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How do you fare with the cold?

Post by retrolinkx »

Winters nearly here, but I always think November is more the start of Winter than December, and since my hands are cold I wanted to start this thread.

How do you guys fare in the cold? Personally I don't mind the cold, and prefer Winter to Summer for a few reasons. The only problem with the cold are my hands and feet. They remain the only part of my body that are always cold if they're not in gloves/shoes whereas my body will stay warm no matter what.

I think it's bad blood circulation or something, it could happen to everyone but my mother doesn't seem to get it, so I'm not sure.
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The fire in my heart burns hotter than the sun, so the cold doesn't bother me.

Would rather it be too cold than too hot anyway.
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Re: How do you fare with the cold?

Post by Jeffery Mewtamer »

I start feeling hot when the thermometer hits 70F. I'm currently sitting under an open window with my room's heat vent close to avoid roasting from how warm my dad insists on keeping the house.

I also routinely wear shorts during winter unless I'm going to be outside for an extended period.

Also, as someone who recently embraced the barefooter life style I appreciate how the payment has cooled in recent weeks, but I swear the temperature in the buildings I have class have gotten hotter.
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Post by Yukki 2.0 »

70 degrees is comfortable for me like wat

During the summers down here, it can get hotter than 100 degrees and I've grown accustomed to some pretty warm temperatures. Its numbers like below 60 that I'm shivering, cause it never really gets colder than that.
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(assume degrees in fahrenheit)

~ temperature preferences ~
indoor: 67 in waking hours, 57 in sleeping hours
outdoor: it feels between 55 and 45 and the sunlight better not feel hot and it better not be humid either

i need some Chill

nevermind these temperatures they're still too hot, lessen all those numbers by at least 5 and then i think it's finally accurate
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Re: How do you fare with the cold?

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i like heat, sometimes the cold is nice but if it gets too cold i get grumpy, probably anything under 60 bothers me.
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Re: How do you fare with the cold?

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I can wear shorts in cold weather, but I tend to need a jacket for my arms.
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Post by NachoThePikachu »

I love the cold. I definitely prefer cold weather over hot weather. I think it's easier to find ways to stay warm in chillier temps, than to cool off in hotter temperatures. I used to live in Colorado, and living in California now is just terrible for me.
I can handle temperatures above 40F but once it gets past 80 I'm not as comfortable.

I fare with cold by bundling up in blankets and comfy sweats and sweaters. Fuzzy socks are nice too. ;U;
My rule of thumb is to keep your feet warm. I find that if my feet are cold, my entire body will be cold. Covering my ears helps me feel a little warmer too.
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Winter is when I wear my fluffy robe like a dramatic trenchcoat.

It's been hot and humid lately though so I'm currently in a tank top.

My fingers become freezing when it's cold out, because they rest on my keyboard/mouse/tablet pen/etc. If only I could stand doing anything that requires hands with gloves on.

Out in public is a little different as I put on an actual longcoat and leather gloves. And yet I still end up freezing to the core. I'm not good with cold weather.
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If I moved to a dry climate, I might be able to take the heat a bit better, but I'm stuck in a climate where you're more likely to have humidity condensing on your skin than sweat evaporating. Also, when I'm at school, walking the hallway, which is noticeably cooler than the computer lab(apparently, whoever's in control of the thermostat missed the memo that computer labs are supposed to be well air conditioned to counterbalance the heat the electronics put out), for the hour between my two classes in that building is enough to leave me drenched in sweat, and that's even with me recently replacing my t-shirts with women's tunics made from a thinner, more breathable fabric and with shorter sleeves. I hate sweating, and one of the pros of going barefoot I've found is that my feet never sweat.

Also, I like how Vaporwave thinks.

And when the air temperature does get too cold, I generally prefer to wrap myself in thick, fuzzy fabrics rather than increase the air temperature. I'd rather sleep in a cold room covered in heavy covers than sleep uncovered in a warm room, and while I've got several pairs of really comfy leggings and a rather nice hoodie, it almost never actually gets cold enough to wear them.

The one winter I spent in an apartment I could call my own, I kept the thermostat at 68, turned it off when I went to bed, and then didn't turn it back on until I got home from class the next day. According to my phone, it routinely got down to 45F in my bedroom by the time I woke in the morning that winter.

Also, I generally find that sub-freezing temperatures are usually a bit less harsh than temperatures right above freezing. I'd attribute this to the fact that cold water saps body heat much better than cold air, and that sub-freezing temperatures get rid of liquid water. I also find that staying dry in above freezing weather is more important than staying warm, as again, cold water saps heat much more quickly than cold air*.

Somewhat contradictory, however, is that I like taking hot baths. The kind of hot baths that, even with a dehumidifier in the bathroom, I have to open the bathroom door and let the steam vent when I'm done to avoid feeling sick and so I can dry off without steam condensing on my skin as fast as my towel can absorb bath water. Granted, part of the problem is that the bathroom in question likely isn't part of the original house and is completely unconnected from the house's ventilation system.

*Skip the rest of this post if you don't want to read science.

There are two main reasons cold water saps heat better than cold air:
1. Water is far denser than air, so passing through a given volume of water puts you in contact with a much greater mass of water compared to passing through an equal volume of air.

2. Water has one of the highest specific heats, meaning that the amount of heat energy needed to alter it's temperature is much higher than air.

When there is a difference of temperature, heat flows from warm to cold until the temperature equalizes. When in a cold environment, this means heat flowing from your warm body into the cold environment. The low density of air makes it difficult for heat to travel further out than the air in direct contact with your skin, and air's low specific heat means the air warms much more quickly than your skin cools. Water's higher density makes it better at dissipating heat, and it's higher specific heat means the body is losing much more heat to heat a given mass of water by the same amount as the same mass of air.

That said, the reason a 70F room isn't enough to drop our body temperature to 70F, which would be way past lethal hypothermia, is that, as warm blooded animals, a large part of the energy we take in in the form of food is used to power a biological furnace to generate body heat.

Also, the calorie(not to be confused with the Calorie, which is 1000 calories or 1 kilocalorie, kcal for short) is defined as the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius. Food energy is typically given in Calories/kcal, and given that liters are defined as the volume of one kilogram, one Calorie is the energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 liter of water by one degree Celsius. Couple this with the freezing point of water being 0C and body temperature being 37C, and drinking a liter of ice cold water burns 37 Calories in the process of heating the water to body temperature. Also, the 2000 Calories a day that's given as a base line for caloric intake is very roughly 100 watts. I.e. the human body has roughly the same power requirements as a 100 Watt light bulb. Not sure if this is a testament to the human body's efficiency or the light bulb's inefficiency.

Disclaimer: The above science might be oversimplified and the unit definitions might be obsolete definitions that don't exactly match current definitions.
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I live in a humid area so I prefer too cold over too hot. Cold can be fixed by putting on more clothes, whereas there's only so much you can take off for heat. In effect, though, I keep it light anyway.
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NachoThePikachu wrote:I used to live in Colorado, and living in California now is just terrible for me.
Welcome to hell, we don't have winter anymore.

The cold sucks. It's only like 70-75 degrees fahrenheit out here at night and I'm freezing... Anything colder and I'm shaking and curling up to conserve body heat and warm my numb fingers.
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I'm used to warm temps, I consider anything below 70F to be chilly, and below 60F to be "freezing".
So, not very well.
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I manage. I used to live where it snowed constantly but I didn't exactly dress appropriately for the weather. I mostly just stayed inside if it was cold or snowing. If it wasn't too cold I could go outside, though.
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NachoThePikachu wrote:I love the cold. I definitely prefer cold weather over hot weather. I think it's easier to find ways to stay warm in chillier temps, than to cool off in hotter temperatures.
100% this. This is exactly how I feel, and why I love colder temperatures. We've never really had air conditioning in our house, so if you're hot, you open a window or turn a fan on. If you're cold, wrap up and you can become nice and toasty easier. Not to mention getting into bed when it's boiling is despair-inducing. Getting into bed when it's cold is just one of the best things.
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Skonia wrote:i like heat, sometimes the cold is nice but if it gets too cold i get grumpy, probably anything under 60 bothers me.
look at this huge wimp

i love the cold :darkcool:
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Post by Jeffery Mewtamer »

It's December.
I'm running my AC.
I'm well north of the tropics.
the temperature outside my bedroom makes me nauseous.

Granted, prior to the night of November 29, I was content to just have my window open to let in the November air and the outdoor temperature has spiked to unseasonal highs in the last two days.
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I actually prefer being cold then hot. Cold you can do lots of stuff about, covered in blankets next to a fire or heater maybe while wearing a coat. But when it's hot there's not much except for water and being next to a fan.

I been more hot lately though for whatever reason even though my heater kicks on when set to low so I just turn it off.
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In the past, I did... terrible, to be frank. Like, "I'd barely leave the house during winter even if I had a coat, boots, gloves, a scarf, a stupid-looking hat, and fifty dozen layers of clothing on if the temperature fell below fifty because cold makes me die a little each time," terrible. I've fared much better this winter for some reason. I did put on a lot of weight over the past year, so that might explain it. Though I'm not sure how much water that explanation holds, seeing as how I still do really well in high temperatures.
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60f is perfect. Anything between 50f and freezing is pretty manageable. If it get's colder I just put on a jacket or something. Heat is what gets me, anything over 75 is Hell on earth to me.
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anything below 79 degrees is cold unless a i have a boy involved
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I HATE the cold! I am extremely sensitive to temperatures below 50 degrees (Fahrenheit)! My hands are either gloved, mittened, or in my pockets, and my jacket is HEAVY!
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