had like a full month in the winter where the temp was below zero. The regular temperature was -23 one day this winter. And people from Minnesota find it balmy here.

 

[Purple Stein]

This is crazy. Are you a vampire???

Blood sucks.

But seriously, in summer, I just have to take time out to sit alone in dark rooms. I HATE the sun.

There are moments every fall where I can actually feel myself waking up, coming back to the world. My ability to focus from October to April is way better than my ability to focus this time of year.

 

[uconnfan68]

No way it’s hotter in Chicago than Boston. They’re second in extreme swings in my opinion

The most miserable 4 months of weather I ever experienced was Feb-June at Great Lakes Naval Station for boot camp. Bitter cold at 0dark30 in Feb, and May heat wave in winter wool.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Couple more days, it cools off. Spend a few years in the heat and humidity of Singapore, Jakarta or other tropical areas near the equator, and the current brief warmth or DC, NY, BOS and Chicago summers feel relatively cool. At least from my HK home, sky walks a la Toronto and Minneapolis connect most of a walk to my office.

 

[Fishy]

Heat.

There's nothing I like about the cold.

It was pretty freaking hot today, but I could still go outside and sit on the deck at the end of the day.

There's no sitting on the deck when it's cold.

 

[JimHurley]

The cold is dreadful. The combination of freezing temperatures, wind, and snow is just brutal. Just walking outside in the morning December-March puts me in a bad mood. Plus, working in Hartford, that walk from the parking lot to the office is misery. I'd take days like today every day if it meant never seeing snow again.

 

[UConnDad]

I'll take the heat any time. As someone that worked outdoors my entire life the cold is brutal. People that work indoors have no clue about weather extremes. Dealing with walking from your car to your office must be tough.

 

[pepband99]

Those days when it's overcast and humid as ____ and everyone on the train is sweating and miserable and the windows are fogged and then you walk into the stench of midtown on garbage day. The worst.

Booking it to GCT, then finding out you're on the lower level, and you need to sprint. It's the portal to hell.

 

[Danzz]

Can’t stand humidity so when you add real high temps the oppressiveness bothers the crap out of me. Like you makes me an ornery old bastard when I’m continuously wiping sweat from my brow. Didn’t play golf today at Wintonbury due to this crap but played many rounds in Dec/Jan/Feb in the mid to high 30’s lol.

Preference cold but under 20 screw that too.

You are an ornery old bastard anyway. Weather has nothing to do with it.

 

[Chin Diesel]

My recollection is that DC summers are pretty unbearable.

I've heard DC sucks weather wise because they can get the worst of weather for every season. Cold, snow, ice, rain, humidity, pollen season, hurricanes. They get it all

 

[Chin Diesel]

Anyone experience fun temps and wind on top of Mt Washington?

 

[Purple Stein]

I've heard DC sucks weather wise because they can get the worst of weather for every season. Cold, snow, ice, rain, humidity, pollen season, hurricanes. They get it all

Pretty cool tool here if you want to compare weather in different areas:

Compare Cities - Weatherbase

DC runs about 6 degrees warmer than Hartford, Hartford has about 10 more "precipitation days" per year.

Data shows that an interesting analogy for temps/precipitation days is Hartford is to DC as Bangor, Maine is to Hartford.

 

[ColchVEGAS]

Not saying I want sub 30 temps all the time, but give me the cold over heat any day. In the heat you can only remove so much clothing before well there is nothing to remove and you are still uncomfortably hot. At least in the cold you can always just pop another layer on to get comfortable.

I lived in Miami for a brief period of time and the summers there are brutal at times with the humidity. Winters are very nice however. Give me temps of 35-75 and I will stay happy.

 

[storrsroars]

Anyone experience fun temps and wind on top of Mt Washington?

From 81-95, except one year, every Columbus Day weekend, couple of friends and I would hike the Whites, trying to get all the 4K footers. The year we took Tuckerman up Mt Washington it was pretty warm - high 60s at base, still above freezing at summit. Windy at top, but not ridiculous.

However, the year we did Wildcat, right across Rt16, thought we were in deep doo-doo. Temp around 17F with windchills well into the -30s above treeline. I have photos that make us look like we were on an Everest climb or Antartica expedition - ice covered beards and eyebrows. Thought we might get blown off one of the narrower ridges. Was the least fun of all our hikes.

I'm still three short (the Bonds). Not sure I'll ever get to finish at this point.

 

[Danzz]

Anyone experience fun temps and wind on top of Mt Washington?

Made the drive up Mt. Washington in the summer. The wind that day was incredible. I can't imagine what it would be like in the winter.

 

[nomar]

Blood sucks.

But seriously, in summer, I just have to take time out to sit alone in dark rooms. I HATE the sun.

There are moments every fall where I can actually feel myself waking up, coming back to the world. My ability to focus from October to April is way better than my ability to focus this time of year.

You have Reverse Seasonal Attitudinal Disorder!

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

The most miserable 4 months of weather I ever experienced was Feb-June at Great Lakes Naval Station for boot camp. Bitter cold at 0dark30 in Feb, and May heat wave in winter wool.

Ah, but the character it tried to build and refine @uconnfan68

 

[Excalibur]

I'll take heat over cold any day, and so would most right thinking people.

There is a reason why people have been going south to escape New England winters for 50+ years.

 

[mauconnfan]

You are an ornery old bastard anyway. Weather has nothing to do with it.

It did get by a few that weren’t paying attention to detail though. Figures you and 8893 would latch on hard lol

 

[uconnfan68]

Anyone experience fun temps and wind on top of Mt Washington?

My favorite weather clip is Hilton Kaderli sliding across the roof while giving his report.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

You have Reverse Seasonal Attitudinal Disorder!

RSAD, appears so for the Purple Stein. Guy sounds much worse than some ornery old bastard

 

[Whtdmd]

Its simple for me. I have a busy schedue and sleep alot better in the colder weather. I am more productive in the winter c/w the summer. I sure miss the beaches but the cornerstone pool in WH and a winter tropical vacation mostly take care of that.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

If you want to see extremes in a short period, I was in Denver in early April. It was 85 the day we got there and a blizzard the day we left 5 days later.

 

[White Dwarf]

Give me the heat. When the temps dip under 32 I think I'm going to die.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

“Desert heat ain’t bad”

Lists twelve things he has to modify about his daily life so that he doesn’t keel over

The weather is gorgeous for 8-9 month of the year and you adjust for the summer.
Like you don’t adjust your lifestyle every time is snows or even rains for that matter.
The summers are hot but not as oppressive as the perpetual gloominess of a New England winter. The word cancellation isn’t in in our vocabulary.
My daughter teaches in Ct she has zero idea when she will finish any school year.
By the way it was 90 in NY at 11PM it was 96 in Gilbert at 8
NY had 62% humidity Gilbert had 12%
Guess which one has a higher comfort level
105-115 in AZ =90-100 in NE
100-105 in AZ=85-90 in NE
90-100 in AZ = 75-85 in NE
80-90 in AZ = 65-70 in NE ( long sleeves)
70/80 in AZ =55-65 in the NE ( hoodie time)
60-70 in AZ = 45-55 in the NE ( I’m wearing gloves when I walk)
We seldom get a day below 60

Our nights average 20 degrees cooler than the day time high

 

[Chin Diesel]

The most miserable 4 months of weather I ever experienced was Feb-June at Great Lakes Naval Station for boot camp. Bitter cold at 0dark30 in Feb, and May heat wave in winter wool.

I was at San Diego from Aug-Oct 1993 right before it closed.

Temps ranged from 75-80 every day with night time lows between 60-70. Rained a total of 10 minutes. We slept on top of our sheets on our racks with Windows open.

 

[Excalibur]

The weather is gorgeous for 8-9 month of the year and you adjust for the summer.
Like you don’t adjust your lifestyle every time is snows or even rains for that matter.
The summers are hot but not as oppressive as the perpetual gloominess of a New England winter. The word cancellation isn’t in in our vocabulary.
My daughter teaches in Ct she has zero idea when she will finish any school year.
By the way it was 90 in NY at 11PM it was 96 in Gilbert at 8
NY had 62% humidity Gilbert had 12%
Guess which one has a higher comfort level
105-115 in AZ =90-100 in NE
100-105 in AZ=85-90 in NE
90-100 in AZ = 75-85 in NE
80-90 in AZ = 65-70 in NE ( long sleeves)
70/80 in AZ =55-65 in the NE ( hoodie time)
60-70 in AZ = 45-55 in the NE ( I’m wearing gloves when I walk)
We seldom get a day below 60

Our nights average 20 degrees cooler than the day time high

The only time I was more miserable than I was when I was last in Phoenix (June 2017 -- daytime high of 118, still over 100 after 10:00) was when I was in Deli and Aurangabad in late May. 115 does not compare to 90 in the northeast, sorry.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

The weather is gorgeous for 8-9 month of the year and you adjust for the summer.
Like you don’t adjust your lifestyle every time is snows or even rains for that matter.
The summers are hot but not as oppressive as the perpetual gloominess of a New England winter. The word cancellation isn’t in in our vocabulary.
My daughter teaches in Ct she has zero idea when she will finish any school year.
By the way it was 90 in NY at 11PM it was 96 in Gilbert at 8
NY had 62% humidity Gilbert had 12%
Guess which one has a higher comfort level
105-115 in AZ =90-100 in NE
100-105 in AZ=85-90 in NE
90-100 in AZ = 75-85 in NE
80-90 in AZ = 65-70 in NE ( long sleeves)
70/80 in AZ =55-65 in the NE ( hoodie time)
60-70 in AZ = 45-55 in the NE ( I’m wearing gloves when I walk)
We seldom get a day below 60

Our nights average 20 degrees cooler than the day time high

ya know, you raise an interesting observation 'The word cancellation isn’t in in our vocabulary.' in a world that, as gramms sez,, 'everybody rushin' around inna circle, goin' nowhere,' I kinda feel bad for folks not subject to 'the new england off-switch.' in the winter, it's so weird to communicate with 'outsiders' and tell them that 'nothing going on here, we're in our jammies, life is cancelled--snow day!' peace and serenity everywhere as
busy life is put on hold. blizzard on a UConn bball saturday? biggest problem we got is if pizza guy can make it up the driveway. some kind of tibetan nirvana right there .
this song is so good, they named a place after it...

 

[Rocktheworld]

The weather is gorgeous for 8-9 month of the year and you adjust for the summer.
Like you don’t adjust your lifestyle every time is snows or even rains for that matter.
The summers are hot but not as oppressive as the perpetual gloominess of a New England winter. The word cancellation isn’t in in our vocabulary.
My daughter teaches in Ct she has zero idea when she will finish any school year.
By the way it was 90 in NY at 11PM it was 96 in Gilbert at 8
NY had 62% humidity Gilbert had 12%
Guess which one has a higher comfort level
105-115 in AZ =90-100 in NE
100-105 in AZ=85-90 in NE
90-100 in AZ = 75-85 in NE
80-90 in AZ = 65-70 in NE ( long sleeves)
70/80 in AZ =55-65 in the NE ( hoodie time)
60-70 in AZ = 45-55 in the NE ( I’m wearing gloves when I walk)
We seldom get a day below 60

Our nights average 20 degrees cooler than the day time high

Oh don’t get me wrong, it’s overall better than New England. I’m on the Heat side of things here. It just seemed like you were downplaying how terrible it gets for four months, or like the dozen things you have to do aren’t such a big deal.

I lived in Vegas for a short period of time that did include the summer. I’m sorry, the low desert’s worst four months are absolutely at least as oppressive as is Boston’s. One reason is the consistency of how terribly hot it is. Night is your only brief break. During the day, you are rushing as fast as you can between air-conditioned indoors. Lips cracking before you can even get to your car. As you said, pools bring brief and minimal relief. Every day it’s in the triple digits and you’re hoping it’s “only” 102.

Boston has its horrific days and even weeks, but even here in SD, I’ve seen the weather forecasts for New England in the winters, and I lived there for three years, it’s 50/50 when the highs are below freezing.

 

[Peacefrog]

I've actually been to a nickel mine in northern Siberia in early December. Trust me, you don't want any part of that. I'm hating the weather in Charlotte right now but there's no contest. You simply can't go outdoors when it is -40 and windy.

I struggle with either extreme so I guess I'd take the one that doesn't include any jazz music. Or country music for that matter. I can tolerate poor weather better than poor music.