# Cold ... and dealing with it **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 17, 2009, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-and-dealing-with-it/481749 "2009-01-17T16:12:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-and-dealing-with-it/481749/21 "2009-01-19T07:11:22Z")
> [@qwest](#): > > One of the most important things to remember about cold weather survival is don’t overheat. > > In very cold temperatures, sweating is very dangerous. If you sweat, you will become extremely chilled as soon as you slow down your physical activity.\ Yup. I’ve found that balance between warm enough and overheating (headband instead of toque, gloves instead of mittens, etc.). It might look weird when I take off my gloves and let the heat radiate off my hands in -25ºC weather, but I need to blow off that extra heat from brisk walking. I prefer cold weather for all my exercising - I get nice and warm in the cold, but I get far too hot in the heat. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-and-dealing-with-it/481749/22 "2009-01-19T20:38:51Z")
As long as my noisy old heat pump keeps working I don’t care too much. Still, I’m ready for spring. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-and-dealing-with-it/481749/23 "2009-01-19T21:41:19Z")
It’s been a while since I experienced really cold temp - I’ve lived in San Fran and the Central Valley of CA for the last 12 years. I work in Daly City, and it recently got to about 35-ish. Not cold, but anyone who’s spent much time there knows about the wind - when it whipped, it was fricking COLD! Terrible stuff… Joe ---
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-and-dealing-with-it/481749/24 "2009-01-19T22:01:14Z")
My office is in a cinder block wall, poured concrete floor building with one of those giant overhead gas heaters that blows right over my head and out the door, so I wear fingerless gloves so I can use the laptop. I turn a flannel pj bottom inside out so the softest side is against my skin and wear that under my jeans. Usually 2 or 3 turtlenecks maybe under a sweater or sweatshirt, and one or sometimes 2 pairs of socks with my regular tennis shoes. I have a sedentary job sitting at a desk so I get pretty chilly. I walk to work every day but the good news is I live right across the street. The other day I wore a long wool coat to work and never took it off, and still my legs were a bit cold. Kept my hat on all day too - windchill around -5 that day. I do think the snow is beautiful tho, just not when I have to scrape it off my car, and very glad I don’t have to drive anywhere right now, accidents all over the news. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-and-dealing-with-it/481749.md?page=1)