Comment on People who live in hot climates, how do you deal with the heat?

ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  With cold, you can layer appropriate clothing. And you can find much better appropriate clothing for purchase in the places that require it than you can find in your shops, along with advice from people who live there. Just don’t follow the example of the cargo shorts at -40° boys.

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  • ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d rather be blistering hot than wrapped up in layers and living inside stuffy heated buildings

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    • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I live in central Europe, fuck the cold, fuck all the layers have to put on, i’d be rather drenched in my ballsweat than this shit.

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I avoid both by living in LA. We have our disasters natural and human, but our temperature is usually pleasant and always bearable.

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  • RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m from hot and have visited cold, and there are not enough clothes in the world to keep me warm if it’s cold enough. I just don’t seem to generate enough heat to warm them. I think we are just built differently - my husband is from colder area and when he works out he has to wait to cool down before showering, I have to wrap up so I don’t cool down too fast.

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• lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cold is easy, wear more, burn stuff for heat.

  Hot is hard. When I’m already fully naked and still sweating, what then? Lightly fan myself with something?

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Actually yeah.

    1. Get dry.
    2. Get into an air stream like a fan

    Your perspiration into dry air has an evolved cooling effect. It’s the same principle used by the ‘zeer’ pot to keep stuff cool in high temps with no electricity (and that’s a freaking magic trick, lemme tell ya).

    But, now see why the rising “wet bulb” temp is an issue in the lower US and toward the equator with the rising temps: if it doesn’t evaporate, you’re in trouble.

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    • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ”But it’s a dry heat” is a saying for a reason 😀

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• Hoxton@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Colds not too hard to deal with at all. As the other poster mentioned, when outside, the trick is layers.

  Inside, it’s actually very easy to trap heat. Knowing where and how it dissipates in a house makes a huge difference, but it’s generally much easier to heat a place than cool it.

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  • ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Layers are the thing I hate about the cold

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• tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Currently in Canada. Tomorrow will be like, 5F (-15C). Layers are king.

  That said- normally I’m pretty good with cold temperatures, but these are the temps at which it hurts to breathe. And somehow there’s still people walking around in basically nothing

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