If it gets too cold I can bundle up. If it gets too hot theres only so many clothes I can take off before that bitch Brenda goes to H.R.
Fuck Brenda.
I mean, I’d rather not.
See, my problem is that being too hot is just uncomfortable to me but being too cold is physically painful no matter how many layers I put on.
You need better layers then. If it’s your face that’s a problem get a good scarf and angle it so your breath blows back up over your nose and cheeks.
I’ve been out and comfortable in -30°C/-20°F, but much below that and it get tricky without goggles, and boot and glove warmers.
do you not have aircons?
Only airpros
Air conditioning is uncommon in homes in Northern Europe.
Not only is it uncommon, our buildings are generally not set up for convenient installation of AC - window units are not compatible with our window types - nor have we put any effort into optimizing for keeping our homes cool, since the primary challenge we face is keeping our homes sufficiently hot for the vast majority of the year.
Retrofitting all homes to cope with our new climate reality is going to be an immensely expensive endeavour.
Swede here, in my 38 years, I have only been in one home here with AC.
This summer me and my dad travelled down to the south of Germany to fly an airship, and to visit Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, it was over 35C just about every day and only one hotel we stayed in had AC.
Europe does not have AC at home for the most part.
Offices is another thing completely though.
In an ideal world 65F or 18C would be a once in an absolutely never heatwave.
Two words. Seasonal depression. You don’t get that in the summer.
If you don’t have an AC, you very much do
Seasonal heatstroke
The sunlight makes up for it. Having like 6 hours of real sunlight fucking sucks. I also hate having to put on like six layers to take out the garbage without having the air hurt my skin
Sunlight isn’t worth much when it’s too hot to leave the house without fear of heatstroke.
The alternative is it being too cold to leave without fear of frostbite.
Also unless you’re wearing a full Arctic exploration suit then the air is gunna hurt when it’s -35c (with windchill) which fucking sucks for doing small errands. I’d rather just be a little hot and not need to put on a whole 10 layers to bring out the garbage or recycling
edit: I’d also rather die of heatstroke enjoying my 12 hours of sunlight than die frozen in the 3:30pm darkness
I live where it gets over 100f in the summer, never really feared heatstroke. Drink water.
Come live in the hellscape of Texas. You cannot go outside from late may until mid October. It was 103F+ from mid July until 3 days ago. I paid almost $700 for my electric bill last month. The house is stale and hasn’t had fresh air in months. I have a huge list of projects that I very much want to make progress on, but ten minutes outside takes me multiple hours to recover from. The temperature in the parking lot in front of the grocery store was above 120F a few days ago.
Seasonal depression occurs in the cursed summer here. As soon as my family members pass on, I will never return to this god forsaken, scorched wasteland.
Texas is its own Hell any season.
It’s finally been getting down to the 60s F (16-21 C) here in Minnesota and I can take walks without sweating the whole way through. I’m a little disappointed to have heard we may have a mild winter this year.
Mild winter? Nooooo!!! The last one for me in the 60s and I barely got a winter at all last time :(
Autumn and spring are better than both. Both of the extremes are getting less fun every year.
I don’t like it when it’s so hot I want to take off my skin
I also don’t like it when it’s so cold I have to somehow instantly magic another 4 layers on/off me when walking through a door to not freeze/sweat to death.
Give me comfortable 2 layer weather where I can wear the same thing indoors and outdoors and feel fine
on the shitpost meter, you score 50%
What?
We’re about to find out nature’s wrath with new and fun weather in every season.
I am starting to come around on this one, winter is getting better an better. We hardly have snow any more!
My stats for number of activities in cycling and running gives away my preference, but the winters gets rough in Scandinavia.
I can put on 3 layers of clothes but i cannot take off my skin to get cooler
It’s also easier to add heat in a room than to remove it in my exp
“Can only get so naked” is my go to also
This is only how a cold weather person thinks about heat. That’s not how real life works.
One light layer of linen is amazing. Your body does the work on its own. Touregs in the Sahara wear a light layer of light fabric. Look at Saudis and the traditional outfit. Italy in the summer. All similar. All perfectly comfortable.
Italy in the summer
Sir i am Italian
Spoiler
We also don’t have anything similiar to what u mentioned
Every time I’ve been to Italy in the summer, north or south, everyone is in summer uniform. Same in Greece, but obviously the Italian version was fancier.
Unless… Are you an 80 year old man wearing polyester and wool and a vest and a hat in August on the farm?
Seriously, though, any search online for summer Italian wear is usual light clothing.
Tell me you have been only in turistic areas where everyone tries to strut and show off to turists without telling me you have been only in turistic areas:
Sorry but that’s just a bad rappresentation of how yhe avarage people uses clothes in summer here, if you may, i think i know more how people dress here since…well i live here
I stand by it. Summer IS better than winter
What do you like about summers?
Camping, swimming, boating, fishing, sunshine, green plants, gardens, dry feet, not having to bundle up.
Seeing the sun, not having the air be so cold that any exposed skin hurts, air that isn’t so dry I feel like I’m suffocating, grocery runs not feeling like a trek through the Antarctic
It’s not one thing, it’s multiple things together.
Cold is okay alone, but add wind and/or rain and cold sucks.
Heat is okay without humidity, and as long as it still gets cool at night for a break. Heat with wind and/or rain is okay, but heat with wind and dust sucks. Dust always sucks.
Cold is okay alone
Someone’s never been where it gets -40
I can always wear more.
I can never wear less than my skin and be miserable.I do agree with that and prefer cold over hot. But when it gets down around there it’s just fucking miserable. Any exposed skin just starts to hurt so quick
I have and I’ll take it, please give me some of your cold weather. There’s only so much you can do when it becomes 110 outside. The AC is on permanently to keep it at 85.
But the rain is one of the best parts
Rain when it’s just barely above freezing is terrible. Although I don’t consider anything above freezing “cold”. That’s shorts weather come April.
Having to go out in sleet can be awful yeah, I still like it though.
There’s a difference between “going out” in sleet, and survival in sleet. Granted, sleet is still not as bad as a 1 degree / 34 degree rain downpour, but I wouldn’t want to be sleeping outdoors in a month of record breaking sleet either.
Well yeah, having to stay outside in any temperature outside of comfortable for extended periods can be a problem. I wouldn’t want to be sleeping outside in record breaking heatwaves either.
Oh yeah? Cool, now turn off your air conditioning. Also RIP 6 out all your window screens. REALLY let the summer inside.
I know what you mean. But then you shoul also turn off the heating and open windows in winter to REALLY let the winter inside.
I do that when its not too cold yet so I can be comfy in my bed lol
summer is better than winter
you can put on more layers in winter, but you can’t get more naked in summer
I wish USA would go metric so I could instinctively understand what 45⁰C is without consulting a conversion calculator. I’m guessing 45⁰C is 90-100F? BRB lemme verify … Oh jeez it’s 113⁰F! 🔥
45°C = humid (+40%) hot desert-like climate (for middle europe)
Nah, we can adopt metric but I’ll never quit using Fahrenheit.
Yeah, F is just more accurate. I know you can use decimals, but I never see anyone post C temps as 20.2. It’s 20 or it’s 21, which is anywhere from 68-69.8F, expressed as 70. We’ve got a whole extra degree in there!
Honestly it doesnt matter. It depends on wind, humidity etc that difference between 20 and 21 is non-existent.
People round out time all the time, why is that different. C is more accurate, people round out of convenience. How accurate to a tenth of degree is almost never relevant. A cloud moves in front of the sun and you feel it change… so you ballpark it.
C is more accurate? Please, please explain that one to me. And don’t use the BS about water boiling or freezing because neither happen a precisely 0 or 100 where I live anyway (or almost anywhere)
