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You can't set your zombie show in a place where it gets cold, they'll just turn into mush when it gets below freezing for a couple days.
Zombies don't produce body heat so when the water inside their cells freezes the ice crystals will burst the cell walls. A day or two below freezing would just clear out all the zombies.
Turns out feasting on human brains really is the key to superpowers and eternal life, only problem is that up until this point only zombies ate enough to find out!
surely zombies would turn to mush on a hot day even quicker than they did cold - its free insect real estate
Definitely the rot and insect issues will become a problem pretty quickly in a warm environment. Things are gonna get nasty fast and the maggots will strip things down in a week or two. Even if there are no bugs, all the soft tissues will decompose within 3-4 months.
But frostbite will crack your cell walls wide open in minutes. Arguably, the mush-ification part of the process is almost instant. When the cell hits 0°C and freezes, it's kinda like popping a balloon. Bam! Necrosis.
I don't remember which piece of media made it so that the zombies went dormant when it got too cold, but they'd wake up right away when they warmed up.
IIRC, that's what Max Brooks's World War Z did. They just turned into ice statues and got covered over by the snow.
Ah, but have you considered that almost all zombies are actually magical or superscience? What's important is that they set up the Gimmick that enables zombies, and then reason from that.
They should also grind their joints to dust pretty quickly, run out of energy, and go blind.
Yeah, trying to make zombies make sense is ultimately a futile endeavour. You either have to handwave everything away or you end up watering it down so far that the story becomes "If being a Baby Boomer was contagious"
I looked it up and an episode of twd does do some winter stuff but yeah you're right.