Have you ever been in a climate zone that was too much for you to bear?

[bleedingheart]

a woman from India came to visit our office this week, her first time in the US and she gets to visit our area during a cold spell.

This poor woman was just so cold that it bordered on shocking her system...

I felt really bad for her.

Now I can handle cold or hot but I found the lack of moisture in some zones like Colorado a bit overwhelming at times...thought my nose would dry out and fall off my face.

[KitchenWitch]

1. It is so dry here that my fingernails break off below the cuticle all the time

x(

[jobycom]

2. My first time in Albuquerque was hell.

I was sick for days from the dryness. After I got used to it and learned how to recognize when I was drying out, it got better.

[fizzgig]

3. i come from a dry climate

really high humidity kills me. it feels like there's a wet blanket over my face

[skygazer]

4. I have a tough time with high humidity

I get migraines - when I lived in Vermont, I'd get 2 or 3 a week during the summer. It sucked. :(

[Arugula Latte]

5. I had a hard time in Colorado with the dryness.

I lived there for the summer and, although it's a pretty state, it sure is landlocked and dry (not to mention that damn elevation leavig me breathless). I can't imagine how I would have fared in the winter there -- :scared:

A lot of people think the Northwest is too wet for them. It does get damn damp, but I like the relatively moderate temperatures and the tree canopy.

[rockymountaindem]

6. I can't take heat and humidity

When it was like 85 in Florida I though I would pass out. OTOH, I was playing a tennis tournament outside in 102 degree heat in Colorado a few years ago and I held up surprisingly well. Ultimatley, I just can't do the humidity/jungle thing. That's why I love Hawaii. It has a tropical environment, but because the surrounding ocean is so deep it has nice manageable 80 degree temps, as opposed the the Caribbean which is one giant heating element.

I've also been up here in -40 living in Toronto for school. That's a trip and a half, lemme tell ya. Cool and moist, though I've never been to the Northwest, is fine with me. I love the rain.

[u4ic]

7. A couple

Northern Alberta. Every winter night (Oct-Apr) went down to -40. The week of -63F degree weather - that's without the wind chill - didn't endear me to the place, nor did the bankers hours for sunlight in the winter. (the Northern Lights were spectacular, though)

Two years there was enough.


Toronto summers (where I grew up, without air conditioning). The heat and humidity were horrid. You could never feel dry or clean. I always felt like I was on the verge of passing out...



I like temperate climates. :)

[AngryAmish]

8. On time I was in Mongolia and it was -70 degrees Fahrenheit

But I was 35,000 feet in the air in a comfy airplane so I really didn't notice it.

[u4ic]

9. With the wind chill one day

it was -76. On the ground. With me in it. x(

[achtung_circus]

12. What are you calling Northern?

The first time I felt -40, as a Toronto transplant to Edmonchuck, I thought I was going to die. But you get used to hanging, if you hang long enough.

I used to spend time in Fort Smith & the lack of daylight was the killer for me, too.

[u4ic]

13. Ft Mac

I was at the point where I could go out hatless/gloveless up to -20 and not feel it.

They were a couple of very cold years up there; it was already -30 by Hallowe'en and didn't warm up very much for the rest of the winter(s).

[achtung_circus]

14. I was catching grief at the office yesterday.

The bunch were outside for a smoke at -10 and I was in shirtsleeves. No wind and a sunny corner, I asked "what are you going to do when (if?) winter arrives?"

[Coyote_Bandit]

10. I once lived

in one of our nations largest metropolitan areas. I was sick almost every day because of allergies to environmental pollutants. I was SOOOOOO glad to leave....

I've visited several places for extended periods of time that were considerably hotter or colder or drier than what I am accustomed to. Those were uncomfortable and miserable in their own way. But I always felt like given time that my body would have adapted to the conditions. I never had that sense in polluted metropolitan hell.

[momophile]

11. I'm in CO and you should see my hair when I go almost

anywhere else. Ffffrrruuummm! Talk about body and curl!!

That's a shock to my system!

It is dry here and I have headaches all the time partially because of it.

[NewWaveChick1981]

15. The humidity here in the summertime is unbearable...

Often it's between 70 and 100% humidity, and it's enough to make you pass out. :yoiks: But I think extreme dryness would be just as bad. Since it's only about three months out of the year that the humidity is so horrid, I guess I can deal with it. Air conditioning helps a LOT. :)

[Broken_Hero]

16. Ditto on this, in SW Missouri

the humidity/heat kills me.....I'm use to the cold/ice/rain/snow....:)

[grace0418]

17. Yes, I've lived in Chicago my whole life and I will never get used to it.

Either it's so cold and dry that my skin is peeling off my face and my sinuses are begging for mercy or it's so humid and gross that a permanent oil slick is covering my whole body. We get about 20 days a year without the extremes it seems.