@phendrick I don’t think the decision is that easy. What if it’s too cold out because there is a snow storm? You can put on as many layers as you want but if you aren’t prepared to shovel, you aren’t going anywhere.
@njfan
Irrelevant.
First, the question made no mention of snow. It can be brutally cold without snow.
Second, even if there is snow up to the top of your exterior door frame and has semi-melted and refrozen into a solid block of ice, you can still swing the door inward and exit the house. Then you are outside, so not stuck inside. The question made no mention of going anywhere off property. But even in the midst of our historical central Texas snowstorm last year with temperatures well below freezing for a record duration, I still walked the dog through the neighborhood, even though the roads were pretty much impassable for vehicles ( for most people, there are always those…) I just wore multiple layers of under and outer clothes and a ski mask with a pom-pom knit cap over it (thank you, Meh).
Incidentally, though I’ve lived practically all my life in Texas, I used to visit relatives in Buffalo, New York over many Christmases. I’ve always appreciated cold weather more than most Southerners. And probably hate hot, humid weather more than most such.
I’m a Florida Man, so neither. I have half-gator DNA, so heat is my friend. It never gets too cold to go outside, either. I would much rather be a little too warm instead of a little too cool.
I was stuck inside on 4th if July weekend when it was in the 90s with high humidity while everybody was on the lake. I had a really bad upper respiratory and sinus infection and couldn’t breath good outside bc the air was so stagnant. It sucked, all I wanted to do was be on the lake.
If you are “stuck inside”, it really seem like there is much of a difference. However, it does costs more to run the A/C, so I guess “too hot” is worse in that regard.
But to answer the question more in what I think was the spirit it was asked, and basing on the extremes where I live:
At 100 degrees F, it still can be fun to go swimming, water-skiing or visit the water park (provided you don’t over-do it)
There is nothing I want to do outside when the temperature is in the single digits
We have a fight about this all the time. When I went to the dog park in the winter I bought ski pants and wore two coats. We were lucky that the park was on a hill and the wind was blocked. We all stayed hours every day! Like people have said, you can dress for cold until it get in the single digits. I was in Florida in Aug back when I was a teen. I went to the beach, which was empty and almost passed out from the heat. There is nothing you can do when it is really hot.
If you’re too cold outside, put more clothes on, you ninny.
If you are too hot, though, you are limited by how much you can take off before you steam-broil your skin, or get arrested, or worse, laughed at.
@phendrick I don’t think the decision is that easy. What if it’s too cold out because there is a snow storm? You can put on as many layers as you want but if you aren’t prepared to shovel, you aren’t going anywhere.
@njfan
Irrelevant.
First, the question made no mention of snow. It can be brutally cold without snow.
Second, even if there is snow up to the top of your exterior door frame and has semi-melted and refrozen into a solid block of ice, you can still swing the door inward and exit the house. Then you are outside, so not stuck inside. The question made no mention of going anywhere off property. But even in the midst of our historical central Texas snowstorm last year with temperatures well below freezing for a record duration, I still walked the dog through the neighborhood, even though the roads were pretty much impassable for vehicles ( for most people, there are always those…) I just wore multiple layers of under and outer clothes and a ski mask with a pom-pom knit cap over it (thank you, Meh).
Incidentally, though I’ve lived practically all my life in Texas, I used to visit relatives in Buffalo, New York over many Christmases. I’ve always appreciated cold weather more than most Southerners. And probably hate hot, humid weather more than most such.
@phendrick
/image meh
I hate summer and the sun is my enemy.
Having to go outside regardless of the temperature.
@awk the basement is only cool in temperature.
I say cold because of the fact frozen body parts are really, really painful.
I’m a Florida Man, so neither. I have half-gator DNA, so heat is my friend. It never gets too cold to go outside, either. I would much rather be a little too warm instead of a little too cool.
I had a boss once who did mountain search and rescue. His saying was: there is no bad weather, only bad gear.
@tweezak What would he wear for tornadoes?
(I don’t believe IronMan suits are commercially available yet.)
Heat. Things outside start melting and smelling.
When it’s too cold out, I can snuggle in my soft blankets with my cat and drink ginger tea and be happy.
When the sun comes out, I can only get so cool. Sadly, I was born without the ability to vomit up my spine to cool down, so what’s a person to do?
Hot is by far more miserable. You can put on a snowsuit, but you can’t put on an “Air Conditioning Suit!”
Many of my migraines are caused by light. The sun is my enemy. I will get a migraine in summer just from running out to get milk!
I was stuck inside on 4th if July weekend when it was in the 90s with high humidity while everybody was on the lake. I had a really bad upper respiratory and sinus infection and couldn’t breath good outside bc the air was so stagnant. It sucked, all I wanted to do was be on the lake.
If you are “stuck inside”, it really seem like there is much of a difference. However, it does costs more to run the A/C, so I guess “too hot” is worse in that regard.
But to answer the question more in what I think was the spirit it was asked, and basing on the extremes where I live:
At 100 degrees F, it still can be fun to go swimming, water-skiing or visit the water park (provided you don’t over-do it)
There is nothing I want to do outside when the temperature is in the single digits
We have a fight about this all the time. When I went to the dog park in the winter I bought ski pants and wore two coats. We were lucky that the park was on a hill and the wind was blocked. We all stayed hours every day! Like people have said, you can dress for cold until it get in the single digits. I was in Florida in Aug back when I was a teen. I went to the beach, which was empty and almost passed out from the heat. There is nothing you can do when it is really hot.