Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for February 16, 2019

My DIL is a California girl and bundles up any time they visit, even in summer. She’s used to HEAT, and doesn’t like it under 80F.

You can always spot the snowbirds in Arizona and Florida by their shorts even if the temperatures are in the 50’s. I know,I can be one of them!

The catalogs from the clothing companies throw off the calendar. I can never tell what season it is from their displays.

Woman.. do not have internal thermostats… they are COLD at 80 degrees “F”…. regardless where they lived…mine need 85 or better.. and we are from NE OHIO… aka lake affect SNOW… so winter for 66 years… she freezes.. Moved to south Texas.. she is still cold…

Florida girl here…..freezing and bundled up at 70!

It is so weird how the first fall day the temp dips into the 50s is so dreadful, yet the occasional winter day in the 50s is so delightful.

“All right you has been messin’ with the thermostat?”

A friend has his A/C at 65 in the summer and his heat at 78 in the winter. Beats me. I think he likes paying high energy bills.

I walk every morning and the most important thing in my house at that hour of the morning is the thermometer that shows the outside temperature – I have waking gear that ranges from shorts and a T-shirt to a parka. My “operating temperature” is 25 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit. I try to avoid strenuous exercise above 85 degrees.

This could be labeled Phoenix on the left, Colorado (or Northeast) on the right.

This ‘toon is definitely me. By the time January rolls in I’m so well acclimated to the cold that on 50 deg. days I’m in shorts and tees in order to be comfortable.

Reminds me of that weather guy…Larry Drizzle.

I live in a college town in Michigan. When the winter weather hits about fifty degrees, you can spot students wandering around campus in shorts and flip flops. And earn the polar vortex hit a couple of weeks ago, the gas company asked everyone to turn their thermostats down to 65 degrees. The griping and whining could be heard for miles! Hasn’t anyone ever heard of a sweater?

This is also true for convertibles.

Living in North Idaho, well into six months of winter, I’m wondering if we will ever see a 50 degree day!!! I lived most of my life in Southern California, so yes, I’m still cold at 50 degrees……but it is still above freezing!

It’s all about what you’re used to… one of my favorite examples was living on O’ahu. During the winter months the locals would wear a sweater or light coat when the temps dipped down to 69F. I thought that was ridiculous the first year I was there but by the third year I was doing it too. And from there I moved to the front range of Colorado (my last duty station), just before winter set in. I nearly froze to death that first winter back and I joined the service from western Colorado some 20 years earlier and spent most of my youth in the Chicago suburbs before that 8^)

It’s all relative.

In Texas, there are four seasons: almost summer, summer, still summer, and New Year’s Day.