People that post on FB about how warm their weather is...

[Bonobo]

I don't think they should die in a vat of hot boiling oil exactly, but come on... it's just obnoxious.

[In_The_Wind]

1. I agree with you!

stop braggin' unless you have a guest room I can move into
my coffee is the best you'll ever drink [img][/img]

[img][/img] just sayin'

[BlueCaliDem]

53. Let's not knock cold weather! It can actually be really good for you

according to various studies.

1. Cold weather may help you lose weight.

2. Cold weather can be good for what hurts you. (Think about it: Ice has long been considered nature's anesthesia. It numbs our injuries and reduces swelling.)

3. Cold weather may improve your sex life.
4. Cold kills disease-mongering insects.

5. Cold weather has been linked to living longer.

In order to avoid copyright violations, I've only reported the five reasons without explanations.

You can read the complete explanation for each reason at the HuffPost.

[Travis_0004]

2. I agree. Its way to cold here.

61 degrees in San Diego. I had to put on a long sleeve shirt this morning.

[notadmblnd]

30. 61 degrees, that's shorts and flip flop weather where I live.

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Hell, here we don't put long sleeves on til it gets in the low 40's

[whatthehey]

31. How are housing prices?

I get to live in a nicely built 2500 sq ft 4/3 with a landscaped half acre for less than the price of an efficiciency rental in the less desirable parts of your area, 12 months a year. It only gets cold a couple of weeks out of that year..

[Travis_0004]

46. I live in Cincinnati on 2.5 acres

It was -10 in cincy this morning. Im on vacation.

[CBGLuthier]

3. Since I now live in a tropical paradise where the temperature never changes, low 80's all the time

I would never do that. It would be rude. I mean some day I may miss winter and snow and all that.

[Violet_Crumble]

4. I don't. I only post about it at DU...

Hot and muggy today, btw, but well away from the cyclone up north.

[malaise]

13. Ha ha ha ha

26 here and loving it - folks in Negril say they're freezing at 24.
Of course we locals don't go to the beach in this 'freezing weather'

Saw some destruction from that cyclone on TV this morning

[Violet_Crumble]

14. Yeah, hot depends on what yr used to...

I've seen people from up north rugged up when they visit here even though I think it's sweltering

I've got a cousin living in the path of the cyclone and he was busy stocking up yesterday, though I thought he was crazy for not leaving and getting out of the way of it...

[malaise]

16. Well if he has decent housing

and is well prepared, he should survive a Cat3.

[Violet_Crumble]

19. He's also inland a bit which helps...

Cyclone Marcia's a Category 5, but they're the same as hurricanes and weaken as they move in from the coast. He said they're probably going to get some flooding but none of the super scary stuff. Me, I'm glad I live further south where cyclones never happen coz I crap myself with normal storms, so one of those things would totally freak me out

[malaise]

34. I thought they said Cat3 - I'm moving when it's a Cat5

believe me on that

[countryjake]

18. Hee hee! I just did in that other "weather thread"...

waiting for winter to come.

I got a new winter coat last fall and haven't even got to wear it once, yet.

Our Washington weather is wacked.

[Violet_Crumble]

20. Is that Washingston the state or the White House Washington?

I get them both confused. Mild winters are pretty good, so make the most of not being able to wear yr coat

[countryjake]

25. It's the Pacific Northwest, I'm right up almost on the Canadian border.

There ain't no snow up in our Cascade mountains, no snowpack means no water in our rivers and it's gonna be disastrous come fire season.

We usually do have mild winters, but over sixty degrees and sunny clear days in January and February is totally wacky!

(I haven't had a new coat since 1983...I got tired of stuffing new batting into that old one and it finally got too ragged-looking. I told my man when we bought it that I was probably jinxing winter and that's exactly what happened, ha!)

[haikugal]

5. Turn up your thermostat

....freeze a Yankee. Who's old enough to remember that?

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. Let your thermostat rise and give them a surprise...

[liberal N proud]

6. Or the people in Florida complaining about it being 30 degrees

We have not seen 30 degrees for a month or more, can't recall what that would even feel like at this point.

[Roland99]

24. When one's body is accustomed to lows in the 50s/60s, when it gets below freezing, it's COLD

Same as being up north and it dropping to sub-zero when you're used to lows in the 20s or so.

It's all relative to what one's been accustomed to experiencing.


So, when it hits 50 in the winter up north after a long cold spell, it seems SO WARM! But 50 after several days of 70s/80s in FL will be downright chilly, esp. in the shade.

[liberal N proud]

27. I know but when I am sitting at -18 and you tell me that you are cold. I can't sympathize much

Sorry,

My daughter calls from Clearwater telling us it is cold. I tell her to shut up, she could be here in Cleveland.

[Roland99]

29. heh...I hear ya

I work during the week in Virginia (was 0F this morning) and my wife calls me as she's driving our daughter to school that she's freezing. I can sorta commiserate but when my hands literally hurt from the short walk from the hotel to loading my luggage into the rental car, I can't commiserate much!

[LostOne4Ever]

7. I know, its supposed to be a chilly 81 F today here in W Texas. Soooo cold >=) (nt)

[HappyMe]

8. It depends on how they put it.

My step sister in FL gets snarky about it sometimes.

[seaglass]

9. But none of those warm weather people can have a snow pit.

http://www.boston.com/news/weather/2015/02/18/chillin-bostonians-build-snow-lounge-with-fire-pit/sTxr8vM5FWvewazkYJkzTK/story.html

Snow and cold builds character.

[haikugal]

12. Hahaha!

That's awesome! LOL

[malaise]

17. But please stop jumping out of windows

and diving into snow pits

[HappyMe]

21. That is all kinds of awesome.

As tired as I can get of the cold, I don't think I would want warm or hot weather year round.

[Adsos Letter]

56. I am sooooo grateful I don't live there...

...because my wife would absolutely insist that I dig her one of those.

[NuclearDem]

11. Joke's on them.

Freezing cold weather builds character.

[Codeine]

15. It's going to be a chilly 79F today here in Riverside.

[Throd]

44. Enjoy it now. It'll be 113 in August.

I remember driving around Yorba Linda in a car without air conditioning when it was 113. No bueno. Muy malo.

[Codeine]

48. For two years I couldn't afford to fix the AC

in my old Corolla. Pure fucking misery.

[Sunlei]

22. Tell them you love the "man made climate change"

[B Calm]

23. When I was a young man I loved the season changes. But, winter anymore

just makes my arthritis ache and I don't need someone in a tropical paradise making fun of me!

[bigwillq]

26. They can post whatever they want.

I'm glad their weather is fine because mine sucks big donkey cheese. lol

[Turbineguy]

28. Gloaters

[Tommy_Carcetti]

32. I'm going to go ahead and plead the 5th.

Although I woke up this morning and it was 34 degrees, which is too cold in my books any way you cut it. So I'm not bragging today.

[countryjake]

33. Extremes. We're on pace to have the warmest winter on record...

out here in the Pacific Northwest and you don't want to know about that?

Freaky weather is freaky weather and it does no one any good to ignore the extremes such as the ones happening right now in the USA. What's happening to us out here on the West Coast is what's causing the cold back East, if you'd look at a weather map.

[Coventina]

35. Yeah, well, when it's 112 for the 100th day in a row, I'll be just as bummed as y'all are now.

I actually hate that it's already 80+ here. We didn't even have a winter.

[jobycom]

36. Yep. It's disgusting. I'm going to the beach... where's my sunscreen...?

[Iggo]

37. Those bastards!

Don't they know I almost had to put on a sweater over my long sleeved t-shirt before I left the house at 5:30 this morning?

Brrrrrrr.

[Anansi1171]

38. We shouldnt post about our experience?

http://m.

[RantinRavin]

39. Leaving tomorrow on a cruise

Getting married on the ship before we leave, then heading to Cozumel and Grand Cayman....going to be in the 80's

[HockeyMom]

40. Florida Weather Forecasters are the Worst

Local channels. They constantly show the weather around the country when it snows. They love to say how cold it is here and there. "Aren't you happy you are here and not there?" Makes me want to throw something at the TV. Paradise, paradise, paradise. If I had a dime for every time they say THAT!!!

They must be crying in their soup this year. It has been very cool this winter. Last night broke a 50 year old record with 34 degrees in Naples. My husband said they actually gave a wind chill in the 20s! lol

I am back in NY where it was 1 degree last night with a wind chill of -19. Cold but I will try to think of this when the heat index in SW Florida is over 100 degrees for months on end, and I am hibernating in the house with the AC blasting.

I will take the COLD any day over Florida's Seasons of Hot, Hotter, Hottest, and HELL.

[pipi_k]

41. It sucks but...

eventually I get my turn to rub salt in the wounds.

Like during the summer when my mom in FL can't go outside because it's blazing hot or they're having their daily thunderstorm and giant cockroaches and alligators and lizards are peering at her through the screen doors.


Then there's hurricane season.

Me texting mom: "I hear you have a hurricane watch down there. We don't up here. Sorry."

[Tsiyu]

42. They'll be the same ones whining in a few months

because they're dying of the heat.

What goes around comes around.

[former9thward]

49. I live in Phoenix

and I love both the winter AND the summer. So do most people I know.

[Tsiyu]

50. Well, that is so awesome

I just don't know what to say.

Go you.

[pipi_k]

43. Although there is this too....

We "Massholes" can dish it out right back....hee hee

[B Calm]

45. LOL +1

[KamaAina]

47. I just did precisely that.

In reply to a friend who was kvetching about the cold in NYC, where she went to go to grad school at NYU.

It was my way of reminding her that it was her choice to leave Oakland, of which many of us out here strongly disapproved.

[greg1024]

51. Warm and dry

Please send any or all your snow and cold our way.
The West Coast is in trouble .

[NanceGreggs]

52. Being a "winter" person ...

... my FB friends talking about how how hot it is where they are reminds me how grateful I am to be buried under mounds of icy cold snow.

I realize I'm in the minority here - but the thought of broiling hot, humid summer days gives me a sense of dread.

To each his own ...

[geomon666]

54. Winter has been hell

[handmade34]

55. no problem...

wouldn't miss this for anything...

[Warpy]

57. Wait until fire season starts in a couple of months

You'll be able to gloat at everybody in the southwest who has had a mild winter without enough precipitation as everything they own gets destroyed.

[Yavin4]

58. People who live in year round warm weather states should...

have to pay higher taxes.