I live in a pretty hot climate, but it’s only really unbearable at times due to shoddy building and bad urban planning. Even then, summer can be difficult.
I can’t imagine what it’s like on the equator, especially in dense urban centres. What’s Mumbai, Bangkok, or Singapore like at the height of the wet season?! How do millions of people function day to day?
Where I live (West Central Florida) we get (weather -wise) a winter and a summer, summer is longer and hot and wet.
The hot I grew up in, so am adapted I suppose, didn’t have air conditioning till I was 23. So I can be still in the shade and pretty comfortable. If I have to exercise or work in the yard I do it in the morning, early, because afternoon is the rainy time, and if it doesn’t rain it is too hot to be safe. All swim lessons and summer weddings are in the morning, nobody tries to schedule outdoor stuff in the afternoons if they live here. Stupid government refused to give workers heat protection protection. Kids have to do heat safety training for sports in school, learn what heat exhaustion looks like and how to hydrate safely.
I LOVE our rainy summers though. It is beautiful in its own way, the morning getting hotter then the storms, all the lightning and rain to cool it off, then the most beautiful heat lightning in the nights, whole sky flashing far away, and the bolts as well.
And I guess I’d ask how do people survive in places where it freezes for months on end? You can’t grow anything in the winter, and don’t the pipes freeze and burst? Is it bad for the roads and bridges? Do the homeless freeze to death? The squirrels? What about reptiles, snakes and lizards?
Globalization! And before that, preserves. Good thing is nothing spoils when the world is your fridge/freezer
Water mains are buried deep enough that they don’t freeze. Tap water is noticeably colder.
Yes. The cold isn’t, but freeze/thaw cycles are. Most asphalt roads needs to be resurfaced every 15 years or so
Yes, but most cities have heated shelters around here where people can come when it gets too cold to sleep outdoors
Northern mammals evolved to handle it
What are those?
Summer storms are the best! That feeling of anticipation as the pressure builds up, then the way the temperature drops, before the rain hits and it just washes the heat away (sometimes!)
NW Florida here. Lived in Chicago for two years. I’ll take the heat thank you very much. I won’t die if left outside.
Ironically, I’m Canadian and am more likely to die in the humid heat than the brutal cold 😂 granted, wet cold like you’ll find in Chicago and Toronto are special kinds of hell, no thank you