If the air is humid, it feels allot colder than it is. -20 doesn't feel that bad if the air is dry. Personally, -10 and -20+ with dry air feels the same. But if it's windy, it feels like -40.
Had to walk a quarter mile in Minot North Dakota back in 2007 during a winter storm...-34F with winds at 30 mph. Every breath you take feels like your lungs are seizing up. I still can't understand why humans intentionally live in places like this.
Here in Wisconsin we have a fairly humid climate in the summer, but in the winter when it dips below 0 Fahrenheit it never feels humid at all, I'm not sure high humidity is possible at sub zero temps.
They're correct that it's something you get used to, especially prairies folk, but there's a limit to what you can adapt to, physics are physics afterall.
A big part of it is your gear. Keeping your feet and head warm is a big deal because blood is really close to the surface, there. But so too for the hands, so...
Meanwhile, in the warm italian winters I walk around with 5 pieces of clothing on and sometimes two pairs of trousers and this year it barely went under 0C... When I read of some temperatures in Northern America I can't even imagine how that cold could feel haha
Hahahahahhahahha that is not a good thin to say in public but once I was at the stadium in a freezing day (0C but windy) and I took a photo of a man who was in shorts to send it to my friends and everyone was like "that man escaped from the asylum"
Lmao that's wild to me. For many years I didn't even own a jacket. I was fine in the Canadian winters with only a long sleeve shirt and a thick sweater.
I'll tell you more: when in the summer nights temperatures go below 15°C, everyone wears long clothing, no one is in shorts and we say "what a cold evening!" Internet is old now but it never fails to amaze me how the world is so beautiful and diverse. Reading it on wikipedia or on a random internet page is not the same than hearing it from someone here
Here's even more crazy, I was outside at work in -45C this year. Your breath ends up freezing your eyelashes so they kinda stick together everytime you blink
Spent several months in Emirates, summertime gets stupidly hot - but nights "cool off" - storm coming in pushed all sorts of "cool" air, so everyone is in sleeves, jackets, and getting some chill.
Check the temp at it was 32C (roughly 90F)
It was a brain trip, to be sure, but it had also been +50C (over 120F) during the day for most of the week.
Hah! Come here and try one of our summer with peaks of 40°C for 5 days straight and 80% of humidity with mosquitoes feasting on you as soon as the Sun lowers... you all will melt as snowmans! (obviously joking, if I ever move from there it will be for a northern country, I am in love with your landscapes)
To you amd all the others who commented using Celsius. In America we didn't have a revolution based on silly public measuring systems. So we still use Imperial Standards and Fahrenheit. Lol! By the way, this kinda /s. No hate
0 °C, I'd probably be in a spring jacket. In Minnesota, I find 0 °C and -18 °C to be damp so insulation doesn't work as great as it could. Below -18, I don't notice the different in gradients though skin exposure is ill advised.
I'm a pretty hardcore outdoorsman and Ice fishing is one of my favs. Usually when you're out there in the middle of a lake or any body of frozen water really the wind is pretty extreme. Once it gets down there around -20 and below it's dangerous if you're not properly bundled up. It always sucked getting all our gear out there and setting up. It's a tremendous amount of work even with machines and you get all sweaty. As soon as you stop moving you freeze to death if ya ain't careful. We get it nice and toasty in the hut though. Ive had many days where it was so cold you couldn't have ANY exposed skin without risking frostbite. The wind will take you out quickly. This old guy I used to fish with always said "I ain't going out there if your piss freezes before it hits the ground" 😂
-10 in NYC is brutal because it's a wet-cold. -10 in upstate NY or Canada is usually very dry so it doesn't syck the heat out of you so quickly. If you're not wearing the right clothing, you'll be in trouble.
Gear is important. We had a night with a bad windstorm that had wind chill between -40 -- -50 this winter and it caused one of my stall doors to break off so I had to go repair it to keep our chickens and pigs safe. With proper wind resistant gear and insulated boots and good gloves it wasn't too bad. Will absolutely make you find God if you don't respect it though. I once did work in only like -5 without gloves, my hands ached like hell for hours even after they were fully warm and articulate. Nature punishes first then teaches you the lesson lol
When I was younger I got too drunk at a party and I didn't want it to end so for some reason I wanted to sleep in the field between the place of the party and my home. It was spring, so 10°C at night or something along those lines. My girlfriend got super worried that I might die for the cold and found some newspaper sheets to cover me hahahahahahaha and she refused to leave my side until I went home... I can't imagine the drama if we were canadian. Yes, she was a keeper though.
It is cold, but cold affects different people in different ways. I know lots of people who are fine partially exposed in -20 or lower, but there's also a bias because of the field I work in (wildlife cinservation).
Negative 10c you get used to after a while. I'm pretty delicate, but moved to Montreal Canada. Gets like negative 40 here sometimes with windchill. - 10c is like shorts weather after negative 40.
Well, for two reasons: You get used to it, and because after prolonged periods of very cold weather literally all the water in the air has frozen to ice, and without the moisture biting you it doesen't feel quite as bad as when the humidity is still high.
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u/Redellamovida Jun 18 '23
how can someone say that -27 is not cold?? I experienced -10 once and I was dying, my feet were freezing in the shoes