Made Me Laugh

[ChuckMijo]

I had to travel today to Yuma, Az for a meeting . I got a hotel room. There’s a nice pool . It’s completely overcast about 72 degrees. Im freezing. Most locals are cold. I go out on the balcony that overlooks pool. Low and behold here’s these Canadians swimming, sunbathing like it’s 110 outside. I herd the term “A” about 10 times. Whole family just splashing away. You Canadians are a slightly nuts, tuff bunch ?

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

The Thyroid at work. Acclimatization takes about two weeks.
I looked it up a few months ago and saw a video on Youtube covering the subject, significant deviation from average temperature will always feel uncomfortable, in the same room you can give one person goosebumps and another heat stroke as long as you bring them in from locations with opposite extreme average temperature. I know there are some genetic limits to acclimatization but in general you'll only "feel" hot or cold in a given environment for a few weeks before that becomes the new "normal".

Every September I start to wear a thick jacket as the daily temperature approaches freezing, that lasts through most of October but once you have to work in the snow for about a week, the first Chinook after that is T-Shirt weather.

 

[warren]

My first trip to Los Vegas, January, it was mid-60's and the desk clerk was adhast that I asked when the pool opened. He finally replied, "May."

 

[mikethompson]

It was -6℃ today with the wind and I saw someone with shorts on.

I can't imagine there are Canadians stuck in Arizona right now. Please send me the address so I can airlift them Kraft dinner and passable beer.

 

[Ahi Ka]

@mikethompson you are a good buddy

 

[ChuckMijo]

Pa

It was -6℃ today with the wind and I saw someone with shorts on.

I can't imagine there are Canadians stuck in Arizona right now. Please send me the address so I can airlift them Kraft dinner and passable beer.

Don’t fret, we have the kings of beers here bud light!!!! It says so right on the can.

 

[ChuckMijo]

I went to Florida for Vacation a few years ago , the humidity was unreal. I grew up in the desert and never experienced anything like that. It was horrible.! I almost couldn’t breathe

 

[shanez]

I've guess I've lived in Vegas long enough to become the opposite. I often walk construction sites when it's 110+ while wearing a long sleeve shirt and drinking hot coffee.

 

[Tommy Boy]

In the fall and early winter i won't even wear a coat outside sometimes. My grandpa use to tell us it would help keep us healthy and strong. Might be something to it he was almost 90 when he passed and was healthy right up to the very end.

 

[alaskanpiper]

Haha, 72 is a hot summer day for us. I'd be skinning dipping at my cabin. You can keep the heat. I much prefer the adaptability of layers to instant swamp ass. You can only get so naked.

 

[Casual]

Went to Austin in August for a get-together once. Nearly melted while waiting outside for twenty minutes to get into a barbecue place. The only other person in the party who couldn’t handle waiting outside was the other Canadian who flew down. We commiserated how we really could use a bit of snow.

Married her nine years ago.

 

[Infantry23]

Haha, 72 is a hot summer day for us. I'd be skinning dipping at my cabin. You can keep the heat. I much prefer the adaptability of layers to instant swamp ass. You can only get so naked.

Amen, preach it brother!

 

[kurtbob]

Man, it’s 34 deg here in SE Georgia right now........and look at my bitch ass set up

 

[olkofri]

72 F is cold??

Heck, 8 F more than that and I start becoming ill due to heat.

 

[musicman]

I was smoking a bowl outside on my patio last night late, here in Tucson. I put on long johns, jeans, a wool stocking cap, and three layers on top including a light down jacket. Afterwards, I went inside and checked the temp. 64 F. My transition to desert rat is complete.

The first time I came to town it was February, and I was visiting from MN. It was a warm weekend in Tucson for that time of year, about 85 for highs. The lows in MN were well into the negatives. The day I flew back I got to experience a 100 degree temp differential.

As for the pool, are you kidding me? It's gotta at LEAST be in the 90s to go in the pool! And because of the dry air evaporative effect you can feel cold when you first get out, even when the air is 105 F.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

Haha, 72 is a hot summer day for us. I'd be skinning dipping at my cabin. You can keep the heat. I much prefer the adaptability of layers to instant swamp ass. You can only get so naked.

Trouble is when you talk about shedding layers for extreme heat, that usually means losing body fat.
I get to claim practical benefit to eating a few hundred extra calories per-day.

 

[cossackjack]

Haha, 72 is a hot summer day for us. I'd be skinning dipping at my cabin. You can keep the heat. I much prefer the adaptability of layers to instant swamp ass. You can only get so naked.

Truer words have never been spoken.
My response to SWMBO when wants to crank-up the thermostat (set at 76-78 F), wood-stove, & pellet-stove is,
"You don't sweat so you'll never suffer from swamp-ass & shweaty-balls...I can only get so naked!"

 

[tschiraldi]

I'm in Ohio. If it hot 72 degrees here in December, I'd strip off all my clothes and do cartwheels naked in my back yard (No pics, I promise)!

 

[pappymac]

My first six years in the Coast Guard, I was based in Washington State and made two trips inside the Arctic Circle and one to Antarctica. I was then transferred to New Orleans and didn't feel cold until I was transferred to New Jersey three years later. Went from Jersey to Miami for 3 years and then to New York City. I think New York was colder than the antarctic. I retired in the New Orleans area in 1993 and I seldom feel the need to put on a sweater while other people are wearing coats when its 60f outside.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

It is amazing what your body will adjust to. 100F all summer, and it's hitting 60-70F now, and I pull out the coats and crank on the heater. But, when we used to camp out in Florida in the summer, we would spend a couple of weeks without air conditioner living every minute on the beach, or riding bikes along the coast, and totally get used to it. You actually stop sweating as you acclimate to the heat. Then we'd go to get supplies at the local grocers and freeze our asses off in the air conditioner. I remember the my daughters lips turning blue and teeth chattering in 75F.

This is why I bawk at people shaming pet owners who leave dogs outside in the winter. If the dog is outside all the time, they get used to it. Just like we would if we stayed outside all the time. Humanity hasn't even had HVAC for 100 years yet... (maybe 70 years for the rich) and we survived, and so did the dogs. You actually risk your dog overheating by bringing them inside only on the coldest days.