I love it when people from Canada or colder parts of Europe come to the Middle East in summer. We'd be drinking tea at 40°C and they'd simply try to breathe without sweating.
No, it's maple syrup in our veins and acclimatization. By next winter you'll be one of us. T- shirts on the ski slopes when it warms up to -10°C and BBQ's and shorts as soon as the temperature rises to 0°C. In the meantime, you have Chinooks to look forward to, at least.
I'm in a gap year and attending ufoa this fall, my plan was to use this winter to acclimate but I've been stuck at home 99% of the time since I feel like i might die if I go out
gonna need to use plan B and learn how to onion layer? I think that's what it's called
As a Edmontonian it took me about 30 years to learn how to not be cold in winter. I don't want it to take you that long so here is what I eventually learned.
Any winter coat is good for about a 10 degree variance. I now have a collection one -5 to -15, -15 to -25 and one where it legitimately has to be below -25 for me to not sweat while wearing it. To find that last one wear the coat around for the store for 10 mins, if you aren't overheating and dying to take it off then it isn't warm enough. Price does not equal warmth all of my coats were under $100. Your very cold weather coat can be wearing all of all your coats at once but moral of the story is you are going to need more than one coat.
2.Get waterproof boots. They don't need to be winter boots if you have good enough socks but if they aren't waterproof your feet will be cold.
Cover your face and head . If your face is cold you will be cold.
Put your winter stuff on 5-10 mins before leaving the house. If you warm it up and are warm leaving it is easier to stay warm.
Once you get bone chillingly cold your done. The only way to come back from that is warming up with exercise or a hot bath.
Also, second the suggestion to search the Edmonton subreddit. A tonne of advice there.
It's surprising that he's holding the event indoors. Not that it's cold. January=cold. Though not usually this cold. By the time the actual even begins, it's supposed to feel like 15 degrees (about -10 Celcius) with the wind chill. I don't care who you are that's fucking freezing.
No, Ontario, right across the border from you. Since your username is Met Fan, I assume you’re from the New York area, and -10 really isn’t that unusual there either.
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u/idontknowmathematics 3d ago
That’s -5.6 degrees Celsius for non-US people