• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I’ve been outside bundled up in 0°. It was unpleasant.

    I’ve been outside in as little as I could legally get away with in 110°.

    No contest: I’ll take the cold.

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      4 months ago

      I also prefer the cold myself, but you know it gets much colder than 0°F in lots of places right?

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        4 months ago

        There isn’t a place on Earth that gets cold enough that you can’t put on enough clothing to make it surviveable for a few hours.

        The human body is endothermic. It regulates it’s own temperature by burning energy to create heat, but it doesn’t have a mechanism to cool itself in a humid environment.

        At high humidity, 95 degrees can be lethal to a hydrated, healthy adult.

        Last summer we 45 consecutive days over 100 degrees in a very humid climate.