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i love cold weather culture (in which i rant)

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this topic has nothing to do with writing, which as anyone has probably noticed, is the general theme for almost all of these blog posts. but anyway, today i want to talk about, or i guess complain, about what i have dubbed i love cold weather culture.

now i have nothing against cold weather i enjoy a nice rainy day and i enjoy winter (all -30 to -40 degrees celsius for 8 to 10 months of it) so i have nothing against cold weather. but do you ever find that whenever summer comes around and you're talking to someone and they bring up how hot it is and you inevitably get sucked into a discussion on which season is better summer, or winter?

or is that just me?

(i'm going to be working in celsius here y'all)

but yes i get sucked into these discussions all the time, why you ask? because i love hot weather and i live in canada where it normally doesn't get that hot even in the summer. this preference causes a lot of discourse. see i have a friend who thinks that 22 degrees (that's 71.6 for you farenheit folks) is stiflingly hot. i am of the opinion that until it reaches like 35 degrees it's not that hot, mostly because i don't break a sweat until it reaches that temperature. and we got into this big argument over whether or not 22 degrees is hot and i still maintain that it's not. and this conversation came about because we were planning on going as a group after we all graduated with our degrees on like a trip around europe, one of those stops being greece and italy. and i told her i was like if you think 22 degrees is unbearably hot, you're going to die in these countries because the minimum during the summer is like 35-40 degrees (assuming i can trust my relatives living there).

anyways that conversation devolved into her trying to explain why 34 degrees in canada is different from 34 degrees in italy which i get in the sense that italy is closer to the equator so it would be even WORSE there than in the north. but to this day i still don't understand the logic behind 22 degrees in canada is hot and 34 in italy is not hot because that was essentially what she was getting at.

and from there we got into the conversation of is summer better than winter. now i like summer better, so it comes as no surprise that i said i thought warm weather was better, my friend has gone her whole life living with cold weather, it's what she's used to so obviously she was going to pick cold weather. and i would've been fine with this except for the fact that she tried to convince me to change my answer to cold weather, and it's not just her, i find this happens with a lot of people whenever i say i like summer.

i get fed a lot of logic like if it's cold you can just put on more layers to be warm or you can move your body to generate heat etc etc. and that when it's hot you can only remove so many layers of clothing before you're left in just your skin and then you have to endure.

and that's great and all but the thing is:

i don't give two shits.

like don't get me wrong the logic is sound but i don't care. i just enjoy hot weather. like i don't need an essay defending your position i just enjoy hot weather. the first few years of my life were spent living in a hot country, and then i came to canada and now i'm stuck wearing like 2 layers of everything for 80% of the year. don't get me wrong i can tolerate the cold, like as soon as it hits like -20 after it being balls cold for weeks on end, i also strip some layers off and claim that spring has come but IT'S STILL C O L D. 

my problem with layering is that i'm not cold in my torso area, i can layer up there all i want i have like 40 baggy sweaters and a puffy parka. as such, i am not cold in my torso area. it is my legs that are freezing. now i can layer up my legs too, but i can only wear about 1 extra pair of leggings underneath and then that's it. my jeans don't exactly allow room for more than 1 pair. proper winter boots don't really come any higher than my knees. "but why don't you wear snowpants," well i have nowhere to put them. i have my laptop, a textbook, all my notebooks, my pencil case, a calculator, and lab equipment in my backpack. i can't fit lunch in there, i can barely fit my scarf, my toque, and my mittens. there's just nowhere for snowpants to go.

I AM DESTINED TO FREEZE.

and on top of that i have poor circulation in the winter, like my nails turn purple. and on top of the poor circulation the weather is forcing my body to draw even more heat from limbs to keep the important bits warm. i am forever cold, i always have to wear my scarf even inside buildings on campus or my freaking parka because i'm always cold.

okay so yes i love hot weather. i love being uncomfortably warm, i love being sweaty just from sitting around because it's so hot. i don't even mind when the sun's been on me long enough to give me a sun burn. I LOVE IT OKAY. and imma just say it i love going to the beach and i can't go to the beach when it's cold, or out to a lake when it's cold. and the clothes are so much cuter too, i love clothes and fashion i get so hyped up about it. seeing the new summer patterns every where gets me so excited i spend all of my time on pinterest. 

and just something about the combination of pretty clothes, and beautiful weather and scenery, and looking good makes me feel good. and it's not that winter means i'm constantly feeling bad about myself because i have my winter aesthetic, but feeling good about myself is not exactly what comes to mind when i have numb toes, wet socks, numb legs, and my glasses fog up every time i exhale into my scarf when it's wrapped around my nose or whenever i enter a building.

tl;dr let me enjoy my hot weather in P E A C E thank you for listening to my TedTalk.

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dirigibleplums

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and that's great and all but the thing is:

i don't give two shits.

i actually burst out laughing at this ??

i am one of those people who prefer cold weather. well, not cold weather per se because i have pretty rubbish circulation so in winter my hands are two blocks of ice, but i like a nice in-between. 15*C maybe. a day where the sky is a pretty blue and there's a nice breeze going and the humidity is at a level where i can breathe tbh :P

from your description of winter in canada, i can see why you prefer summer over winter because wow, the cold sounds terrible in your case, good luck with that. but (when we get sunshine) it's always pretty humid where i live so it's like the worst. like my friend goes to uni in the next city over and a couple of months ago, it was like 27*C over there and she was chilling. came to manchester and she died at 25*C because the humidity here makes the air so heavy ughhh

22*C isn't that hot tbh though (as long as it ain't humid as hell, that is). but i think i'd cry if i had to walk around in 34*C weather ??

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lebensmude

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4 hours ago, dirigibleplums said:

i actually burst out laughing at this ??

i am one of those people who prefer cold weather. well, not cold weather per se because i have pretty rubbish circulation so in winter my hands are two blocks of ice, but i like a nice in-between. 15*C maybe. a day where the sky is a pretty blue and there's a nice breeze going and the humidity is at a level where i can breathe tbh :P

from your description of winter in canada, i can see why you prefer summer over winter because wow, the cold sounds terrible in your case, good luck with that. but (when we get sunshine) it's always pretty humid where i live so it's like the worst. like my friend goes to uni in the next city over and a couple of months ago, it was like 27*C over there and she was chilling. came to manchester and she died at 25*C because the humidity here makes the air so heavy ughhh

22*C isn't that hot tbh though (as long as it ain't humid as hell, that is). but i think i'd cry if i had to walk around in 34*C weather ??

15* with a nice breeze sounds lovely but because I'm near the mountains any breeze that comes my way immediately drops the temperature by like 5*.

If it was humid it would be one thing (Italy is humid) but our city is literally so dry ,,,,, it's pretty common for people to get nosebleeds during the winter or someones knuckles start bleeding because of the dryness. Rice in salt shakers aren't a thing here.

And like I know that heat can be subjective but like come on 22* is not hot like I can't be the only one. On a side note my relatives think I'm crazy because it'll be like 35* in the afternoon whenever I go to the Motherland™ and I'll be all gung ho like lets go out guys! And they just be sitting in front of the AC asking me if I lost my mind or something because no one guys out during the afternoon lol.

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Felpata_Lupin

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I don't think I would ever survive in Canada... anything below 0°C is too cold for me (anything below 10°C is too cold for me, actually... but I guess I'm a Summer person too... :P)

I remember one time I brought a friend in the mountains in winter. There was this outdoor market and we decided to take a look around, only it was... -10° or something? We spent a few minutes buying scrafs, gloves, socks (because only owning them would make us feel better) and finally we hid in a bar and ordered hot drinks and slowly defroze. ?

I guess in the end it's all a matter of habit and our perceptions of temperatures varies a lot according to where we grew up... but obviously there are also the exceptions and in the end any of us has its own preference... (but I got the "when it's cold you can just put on more layers" reasoning, too, if that makes you feel better)

Like, for me 22°C is like the heaven temperature, neither too hot nor too cold. I don't feel hot until it's over 30° and even then it's still livable (but of course it depends a lot on humidity... and Milan is known to be extremely muggy in Summer. Higher temperatures in, say, Sicily are much more bearable. That said, when it gets over 40° and the earth starts to autocombust... well, then you know you are going to suffer... :sos:)

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Margaret

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Most people in Ireland would consider 22 Celsius (71 Fahrenheit) to be hot. So you can imagine the reactions this year, when some areas of the country apparently recorded 32 (nearly 90 Fahrenheit). The highest temperature ever recorded in Ireland was 33.33 (92 Fahrenheit) and it is pretty unusual for it to hit 30 (86 Fahrenheit).

I love the low to mid-20s, so I'm generally "this is beautiful," when everybody is complaining "it's too hot." I don't start finding it too hot until it's close to 30 (say over 80 Fahrenheit). Most years it doesn't get too hot for me at all. This year, there were two or three days when I was putting on the electric fan.

I suppose anything under about 7 Celsius (or about 45 Fahrenheit) would be considered pretty cold here. It is unusual for us to get 24 hours at a time when it remains below 0 Celsius (32 Fahrenheit). That usually only happens overnight.

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