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colchar wrote:

DukeUsul wrote:I hate the heat. It's gross. Sticky. I abhor North Carolina summers.

Like CB&B said, you can always put more clothes on. I've got gloves and a hat and a parka if I need it.

I'd love to run around naked in the summers, but I think that would be frowned upon. The only times I can really tolerate extreme heat is when I'm half-naked on a beach with a girly frozen drink.

I'm sure there are nude beaches down there where you could be fully naked while enjoying a frozen drink!

colchar wrote:

colchar wrote:

Devil in the Blue Dress wrote:For those who seem to take a macho approach to cold weather, how do you fare when the temperature and humidity are near 100?

We each adapt to the weather where we are. Don't which extreme I'd rather have..... maybe the hot weather

I adapt to it just fine. Here in southern Ontario we get all four seasons. In winter it gets pretty damned cold at times and, in summer, it gets pretty damned hot at times. During the months of July and August we regularly hit 100 degrees so I am quite used to it.

The university where I did my undergrad degree, the University of Waterloo, has a weather station on campus (they have a main location and weather censors are placed all over campus) and they publish weather data each month as well as yearly summaries (and every other kind of weather data you could wish for). Both the campus and that weather station are located just a couple of blocks from my house so their weather data is dead on for what I'd get.

The link below is to a graph showing our monthly temperatures for 2008 (since the university is closed over the holidays they have yet to compile the data for 2009). If you look at the graph you'll see that we had a few days in the 100 degree range (their data is in celcius but 37.7C is 100F). As I said, this graph is from 2008 and, although I wasn't here (I was in Britain for a few months), I've been told by family and friends that it was a crappy, miserable, wet and cold summer (apparently it rained damned near daily). But even then we hit the 100 degree range (in a normal summer we'd hit it more than we did in 2008).

You'll also notice the data for January shows that we had days colder than -30C (that's -22F!). In January and February we had plenty of days below -25C (we had a couple in December too).

How's that for a range of weather?!? We get both extremes and, as I said in another post, I can easily handle both as I am quite used to them. How would y'all like to live in a place that has such a major swing in temperatures over the course of a year?

Here is the graph:

http://www.weather.uwaterloo.ca/downloa ... rature.pdf

DukeUsul wrote:

colchar wrote:

I'm sure there are nude beaches down there where you could be fully naked while enjoying a frozen drink!

Aaahhh! Sounds like heaven!

For me anyway, maybe not for everyone around me.

Devil in the Blue Dress wrote:

colchar wrote:

Devil in the Blue Dress wrote:For those who seem to take a macho approach to cold weather, how do you fare when the temperature and humidity are near 100?

We each adapt to the weather where we are. Don't which extreme I'd rather have..... maybe the hot weather

I adapt to it just fine. Here in southern Ontario we get all four seasons. In winter it gets pretty damned cold at times and, in summer, it gets pretty damned hot at times. During the months of July and August we regularly hit 100 degrees so I am quite used to it.

What's the humidity like in July and August? Humidity's a significant factor in what feels comfortable or tolerable.

colchar wrote:

devildeac wrote: You, bjornolf and colchar need to sign up for a New Year's day polar bear swim somewhere.

Not a chance in hell - I hate the cold.

OZZIE4DUKE wrote:In the summer I like it hot and humid. How hot and how humid depends on what I'm doing and how long I want to do it for. For example, when it gets into the mid 90's or higher with very high humidity, when I play golf I'll probably ride in a cart instead of pulling my pull cart, or I might walk the first 9 and then ride the second 9, or quit after 9 and go to the pool! I sweat - a lot - so I am drenched quickly but I don't mind that; I drink lots of ice water* when I play, and a Gatorade type drink around the 7th or 8th hole for a "pick me up". I also like dumping cold water over my head at the water coolers spread around the course (every 3 holes - 4, 7, 10, 13 and 16 tees). I do have a problem with my hands sweating and being able to hang on to my club when I swing. I carry several towels on my bag and a special keep dry hand powder.

*Unless it's a tournament with free beer being supplied, I don't usually drink beer while I'm playing. I can play golf, and I can drink beer, but I can't do both seriously at the same time! ;)

Cold weather is nice for a day or two as a change of pace, but give me warm weather the other 363 days of the year. And I saw enough snow in NYC 2 weeks ago to last me for this winter.

devildeac wrote:

colchar wrote:

devildeac wrote: You, bjornolf and colchar need to sign up for a New Year's day polar bear swim somewhere.

Not a chance in hell - I hate the cold.

devildeac wrote: Whaddaya think about this temperature: I -9F I ?

ArkieDukie wrote:It was quite cold in St. Louis this morning when I left for work: 5F, with wind chills of -9F.

TillyGalore wrote:I'm sort of expecting world peace at any moment, after all, we'll be witnessing several colds days in Chapel Hell.

Lavabe wrote:

TillyGalore wrote:I'm sort of expecting world peace at any moment, after all, we'll be witnessing several colds days in Chapel Hell.

Which is colder: the weather or the Holes' outside shooters?

DukeUsul wrote:

colchar wrote:

DukeUsul wrote:I hate the heat. It's gross. Sticky. I abhor North Carolina summers.

Like CB&B said, you can always put more clothes on. I've got gloves and a hat and a parka if I need it.

I'd love to run around naked in the summers, but I think that would be frowned upon. The only times I can really tolerate extreme heat is when I'm half-naked on a beach with a girly frozen drink.

I'm sure there are nude beaches down there where you could be fully naked while enjoying a frozen drink!

Aaahhh! Sounds like heaven!

For me anyway, maybe not for everyone around me.

craziecat wrote:Here is Chi-Town, the windchill is a balmy -11.

CameronBornAndBred wrote:

craziecat wrote:Here is Chi-Town, the windchill is a balmy -11.

You win!!
Have a cup of hot chocolate!