Would you rather be in the bitter cold or high heat and humidity?

[BurtWorm]

[Flaxbee]

1. Hm.. Would I rather spend June in Hawaii, or

in the Antarctic (where it's winter). No contest.

Heat and humidity - can really suck, but unless you're in the sun w/o shade or water, you're not at risk of dying.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

2. Bitter cold.

At least you can pile on layers of clothing, whereas, as a woman, it would be inadvisable to strip my clothes off in the heat and humidity.

[Deja Q]

3. Cold.

It's easier to warm up.

And that includes sweet sweet love.

[femmocrat]

4. The cold, definitely.

High heat and humidity give me a migraine. I love the cold.

[RazzleCat]

5. Hot and Humid

I don't warm up till mid June. I have low blood pressure and no fat on my bod, I can always cool down, but it take a scalding bath to get me warmed up.

[JTG of the PRB]

6. Bitter cold, please.

I'll take it with a side of snowed in and a touch of warm fireplace and hot chocolate as well.

[Karenina]

7. Anyone remember that "Twilight Zone" episode???

:scared:

[Left Is Write]

17. The Midnight Sun?

[Karenina]

18. Sounds right...

the one where everyone is burning up from the heat and the protagonist awakes from his dream to find that hell has just frozen over.

[Inchworm]

8. Too many what-ifs

Bitter cold snuggling with someone...

Hot and humid in a lake skinny dipping...

I don't mind either, but I can stand bitter cold for a much longer time.

:hi:

[loveable liberal]

9. Hockey. There is no life without it.

[Critters2]

10. 6 generations in the Midwest have made me behave like corn...

I thrive in heat and humidity.

[Broken_Hero]

11. Bitter cold please, nt

[LostInAnomie]

12. Nothing I hate more than being hot.

I start getting uncomfortable at around 78 degrees.

[cordelia]

28. Same here

Above that, it might as well be the surface of the Sun.

Love the cold.

[Boojatta]

13. Both, rapidly alternating.

One tenth of a second of bitter cold followed by one tenth of a second of high heat and humidity followed by one tenth of a second of bitter cold, etc.

[carlyhippy]

14. High heat/humidity

I live where it gets sooooooooooo cold in the winter, it sucks big time, people die in this weather.

Carly

[KitchenWitch]

43. People die in the heat and humidity too.

[carlyhippy]

46. good point.

I lived in the desert southwest growing up, where it gets well over 100 in the summer. I also live where it's -20 on a warm day in January, I wish I could live somewhere with normal weather LOL
Carly

[KitchenWitch]

48. I would be perfectly happy in a climate that would have highs of 75 during the day

and lows of 50 at night.

[WildEyedLiberal]

15. Depends on when you ask me

In August, I'd rather be bitter cold. In January, I'd rather be hot and sweltering.

I hate Illinois weather.

[ccinamon]

16. It is easier for me to cool down then warm up...

it is not true that you can put on enough clothes to get warm...we lost electricity and heat, for 3 days, and once the temp in the house hit 60 degrees, i got cold and stayed that way

[zanne]

36. You're kidding, right?

In the wintertime in New Hampshire, we keep our thermostat at 60 degrees!

[KitchenWitch]

44. I kept the thermostat at 60 in Minnesota too

Otherwise one pays the gas company way too much.

[fudge stripe cookays]

19. I just left Texas after 40 years and moved to Wisconsin.

What do you think?

I'm sick of heat, and I LOVE seeing FOUR seasons! Who knew they existed? This is great!

[Saphire]

34. LOL..our two seasons: hot and not so hot. I've never really felt this

"cold " thing, but it sounds great.

[fudge stripe cookays]

35. It is pretty great!

A week or so ago, it was a June morning, like everywhere else, but it was 52 degrees.

:woohoo:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. Cold. You just put on more clothes.

I can't function when it's hot and humid.

[yardwork]

21. Whichever is the opposite of what I'm in at the moment.

In the middle of summer I long for winter. In winter I can't imagine ever being too hot. And I live in a mild climate...

[begin_within]

22. Cold, hands down.

Cold you can escape from easily, heat/humidity is much harder to escape from.

[Blue_In_AK]

23. Cold -- obviously. :-)

[pitohui]

24. i have obviously voted with my feet over several decades in favor of heat/humid

bitter cold hurts my bones down in the marrow, how do people stand it?

[bikebloke]

25. I love the sweltering heat.

I tolerate the bitter cold, only because I know the heat will return.

When I worked outside in the Negev Desert, instead of a three hour lunch, I'd take one. Then work through the afternoon heat. I'd finish earlier. A couple Scottish chicks did the same. It's not always mad dogs and Englishmen.

[haele]

26. You can always warm up, put on more clothes -

- or even find something to insulate yourself - a snow cave, rocks, branches, earth - anything.
But - having had heat stroke twice in my life - it's a lot harder to cool down once you've overheated. You have far more of a chance of cobbling up a fire in the tundra than you do of cobbling up ice and an air conditioner in the middle of the jungle. And there's only so many clothes you can remove to cool off before there's nothing left...

Haele

[Starbucks Anarchist]

27. I love bitter cold.

[csziggy]

29. While I don't like 100 degrees with high humidity

I'd rather be hot and humid than cold. I get shocky if I get badly chilled. And my sinuses bleed if I am in very low humidity.

I've approached heat stoke and I've gotten laid out from cold. I can sweat MUCH better than I can shiver.

[Fox Mulder]

30. Bitter cold.

At least you can add extra layers. If you're out in the heat, you can only take off so much before it's called indecent exposure.

[nadine_mn]

31. Freeze me baby freeze me

but then I love Minnsnowta

[krispos42]

32. Bitter cold

It's why God made dorky fur hats with earflaps.

Besides, no insects, biting or otherwise!

[1]

33. how is it that cold is always"bitter"...

myself, i detest bitter heat...

[BurtWorm]

38. I'm asking about extremes, actually.

Not just about cold and heat.

[datasuspect]

37. you can die in bitter cold without heat

you will sweat in high heat without a/c

[PeaceNikki]

41. People die in heat waves, too. See: Chicago 1995

Over 550 people died in a week from that heat wave.

[huskerlaw]

39. Cold.

You lost me with the humidity. I can't stand that shit.

[BarenakedLady]

40. I'm definitely a NE chick.

[KitchenWitch]

42. Definitely bitter cold

You can always put more layers on.

[Maestro]

45. I'll take heat and humidity

over bitter cold. I don't do well in the cold.

[Zuiderelle]

47. Whichever one is sunnier.

[KitchenWitch]

50. In Minnesota that would be the bitter cold!

Seriously, if it is sunny in January, it is usually about -10°

[noel711]

49. You can always.. put more clothes on to keep warm...

but when its hot and humid, you remove everything,
and still be a dripping, heaving, mass of flesh...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

51. High heat and humidity all the way.

All I need is a nice swimming pool and I am set.

Whereas bitter cold, all I do is shiver and keep on having to put on more layers. No fun at all.

[yellowdogintexas]

52. I have to vote for the heat because the cold aggravates my fibromyalgia

and arthritis

Before I had those problems, cold did not bother me that much.

However I prefer to sleep in a cold room with lots of blankets for breathing purposes

[mnhtnbb]

53. High heat and humidity--only at the beach!

[Skittles]

54. it's easier to warm up than to cool down

so sayeth Skittles, who has lived north and south