sometimes I think I am the only person in the world who hates cold weather

I hate cold anymore

.. and if the boiler and steam/ condensate piping at work ain't up to snuff (like it is).... it's gonna be a long berkeleying winter

With every passing year I get worse at dealing with cold and better with heat. Especially this year (I blame the Miata).

Winter can get berked.

Of course, I live in northern Vermont. It'll generally snow at least once before Halloween. By December we'll have snow that will stay there until April or so. Somewhere in the middle temps will hit the -30's a couple times.

Do not want

Yeah, up there you get some real crap winter weather courtesy of Canuckistan. Time to invade! Send that crap back!

Down here we get maybe a month of really crappy cold (well, for us anyway) around February. That's usually when we get snow too. Most times we get a week or two of misty rain and high 30's which can be abysmally nasty. I ran a hare scramble in those conditions once, all I could think of was how much nicer an old movie on the DVD, a fire in the fireplace, a warm gal and a blanket over my porcine corpus would be than freezing my nards off in the wet woods.

I don't care for the cold but it's better than the humidity in the summer. Since I work outside all year I put on a lot of layers and buy a case of hand warmers. I haven't gotten used to the cold but I'd rather be up to my armpits in snow then in our building.

Can you build an AC unit with two sticks?

Can you build a heater with a banana leaf?

I just made the trip from FL to NJ. It's too cold at 3AM in VA, but it feels a lot nicer here at 3AM. I can almost deal with the weather, at least for now.

It was about 40°F this morning when I drove the Miata to work with the top down. Don't worry, I was wearing a nice sweatshirt, a vest, gloves, and my original stormy kromer. I had to put the top down to come to work, and as soon as I parked, I promtly put the top back up.

mguar wrote:

thestig99 wrote: With every passing year I get worse at dealing with cold and better with heat. Especially this year (I blame the Miata). Winter can get berked. Of course, I live in northern Vermont. It'll generally snow at least once before Halloween. By December we'll have snow that will stay there until April or so. Somewhere in the middle temps will hit the -30's a couple times. Do not want

Only -30? huh it regularly hits below -40 hear during the winter.. Up here in the arctic tundra of Minnesota.. You'd be surprised at the numbers of Days we're Colder in Minnesota than they are in Alaska.. (most of the time)

my mom's side of the family is from the UP. She remembers often seeing the thermometer being lower at home than at International Falls

I prefer cold to heat. To deal with cold you just add clothes. Once it hits about 30C you could be naked and you'll still be too hot. I think my tolerance for heat is decreasing as I get older too.

I wear shorts and a t shirt year round. I like the cold.

I hate cold weather, and really hate hot weather. 68* and partly cloudy is ideal. To make matters worse, I hate California(on political grounds).

There's been a couple of times it was colder in Charleston, SC than it was in Anchorage, Alaska on the same day. Sure, it was only 3 or 4 deg F, but still... and down there when it drops below 40 the newscasters start warning about checking on the elderly, covering the plants, bringing in the pets and making dark references to the Donner Party and those soccer players in the Andes. Buncha sissies.

In reply to Curmudgeon:

I grew up in Florida, and the cold hysteria always irked me. Even as a 5 year old, I knew that water froze at 32F, and that meant all water, including Fido, grandma, and the pipes under your house. Does the average population not understand that cold is cold?

Curmudgeon wrote: There's been a couple of times it was colder in Charleston, SC than it was in Anchorage, Alaska on the same day. Sure, it was only 3 or 4 deg F, but still... and down there when it drops below 40 the newscasters start warning about checking on the elderly, covering the plants, bringing in the pets and making dark references to the Donner Party and those soccer players in the Andes. Buncha sissies.

humm I live about 2 hours from donner lake, really pretty area.

September in Vermont is about perfect for me. Cool enough in the evenings to keep the mosquitos away. Warm enough during the day not to need a jacket. A little more day light would be preferable. 75 and partly cloudy is perfect for me during the day. 45-55 at night is perfect sleeping weather.

It's not depth of cold, it's duration. See the "tomato map".

I'm from Zone 38. Spring, Summer, and Fall are great - but they add up to only 8 months; from November to late March motorsports and frisbee are out. Overnight freezes are OK but work stops in the garage if it doesn't get out of the thirties at any point during the day. Die-hards can stretch it to mid-November, but playing in <35F weather is hell on your hands even with gloves. Moving to Zone 31 was a major improvement in my life, with about 11 months out of the year usable.

When I move, I'm considering jobs in Zone 14 out in California and in Zone 32, which has a broad span down the East Coast. Zone 34's OK if I'm south of Boston.

Curmudgeon wrote: There's been a couple of times it was colder in Charleston, SC than it was in Anchorage, Alaska on the same day. Sure, it was only 3 or 4 deg F, but still... and down there when it drops below 40 the newscasters start warning about checking on the elderly, covering the plants, bringing in the pets and making dark references to the Donner Party and those soccer players in the Andes. Buncha sissies.

A local radio morning show host tellls a story about going to one of the Star Trek movies years ago, the one where in one scene the crew is stranded on some frozen asteroid. The actors on the screen are supposed to be in the most extreme cold imaginable and they're dying, but the actual temperature outside the theater in real life was colder and it was just another winter day in Minnesota.

I'm usually ready for every season to end and for the next one to start a couple of weeks before they actually do end. At the end of winter I was wearing shorts at 40°F and at the end of summer I am wearing sweatshirt, vest, hat, gloves and jeans at 40°F. It takes a while to get used to the temp. I like seasons (all four of them please).

chaparral wrote: It's not depth of cold, it's duration. See the "tomato map". I'm from Zone 38. Spring, Summer, and Fall are great - but they add up to only 8 months; from November to late March motorsports and frisbee are out. Overnight freezes are OK but work stops in the garage if it doesn't get out of the thirties at any point during the day. Die-hards can stretch it to mid-November, but playing in <35F weather is hell on your hands even with gloves. Moving to Zone 31 was a major improvement in my life, with about 11 months out of the year usable. When I move, I'm considering jobs in Zone 14 out in California and in Zone 32, which has a broad span down the East Coast. Zone 34's OK if I'm south of Boston.

I'm right at the edge of 31/32.

For some reason, the lows for 31 are shown as lower than 32.

Reprezentin the tre deuce.