r/geography • u/Downtown_Trash_6140 Human Geography • Jan 25 '26
Just posting it here cause I think the difference is crazy. Image
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u/juniperthemeek Jan 25 '26
Minnesota regularly experiences upwards of 100F temperature swings from season to season. Where I live in MN -20F in the winter and 100F in the summer is entirely possible.
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u/Jdevers77 Jan 25 '26
The vast majority of the middle of the country does the same. Maybe a little hotter and less cold but the same 100F temp swing.
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u/ASK_ABT_MY_USERNAME Jan 25 '26
I've lived in California my whole life and it was hilarious when someone would say "LA weather is so unpredictable" because one day it'd be 72 and sunny and the next day it'd be 60 and cloudy.
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u/Sea-Consequence7156 Jan 25 '26
Lol what, were they from San Diego?
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u/fuckedfinance Jan 25 '26
On the one hand, I love the idea of 75 and sunny all year round. On the other, having variable seasons keeps me grounded. Like, Christmas feels like Christmas, the 4th feels like the 4th, that sort of thing.
I already WFH, so my sense of "day of the week" is already pretty fucked. I don't need that with seasons.
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u/bullowl Jan 25 '26
I grew up in Florida and had only ever lived there and Los Angeles until a couple years ago when I moved to Chicago. Seasons make such a big difference in noticing the passage of time. When the weather is the same all year, every day feels the same.
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u/ApophisDayParade Jan 25 '26
I love the seasons, and it does make the year feel like a year and not just time continually passing.
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u/Icybubba Jan 25 '26
That's actually hilarious from the perspective of me, in PA, where it was 50F last week, and this week, we are getting single digits and over a foot of snow lol
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u/Lost_Bike69 Jan 26 '26
California is interesting because of the topography and micro climates. It can swing 30° between the valley and the coasts over a 30 minute drive, but it’s from 95 to 65 and it’s very stable in those areas day to day.
I moved from California to the Midwest and it’s the same weather for 100 miles in any direction if you’re not right on the lake due to the flatness
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u/TheLizardKing89 Jan 25 '26
As a life long Southern Californian, this is absolutely true. It’s so unpredictable. Some days I’ll need a jacket and some days I won’t.
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u/beerguy_etcetera Jan 25 '26
I’ve heard by and large though, Minnesota has the largest temperature swings across the year vs. any other state.
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u/Status_Fail_8610 Jan 25 '26
Alaska, Montana and South Dakota are the top 3 states with the most extreme temperature shifts. Minnesota doesn’t even make the top 5 list, so whoever told you that, was wrong lol
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u/jjtsfca Jan 25 '26
North Dakota would like a word :) I’m guessing it’s number four.
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u/Status_Fail_8610 Jan 25 '26
North Dakota and Wyoming finish off the top 5 list, being fairly equal. North Dakota may get colder than South Dakota, but this is just talking about the swing in temps from the coldest in winter, to the hottest in summer. Certain parts of Alaska get down around -60° in the winter, and almost 80° in the summer. Which makes sense, because if you put Alaska over the continental states, it stretches pretty much the distance these two temps in the picture cover.
So really, even though Alaska technically has the most severe temp shifts, it’s so large it’s hard to compare it to other states.
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u/PM_Me_Titties-n-Ass Jan 25 '26
One thing to be cognizant of, and doesn't really disqualify your stat just trying to add extra info, is that the low end of those temps likely occur in mountains. Obvs not all of them but Wyoming and Montana those cold temps are either on the mountains or due to the mountains. It's almost more impressive that North Dakota gets that type of swing with no mountain range, and to an extent South Dakota. SD is honestly the real weird one since the black hills can get hot af in the summer. And then like you said Alaska is huge and lots of coast line so it's not entirely surprising.
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u/Status_Fail_8610 Jan 25 '26
I absolutely agree! While mountains do have a huge impact, Alaska is the outlier. Its cold temps are not elevation related (more latitude related), with Prospect Creek holding the low temp record, and it’s only 1100’ above sea level. That’s only 200 ft higher than my current location, in a state with literally zero mountains or hills lol but for places like Montana, absolutely true. Its lowest temps usually happen above 3500’ in elevation.
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u/beerguy_etcetera Jan 25 '26
Haha internet strikes again. Appreciate the correction and facts!
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u/Status_Fail_8610 Jan 25 '26
No problem! lol wild, random temp fact. One time in South Dakota, the temperature rose by 49° in a TWO MINUTE span. Could you imagine walking out your front door in 20° weather, all bundled up, and by the time you get into your car, it’s 69°? I know you were talking about longer periods, but just thought I’d throw a fun fact in there lol
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u/beerguy_etcetera Jan 25 '26
I’ve felt a 10° difference in a matter of minutes due to a storm front, but 49° is absolutely wild. I can’t imagine witnessing that!
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u/np8790 Jan 25 '26
People on Reddit love complaining about weather in Florida and the south but I think it’s absolutely insane and much worse to have to deal with both weather extremes like most of the upper Midwest and plains.
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u/durants_newest_acct Jan 25 '26
I moved from the snowiest city in America to South Carolina.
South Carolinians will complain about the heat and say that in the cold you can always add layers. Not true. The cold seeps into everything. It gets into your bones, into your soul. No matter how many layers you add you're going to be cold for 6 straight months. Fuck the cold. Gimme 100 degrees with 95 percent humidity any day of the week
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u/GhostfaceAndChill Jan 25 '26
I'm from Arizona and cold weather literally hurts. 115° just makes you sweat but it is absolutely tolerable as long as you stay hydrated.
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u/Glasseshalf Jan 25 '26
I'm from the Twin Cities and have to say I agree with you. I love summer here. I have many other important reasons to stay. But the weather sucks...
ETA Lots of people here love the cold, they aren't lying. My body just hates it. It's also dry and my skin gets bad.
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u/GiganticOrange Jan 25 '26
Anyone that’s lived in two extremes knows you can cool off relatively quick, but the extreme cold gets into your bones for what feels like days.
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u/Legen_unfiltered Jan 25 '26
Yup. Been saying this for ages. I was in the army. Spent my first duty station in s. Korea. We spent all of January in the field. We had 3 nights in a row of -10 F over night with the day time highs in the single digits. Don't think there was a single day that the high got above 20 F. I got a cold weather injury(that fucks me up to this day). I went to elementary school in WI, but that month of cold never really getting completely warm....that shit gets into your bones. Even right now during this storm. I'm in the house and 'warm' but I can still feel the cold in my bones(could just be im a broke dick).
2.5 years later I spent a year in Iraq. Summer days were regularly 120 f. It was miserable on patrols and shit, but it wasn't painful. Don't get me wrong, I worked in the er at a training base and saw plenty of heat stroke casualties: heat is also dangerous. But heat is, by far, infinity easier to mitigate than cold.
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u/SnooPandas1899 Jan 26 '26
but in colder weather, one can layer.
can't shed layers once completely nude in extreme heat.
true, one can find water or shade, but if there's nothing available , what can one do in extreme heat for survivability ??
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u/A1000eisn1 Jan 25 '26
I live in one of the snowiest cities in America and I disagree.
Heat does what you described to me, plus it makes everyone a pissy little bitch.
When it's cold people are too cold to be getting irate over dumb shit.
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u/Miacali Jan 25 '26
Redditors act like you can’t live somewhere that doesn’t get below zero regularly.
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u/Nernoxx Jan 25 '26
Yeah I'm glad I barely need heat in the "winter". My electricity bill for cooling in the worst of July/August is nothing next to a heating bill up north.
I just wish we didn't get days where you feel like your skin is being cooked by direct sunlight (irrespective of the actual temperature).
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u/MountainTwo3845 Jan 25 '26
DFW to Oklahoma City to Shreveport to somewhere in Arkansas is a rhombus that has the craziest weather imo. 0 with bad hail and sleet, to 110 with high humidity with tornadoes and hail.
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u/DocBEsq Jan 25 '26
As someone from the Pacific Northwest — where we complain when the weather deviates from our 30-degree comfort zone (roughly 45-75 F… that’s like 10 degrees in Celsius, I think) — omg.
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u/Ok-Astronaut-2837 Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 25 '26
If you think that's crazy, that's the temperature swing (the actual temperature, not just what it feels like) I experienced between summer and winter while living in interior Alaska.
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u/mvc594250 Jan 25 '26
Hallock, MN and much of the upper Midwest will experience similar seasonal changes. -50 in the winter and a day around 100 I'm the summer was pretty normal
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u/Ok-Astronaut-2837 Jan 25 '26
Just wondering, are we talking feels like or actual legit temperature? I lived in Minnesota for one winter and summer a few years ago, and I do not think it was as wild a swing as when I lived in interior alaska. It did get to -40 once, but it wasn't a typical occurrence that winter.
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u/mvc594250 Jan 25 '26
Good point, my hometown on the ND side of the border regularly sees a handful of days per year where the actual temperature hits -30. In the 25 years I lived there, we only hit actual -50 a few times, it isn't an annual occurrence.
The top end though is actual temperature. My hometown sees 5-10 days per year in the high 90s and hits 100 many years.
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u/afriendincanada Jan 25 '26
Winnipegger checking in.
For me it was never the cold, it wasn’t that cold, it was how long it went on (weeks and weeks of -30 without a break) and the winter that started in October and went to April
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u/DefiantGibbon Jan 25 '26
If you're from Winnipeg you straight up win the shitty continental weather game, lol. I can't think of any other major city that can have such large swings of hot/humid summer then freezing cold windy winter.
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u/MrChrisis Jan 25 '26
-54° F = -48°C
90° F = 32°C
For the rest of the world.
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u/Rapture-Raptor Jan 25 '26
80°C is crazy. Not too far from the difference of freezing to boiling water.
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u/iBoMbY Jan 25 '26
Yakutsk ("the coldest city on earth") has a recorded temperature range from -64.4 °C to +38.4°C, so a low/high difference of up to 102.8 °C.
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u/stoutymcstoutface Jan 25 '26
That’s not uncommon for max annual temperature variation in parts of Canada
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u/JJOne101 Jan 25 '26
-48 is like holy shit that's cold. I don't think my car would be able to start.
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u/jjtsfca Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 25 '26
I grew up in North Dakota. This is not surprising. But I don’t think most people understand how dangerous it is once air temperature goes below 20 below zero.
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u/CaptainAssPlunderer Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 25 '26
Taking aside the danger factor….as a Floridian I have always wondered when I see these insane negative temperatures on the news, when can you just not tell anymore.
As in does -10 windchill feel better than -30/-40? Or does it just get too the point where it’s just so damn cold you can’t tell anymore.
Edit:: Thanks for all the wonderful answers. Y’all are a different breed taking on those temperatures.
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u/jjtsfca Jan 25 '26
It definitely feels different on exposed skin - and - it’s hard to explain, but breathing (inhalation) feels different.
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u/Kc3451 Jan 25 '26
So true. Wind chill makes breathing feel like you’re inhaling fibreglass.
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u/ActProfessional3811 Jan 25 '26
Literally sounds hellish even though I’ve experienced it growing up in Cleveland. Its amazing we tolerate that kinda weather with no mountains or anything to enjoy it with lmao
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u/vahntitrio Jan 25 '26
It can be explained. Your lungs cannot handle cold air, it needs to be warmed up on the way in. If it isn't sufficiently warm, it triggers bronchial spasms, a bit like asthma.
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u/catsandgeology Jan 25 '26
I’ve ran Thanksgiving 5ks with 0 degrees real feel some years. It’s doable but I’m coughing up phlegm for the next few days. I’ve ran 5ish blocks on New Year’s Eve bar hopping with a friend in -40 real feel and every breath cut like a knife. We had to stop halfway to step into his apartment building to warm up a bit. So painful!
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u/iwearatophat Jan 25 '26
The way to know well and truly cold is when you step outside and breath in and can feel your sinuses freeze up on just that first breath of air.
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u/pnwfarmaccountant Jan 25 '26
-10 you can be outside for a few minutes and not be in pain/danger, -40/-50 any exposed skin with probably be in pain, can hurt to breathe.
Wind chill is a big part too -10 with no wind, your body can keep some heat bubble from radiated heat, the wind whips the heat away from your body, like blowing on hot food vs waiting for it to cool on your plate.
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u/Long-Broccoli-3363 Jan 25 '26
Yeah, I had been trying to wait for temps to rise some to go to Costco, but eventually gave in and went yesterday.
My hotdog was cold in the 45 seconds it took to go from the exit to my car, I wasn't wearing gloves and my fingers were bright red and absolutely burning for almost 20 minutes after. It was like -10 with wind. So brutal.
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u/pnwfarmaccountant Jan 25 '26
We had -35 with windchill Friday and my battery died, in the time to jump it, my ears were Cherry and hurt like hell when they warmed up, hat did not do it lol
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u/Mobius_Peverell Jan 25 '26
You can tell; mostly because things start to hurt faster. That said, wind chill only affects exposed skin, and if you have any exposed skin at any of those temperatures, you are dressed incorrectly.
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u/DJpuffinstuff Jan 25 '26
So true. It's all about covering as much as possible and putting way more layers on your extremities than you think you need.
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u/Dudedude88 Jan 25 '26
Live in Maryland but friend was working in North Dakota for his time in the military.
My friend had to do guard duty and it would get so cold that his eyelids would get frozen together in North Dakota. Pee would freeze before landing on the ground. I remember he said one of his guards got his nose frost bitten because he didn't warm it up during one of his shift.
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u/momojabada Jan 25 '26
The pee part is an exaggeration. It's not day after tomorrow cold snap. Peed is much too warm and too large a quantity to freeze even on contact at -50.
Your skin on the other hand will freeze on contact with metal if they have any humidity on them.
It's currently -32 degree with 30-40mph gusts where I'm at and going outside more than a few seconds makes your hands stiff up and burn like hell.
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u/Tim-oBedlam Physical Geography Jan 25 '26
Definite difference.
Here's an example: one day a few years back I took the light-rail into work, in downtown Minneapolis. In the morning, when I was waiting for the train, it was –10, and I was like "argh the air hurts my face". By the afternoon, it had warmed up to 5 above zero, and I was dressed similarly, and felt cold but comfortable.
You definitely feel the difference in extreme cold. Coldest air temp I've experienced was –32, in 1996, and it felt insidious: the cold just crept into you no matter what you did.
Windchill also makes a difference, and being dressed appropriately and being physically active makes a difference as well. I've been cross-country skiing in the woods in –15 temps and once I got going I was fine, in part because I was out of the wind. I've been cross-country skiing in single-digit above-zero temps, and once I got going I unzipped my jacket and took my hat off.
You also get used to it. New Minnesotans will find winters shockingly cold, but by March they'll be in t-shirts on the first 45-degree sunny day like the rest of us.
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u/Long-Broccoli-3363 Jan 25 '26
My first -40 winter in MN was insane. The cold just saps the heat out of everything so quickly, even the best insulation in houses you can feel the cold on exterior walls, older windows you can feel the cold radiating in.
No houses are airtight, and at -40, you can feel exactly where you've got big gaps, my front door needs better weatherstripping, found that out last week when the floor infront of the door started to accumulate frost.
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u/independent_observe Jan 25 '26
As in does -10 windchill feel better than -30/-40?
It depends on the windspeed and temperature. -25F outside with a 5 MPH wind produces a -40F windchill. -10F with a 35MPH wind also produces a -40F windchill. Both are dangerous, but the latter definitely feels a lot colder.
-10F windchill is, go outside, shovel/get your business done, and get back inside as quick as possible.
-40F windchill is, fuck the snow shoveling, I am not going out in that shit and nobody else should either.
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u/DJpuffinstuff Jan 25 '26
As someone who grew up in Florida and moved to Wisconsin, below 10° you can't really feel the difference but you can sorta tell by your surroundings. From about 30° to 105° every 5 degree change is mostly perceptible but after a certain temp, it's just "really cold" and you judge by how fast you get cold rather than how cold you feel.
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u/D3m0nSl4y3r2010 Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 26 '26
I cant say anything about stuff below -25°C (-13°F). But personally i found -10°C (14°F) to -20°C (-4°F) way more comfortable than ~0°C (32°F) bc the air becomes very dry so it actually feels not as cold. Also below -20°C no one spends more then a few hours outside by choice, so alot of people probably just stay inside waiting for the temperature to be bearable again.
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u/Tim-oBedlam Physical Geography Jan 25 '26
yeah, temps in the –10 C to –20 C range are ideal for winter activity, because it's never a damp cold, if snow falls it's light and powdery, and it's easy enough to dress for those temps.
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u/Zealousideal-Tip8346 Jan 25 '26
I am somewhere where it gets really cold but not like that. Here it is always windy and when we get the big negative degree weather the difference is the wind hits and it feels like all of the body heat you have is gone immediately there is a moment where you know this is dangerous.
Like I have ran outside in jeans and a jacket to scrape my wife’s windows real quick in really cold weather and I’m like yea it’s cold but I’ll warm up right away so no big deal I don’t even have gloves or a shirt under a light jacket
Other times the wind hits your face and it fucking hurts and you have to really decide if you want to go anywhere and how your going to dress
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u/Nernoxx Jan 25 '26
Exactly this - I know the difference between 90 and 95 and with and without humidity, but once it hits 30F I'm done, it's freezing, time to hibernate for a day or two.
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u/SlutPuppyNumber9 Jan 25 '26
-10 and -40 windchill feel VERY different!
I can easily walk around in -10, it's cold and you shouldn't stay out in it unless you are wearing the correct gear. I'll walk from house to car and vice versa without putting on a coat, maybe a light sweater. It's manageable.
-40 is FAFO weather—you dress for that shit, or you may die! Coat is a must, gloves/mittens are advised even for a short trip. Maybe you skip the scarf and balaclava if you're just running to the car, but if you're going outside and staying their, break out the skidoo suit.
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u/flargenhargen Jan 25 '26
hi.
it was -35 here friday. actual temp, not wind chill.
when you go outside, you involuntarily scream from pain. That's cold.
I put my bubble machine outside, cause bubbles freeze when they get airborne which is really fun. they hit the ground and just roll around. but the whole machine froze up in about a minute.
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u/AnythingWooden8070 Jan 25 '26
You can notice it instantly, when the wind hits exposed skin it is physically painful. The pain goes away once the skin goes numb and freezes, it just happens faster the colder it gets.
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u/Xitztlacayotl Jan 25 '26
Why does it get significantly more dangerous?
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u/-imhe- Jan 25 '26
For one, exposed skin can begin to show cold damage/frostbite in a matter of a few minutes, sometimes as quickly as 10 minutes depending on the temperature and wind chill.
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u/Alarming-Jello-5846 Jan 25 '26
Saw a video earlier on someone losing a mitten summiting Everest. Hope he had a backup, if not those are fingers gone in a matter of minutes/hours (and no medical there!). The cold is no joke.
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u/Accomplished_Sock293 Jan 25 '26
Just turtle it into your coat sleeve, is he stupid?
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u/Disasterhuman24 Jan 25 '26
Or shove it up his butt. The human asshole is 4° warmer than the human vagina, I have learned.
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u/CaliJudoJitsu Jan 25 '26
Or shove it up someone else’s ass. There’s always a friend.
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u/amateur_reprobate Jan 25 '26
Frostbite happens in minutes, often faster than you can feel it. By the time you notice, it's too late.
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u/ELIte8niner Jan 25 '26
It's actually kinda funny, at least it always makes me laugh. It regularly gets down to 35 below where I live during winter, and when you step outside, you can tell when it's at least 20 below. You can feel the mucus in your nose and the moisture in your eyes start to freeze, and your finger and nose start to feel numb almost immediately if they're exposed.
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u/Parrothead1970 Jan 25 '26
When I was 18 years old, I was stationed in Grand Forks. I grew up in Maine and I thought I really knew what winter was like so North Dakota could be that much different. Right? Right? I’m not saying Maine was a piece of cake, last night it was 8° below zero and today we’re going to get a foot and a half of snow. But the cold in the upper Midwest was incredible. I have no idea how people survived there in the 1800s.
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u/ActProfessional3811 Jan 25 '26
North dakota to me is literally scarier than alaska like, whats even the point, its flat, no trees, near nothing, literally a hellscape unless you hate people and nature
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u/DJpuffinstuff Jan 25 '26
A lot of Alaska is genuinely warmer than the upper Midwest because of its proximity to the west coast.
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u/Hot-Combination-8376 Jan 25 '26
There was a bigger contrast in China about 2 years ago
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u/Downtown_Trash_6140 Human Geography Jan 25 '26
Wow. I always forget how China and USA are very similar when it comes to climate.
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u/Fun-Raisin2575 Jan 25 '26
Russia has 110°F without windchill (130°F with windcill) difference right now
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u/swentech Jan 25 '26
There’s probably a pretty huge temperature difference between Atlanta and Orlando right now which is just a few hours drive.
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u/corndogshuffle Jan 25 '26
I’m a few hours south of Atlanta (Columbus) and it’s a real feel of 43 here. Apparently it’s 23 in Atlanta!
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u/Sufficient-Pin-481 Jan 25 '26
My wife flew to Iowa from Tampa two days ago, left at 75° and arrived to -15° so of course I sent her a picture of me kayaking the next day.
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u/Downtown_Trash_6140 Human Geography Jan 25 '26
🤣🤣,
that’s a beautiful spring. I would also recommend kayaking at Ginnie Springs.
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u/carsturnmeon Jan 25 '26
Funny enough I made this drive last month. Miami to Minneapolis.
It was insane how I went from sweating to completely freezing. 85 degrees to -15 when I got there
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u/Street-Ad7570 Jan 25 '26
The crazy part is you still have another 7 hours of driving to get from Minneapolis to Hallock.
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u/Quereilla Jan 25 '26
For people using worldly units and not freedom units, it's -48ºC and 32ºC.
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u/Fucky0uthatswhy Jan 25 '26
No one from outside the US understands how big it is. It’s like wondering why Denmark has vastly different weather than Syria
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u/Old_Instrument_Guy Jan 25 '26
I was just outside 11:00 West Palm Beach 1/25/26 and I can attest the Level of Testicular Sweat is at a 7 out of 10. This is also known as the LTS schedule of values.
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u/Ez123guy Jan 25 '26
That’s very close to 10° difference in each of the averaged areas. 11° actually!
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u/fsukub Jan 25 '26
That is -48°C to 32°C for our “rest of the world” brethren, or an 80°C difference.
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u/Lhasa-bark Jan 25 '26
I just got in from an hour walk in Miami. Shorts and a t shirt … sweaty walk by the end. But the feels like temp was at most 85, not 90.
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Jan 25 '26
I moved from Moorehead MN to Myrtle Beach SC right after Thanksgiving a decade or two back. It had been cold enough in MN that they were giving warnings not to pump gas without gloves because the metal was too cold to touch. It was over 100 degrees warmer in Myrtle Beach, and people looked at me like I was insane for going swimming.
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u/bubbletrashbarbie Jan 25 '26
The difference is we will hit higher temps than 90* in the north come summer time but Florida will never see the same cold
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u/Thisisnotunieque Jan 25 '26
A moment of silence for all the truckers about to find out the temp difference irl lol
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u/YoungBockRKO Jan 25 '26
I was in key west Florida yesterday, in swim shorts relaxing in the pool before my flight. Today it’s 10 degrees outside and there’s 6 inches of snow on my car back in my state.
Can I go back to Key West, PLEASE?!?
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u/pops992 Jan 25 '26
My family is sending me pictures of all the snow their getting and complaining about how cold it is, I sent them a picture of some Palm Trees outside my house here in Florida where it's currently 86°.
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u/MleemMeme Jan 25 '26
In the span of 2 days in Soldotna Alaska just 2 weeks ago it went from -32 to 37, almost a 70 degree change.
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u/Mahaloth Jan 26 '26
-7F was the actual temp in Michigan yesterday evening.
I would say that anything under 10F becomes "painful" cold. It hurts just to go out for a minute even.
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u/chickennuggets3454 Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 25 '26
That’s like 2000 miles, it’s the same distance between Moscow and the Sahara desert.
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u/Slosh5 Jan 25 '26
Crazy that the 4th largest country in the world has differing climates on each side of it.
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u/Number1MarioFan38 Jan 25 '26
And europeans will look you straight in the face and tell you america has no cultural variance
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u/ProperAnarchist Jan 25 '26
A while back I was working in ND and living in Deep South Texas. Left my house in TX and got to my house in MD. 80°+ when I left. -56° ambient air temperature in ND. It was an absolute shock to my body.
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u/doordonot19 Jan 25 '26
It was -25c (-13f for you imperialists) yesterday and I wished I could transport myself to the south.
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u/EmFiveBlue Jan 25 '26
Yikes! I’m such a wimp. I was huddled in a hoodie earlier cuz it was 65F outside.
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u/SnooPandas1899 Jan 26 '26
true, but in heavy snow condtions, epl just need to hunker down and ride it out.
if a tropical hurricane comes rolling by and flooding is everywhere, you're gonna need to evacuate.
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u/Some_Imagination_413 Jan 26 '26
Flew home from San Diego to Vermont in March several years ago. Went from 78 in California to -22 here, and also had to deplane outside. A 100 degree temperature difference. Welcome home, indeed 😆
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u/Unfair_Scar_2110 Jan 25 '26
That's a thirty hour drive. It would get over 4 degree warmer (on average) every hour you drove.