Have you ever lived in an extremely cold place?

green_grass123 · Saturday at 11:32 AM

Have you ever lived somewhere which gets to -20°C (-4°F) or lower in winter? How did you handle it? What did you do on weekends? Are you willing to move back there? Did you take vitamin D or any other supplements?

lwiz · Saturday at 4:35 PM

Minus twenty is just winter as usual here and nothing extreme at any account. You cope - as you would anywhere - with suitable clothing and can pretty much do anything you want at weekends (or outdoors even), except maybe just staying put for extended periods. Even -30 is manageable, but exercising outdoors have to be done with caution if at all.

Extreme cold starts IMNSHO from around -40ºC (-40ºF) or so, it hits that mark occasionally even here, but it isn't the norm like in Siberia etc.

AndorfRequissa · Saturday at 4:40 PM

green_grass123 said:
Have you ever lived somewhere which gets to -20°C (-4°F) or lower in winter? How did you handle it? What did you do on weekends? Are you willing to move back there? Did you take vitamin D or any other supplements?

taking vitamins or supplements weakens ur bodies natural ability to produce what is needed. why would some take a supplement if it is cold? makes no logical sense to me. you eat healthy and stay in good phsyical shape without using supplements and ur 10x better off than those who use supplements.

lwiz · Saturday at 4:49 PM

As supplements go, extra vitamine-D intake can be okay due low quantity of sunlight available at midwinter. In cold regions sun tends to be at low angle during daytime and it might even never rise at wintertime either at some regions. And sunlight is essential for body prucing said vitamine. Of course, people have been living under those conditions millennia without any extra vitamine supply

cearp · Saturday at 8:22 PM

AndorfRequissa said:
taking vitamins or supplements weakens ur bodies natural ability to produce what is needed.

Humans can't produce vitamin c, so we need to get it from somewhere.
(Of course, naturally occurring in food is best, as opposed to an isolated chemical)

Domestica · Saturday at 8:29 PM

Yeah, Texas!

...During February of 2021.

Xdqwerty · Saturday at 8:35 PM

I was at the Mérida state here in Venezuela twice, it's way colder than the rest of the country

linuxares · Saturday at 8:37 PM

*looks at my flag* Yeah... some winters we get butt cold. Plus where I live its very humid so humid + cold = cold to your bones

UnderJinx · Saturday at 8:52 PM

Unless my Grandmothers haunted house in Poland counts as a cold place, then no

ciro64 · Saturday at 8:57 PM

I never seen snow in my life

Xdqwerty · Saturday at 9:00 PM

ciro64 said:
I never seen snow in my life

Me neither actually

green_grass123 · Saturday at 9:32 PM

linuxares said:
*looks at my flag* Yeah... some winters we get butt cold. Plus where I live its very humid so humid + cold = cold to your bones

How does it get humid in Sweden? Even Malmö should be too far north for it to get humid.

kijetesantakalu042 · Saturday at 9:34 PM

ciro64 said:
I never seen snow in my life

Xdqwerty said:
Me neither actually

How?

green_grass123 · Saturday at 9:38 PM

TheGlitch said:
How?

Look at their flags and check the map. Venezuala is too close to the equator for it to snow. Brazil is huge and ciro64 probably doesn't live in the south. Sure, it did snow in Texas once but these freak weather events are extremely rare and they don't happen to everyone.

linuxares · Saturday at 9:39 PM

green_grass123 said:
How does it get humid in Sweden? Even Malmö should be too far north for it to get humid.

Coastal cities still get humid. I heard it all before "Shouldn't be possible!" but when people from the great north comes to the southern cities, they freeze even if its warmer.

lwiz · Saturday at 9:45 PM

linuxares said:
Coastal cities still get humid. I heard it all before "Shouldn't be possible!" but when people from the great north comes to the southern cities, they freeze even if its warmer.

Coastal cities also get the nice winds, 10 m/s constant wind and minus twenty is quite a combination.

All that said, I'm somewhat involved due work with tourism and student exchange here where I live and in the end cold, snow and all that haven't ever been an issue aven with folks coming from southern Europe or Asia or Central America. Some even pick up winter sports like cross-country skiing or ice-skating on outdoor rinks.

kijetesantakalu042 · Saturday at 9:50 PM

green_grass123 said:
Look at their flags and check the map. Venezuala is too close to the equator for it to snow. Brazil is huge and ciro64 probably doesn't live in the south. Sure, it did snow in Texas once but these freak weather events are extremely rare and they don't happen to everyone.

I know, I still can't imagine never having seen snow before. Sadly snow is getting less and less common where I live. Global warming sucks.

emigre · Saturday at 10:25 PM

Hell yeah, I'm British baby.

Hayato213 · Saturday at 10:41 PM

Domestica said:
Yeah, Texas!

...During February of 2021.

Too bad Texas power grid is on its own.

The_Dizzy_Vizzy · Saturday at 10:54 PM

Actually, scratch that...

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