I lived in FL for years. When I moved to NYC I would advise people taking a trip to Disney World to take a winter coat! They were shocked! But they listened to me and said they were the only ones warm! People packed shorts and sleeveless tops...they thanked me.
I would always say, "Rem the Challenger....it was 29 F that morning"...:[
(That's 3 degrees below freezing for our Celsius friends.)
Yesterday in Colorado it made it to the 60s, clear blue skies...with snow on the Rocky Mountains,
very pretty.
I appreciate that you write the Celsius for us dumbo's thanks for that kindness. I need it! Three degrees below...this time of year we would think that was spring!! :)
But I well remember visiting one of my daughters in Georgia for Christmas years ago. That took us down to Disney World for a Christmas treat...I have never been so cold!! Bone chilling cold...and yes, we did not have our Canadian winter coats with us!
I have never been so miserable ...but we couldn't say anything because they were paying for everything. I must say, I have never felt so bone chilled here even in winter , as I did down there. ( We have very little humidity here) Well I lie, once I did , I just remembered...it was at 4.30 in the morning, pitch black, and some friends were running us into town to catch the early greyhound back home. We were on a country backroad, gravel. It was
45 below freezing. We hit a deer...it stopped the engine dead ( the deer jumped up and ran off, I doubt that he was unhurt.)
We sat praying for help...there were no farmhouses for miles. We began to freeze...within 30 mins in that cold it hit into our bones...it is so agonizingly painful. I did not know dying of cold was painful...I would have thought a person would just be numb...maybe that comes at the end.
We did think we were going to die. In no time, we could not speak, our mouths were like after a dentist freezes it. Numb...but the inner bones= pain. And about 6 hours before the flesh felt normal again. It took 12 hours for my bones to return to normal...the cold could still be felt.
I am sure drowning would be awful, burning in a fire even worse maybe...but freezing is no picnic I can tell you!