Ask Lemmy

Cool without snow

Cool to cold. Essentially a cold 3-month winter of sub-zero (0℃ to -30℃) temps and lots (1+m) of snow, a short “warm” summer of only 2 months with temps never exceeding 30℃ at the absolute worst, with most highs not exceeding 24℃ and most nights in the 10-15℃ range, bookended by long spring and fall seasons that are cool and moist with daytime highs rarely exceeding 24℃ and nights never dropping below 0℃.

Thanks to a heat exhaustion event when I was 17, I have become increasingly sensitive to heat over the last 35 years.

As an example, whatever comfort you feel at 24℃, I feel that same level of comfort - while wearing the same general clothing - at 14-16℃. Whatever comfort you feel at 30℃ is what I feel at 20-22℃.

So when local temps spike to 35-45℃ during our (much more frequent, hotter, and longer) heatwaves, imagine being forced to exist and do all normal outdoor activities in 60-80℃ temps.

Yes, it really is that f**king bad for me.

And I sweat just as badly at the lower temps as you would at the higher temps. For heat waves, think wet sauna temps at their dangerous extremes. It’s why I shave myself bald for six months out of the year… because I would look like a drowned rat during that time otherwise. And yes, I still have to carry a “sweat towel” with me during that time to avoid looking like I just stepped out of a shower. I have to wipe down my head and face several times an hour even when temps are in the high 20s, and especially when I physically exert myself.

Climate change is going to be a right b**ch to me as it ramps up into overdrive over the next decade.

Nothing above 20C, I can handle -30C with no problems, but anything above 25 is basically unlivable IMO.

I'd prefer somewhere under 90F and even more preferably like at most 60F at nights. But mostly not humid. Fuck humidity, that's the killer. I'd like some heat cause I'd like to continue gardening and some plants I like like the heat.

Kind of humid, and cool (by cool I mean 17–21°C in winter and 20–26°C in summer), without much temperature variation. I don't know if this climate exists exactly as described, but it would be ideal for me.

Edit: also, somehow, lots of sunlight. I love the sun but hate how warm it gets. Give me an LED sun.

I quite like the climate here in the Netherlands. Could do with some colder winters though because ice skating on natural ice is becoming more and more rare. The Dutch weather gives us something to bitch an moan about, but relatively speaking it's very mild. No deadly heat or cold, no tornadoes or hurricanes. Though I think I prefer the "old" climate a bit more than what it's changing into. The hotter summer days and milder winters are not ideal

Below 25C average daily temperature year round. Heat is just miserable.

Cold. Always between -20 and +10C, probably. Of course, you can't grow food very well in such a place...

At -30 doing basic outdoor tasks gets a bit more complicated, but if it's a still day I'd prefer it to +30, even so. I haven't experienced anything below -40.

Edit: So many fellow cryophiles in this thread, wow.

One that’s not warming world wide.

Sustainable and survivable.

For personal physical comfort? Between 23-30 (75-85) with plenty of rain & humidity, not dry air. Am ok with hotter as long as it's not too dry.

For the world? Well down here before the warming the summers topped around the same they do now, just fewer days of it, so almost 37C, with daily afternoon thunderstorms, and winters were longer (not long, but longer) and likely to have a few days below freezing most years, so I guess for emotional comfort I'd take that, thanks.

70°F to 75°F year round would be peak weather for me. Hell, I can go upto 85°F but it must be dry

Make it 40-60f all year round with lots of green and rain and mist.

Cold*. You can always put on more but once you're naked, well you're naked.

*Limits apply.

≤1.5⁰ C total warming.

-5 °C to 15 °C is perfect

Overcast and cool. Not a fan of bright sunlight

Anything that is low humidity. Sadly where I live is 50%+ most of the year

Cold. 65F (19C) should be a once in an absolutely never heatwave. Average annual temperatures should be closer to 0F than 0C. Fuck the heat, fuck the Summer, and fuck that stupid ball of plasma it rode in on.

Bring back snowball earth.

Temperate climate, specifically warm-summer Mediterranean (Csb) or Oceanic (Do). Cool, wet winters and relatively dry, warm summers.

Cold as ice

As long as it does not go over 20°C and does not rain 24/7, I don't have much wishes

arid and cool on average but very volatile (ie. the northern Great Plains)

(any)One that would not change as quickly as ours is changing.

About 10 years ago I was happy with 12°C when I used to work outdoors. Cold enough to work hard without working up a major sweat.

Nowadays, given how it is constantly humid as balls here now, I lean towards 10°C being a similarly comfortable temperature, even 8°C depending on what I'm doing

Moderate. Most of the year should be spring or fall, with a few really cold days in winter and very few hot days (28C max) in the summer.

Temperatures in fahrenheit, because that's what I think in.

Winter should be cold and snowy, I'd like there to be about a foot of snow on the ground at all times between December and February.

Spring should be about in the upper 60s-mid 70s during the day, and rain maybe a couple times a week.

Summer, I don't ever want the temperature above the 80s, and humidity should be low with a nice breeze. I also want the occasional really good thunder storm, often enough to keep us out of any sort of drought or burn ban, but not so much that we have flooding issues.

Fall I'd mostly like to be in about the 50s, cooling off towards the end of the season so that it's in about the lower 40s or upper 30s for deer season

After living for thirty years in oceanic climate, and now the last two years in subtropical and tropical climate. I definitely prefer tropical. It's nice to never worry about being cold and not needing a dozen layers.

Four seasons the old fashioned way when people were complaining about a long winter and short summer. I think those people are wrong and it saddens me that global warming made their wish reality

I'm more or less happy with weather here in the PNW. Not that cold and wet in winter, not that hot and dry in summer. Of course with climate change, ACs are now needed and it actually snows in winter, but traditional weather patterns agreed with me.

Change

A climate of mild paranoia.

Moderate, preferably with no or very mild winters.

We're getting there.

Cold enough to see my breath in the morning, with rainy and cloudy weather. Short and mild summers, long winters (mid november through march) with occasional heavy but manageable snowfall that brings things to a stop for a day or two, and sticks around for a while. Some nice thunderstorms in the spring, colorful foliage in the fall with some chill.