Extreme heat or extreme cold?

[Quiet Man]

10 degrees is not extreme cold. Days that don't get above zero, with a constant biting wind; that's getting there. Those are days when you step outside and immediately feel pain everywhere. Your entire body is begging you to get out of this situation immediately. When you hope the car will get you where you're going because you fear you might die if it doesn't. What amraeder is talking about is like the cold version of Death Valley. A 10 degree day to me would be the cold equivalent of an 85 degree day, if that makes sense.

I do think that people have different body types and are more predisposed to tolerate one end of the spectrum more than the other.

 

[Zeke12]

Give me the cold, any day.

 

[JackReacher]

I take "Extreme heat vs. extreme cold" to mean the typical extremes on both sides that we experience. For me, it's today (about 105, feels like 111) and about, oh, between 10 and 20 degrees at worst in the winter. That obviously changes for everyone.

I guess I'm going by the fact that what we are seeing now (105ish) is setting records in lots of places.

Between 10 and 20 isn't going to set records anywhere but South Florida and Southern California.

True. I suppose I'm just going by what I've experienced. I've never experienced "extreme" cold. I mean, experiencing it wouldn't change my opinion; it would only strengthen it. But yeah, I was just going off what I've been through.

Walking from house to my car -- about 50 feet -- sucked ass today. But I'll take it every day of the week over winter. Even 30 degrees every day winter. **** that.

 

[Bruce Leroy]

I take "Extreme heat vs. extreme cold" to mean the typical extremes on both sides that we experience. For me, it's today (about 105, feels like 111) and about, oh, between 10 and 20 degrees at worst in the winter. That obviously changes for everyone.

I guess I'm going by the fact that what we are seeing now (105ish) is setting records in lots of places.

Between 10 and 20 isn't going to set records anywhere but South Florida and Southern California.

True. I suppose I'm just going by what I've experienced. I've never experienced "extreme" cold. I mean, experiencing it wouldn't change my opinion; it would only strengthen it. But yeah, I was just going off what I've been through.

Walking from house to my car -- about 50 feet -- sucked ass today. But I'll take it every day of the week over winter. Even 30 degrees every day winter. **** that.

Strange how people are wired. I'd take a 3-degree, 50-foot walk to the car any and every day in place of 95 degrees and up.

 

[Lieslntx]

I take "Extreme heat vs. extreme cold" to mean the typical extremes on both sides that we experience. For me, it's today (about 105, feels like 111) and about, oh, between 10 and 20 degrees at worst in the winter. That obviously changes for everyone.

I guess I'm going by the fact that what we are seeing now (105ish) is setting records in lots of places.

Between 10 and 20 isn't going to set records anywhere but South Florida and Southern California.

True. I suppose I'm just going by what I've experienced. I've never experienced "extreme" cold. I mean, experiencing it wouldn't change my opinion; it would only strengthen it. But yeah, I was just going off what I've been through.

Walking from house to my car -- about 50 feet -- sucked ass today. But I'll take it every day of the week over winter. Even 30 degrees every day winter. **** that.

This.

 

[Amy]

10 degrees is not extreme cold. Days that don't get above zero, with a constant biting wind; that's getting there. Those are days when you step outside and immediately feel pain everywhere. Your entire body is begging you to get out of this situation immediately. When you hope the car will get you where you're going because you fear you might die if it doesn't. What amraeder is talking about is like the cold version of Death Valley. A 10 degree day to me would be the cold equivalent of an 85 degree day, if that makes sense.

This is what I remember about weeks in January and February in Minnesota. It makes me cry just thinking about it.

After living a few other places with more moderate climates I've decided to go with heat (and humidity) in South Florida.

 

[Cosmo]

Coldest I've ever experienced was -22 in Minneapolis. Hottest I've been around was 123 in Laughlin.

 

[buckweaver]

I'll say this also, I'll take either very hot or very cold over 40 degrees and rainy. Ev.Ry. Time.

I'd rather have 10 degrees or 90 degrees over 40.

That's because ain't nobody got nothing to say about a 40-degree day.

As for me, I'm with Bubbler — give me extreme heat and low humidity over anything else. I have no preference when it comes to high temp/high humidity vs. extreme cold, though. Both of those suck.

 

[murphyc]

Not a huge fan of either extreme, but I'll take heat. Hot weather means it's time for my favorite sport (auto racing). Also, when it's hot out I can walk or drive like normal. When it's cold, walking is impaired because you're worried about falling on the ice and driving is impaired because you have to clear the windows first.
When I lived in Iowa, I had a 12-minute walk to work. In the summer it was 12 minutes to the air conditioned office or house. In the winter, it was either a 30-minute walk and being worried about biting it every step due to ice or scrape windows for 15 minutes and creep to work in the car. I'll take the heat.

 

[Buck]

I'll say this also, I'll take either very hot or very cold over 40 degrees and rainy. Ev.Ry. Time.

I'd rather have 10 degrees or 90 degrees over 40.

90 degrees over 40 is 130 degrees.
That's pretty fracking hot, man.

 

[Football_Bat]

For most of the country, this has been one tough summer. But I have to say it's been quite tolerable this year deep in the hearta' by our standards. Generally low to mid 90s with cloud cover and occasional afternoon thundershowers. The humidity is up, which is a drawback, but no day after day of 100s like we normally get.

 

[Cosmo]

Hope you guys get some rain down there, FB. Seeing a lot of stories about the excessive drought in Arkansas and Texas.

 

[Stitch]

I "fondly" remember ridding in my parents' 1973 Oldsmobile Omega as a kid in Phoenix. The A/C broke soon after we moved to Arizona in 1979, and the vinyl seats and all-metal seat belt buckle would burn you. We had to put beach towels on the seats to sit down.

Those days made me hate the heat.