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Are you intolerant of high summer heat? How does it affect you?

Rob

Rob

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Just this past ten days we had a terrible heat wave in southern BC. Over a week of temperatures of 30 degrees C and higher here in Golden have dried up the lawns and filled our valley with thick forest fire smoke.
All around us there are forest fires burning in central BC, Alberta and Washington State, just south of Osoyoos BC. Osoyoos, Kamloops, and nearby communities have hit the 40-degree mark (104 degrees F) or just exceeded it.

Anyway, I sweat torrents after just 5 minutes of light activity. I get moody, tire easily and feel even less like talking to people. My ASD seems to get worse. The only thing I can do is drink lots of Gatorade (which I know is not the best but it was invented by a Florida sports physician for the Florida Gators football team) and get more electrolytes from salty food, fruit juices, tomatoes and green salads.

Anyone else sensitive to high summer temperatures? How do they affect you?
 
Glad I'm not alone. I hate the summer heat. I sweat buckets after anything or nothing. I have to change clothes frequently. To make matters worse, I work in food service and catering, so am constantly around people, outdoors, in the heat, working. Bleh.

To be honest, I don't much like summer, period. Everyone is full of energy and wants to do things outside and socialize and interact and have caterings and cookouts and HUMBUG - I just want to be inside in the peace and quiet and cool temperatures. -_- My favourite time of year is January-February.
 
The heat sure is a pain, and the fact that I get heat rashes doesn't help either.
So, I don't like summer that much.
Often during the hot afternoons I wish I could go to my dad's house for a dive into his pool! :P
 
I'm not enjoying the heat (or summers in general) at all. Over here, hot summers can easily be 35+ celcius (95F). Add in the rather humid climate it gets icky pretty fast. I don't sweat as much if I'm not doing a lot and probably depending on where in the house I am it might vary a bit. I just notice that if I'm on my computer my forearms will get all sticky to the desk... and that is pretty annoying regardless on what you're doing. More on that in a sec. I don't get a rash as such but I get a bit itchy... perhaps it is a rash just not as prevalent and just under the surface.

However, I have a few ways I deal with it to make it more bearable, so overall I guess I shouldn't complain that much. Afterall I could've been worse. What I do hate about it, is that my bedroom is at the backside of the house... and the backside is at the east. So from sunrise till about noon the sun will be baking the outer wall.

- For me, warm days means I have to manage my time properly. I'll go to the store when temperatures are lowest and after that I won't leave the house for the next 18 or so hours. I don't like being out in the sun anyway, so I guess that's totally fine with me. It's not worth it to get a sunburn either. That's why I've managed to stay (relatively) pasty white for the past few decades, lol.

- Obviously I'm wearing the least amount of clothing, though I'm not that interested in parading naked through the house, lol. So it's often a tanktop and some shorts.

- I leave my room dark from sunrise till sundown and at night I'll open the doors to create a draft to get some heat out.

- And what I've found important is to not turn on too many electrical devices. My computer is producing a lot of heat already. If I were to turn on my xbox and (plasma) television I know I'll add to the heat. Not to mention lights and more of that nature. I'll refrain from playing games on my computer for most part as well during the day since that will put more strain on the system adding to the heat.

Luckily I don't have as much issues with heat when I'm sleeping and can sleep through this kind of weather. Yes I'll eventually float out of bed because I'm sweating profusely. Even more since I need some weight of a blanket to even be able to sleep. So I often sleep during the day for most part and wake through the night. Considering it's already 11-ish am here, and I just got up, I already beat the first few hours or blistering heat and it's almost noon so the sun won't be on my outer wall as much anymore.

I know I'm not inviting my girlfriend over with this weather. Well, I don't think she'd be interested in travelling by train for 3 hours in this weather anyway. But the arguing as well as sleeping terrible because of all the twisting and turning because of the weather just seems a bit of a waste to have a good time.

My main issue with this heat is that I have a problem with sitting still. I always feel I have stuff to do. Might not always be important stuff, but I could probably spend my time a bit more effective rather than trying to do the least amount possible.

Afterall; painting in the dark doesn't work, lol. Going through my backlog of games spikes up temperature of my computer (or requires my xbox and tv to be on) and any chores in the house seem less than appealing with these temperatures.

Give me a mild winter any time. Some snow every once in a while... and I'm good to go. Somewhere between -5 and +10 (celcius; -20 to -12F) seems to be the weather I prefer. And that's where I'm often already out in shorts.
 
people preheat cars, but i precool mine. If I'm going somewhere and i don't do that, I will be sweating long after the car should have cooled.
 
Being both a motorsports enthusiast and a motorcyclist I despise cold weather. Winters are a struggle for me still...cold destroys machinery,makes roads difficult to traverse,brings on heating bills and wreaks havoc on homes :p

Most of the toys have to stay in the box until the ravages of winter are over because they get messed up here and rust from salt used to de-ice roadways. I spend a lot of time to keep mine shiny.

I never complain about the heat and I get to dig deep into my toybox...:cool:
 
I'm from the north. What do you think? :rolleyes:

Rob: 1989 was no fun; I know what you're going through.
 
High heat always murdered me.

High cold is just as bad too.... I'm already stir crazy, not being able to get around at all is crippling, though at least for the cold you can bundle up more. Nothing to do about the heat.
 
Extreme heat and cold are both bad, but heat just makes me hot. Cold makes me depressed, sluggish, and without ambition. I moved from a generally cold place to a generally hot/humid place with much more sunlight and I'm a better person for it.
 
Winter cold snaps around here can be tough to take, too. The last winter we had was very long and the cold temperatures seemed to hang around for a long time. But it was a lot worse east of us on the plains and prairies. We had the minus 24 to 29C range for a time, while east of us a worse deep freeze was going on.
Cold weather makes me want to stay cooped-up inside for a long time, and sleep long hours in bed on my days off work. But driving is easy on dry, cold streets as the ice and snow are easier to grip. But with frozen washer fluid at work, it requires a lot of the blue stuff to keep the windshield washer in decent condition. If I have to go out, dressing in layers and taking some hot drinks and energy-rich food can make me feel more comfortable when outside. And sunny cold days are quite nice in the afternoons if you are dressed well. Picture-perfect winter scenery around here makes for beautiful pictures.
In short, I seem to have a narrow range of tolerance regarding temperatures. But the cold is easier for me to deal with overall.
 
I really hate extreme temperatures either way. Too much heat makes me feel heavy and suffocated. I also hate sweating, especially when I just showered or just washed the clothes I'm wearing when I'm outside in the heat.
When I had a job, I lived in Minnesota. A lot of people seem to think Minnesota is cold all the time, but in summer, it actually gets really hot - 90+ F and humid almost every day. I used to work outside in that, doing drive-up and carts. By the time my turn was over and I went back in the store, I was sweating in streams. It was awful. Fortunately there were usually paper towels in the drive-up I could use to wipe my face, and I always showered almost as soon as I got home anyway.
 
I live in Las Vegas so I definitely have my fair share of experience with summer heat. Just today it was around 110 F. While there is very little humidity, the sun of just absolutely brutal during the summer. If you stand out in the sun for a while it just feels like it goes right through your body. You can get sunburn really quickly here too. Personally, even though it can be brutal, I don't really mind the summer heat that much. As a matter of fact, I still go for walks outside during my breaks at work even during the summer. Probably a dumb thing to do, but I can't be without my daily walks.

We get the better end of it during the winter anyway though. Very rarely do we ever get snow, and when we do, it rarely sticks. Also, it doesn't get below freezing very often and the high temperatures typically reach at least 50 F every day.
 
I prefer temps in between, not too hot and not to cold. I don't like extreme hot/cold weather. They both bug me. But I'd take the cold over the heat because I'd rather have to throw on an extra blanket or layer of clothing to warm myself up than to sweat like crazy, shower and change my clothes a hundred times and struggle to find ways to keep myself cool.
 
A one degree elevation in temperature and I will go bananas. I am not a volatile person but the hotter it gets the angrier I become and eventually if I begin to sweat, which can happen with even a slight rise in temperature I will have to leave the room and be solitary until my body temp adjusts, inanimate objects are my enemy during this moment (just in general honestly). There are times I have to step into the walk-in cooler at work so I don't rage on a rude or verbally abusive customer. It's something I struggle with and it significantly affects my mood on a day to day basis. The outside temperature is not so bad and I assume it is because I know I can go inside and get away from it; however, if the ambient temperature of a building is higher than my normal room temp, say 76°F I will become distressed.
 
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