extreme summer heat vs. extreme winter cold

toss up really. but i prefer the cold, and a nice stove.

Def. extreme summer. Even if I don't have a/c in my house, I can just lay around in shorts and drink beer or iced tea to cool off. Extreme cold is just miserable.

winter - if only because of the humid and sweat of extreme summer: it's repulsive.

Winter. I can always put more clothes on, make tea, and get up and do something active for warmth. Whereas in summer I just want to vomit and sweat in silence, sometime after my brain stops processing things other than how suffocatingly humid it is.

extreme summer is far more preferable. it's kind of nice to sit around and sweat sometimes. extreme cold is just miserable and it makes everything else miserable - going outside, driving to work, waking up in the morning to a freezing cold house. etc. etc. the only thing bad about my 85F degree house is that my produce goes bad a bit quicker.

Extreme winter cold any day. Because basically any kind of cold is just an excuse to put on more clothes. I'd be perfectly happy sitting around in tights, jeans, 2 pairs of socks, t-shirt, regular shirt, 2 jumpers, a cardigan, a parka and a wooly hat and my laptop on my lap to generate heat.

But in summer and when the heat comes, I just melt and lie there flopping about, so unhappy. It's not like I can flay myself and walk about without skin.

i like the cold!

Neither really is that horrible, it always passes. I DO get annoyed when extreme cold or heat goes on for days on end but there are worse things in life. Extreme cold = iced over streets = unsafe driving. Heat doesn't always work well enough. Extreme heat day after day is kind of bad for old people who don't have air conditioning.

extreme cold. the heat makes me irritable. cold weather doesn't affect my mood; it just means i'm looking for ways to warm up.

best of all possible worlds: cold *and* sunny, so i still get the vitamin d/seratonin/whatever.

I find that when it's extremely cold -- like, 20 below and shit -- it's usually sunny. But it's not like you're going outside, anyway.

Summer, it's why I moved from Boston to Austin.

Oh come on, anyone who votes winter is a Goth.

I suppose I might feel differently if I lived closer the equator.

...or just a person who burns easily.

obviously summer, im cypriot btw

turkish or greek side?

you people who are voting cold are completely incomprehensible to me

it sometimes depends where you live (voting the opposite to what youre used to)
i imagine not a lot of people from toronto would vote winter, for example.

I am completely incomprehensible to you.
xpost

People seem to forget how awful extreme heat can be. At a festival a couple of years ago, literally EVERYBODY was complaining, immobile, feeling sick, burnt, unable to enjoy themselves properly because of the heat. And then after a couple of months pass, those same people were talking about how 'nice' the weather was. WTF?

Cold all the way.

I grew up in NOLA and a lot of my friends made the joke that I was a reptile b/c of how much I love to soak in the heat. Heat means passion and life. If you have sex without breakin' a sweat then you're doin it wrong so anyone who complains about sweating can live in their chaste little untouched pheremoneless bubbles up in the bitter north. In the extreme heat of the summer you can almost see the grass growing in real time. When you get extreme heat for weeks at a time everything in the world just slows down. Ever had a margarita in the winter?

Oh come on, anyone who votes winter is a Goth.

*looks in mirror*

...or just a person who burns easily.

*looks in mirror*

Winter. I am so ready for fall and cooler weather. Extreme heat/humidity can suck it imo.

Being too hot is just *horrible*. And there is nothing you can do about it except endure it. I cannot understand why anyone would vote heat when cold is something which is so easy to compensate for.

don't compare sex with standing on a bus next to a sweaty person

xxxpost

Extreme heat = too hot to move, too uncomfortable for sexy time. Also, too much looking like a boiled lobster for anyone to fancy you.

Whereas cold = excuse for snuggles. Oh baby.

OTM

Having voted summer, I've recalled how uncomfortable I've often felt when visiting the tropics... Give me the hottest day English summer over the coldest day of English winter any fucking day though.

the question is rather you'd rather die by scorpion bite or being mauled by a polar bear.

Yeah, being overly hot is just the biggest passion killer there is. Why would anyone want to have sex when it's too hot to move?

Whereas, being cold = "would you like to come under this slumberdown with me, hrrrmmmmmm?"

"Give me the hottest day English summer"

how extreme could that be?

but it says "extreme winter cold" - that's necessarily "days that don't get above zero." I can wash my sweaty clothes but I can't get back the shoes that snow & salt destroyed. and summer nights are awesome, even at the highest peak of summer there's a little relief early in the morning - whereas winter is just fucking relentless

man I will never live anyplace with a real winter again, got the fuck outta that nonsense imo

and man you fellow horndogs who don't like gettin it on when it's incredibly hot...man I don't get that at all, either, the whole air during a real brutal summer already feels like a room in which you're goin at it, it's trying to put the idea in your head

xxp - lol, exactly. Although, to be fair, it did hit nearly 100 F once when I lived there but that was during an unprecedented heatwave and was fucking awful because most places don't have AC. I almost passed out on the tube one day.

Oh, I get feeling horny in the summer. It's just that the heat that makes you horny also prevents you from acting on it.

though i voted winter - i afree summer is the sexier season -
minimal clothing otm.

I miss snow, proper snow SOOO SOS OSOSOSOSOSOSOSOOOOOOOOOO much. Like, 3 foot of snow dumped in the drive, school called off, get your boots on swisssshhhh swisssssshhh snowsuit sound OH GOD I MISS SNOW. Proper winter just sucks for people who are ill prepared. Like, WTF are you doing wearing shoes in snow and salt? Get your boots on and a decent coat.

English winter is just a bit pissy. But the lack of an English summer more than compensates for it. It is August, I am walking around in a fleece. It's GR8.

and summer nights are awesome, even at the highest peak of summer there's a little relief early in the morning - whereas winter is just fucking relentless

^^^bam

height of summer is wearing few clothes and being mobile and walking vast distances and being chilled-out and forgetting about one's woes and drinking refrigerated juice - height of winter is snuggling IF YOU'RE LUCKY and then apart from that it's indoors, catching colds and generally not enjoying the world

That's my life anyway, man. Fuck seasonal difference.

and man you fellow horndogs who don't like gettin it on when it's incredibly hot...man I don't get that at all, either, the whole air during a real brutal summer already feels like a room in which you're goin at it, it's trying to put the idea in your head

ALSO THIS, summer is heady and lusty and procreative in all sorts of ways and trust me sexytime in the heat is definitely not impossible

I just want to live somewhere with one season year round, is that so wrong?

Yeah but it also says "extreme heat" which here means 90 + degree weather and unbearable humidity. Weather like that just makes me want to die. I have a hard time functioning. I'm really sensitive to heat/humidity. I like warm weather but not hot. 70-75 is perfect summer weather imo.

aerosmith OTM, summer =

http://www.lucasfan.com/store/bodyheat.jpg

You know what's really uncomfortable? Sitting around my house in mid-January in 27 pieces of clothing watching the numbers on my gas meter spin around and calculating the $$$$$ it's costing me not to freeze to death.

You can catch colds in summer as well, and they're always a lot more miserable because it's hot.

Not sure if I can choose wearing navy pea coats nice pants and boots over wearing tanktops cutoffs and slip-on shoes.

@ Karen - yeah the thing is I hate snow to Hell. If I never see it again, that is completely OK by me. sincerely glad there are people who don't go from zero to suicidal inside of the first five minutes of snowfall, y'all can enjoy the glory of the season and whatnot but as for me I'll take a barefoot-in-the-driveway xmas everytime

SEXY:
http://a3.vox.com/6a00c2252a15438e1d01240b8d4913860e-500pi

NOT SEXY:
http://www.411mania.com/siteimages/thing-movie-poster_59969.jpg

Keeping this high-ceilinged house tolerably cool in summer costs a fuckload more than keeping it tolerably warm in winter.

English people wearing few clothes and being outside chatting on their mobiles = MY IDEA OF HELL.

Lobster red sweaing gross for fucks sake put your jumpers back on NOW bring back the winter pls.

temperature is addressed in the thread title; wind velocity is not

it is true that my love is not unqualified, yet anything is better than extreme summer heat

temperature + wind = more cold!

I cannot stand this wind chill shit. I don't know what -5 feels like bcz WHEN IT'S -5, THE WIND CHILL IS -17.

Bought a liter of mineral water and left it on the balcony to chill. 45 minutes later it was a slushie.

Still rather have this nonsense than 100º.

fuck yes. Honestly 5-10 degrees doesn't even feel that bad to me. I don't want to go throw a ball around or anything, but walking down the street it's nbd as long as you're covered up.

you're horrible human beings and traitors to humanity but at least you're consistent, kudos

^^^u mad doggie

Speaking only for myself, today I was miserable when I had to walk a few blocks in sub-zero temps w/ strong winds, but once I got indoors, I was warm and comfy within 60 seconds. And I could have mitigated the misery by bundling up better (sneakers were a bad idea).

OTOH, in July when temps get above 80 I'm also miserable, but it takes about an hour to stop feeling flushed, prickly, and clammy. And that's if I can find sufficiently cold A/C, which is rarer than adequate heat.

I'm sure I've posted this before when crying over heat waves, but I feel the same as the big cold tests my feelings.

I never got why they decided to build cities in places like montreal

― iatee, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 3:38 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or really most parts of north america not located in california

― iatee, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 3:38 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is actually a pretty recent innovation

fur trading,

vikings

Still rather have this nonsense than 100º.

― Je55e, Tuesday, January 7, 2014 1:15 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My mind is changing....

extreme summer every time

extreme cold = invigorating
extreme heat = enervating

OTOH, in July when temps get above 80 I'm also miserable

feel like this is in large part due to 1) humidity. I'm more uncomfortable during an 85 degree summer day in Chicago than 100 in Arizona, though it helps that I like the sun, do find it invigorating. And 2) physiology of those who live in places with very cold winters adapting to cope with the cold and so 50 feels decent, 70 is warm, 80 is hot, 90 is death. Opposite happens too, as evidenced the other day by ladies in Phoenix, already wearing light jackets, complaining that the heaters weren't turned on on the patio cause it was brr 70F.

-20 windchill and it's still 5000% better than the swamp hell of summer

When I get overheated in the summer, a cool shower will get my body back to normal pretty quickly. If a chill sets into my bones, though, it takes me forever to warm back up. Fuck the cold. (Fuck the heat too, but it's at least manageable.)

This winter and the latter part of last winter I have felt the need to hide from the cold like never before. Of course it's been much colder these winters. It's like the cold is a storm or a natural disaster.

But compared to Johnny Fever here

When I get overheated in the summer, a cool shower will get my body back to normal pretty quickly. If a chill sets into my bones, though, it takes me forever to warm back up.

98-degree steaming urinetown in NYC is better than this shit. For one thing, the trains run.

I feel like urban environments make both extremes way worse than they would otherwise be. summer in nyc is mainly brutal because it's ungodly humid (and I say that as someone who grew up in Houston) and the heat reflects off of the pavement.

that said = I'll take extreme heat every time. especially if there's a pool around.

Chicago has the worst winters and worst summers of any major American city (except maybe Minneapolis? but it's not really "major" is it?). I thought maybe NYC would beat us on humidity but apparently not

http://outflux.net/weather/noaa/index.php?cities%5B%5D=CHICAGO,IL&cities%5B%5D=NEW_YORK_(JFK_AP),NY&cities%5B%5D=NEW_YORK_(LAGUARDIA_AP),NY&cities%5B%5D=NEW_YORK_CPARK,NY&what=6

http://outflux.net/weather/noaa/index.php?cities%5B%5D=CHICAGO,IL&cities%5B%5D=NEW_YORK_(JFK_AP),NY&cities%5B%5D=NEW_YORK_(LAGUARDIA_AP),NY&cities%5B%5D=NEW_YORK_CPARK,NY&what=7

Wait, sorry - I was trying to take a dig at Minneapolis without any good reason at all. Just looking for an argument today.

are you seriously trying to tell me that chicago has worse summers than DC?

lol or any city in the southeast US

Houston has the worst summers of any major American city.

I didn't communicate very clearly at all what I wanted to say. I meant that we have (maybe) the worst weather overall - both summer and winter are extra harsh here.

Houston has far worse summers but far milder winters.

DC/Chicago charts are actually pretty close. DC winters are milder, but not by as much as I expected.

(graphs, not charts)

In spite of how cold it's been, I'm still picking cold over heat.

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Wednesday, December 8, 2010 10:12 PM (4 years ago)

^^^ still going with this. It's been a miserable cold winter and it looks like the next few weeks are going to be continuous rain, but I'll take this over just about any summer.

I lived in Galveston for three years and could. not. believe. when people came down from Houston to "cool off." Like, place is barely habitable for most of the year. Thankfully in-laws are ditching Houston soon so I will not have to go back EVER at ANY TIME. Coopers BBQ can and has been shipped to home in a better climate, so no loss whatsoever.

Not that Coopers is in Houston but y'know. Whole fucking state is a flaming hellhole for too much of the year.

Caek will disagree but somehow britishes (and GERMANS, my god the GERMANS) seem to love horrible heat with a passion.

I mean caek seems to like it. But west texas is not godforsaken houston.

once you get out of the "big thicket" of east Texas I think the summers are quite manageable*

*= you must have access to a pool and modern central air conditioning.

plus the evenings in central Texas cool down quite a bit and there's often a breeze. even August evenings in Austin, say, can be quite lovely if you have a cool drink and it's not too humid. anyway I suppose it's a lifestyle thing: being a bit sticky and hot while still outside >>> being cooped up inside with a comfy fire. I just prioritize being able to be *outside*, which isn't really as easy for me to do in winter. maybe I need to pick up some outdoor winter hobbies.

Throughout a geologic time scale life seems to have coped with extreme intraglacial cooling periods better than it did that Permian greenhouse climate that nearly sterilised the planet. Wearing layers and stoking up the burner is more my thing than coping with extreme heat, although I have not experienced anything close to extremity of this polar vortex phenomenon which seems fucking crazy.

pretty sure Putin organized it to punish 'merica

I didn't communicate very clearly at all what I wanted to say. I meant that we have (maybe) the worst weather overall - both summer and winter are extra harsh here.

I knew what you meant...there's like 2 weeks in spring and 2 in fall when it's awesome weather. The downside is that every yarbo within 200 mile radius shows up at the handful of prime spots to enjoy it. There really needs to be some mountains nearby Chicago, I don't know what the holdup is on that.

You have a narrow definition of awesome weather.

extreme heat for the most part does not cause cities to shit down or flights to be cancelled. so even though it goes against everything i believe, i am voting extreme heat

https://moviewriternyu.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/snow-miser.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps2WwRjvQkY

exteme winter = more chances of car accidents because of ice and snow. i'm voting heat.

You have a narrow definition of awesome weather

was exaggerating for effect but keep track of every perfect weather day in Chi now thru end of year and lemme know how many more than 28 there are. genuinely would be curious to know.

perfect weather day = day i don't need a/c

http://i1.ytimg.com/sh/YlLGF_o08No/showposter.jpg?v=52cc791f

The last couple of weeks in Toronto have been brutal--most days in the neighbourhood of -20C. As I see I wrote four years ago, give me extreme heat any day. (The big story here is a three-your kid who somehow wandered out of his building at 4:00 in the morning yesterday and was found dead six hours later.)

"three-year-old kid"

i'd suggest that that's better than suffocating in a hot car, but i think we're getting away from the original premise

I'm sure they're both gruesome--indulge me as I get off the original premise for another minute or two--but the thought of freezing to death terrifies me far more. Something that speaks to abandonment or hopelessness or something.

Something that speaks to abandonment or hopelessness or something.

The Little Match Girl

To Build a Fire

i'd also suggest that ontarians lack a sufficient appreciation of extreme summer heat, but . . . soon, alas

I'm looking at temperature records, and compared to some states, sure. But we seem quite comparable to most of the Northeast.