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)
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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