i once walked around in the desert barefoot for so long i couldn’t feel it anymore on the soles of my feet. my feet were like shoes. i was miserable otherwise. can’t recommend it.
I can deal with standard cold and the snow. It’s the lack of sun and extreme colds that get me. Minnesota’s a good place, but Colorado looks awful tempting.
Yeah no. I’ll take cold over heat any day. At least when it’s cold I can just add a few layers or do something to mitigate it. When it’s hot theres only so many layers I can take off without becomming a sex offender.
A lot of people say that, but it does fuck all for my hands and face, and I'm still breathing in cold ass air.
I have heat retention issues, not heat rejection issues.
Perhaps the grossest feeling I've ever experienced was while I was stationed near Chicago during the winter and my nose hairs were freezing inside my nose, all while bundled up in as many layers as possible.
Not always, am Aussie grew up in, and still live in miserable humid heat, it’s fucking terrible. Though our 3 days of ‘winter’ per year are rather nice
Cold, you can mitigate it much easier. On a serious note our winter months are great, shorts and t-shirt and it’s just good temp all round, and cool enough at night for a blanket at times! But yeah the warm months are not a good thing!
To each their own but I’d still rather have numb limbs and frozen snot than be stuck in the heat. I live in minnesota so I’m more than used to snapping off snotcicles at -20F while shoveling the driveway. At least when it’s cold you can still move your body without it making things worse. When it’s opressively hot all you can do is sit there sweating and feeling miserable. Any activity just winds up making matters worse. There’s nothing you can do except suffer. It’s the temperature equivalent of having congested sinuses.
Of course like you said, you have heat retention issues. Meanwhile my body runs like a damn furnace. I just wish it also burned calories like one.
I was thinking the other day, if all the “sensors” in your body for making you feel hot are in your skin, then surely removing the epidermis would be the last layer needed to be removed to avoid feeling hot.
Actually yes. People with severe burns over a large part of their body wind up with massive issues as far as keeping their body temp up. But if you’re burned that bad then you usually have much bigger things to worry about anyways. However your epidermis is mostly dead tissue so to have any real effect you need to go a little deeper and remove the dermis too. So if you skin yourself it can help keep your body temp down.
Yeah, I was wondering as well, if there’s something more to it.
If my cup of tea is at 70°C, that does burn my tongue, but that’s in particular, because water conducts heat very well. I guess, if it’s very smooth asphalt and he gets full contact with naked skin, then it would conduct heat well, too…
You think can there be anything much worse than being in a motorcycle crash? Yeah, being seriously injured in a motorcycle crash, stuck laying on the asphalt in Phoenix in the Summer. Like cooking in a frying pan.
This guy was in Phoenix, AZ. The pavement he fell on was bare minimum that hot this summer. Multiple people, including kids had severe burns after falling this year.
The biggest problem is it isn’t instant. Every try to stand up by pushing your hands down on 100°C pavement? How about when you fall hard on your side and then the skin on your leg, as you try to stand, sticks and doesn’t come up with the rest of you? It’s pretty fuckin brutal.
Fuck yeah. I look forward to winter. Maybe it’s because I was born up north, moved to the US’s swampy dick halfway through my childhood, and then spent most of my formative years being hot and miserable, but I love the shorter days, the cold weather, gray skies…then again, I like all of those things partly because they cause me to slow down more and appreciate the respite FROM the cold.
I’m a winter person at heart, though. I like hot drinks and long pants and sweatshirts and reading under the covers and jackets and having my hands in my pockets as I walk. I love the winter, but I also love the warmth of the winter. And I have so many memories from my childhood that I was robbed of living in Florida. Of course those years I spent on the beach and in the pool and shit, and sure, I love those things too, but winter is just where it’s at.
(Also, I’m not sure “20 and 17 freedom degrees” was meant to be a joke on the imperial system, but it was funny. Maybe even funnier if it were accidental)
This is literally Russia’s current plan for Siberia. They want access to the vast mineral deposits under the permafrost, and if they wait, getting at those minerals gets a lot easier.
Anthropogenic Climate Change, aka global warming, isn’t only warming. It’s exacerbation of temperature variants, especially extremes:
-Hot climates will get hotter.
-Cold climates will get colder.
-Hurricanes and tornadoes will happen more often, and they will be stronger.
-Wildfires will be bigger and more frequent.
-Mudslides will be more frequent.
-Extreme cold snaps more frequent and longer lasting.
cold climates generally won’t get colder, but weather extremes will become more common and more pronounced (think snow in Texas)
In general, the jetstream becomes less intense and moves less, leading to longer periods of the same weather, and both extended drought and extended rain are not great for food production. And the chance of it snapping and letting out part of the polar vortex increases by a lot, causing freak weather anomalies
Montreal used to be solid snow from November to April, now it’s weird waves of snow and melt. Slush half the time and garbage weather. Thanks climate change!
People lived in hot deserts without AC or melting their skin off for thousands of years.
You maximize shade, maximize plant cover, maximize wind carrying away heat, maximize heat being reflected or radiated away. That means you implement passive cooling techniques like wind catchers or qanats, build narrow streets to shade the ground, make everything brightly colored, you have as many trees as possible, open waters for evaporative cooling etc…
You can do that in modern times too, look at Masdar city. US city planning is just completeley backwards. You can’t plop the same city that “works” in a temperate climate and expect it to work in a desert.
Asphalt heats up way beyond ambient temperature, and trees generate their own microclimate with over a dozen degrees lower air temperature, not to speak of shade. So yes, this absolutely is a consequence of car-centric city planning and our grand quest to turn the world into a parking lot
I agree to a point. But you can’t make Phoenix have a 70° day when it’s 100° outside.
But you can decrease massive stroads and add more trees and local grasses. Make walkability more comfortable with more shade. Accessible clean water. Walkable cities where commutes are shorter. Etc.
But that’s also the problem Phoenix was hoping to solve when they declined interstate highway expansion post war. They didn’t want to demolish large swaths of town to build them so they just kept widening the grid of roads they did have, in order to accommodate their ever expanding population
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