It is very hard to grow food outdoors in either case. Underground the temperature is fairly stable at about 30+°F. If that's allowed, and I can manage how to grow food underground, then from experience I know I can easily survive 9°F and spend a LOT more time outdoors than at 100°F
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Depends. If we're talking 100 degrees and no humidity? I could probably do that. The misery doesn't really set in until 110. 10 minutes outside of bow freezing feels like knives.
Triple digits because I don't like anything about winter. The cold makes my body ache and nobody does anything because going outside sucks ass. I think I'd get used to the heat, I can tolerate it fine as is. Room temperature below 25°C/77°F feels freezing cold to me.
Single digits. I love shoveling snow, and cold weather makes me feel alive.
I guess I'd die. It's never either of those where I live. And crops would fail either way.
In terms of personal comfort:
If the only triple digit temp was only ever exactly 100, then I guess triple digits.
If it can be Celsius, 9 is so cold but not kill you cold, I would be sad but not dead.
Single digits. You can always put more layers on but you can't take more off than naked.
...right, and therefore triple digits. AlwaysNudeClub rise up
If those are the options, I choose death.
I use celsius. Triple digit temperatures would kill me.
But after a quick conversion, still single digit. Its pretty standard winter temperature just a little bit inland from where i live. I like it best between -15 and -5 °C (5 - 23F)
This is why you can't have rational conversations with Americans.
Triple digit temperature, single digit humidity. I like it crispy
Prepping for that climate change huh?
Lol I already do! At least in F.
Single digits, 100%.
Single digits range from -9F to 9F. Triple digits start at 100F, and can go way the fuck up from there. (And with climate change, they will!) Once you start approaching triple digits, you have to worry about humidity, because you can easily hit a combination that's literally too hot to live.
Is -9F unpleasant? Sure. But you can layer clothing, and that will keep you comfortable. Death Valley has hit >130F, and when that happens people die, even if they drink gallons of water and stay in the shade.
I like the point about climate change, if you could trick the genie into agreeing that once you set up your new home you get to stay there. Then pick a spot on the cusp of frigidity. So it will gradually get into the double digits at least.
I’ve lived in places that routinely hit 100° in the summer
On which planet LOL?
I think they mean Farenheit
Anybody still using that? Oh, well, probably Usa then...
I've lived in both extremes and single digits wins every time. I never passed out from the cold, but the heat gets me at least once a year.
Probably triple. We frequently hit singles here and all we do is complain about how we wish it was summer. I see people pointing out that 100° can be lethal, but not nearly as lethal as 9°
And on the really hot days (although we never hit 100) we still complain, but always follow it with: at least it's not snowing!
Never going below 100F? There's not enough electricity to cool the houses. Too hot for crops and livestock.
Never going above 9F? There's not enough fuel to heat those houses. Too cold for crops and livestock.
So I guess we all just die.
Probably singles. -5° and 5° isn't much of a swing. Don't think I could hang at -425°.
Single, that would mean there is a lot of water.
Single. Is what I am used to as a Canadian.
Also, triple digit is lethal.
i mean, single digits is also leathal; 9F is much worse than 100F. it is just easier to warm a room than it is to cool it down, but if you had to be exposed to the outside temperature 9F will kill you, 100F won't
I'm using the mainstream unit for temperature. Not the one that Four countries use.
What is the humidity level?
Also single or triple digit
Single as I would die immediately at 100°C
Same as 9C is quite palatable.
Celcius or...?
Kelvin I guess.
Single digits, you can always put on another layer.
Triple digit heat is miserable.
Triple digits.
But I'mma use Kelvin
Granted. 100k. Or 900k. Both are lethal, tbh
I'll take both.
One on each side of my house.
Now to by a few kilotons of ceramic tiles and zinc and copper wires.
Given that the average healthy body temperature is ~98.6⁰ F, and humidity on the Gulf Coast tends to be so high you gotta drink the air, I prefer temperatures 85⁰ or lower.
With high temperatures and high humidity, sweat can't even evaporate, forcing your internal body temperature into unhealthy feverish levels. I'm not a fan of heat exhaustion or heat stroke.
I'm also not a fan of freezing temperatures either, but at least people can dress in layers to keep warm when it's cold.
Triple digits. Air conditioning works well and is more energy efficient than heating.
My apartment is built in such a way that it doesn't need heating. We had -20C last winter and didn't need to have the heating on.
Unless you're homeless. Or like, a lot of animals.
Only for inductive heating. A heat pump is basically the same as an AC in reverse.
Ah, but you also have to consider the amount of heating and cooling you’re doing. Assuming that you’re comfortable at a normal room temperature of 70F, that’s 30 degrees of cooling from triple digits, but 61 degrees from single. And, you’re also going to want to take into consideration the heat of fusion of water as you are melting whatever ice comes which raises the amount of energy required even more.
Triple digit Kelvin is already quite comfortable.
Low temps. My brain boils in high temps. Heat exhaustion too many times. I’d be dead.
Same. I choose somewhere 15 to 18C - Comfortably cool, and I can always put on a sweater. Any warmer than that, and I'd have trouble sleeping at night.
So triple digits Kelvin for me.