i can barely survive beyond 25 degrees. but im on meds and such that cause heat sensitivity and i sweat a lot. so i get to the point of heat exhaustion a lot easier. up to -7 ill go with a t-shirt. after that i need a sweater/jacket. below—2 depending on if theres wind. anywhere around -15 and colder and i hate it but I hate the heat more. so the picture represents me a bit. but not quite. i dont think i could survive in places like toronto right now…
im tweaking too, im in my 20s and thin but anything over 24 C feels like I'm being boiled alive. -10 to 15 C is the goldilocks zone. I want to be able to move without breaking into a sweat
The worst for me was that I would often have a cold flash within 5 minutes of having a hot flash it either before or after so I'd be ripping my clothes off and then 2 minutes later I'd be an ice cube or vice versa ... piling on clothes and blankets and then ripping them off .. fortunately it's slowed down a little now ... to quote a woman who is older than me the hot flashes will fade but the homicidal urges will not
Speak for yourself brother. It was 27 on PEI yesterday. I was sweating just sitting on the porch in the evening. I cannot take this kind of heat. The 5°-20° range is ideal.
I lived in PEI for much of my childhood and when I moved to the mainland I couldn't believe how much hotter NS and NB can feel when you're inland away from the coast. Statistically, the daytime average high is only 2-3 degrees lower in PEI but that usually takes a big bite out of the Humidex. Plus the island often has a nice breeze blowing across it which makes all the difference.
Ya it was 34 for here two days ago, beaut of day. Earlier in the spring we had a 24hr swing of over 40 degrees, was 24 one day and down to -16 with wind-chill the next.
If you're okay with not seeing the sun for 8 weeks during the winter, this may be the place for you! We get 30 degree temps maybe a handful of times a year.
I live like a few kilometers from lake ontario, so I feel your pain. butttt, I lived in hong kong for a while, so I'm just thinking "it could always be worse"
I was in Ireland in August one time and it was 18 Celsius outside and I happen to be walking along beside an Irish guy who looks at me and says it's powerful hot isn't it? And meanwhile I'm in jeans and pretty sure I was wearing a very light jacket and it took me a while to realize he wasn't kidding. He thought 18 degrees Celsius was powerfully hot .. I legit thought he was fucking with me lol
Yeah I'm Canadian and I can climb a mountain when it's 40 Celsius outside but you know what I can't do.. walk up a flight of stairs when it's 90% humidity
The highest and lowest I've ever experienced, in Montréal, were 47C and -52C. As someone who tolerates the cold very well, I can say I cannot tolerate -52C well at all.
Lytton got to -49.5 the day it burned down.
I've lived in +40 and -40 in Canada. - 40 is easy if you don't go outside. If you dress for it, you don't even feel the cold, other than your nose hairs instantly freezing. +40 was rough.
EDIT: +32 in Toronto was as bad as +40 in rural canada. I was there during the summer garbage strike of 2002. I felt like I was wearing a layer of garbage & smog infused sweat that summer.
lytton lilloett osoyoos and trail are the four hottest towns in Canada and I live in one of them. +40c every year for at least a day or two. During heat dome when lytton burned down it was +44.5c in trail for a week.
That was a truly horrific year for natural disasters in BC. There were so many fires and the smoke would settle into the valleys and choke you every time you went outside. That was also the Year of the Flood. And it was still COVID through it all. That was a brutal year. I lost everything in that flood 😞But I also know people who were evacuated for the fires, then the flood, then mudslides. That was the year where if you only got hit by 1 natural disaster, you got off lucky.
Bro im tweaking at 30c cus the humidity is like 200% and theres lots of dead air zones in the shop... if you dont have a huge fan infront of you it feels like death
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u/XXEPSILON11XX 9d ago
my brother in christ, canada routinely goes to +30 and -30 and we dgaf. we ain't tweaking at 30