Can YOU handle the heat?

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Navvan

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I'm sure it has been mentioned but there is difference between being hit by a heat wave and living in a hot region and that difference is due to acclimatization. Your body physiology actually changes depending on the temperature you've been living in for about the past week to month. So if its always hot where you live your body will adapt to that, and likewise with the cold. The thing is if there is a rapid change in temperature, the body can't adapt quick enough and thus you're more susceptible to the negative effects of that temperature. It is for that reason that schools are let out and people make such a big deal out of it.

That said I live in Minnesota, a place where the weather changing on a dime is relatively common so I'm fairly use to it being 80 out one day and snowing the next. Like most humans I prefer a moderate temperate (50-70 F) but if given an ultimatum I prefer the winter extremes over the summer in terms of temperature.
 

Lionsfan

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Navvan said:
That said I live in Minnesota, a place where the weather changing on a dime is relatively common so I'm fairly use to it being 80 out one day and snowing the next. Like most humans I prefer a moderate temperate (50-70 F) but if given an ultimatum I prefer the winter extremes over the summer in terms of temperature.
Midwest Weather FTW!

OT: Seriously though, I don't get bothered by heat or cold too much. The only thing I don't really like is Humidity, like someone said it just makes everyone look like they just got done having sex. And besides everyone looking sweaty (and smelling) it's just a lot more uncomfortable than dry heat
 

kortin

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As long as there isn't really any humidity, I can handle heat up to 120 Fahrenheit (I lived in the Death Valley vicinity for much of my early life).
 

PatrickXD

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No I suck at dealing with heat. If it reaches about 25C I start to sweat uncontrollably and pass out on the floor. Had to be taken into the ER a couple of times now.
 

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lacktheknack said:
I live in Edmonton. Heat is not an issue.

5 degrees Celsius (38 or so Fahrenheit) is shorts-and-t-shirt weather around these parts.
Amen, brother. It's our winters that are the fun part.

I don't really like heat. When you get some brutal humidity with the heat, I just want to sit on the couch in my boxers and do absolutely nothing. I prefer cool weather and I don't mind really cold weather as all I need to do is bundle up and I'm good to go.
 

MaVeN1337

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If it's hotter than 85 I am miserable. No exceptions.
Freaking hate hot weather. I love swimming though :D
 

Fwee

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I can take the heat, I believe. But don't expect me to dress up nice for work; there's only so many office shirts and pairs of pants in my closet and I hate doing laundry.
I live in Nebraska, which is saying I get the weather version of a mandatory salad bar.
The only kind of shitty weather we don't get is tsunamis. I'll admit we haven't had a notable earthquake in about a century and a half, but who knows when the Black Hills will get uppity.
 

AbstractJuggler

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Heat...blech. My ideal temperature is about 15C-16C. Anything much hotter than that and I begin to roast like a side of beef. But I suppose that's coming from an Englishman with family up North, so I was built used to the cold. It was really bad for me a while ago when my room had a hot water tank in it, and I remember that on the hottest day of the year (this is around 2007-2009 - I can't really remember) it was about 32C outside and it was 38C-40C in my room. I physically could not go in there and slept on the sofa for a few days.