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Cold.

Cold. (I live in the same area, though.)

Cold. Better for running. However I have yet to experience a Minnesota/North Dakota Winter.

I prefer the ambient temperature to be between 10 and 25 degrees Celsius.

Surprised this isn't a poll with a bunch of temperature ranges.

Let me slightly reframe the question:

If we assume that 74°F is the ideal temperature, would I prefer it to be 30 degrees warmer or cooler (104°F or 44°F)? For normal day-to-day living, I'd prefer 44°F without a doubt. As someone who prefers to walk and bike as part of functional daily transportation, sensible outerwear and a brisk pace are enough to keep me warm.

Now would I prefer 4°F to 104°F? I'm not so sure.

Depends if there's precipitation coming with the hot or cold weather.  If there's no chance of precipitation I'll take the cold weather up to a point ( -10°F and lower starts to get a bit much for me).  If there is going to be precipitation, I'll take the hot weather.

Quote from: HazMatt on June 20, 2017, 05:25:27 PM
Surprised this isn't a poll with a bunch of temperature ranges.

Thanks for reminding me.

The poll is silly, at least with this many options. Of course everyone prefers milder weather over extremes.

Quote from: 1 on June 20, 2017, 07:15:01 PM
The poll is silly, at least with this many options. Of course everyone prefers milder weather over extremes.

How do you know?

I like summer weather better.

Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on June 20, 2017, 04:44:25 PM
Cold. Better for running. However I have yet to experience a Minnesota/North Dakota Winter.

^^^ This.....specifically 45F to 55F with no wind, perfect for distance running without having to worry about dehydration.  This whole 80F thing at 4 AM sucks to be doing again, it was even worse in Florida when the humidity was a problem.

Antarctica's too warm for me.

Hot, so I don't get cold when I'm relaxing outside.

I prefer cooler to warmer.  As my wife says, you can always put on more clothes, but you can only take off so much.

To me the perfect weather is between 60-75 degrees F with blue sky and a breeze....like the Upper Peninsula in July. But that's probably not too uncommon of an opinion.

I prefer hotter weather to cooler weather. Much easier to stay cool during the summer than it is to stay warm during the winter, IMHO.

If it's cold, you can add layers to reach a comfort zone.  If it's warm, you can't do anything but get nasty and sweaty.  Cold ftw.  I'd love it living in the Pacific Northwest.

Quote from: paulthemapguy on June 22, 2017, 11:25:17 AM
If it's cold, you can add layers to reach a comfort zone.  If it's warm, you can't do anything but get nasty and sweaty.  Cold ftw.  I'd love it living in the Pacific Northwest.

Not here in New England.

Dealing with warm weather it's called "dress for the weather".  80 degrees + humid is not the time for closed toe shoes, pants, or long sleeve shirts.  Unfortunately, men don't have professional summer options like women do.  That's why women are always cold in the office.  The men are dressed for winter, women for summer.

Quote from: vdeane on June 22, 2017, 02:33:16 PM
Dealing with warm weather it's called "dress for the weather".  80 degrees + humid is not the time for closed toe shoes, pants, or long sleeve shirts.  Unfortunately, men don't have professional summer options like women do.  That's why women are always cold in the office.  The men are dressed for winter, women for summer.

Sure it is. We're just wearing the wrong kinds of fabrics. Linen and seersucker are far better for being out in the warm sun all day than wearing short sleeves and shirts, since you're blocking the radiative heating of the sun. It's just that since the invention of A/C, we don't think about passive cooling nearly as much.

Quote from: Roadgeekteen on June 22, 2017, 01:31:29 PM

Quote from: paulthemapguy on June 22, 2017, 11:25:17 AM
If it's cold, you can add layers to reach a comfort zone.  If it's warm, you can't do anything but get nasty and sweaty.  Cold ftw.  I'd love it living in the Pacific Northwest.

Not here in New England.

I should specify--"cold" not "freezing cold."  I prefer 50s and 60s over 80s and 90s.

I like it cool. I dislike the heat intensely. I have a hereditary tendency to sweat, and humidity compounds the problem. If you're cold, you can always add layers of clothing. If you're hot, you don't have the option of going naked.

Although the heat's ill effects are compounded by humidity, a dislike a damp cool.

I prefer early spring and late fall to July and August (my least favorite months, climate-wise) and my bank account doesn't like what January and February do to my electricity bill.

I'd prefer the temperature stay between around 55 and 80, but if it happens to get outside of that range I'd rather it go up than down.

I am used to summer days in the 90s and low 100s just as a matter of course. It starts to get hot enough that it really feels noticeable or noteworthy is at 105 or so. The only time that I can remember it being unbearably hot was a week or so that we had highs around 108—110.

Handling heat is fairly straightforward if you're equipped for it. Keep your house cool and close off south- and west-facing rooms or install curtains to block the sunlight. Dress appropriately when you go outside–leave that business casual shit at home–and drink plenty of water.

With heat I find what bothers me is the relentlessness of it. A 100-degree day in isolation is not a problem. A month of 100s will drive anyone crazy. Oklahoma tends to a weather pattern in July and August where a strong high-pressure system settles in over the state, diverting the jet stream into a ridge to the north (peaking usually around northern Kansas, Nebraska, or South Dakota). The result of this is that any storm systems that approach "bounce off" the "dome" of high pressure and are diverted northward. That means that droughts often occur during such a time period.

Quote from: hbelkins on June 26, 2017, 11:30:04 AM
I like it cool. I dislike the heat intensely. I have a hereditary tendency to sweat, and humidity compounds the problem. If you're cold, you can always add layers of clothing. If you're hot, you don't have the option of going naked.

Although the heat's ill effects are compounded by humidity, a dislike a damp cool.

I prefer early spring and late fall to July and August (my least favorite months, climate-wise) and my bank account doesn't like what January and February do to my electricity bill.

You Can't?

To be serious, my comfort zone is extraordinarily low - I'm most comfortable from 20 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit. I can get away with summer clothes when most people up here start breaking out the heavy jackets.

I can cope with a dry heat to a degree, but humidity absolutely screws me up, and makes anything above 70 downright unbearable. And of course, it's not like I can go topless to beat the heat or anything.

Hot. Even humidity doesn't bother me. If it never snowed again, I'd be happy.

Quote from: Takumi on August 06, 2017, 04:08:12 PM
Hot. Even humidity doesn't bother me. If it never snowed again, I'd be happy.

Me too, I also hate rain.

When I am at work making train, my body produces large quantities of heat while moving around. I don't wear any kind of winter clothing while working, but I do have my limits (temps in the low teens or very cold wind chills). People look at me like I'm crazy in the winter months. My flesh has never felt any temperature below zero.

Colder weather, for what might be the most trivial of reasons:  I can switch over to my vacuum-tube audio amplifiers (which I prefer) without my GF complaining that it's making the den too damn hot (for something with only 12 tubes total it puts out a lot of heat that tends to get a 12 x 18 room hot fast).     

Cold.

Aside from job and family, I have little explanation of why I continue to live in Arizona.

Quote from: roadiejay on September 21, 2017, 07:46:22 AM
Cold.

Aside from job and family, I have little explanation of why I continue to live in Arizona.

You can move to a different part of Arizona (like Flagstaff) and get weather that's not anywhere near as hot.

Quote from: 1 on September 21, 2017, 07:48:04 AM

Quote from: roadiejay on September 21, 2017, 07:46:22 AM
Cold.

Aside from job and family, I have little explanation of why I continue to live in Arizona.

You can move to a different part of Arizona (like Flagstaff) and get weather that's not anywhere near as hot.

Outside of Greater Phoenix, Arizona's economy generally stinks. I live in Safford, where the local copper mine provides gainful employment for now. :)

Flagstaff is nice. There's a large retirement population from California and elsewhere that has driven up the median housing cost significantly. Combined with a relative lack of well-paying jobs, it has a reputation of "Poverty with a view."

My wife and I have a goal of relocating to the Show Low area. We have family and friends there, and the cooler weather would be better for my daughter's health.