Are people colder than they used to be?

[quote]Are people colder than they used to be?

I certainly am. I think it's a function of age in my case.

I clicked on this thread thinking you meant personalities. Ha! Bitch.

[quote]I live on the east coast and see skinny Asian girls in ankle-length puffer coats when it’s 60 degrees.

My city has many international college students (six colleges in the town) and I see the exact same thing. I don't get it. I wonder how cold they must be to wear those things on a beautiful spring day. I'm in New England.

Op: yes. 100 times yes.

Yes.

I’m outside of Boston and winter has gotten so much shorter. I felt like when I was a kid in the 90s, snow started in late November and went all the way through until the end of early April.

Now it usually starts in January, February is usually the worst, and it’s over by March. I think this year was the longest winter I can remember in recent years where there was heavy snow in March and even April.

And the summers are usually sticky and disgusting now - it was never this humid growing up.

So yes I think younger people on the East Coast get colder easily cause they don’t live in it long enough at this point.

However. You might be mistaking transplants from natives. Cause 60 degrees is shorts and a sweatshirt to natives. The transplants look like they’re going skiing.

I feel like they are but I always assumed it was because we have so many immigrants where I live. I see people wearing winter coats and winter hats in 59 plus weather. I think it’s really weird

Count me in as someone who needs warm clothing well into April. I don't overheat easily, but I chill VERY easily. Where I live is cool to cold from late October until mid April, and in a bad year, I will have a down coat handy that entire time. I don't think it's good for the skin to overheat the house in the winter, so I keep my thermostat no warmer than 68 and overnight to 66, but that means that I wear down inside the house. 68 in summer when the outdoor temperature is 85 doesn't feel cold, but 68 when the outdoor temperature is 27 feels chilly to me. I'm also not a fan of people who turn their air conditioners to max cool on hot summer days. Sometimes it can be so cold indoors that my bones hurt from the contrast from the outside.

I’ve always been warmer than most people. I don’t start to feel cold until about 13 degrees. My mom said I was like that as a baby too

I live in Arizona. Met someone who said after you move here, you get acclimated to the heat. That 70 would seem cold. The has proved to be true for me. The local paper published a story with a graph about local temperatures and how they have risen. It has gone up quite a bit. Last year was hotter than the year before. The previous year was hotter than the one before it. This spring has been cooler than normal but I'm dreading the summer.

There are local news stories about stupid people who walk the mountain trails, don't take enough water and have to be rescued/airlifted because of dehydration. One would think these are tourists, but most of them are locals who should know better.

r3 I usually see this when they're wearing Canada Coose or Moose Knuckles and assume it's a status thing, not a cold thing.

People are stupider

Hell is other people.

On the upside, the young men have longer veinier cocks than twinks used to have, and luscious bigger lips, too. I bet their nips get super perky with the slightest cool breeze.

Being cold literally hurts. It makes my poor old back and joints ache. Heat and humidity is a different type of misery.

See this is why I fucks with DL because of threads like this. Just random shit that I feel like only gay or bisexual men or to one aligned with our community notice. But to me OP, it seems like people are hit more than they used to be. 80 degree weather is not hot.

I usually run on the warm side. Almost never needed my cardigan in the office, always had my sleeves rolled up or wore polos. After 40, the sweaters and cardigans get lots of use, the sleeves stay down and I’ve now got more long sleeve polos/sweater polos than ever. I say to coworkers that the office feels colder. I’ve also noticed it with coworkers of the same age.

I've stayed in hotels where the housekeeping staff have the heat cranked up in the rooms like they're in a nursing home (during spring and summer).

And then I've had the opposite effect, where you go into a bar or restaurant and they've got the AC on full blast and you need a jacket.

I'm more acclimated to the weather and try not to turn on the heat or AC at home until completely necessary.

I can be quite frigid.

R16 I’m in Boston 80 degrees can be miserable because of the humidity.

And what else I’ve been noticing is rain isn’t cooling down hot days. Usually rain is a relief cause it will cool down the temperature but sometimes it does nothing but make it worse.

I used to work in Salem, MA which is a huge tourist down and everyday in the summer there would be ambulances on the street cause someone fainted or had a heat stroke.

Most likely tourists from the West who saw it was going to be 80+ degrees on the weather app and thought nothing of it, not realizing there’s no such thing as dry heat in New England.

Maybe ONE or TWO days we have beautiful dry heat. 85-90 degrees and the humidity is 10% and it’s beautiful. But that’s maybe one or two days and the rest is wet and sticky and thick.

[quote] Winters in the northeast aren’t nearly as cold as they were even a decade ago

Maybe this is scientifically true, I don't know, but last winter in Boston was very cold, in the 20s and teens a lot of days and nights.

I’m in Southeastern Wisconsin, OP. Our winters have generally been warmer in recent years.

However, this winter was somewhat more typical of the cold winters I remember growing up with in the 70s with the exception of very little snowfall.

This spring has been uncharacteristically colder, with high winds & bluster. Last week, I had to unpack my winter jacket which I’d thought I would no longer need this season.

Today I’d like to do some weeding in my yard, but I dread the high winds. How anyone can deny climate change, I haven’t the slightest clue,

When I was a kid (around 55 years ago) we never had air conditioning, in the Boston area. I don't remember it being unbearably hot, or humid. Now summers in the area are all but unbearable. It's typical to hear people say they stayed inside all weekend running the AC.

R21, last winter was not abnormal - it was entirely normal historically, but the historical temps haven’t happened much in the past ten years

If your friends are getting older alongside you, OP, then yes, they probably seem colder than they used to be, because older people are always complaining about the cold. A friend of mine used to keep his a/c at about 73 during the summer, and heat at about the same in the winter. But now as he's in his 70s, he wants everything to be about 80 degrees all the time. Sometimes I'm roasting in his house and I'll check the thermostat and it's 82, 83 inside!

Colder and older

“Because”, R20, not “cause”. You’re not a child, presumably.

OP it’s because people have dropped a lot of cash on their Helly Hansen outerwear and they are going to get their money’s worth, damn it, no matter what the temperature.

I love winter fashion and I love my coats but as soon as it’s warmer I’m done with them. I don’t get these people wearing winter coats in spring and even summer

People aren't as physically active as they used to be, so their circulation isn't as good, so they're colder.