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Is Hot or Cold Weather Worse?

Postby Kyete » Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:33 am

This is something I debate with my friends quite often: is hot weather ( above 80 F/26.27C) or cold weather (below 32F/0C) worse? There are bad things about hot weather (you get sweaty, you can't put on more layers, heatstroke is very dangerous), but there are also really nasty things about cold weather! For example, frostbite, hypothermia, black ice, the ETERNAL DARKNESS, having to wear lots of layers... the list continues. What do you think? Is the heat more tolerable, or the cold?

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Postby Federation of Great Lake States » Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:34 am

I'd say hot weather is worse for me but that's probably only because I grew up in and live in a relatively cold state (Michigan) where it can snow almost anytime. I also just really like hot chocolate.
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Postby Adamede » Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:35 am

Imho I’ll take a cold winter over a hot summer. I live in southern Arkansas and from like May to September every day had a peak heat in the 90’s at least.

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Postby Bongian Troop 2 Infantry 5th » Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:37 am

Cold is worse.

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Postby Nea Skotia » Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:39 am

Too hot is objectively worse than too cold.

You can layer as needed for the cold. When it's too hot, there's only so much you can take off before you're declared a public nuisance for blinding the neighbours. :p
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Postby Kyete » Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:42 am

Nea Skotia wrote:Too hot is objectively worse than too cold.

You can layer as needed for the cold. When it's too hot, there's only so much you can take off before you're declared a public nuisance for blinding the neighbours. :p


yeah but you can pour water on yourself or stand in the shade or have a fan or something if you're too hot. if you're too cold, you can either put on more layers until you look like the kid from A Christmas Story, or you can stand by a fire and burn half your face off while the rest of you freezes.

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Postby Risottia » Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:49 am

Hot is worse. Sweat, smell, bugs, drought. EW.
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Postby Dremotia » Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:50 am

cold. brrrrrrr it gives you frostbite at like only -2degrees it'll need toi be like 55 degrees to get heatstroke ands thats rare

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Postby DashOfCarolinian » Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:52 am

Cold. Can't do anything when it's freezing. You can swim when it blisters hot, or go on the trampoline...
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Postby Fjolmidlum » Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:52 am

I only get chapped lips and dry skin in winter, and I typically don't have much of a problem working even in the triple digits. Also doesn't help that my home is cooled a hell of a lot better than it's heated. Hot weather any day of the week.
irregardless, its the same difference and i literally could care less for all intensive purposes so you're point is mute per say
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Postby British Arzelentaxmacone » Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:53 am

Hot is so much worse, although I cope well with both weathers. Ancestry.com says I have a genetic predisposition to heat tolerance, however I’m more inclined to believe it’s a result of living through a few long heatwaves. Either way I prefer cold.
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Postby HISPIDA » Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:54 am

fuck hot weather. cold weather is god's greatest gift to nature.
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Postby Deblar » Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:58 am

ngl im kinda torn.

on one hand, hot weather i don't mind too much from having lived in a warm climate my whole life but i can acknowledge that it sometimes really sucks

on the other, cold weather you can just put on more layers for but after the clusterfuck that was february 2021 i think i might have cold weather related ptsd
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Postby Technoscience Leftwing » Wed Jan 15, 2025 11:15 am

Cold weather is worse. This is reflected in the famous book by Parshev "Why Russia is not America". He writes there that because of the frosts in Russia, much more resources must be spent on the production of goods:

- It is necessary to provide steam heating and the necessary stations burning coal or fuel oil, as well as the supply of hot water through pipes to buildings
- Construction of foundations designed for deep freezing of the soil and sharp differences between winter and summer temperatures
- Thickness of walls large enough to protect from frost
- Constant renewal of road surfaces, which are destroyed by temperature changes from frost to heat
- It is necessary to include in the salaries of workers the cost of warm clothing and high-calorie food

At the same time, in Canada and Scandinavia, frosts are smoothed out by a warm current (Gulf Stream), and the fact that people in Canada are settled on relatively warm ocean coasts, and not so many of them live inside the country. In Russia, the climate situation is different, and this leads to non-competitiveness and high prices for many Russian goods on the world market. And you can't copy the economic models of the tropics, where homeless people can somehow survive temporary unemployment in favelas - in Russia they will simply freeze, you can't create favelas here. And, of course, there is just discomfort from the cold. Although there are advantages: skating and skiing, sledding, building ice towns.
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Postby Experina » Wed Jan 15, 2025 11:19 am

Hot weather, atleast with the cold you can put a bunch of clothes on but there's not much you can do in Hot weather, other than probably sit with cooling nearby.
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Postby Haryana-Kashmir » Wed Jan 15, 2025 11:24 am

COLD.

so let me get this straight, i live in an area where at summer it can get up to 40 degrees, sure it sucks but i have an ac so i'll be fine.

NOW AT WINTER, FOR SOME REASON IT CAN GET UP TO 5 DEGREES IN WINTER OH AND NOT TO MENTION MY SCHOOL DOESN'T HAVE ANY HEATERS SO ILL BE FREEZING FOR THE ENTIRE DAY. But do you know the absolute worst bit? ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO SHOWER IF THE HOT WATER RUNS OUT AFTER LIKE 5 MINUTES AND THE WATER BECOMES LIQUID NITROGEN

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Postby Floofybit » Wed Jan 15, 2025 11:53 am

Cold. I swear I'm gonna cause an earthquake from all the shivering.
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Postby Federation of Great Lake States » Wed Jan 15, 2025 11:59 am

HISPIDA wrote:fuck hot weather. cold weather is god's greatest gift to nature.

This is probably one of the only things we'll ever agree on.
Haryana-Kashmir wrote:COLD.

so let me get this straight, i live in an area where at summer it can get up to 40 degrees, sure it sucks but i have an ac so i'll be fine.

NOW AT WINTER, FOR SOME REASON IT CAN GET UP TO 5 DEGREES IN WINTER OH AND NOT TO MENTION MY SCHOOL DOESN'T HAVE ANY HEATERS SO ILL BE FREEZING FOR THE ENTIRE DAY. But do you know the absolute worst bit? ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO SHOWER IF THE HOT WATER RUNS OUT AFTER LIKE 5 MINUTES AND THE WATER BECOMES LIQUID NITROGEN

Forgot most countries don't use the objectively correct system of measurement for temperature and got confused cause 40f is like 17 degrees warmer than where I am right now. And I'm sitting outside rn, in a hoodie, perfectly fine.
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Postby East Qaru » Wed Jan 15, 2025 12:00 pm

Hot weather imo. At least in cold weather one could compensate by wearing multiple layers of clothes. On the other hand even if I were lightly dressed the heat would still be unbearable.
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Postby Floofybit » Wed Jan 15, 2025 12:04 pm

I don't get the "it's cold so you put on clothes but if it's hot you can't do anything" thing. It might be where I live, but I've never been aching to go back inside during the summer.
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Postby Fjolmidlum » Wed Jan 15, 2025 12:27 pm

Floofybit wrote:I don't get the "it's cold so you put on clothes but if it's hot you can't do anything" thing. It might be where I live, but I've never been aching to go back inside during the summer.

The "put on more clothes" argument is great right up until you realize you lose half the function of your hands within 10 minutes unless you wear big thick gloves that also debilitate your ability to use your hands. Definitely summer is better in that regard, considering you can also just dress for the weather in that case as well.
irregardless, its the same difference and i literally could care less for all intensive purposes so you're point is mute per say
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Postby Southglory » Wed Jan 15, 2025 12:35 pm

The cold, it kills faster.
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Postby Experina » Wed Jan 15, 2025 1:08 pm

Fjolmidlum wrote:
Floofybit wrote:I don't get the "it's cold so you put on clothes but if it's hot you can't do anything" thing. It might be where I live, but I've never been aching to go back inside during the summer.

The "put on more clothes" argument is great right up until you realize you lose half the function of your hands within 10 minutes unless you wear big thick gloves that also debilitate your ability to use your hands. Definitely summer is better in that regard, considering you can also just dress for the weather in that case as well.


I live in a warmer area, so thus Hot weather is worse because the cold weather isn't so bad here, because you can get away without wearing these thick big gloves, while Hot weather the only thing you can do is sheek shade or cooling, so thus the argument can vary based on area.
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Postby Liberza » Wed Jan 15, 2025 1:15 pm

Cold weather is lightwork if there’s no breeze tbh. No problem wearing shorts well below 32F. Hands get really cold but I’ll live.

But, on the other hand, 80F isn’t that hot in my opinion, either. Usually to this question I’d answer hot weather is worse but recency bias definitely affects the answer. I like when it’s cooler than warmer but not freezing.

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Postby Fjolmidlum » Wed Jan 15, 2025 1:18 pm

Experina wrote:
Fjolmidlum wrote:The "put on more clothes" argument is great right up until you realize you lose half the function of your hands within 10 minutes unless you wear big thick gloves that also debilitate your ability to use your hands. Definitely summer is better in that regard, considering you can also just dress for the weather in that case as well.


I live in a warmer area, so thus Hot weather is worse because the cold weather isn't so bad here, because you can get away without wearing these thick big gloves, while Hot weather the only thing you can do is sheek shade or cooling, so thus the argument can vary based on area.

I live in a hotter area as well, summers are far worse than the winters at least. Used to live in an actual desert. Desert was more bearable in the summer than it is here in the winters even though the winters are fairly mild, in my opinion. Working in the winter is just about one of the most miserable things I get forced to do. In the desert, sure, you had days where you really couldn't do much other than laze about and cool off inside, but most of the summer it was no problem if you were drinking water and weren't overdoing it on the physical activity. Of course, I lack experience in say Vietnam or something, so my assessment can't relate to that kind of climate. Also, the thread is specially talking about weather below freezing or above 80F.
irregardless, its the same difference and i literally could care less for all intensive purposes so you're point is mute per say
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