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There is no bad weather, only bad clothing.
by guyzero 13y ago
There is no bad weather, only bad clothing.
- potatolicious 13y agoAh, wait until the dead of winter when you're trying to take the bus to work in -40C weather. Walking across a large parking lot, with snow billowing along the ground like a National Geographic special on the Arctic Circle, your face in excruciating pain because of high-speed snow/ice blowing into it. The fact that your arms and legs are toasty warm seems like a distant comfort at that point... Plenty of weather conditions in Canada where, no matter how well you dress, you're just not going to be comfortable...
- WildUtah 13y agoDon't forget the ice that forms on the inside surface of your glasses below about -10º. And the way you can be sweating on one part of your body even as another part is being frost-bitten. Then when you adjust your coats and scarfs the sweating part will cool down and the sweat will start to freeze leading to frostbite there, too.
- potatolicious 13y agoUgh. "Ice sweats" I call it. It's pretty bad when you've got a scarf wrapped around your face, and your breath condenses into ice that makes the scarf hard with ice. Then when you go indoors all the ice melts and your scarf turns into a goopy mess. Oh Ontario winters, how I do not miss thee.
- bdamm 13y agoGlobal warming will clean it up anyway.
- guyzero 13y agoI have seriously never encountered this problem. They fog up when you go from outdoor cold to a warm building, but I've never had my glasses ice up.
- Dewie 13y agoWhat he said was an old Scandinavian saying. Is it really that bad as long as you only need to get from A to B in something like an urban environment, though? Most of my problems with the cold have been switching clothes because of variations in activity levels, and having to actually work outside in the cold (for example having to take off my gloves because they aren't nimble enough with them on). I'm assuming you had something like a balaclava on in those extreme conditions? If that wasn't enough you also have more wind-proof headgear: people use them to drive snow mobiles, so they should be good enough for the purpose of getting to the bus.
- guyzero 13y agoI went to school in Waterloo, ON, Canada. I have walked multiple kilometers to class in weather that was -20 C or below. I'm not going to say it was like being on a warm beach, but geez, long underwear, a scarf, a hat, some thick mitts and a decent coat go a long way to getting a lot closer to comfortable. It's not cheap I suppose, but it's not complex.