Born and raised in Michigan, lived in far Northern Japan and Iceland, been through a few Winters in my 70 years, but...

Today it's 6° and winds gusting to 50-ish MPH and I'm here to tell ya, that's COLD! Walked 100 yards from the house to the chicken coop and back and I think I got frostbite on my widdle face!

My sister moved back to Houston from the Brewer ME area back in October, she definitely doesn't miss the cold (as we have the coldest winter in 100 yrs here).

Ball shrinkin' cold!

So it’s 36° out this morning with a high of 68°. I find this to be rather cold. Cold enough I will definitely be remote starting the Jeep so it’s warm, and the seat and steering wheel heaters are on and warm. It’s damn cold here.

Paul, I don’t think I could handle your weather. Maybe once for the experience, but to have to live in it, no thank you.

I guess the flip side is that you look at my spring/summer/fall and probably think the high temperatures are uninhabitable, hostile living conditions, similar to how I view the lows of your fall/winter/spring.

I've seen around -60 Fahrenheit in Fairbanks Alaska.

Now that's cold.

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Originally posted by Beancooker:
So it’s 36° out this morning with a high of 68°. I find this to be rather cold. Cold enough I will definitely be remote starting the Jeep so it’s warm, and the seat and steering wheel heaters are on and warm. It’s damn cold here.

Paul, I don’t think I could handle your weather. Maybe once for the experience, but to have to live in it, no thank you.

I guess the flip side is that you look at my spring/summer/fall and probably think the high temperatures are uninhabitable, hostile living conditions, similar to how I view the lows of your fall/winter/spring.

Thanks to Uncle Sam, I've had the opportunity to live in hot, humid places. The Philippines, Virginia, Florida and South Carolina to be precise.

I also have 2 brothers in Arizona and my parents retired to the Phoenix area. Never visited in the height of Summer (and don't intend to!) but reports from them have convinced me that "it's a dry heat" makes no difference. It's still freakin' HOT.

I long ago discovered that I handle cold MUCH better than I handle hot and humid. In fact, there's usually a couple weeks - up to a month - of weather here in Maine that's much hotter than I prefer.

I'd be a happy camper if I never saw the high side of 75° again.

Spent 60 days TDY in Minot in Jan-Feb back in the late 80's. That is where I learned the meaning of really cold.

I met a family from Siberia once. Was having dinner with them and listening to some very interesting stories.

Learned about the 30/30/30 rule from them. (That's 30 below + 30mph wind = 30 sec. to freeze exposed skin.)

It was just a part of daily life in the winter months.

-Rob

Wind chill is a bitch.

I'll take wet and cold over, windy and cold any day.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
I also have 2 brothers in Arizona and my parents retired to the Phoenix area. Never visited in the height of Summer (and don't intend to!) but reports from them have convinced me that "it's a dry heat" makes no difference. It's still freakin' HOT.

I'll dispute that. After 16 years in the Greater Phoenix area I find I don't even start sweating until it's over around 110 degrees and cold bothers me much more than heat in spite of the fact I was born and raised in some of the colder parts of the U.S.

Humidity over around 10% absolutely kills me, so dry heat is a thing.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Flash-LB,

I can handle the cold better than the heat and humidity.

My brother recently took a job that moved him to a small town near Augusta Maine.

He called today to report that it is COLD!

He never complained about the cold in Idaho...

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Originally posted by PHPaul:

I long ago discovered that I handle cold MUCH better than I handle hot and humid.

As I've said to many of my Southern friends "I can always put on an extra jacket when it gets cold, but there are laws preventing me from taking off any more clothes when it's hot"

I'll stay up here

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Originally posted by PHPaul:

I'd be a happy camper if I never saw the high side of 75° again.

Aw, quit bein' such a puss. Temps way up around 80 are OK if the humidity isn't too high.

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Originally posted by rburg:
Aw, quit bein' such a puss. Temps way up around 80 are OK if the humidity isn't too high.

Well, 1 or 2 days, just to remind me how much I hate the heat...

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
I'll dispute that. After 16 years in the Greater Phoenix area I find I don't even start sweating until it's over around 110 degrees and cold bothers me much more than heat in spite of the fact I was born and raised in some of the colder parts of the U.S.

Humidity over around 10% absolutely kills me, so dry heat is a thing.

Dry heat is definitely thing, other than hot steering wheels and building entrance handles, I can take anything up to 115 in Arizona, no problem. The humidity and heat is a killer. Cold is not so great either.

Its nice we have, at least in some cases, options of where we live.

I still stand by the fact that most folks will go about a month of cold before they start saying screw this. 1 maybe 2 days of 110 and most folks are longing for a cold snap. . I am Eskimo boy at heart though and FAR prefer the cold down to about -2 to -6 or so. Past that you start getting into stupid cold or as a friend of mine would say. “Colder then an ice witch’s titty on the shady side of an iceberg”.

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Originally posted by P250UA5:
My sister moved back to Houston from the Brewer ME area back in October, she definitely doesn't miss the cold (as we have the coldest winter in 100 yrs here).

I work in Brewer. Other than today(insanely cold/windy), the winter hasn't been that bad(by Maine standards).

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
I'd be a happy camper if I never saw the high side of 75° again.

I'm buying what you're selling. Preach it brother!

The heat? For turtles and lizards, not us warm blooded folks!!

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Originally posted by SigLaw:
Its nice we have, at least in some cases, options of where we live.

In all cases we have options about where we can live unless we're incarcerated or in the military.

A lot of people like to pretend they're stuck and can't move, but the reality is that they don't want to move but they can.

I've lived in 9 States, some of them 4 different times, some 3 different times, some 2 and some 1.

I live where I want to and so can anybody else who's honest with themselves.