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.
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.
Fuck Brenda.
I mean, I’d rather not.
I have touch sensitivity, so I don’t like to bundle up. I’d rather just work naked from home.
do you not have aircons?
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.
Also, mold. Our houses insulation often has trouble with active cooling.
That could be a problem with your a/c configuration, or you just need dehumidifiers too. If you’re in a very humid climate, dehumidifiers can help air conditioners work better too.
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.
Only airpros
For runners, the difference between 60F and 100F (~15.5 - 37.8 C) is about 2 minutes per mile at the same effort. That’s a huge difference. Humidity makes it worse because your body’s main method for cooling itself doesn’t work, but sweating, comfort, and preference aside, its literally harder to do anything in the heat.
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 :(
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
There is another layer.
That one is a bit scarring though.
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
A mix of both, really. Had to spend a week in some random part of Milan for a conference at a university some the space was free.
For real, tough, even Eastern Europe dresses in light summer clothing during the summer. You can’t be telling me that people in Tirana or Sofia do this and Italians don’t?
And sure, we’re both just one data point of information. But so what would you say is the most common summer wear if not light clothes?
T-shirt and shorts usually, many also rock a tank top and usually in cities with beaches you will find shirtless people
So… Light clothing?
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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.
It’s coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere
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.
I actually like to camp in the deep cold, snow and all that. It needs to be way below freezing. But I also have the gear for it.
We’re about to find out nature’s wrath with new and fun weather in every season.
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.
I live where it gets over 100f in the summer, never really feared heatstroke. Drink water.
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
You don’t get that in the summer.
I get it only in summer
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.
Well then I invite You to Poland, where besides 3 months of summer everything is gray, cold and damp. The grass is always greener I guess.
So true. If only we could do some “clever corporate accounting” (aka thermodynamic tax fraud) with the temps between us.
I am thoroughly depressed all summer. The first cooler, shorter day I’m like a happy new person. I’m a redhead and can easily get sick being in the sun. Fuck summer, bring on the cooler, shorter, stormier days and I’m all in for snowball fights, sledding, soups, sweaters, cozy fires, and a good scotch.
Don’t have to shovel heat.
Don’t have to mow, rake, weed whack, or trim the cold
That’s because everything is dead and brown. I’ll take the yard work in the heat for the green.
Brown? Na it’s white.
In what century? The 20s have snow?
We’ve had those temps, and sweating all day with AC unit running sucks. I’d much rather put on a sweater if I feel chilly in the Winter.
It doesn’t typically snow enough to shovel where I live
on the shitpost meter, you score 50%
What?
i went on a crusade ranking shitposts on how much a shitpost it truly was using my proprietary grading methodelogy, a score of 50% indicates the post qualifies as a meme, but does not have any recognisable identifiers of a shitpost
Winter can suck my dick. Getting through winter with myotonia sucks ass
Summer can suck my dick. Getting through summer with hyperhydrosis sucks ass.
Ha!
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.
Sitting on a patio drinking beers, or swimming comfortably in a lake when camping
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
No flu, no sickness (maybe once), no runny nose, no stiff joints, wanting to actually do stuff, having more productive time to do stuff, being able to go into nature and hang out all the time.
Winters are absolutely depressing and miserable.
Sunshine on my face and skin. This contributes MASSIVELY to my mental health. Where I live winter is a constant claustrophobic grey.
When its 0°K and some mf says winter is better than summer.
At least then it’s still OK.
K does not use °, when will people learn?
Used to be correct until 1967
So it will take people more than59 years to learn you say?
Or 59 more
I can always put on another layer. I can only get so naked.
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
Yes, and if there was a way to magically make seasonal allergies go away for good, I’d get a couple more months of comfort every year.
Allergy shots
I am still on summer side. But if one happens to want to die and chooses between heat and cold, then cold is the better option
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
