Do you get used to hot weather?
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Last night at 10pm Lincoln, This is an un-edited picture taken form my older Canon SX530HS on auto.
There are lots of capillaries in the face. The body uses vasodilation of capillaries as a means of thermoregulation. To a degree, a red and hot face in hot conditions is normal. Your reaction seems to have been more extreme. I'd go in for a checkup to rule out something like a thyroid problem.
Just thinking, the question can be the other way around. Do you get used to the cold weather?
Also cold weather is far more dangerous for people with heart conditions. Stressing the heart as your blood vessels constrict trying to preserve heat.
Also cold weather is far more dangerous for people with heart conditions. Stressing the heart as your blood vessels constrict trying to preserve heat.
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Very unexpected, Its a blood moon due to fire smoke and Saharan Sand in the upper atmosphere. I love it. Probably tonight also as the full moon starts soon. Saw it on the Iceland volcano vids on YouTube.
You can put more clothing on in cold weather.
A quick search finds this article that indicates the body can acclimate to heat to some extent: https://kenzen.com/heat-acclimatization-what-is-it-and-why-does-it-matter/
I didn't realize that cold was more dangerous regarding circulatory/heart health. Good info.
You can put more clothes on for cold weather. We have consensus about people having natural body differences regarding heat and cold tolerances. I'm not sure whether we have answered the question about bodies acclimatizing to heat/cold after a bit of time.
A quick search finds this article that indicates the body can acclimate to heat to some extent: https://kenzen.com/heat-acclimatization-what-is-it-and-why-does-it-matter/
I didn't realize that cold was more dangerous regarding circulatory/heart health. Good info.
Upper 90's in San Antonio this week. Love going for a jog or walk outside at this temperature. Bring lots of water.
Maybe I wouldn't like it so much if I worked outdoors, but I work in an office mostly.
Maybe I wouldn't like it so much if I worked outdoors, but I work in an office mostly.
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When I worked at Luke AFB in Arizona, my cardio physical training in the summer was super simple. Ran (shuffled) two miles at noon every weekday. Great workout, felt like a million dollars when I finished. So hot and low humidity, I would return almost dry as my sweat was evaporating quicker than I was sweating.
Probably running a 12 minute mile at noon in Arizona. But it was very satisfying. Now I struggle to be motivated to run a mile in the early morning
To answer the OP: if you are young and resilient, you get used to it. As you get older or have health problems, you become less tolerant. With some meds, especially for blood pressure, you aren't supposed to be in the sun or exerting yourself in heat.
The exact same thing is true about cold weather. Younger people handle it fine. Older people lose that ability.
By the same principle, you don't see too many people still welding as a profession, meaning carrying their rigs to job sites and working in full body covering, in their late 50s on. The constant heat of the job takes its toll, and people move on or retire early. This is comparable to dealing with hot weather as you get older.
On Sunday I had to make an emergency deck belt replacement on my lawn tractor, and the job was more involved than I had thought. The forecast had been low 80s and cloudy. When the old belt failed, where I was, it had become sunny and was in the low 90s—so much for the forecast. I had heat exhaustion after finishing and ended up calling in sick from work the next day. It's been a hot summer here and I avoid doing much outside if I don't need to.
About health problems, I noticed a big change in my ability to handle heat after having West Nile in 2003. My fever hit 104 when I got sick with it. That virus took something out of me I never got back. Some illnesses could have the same effect on you.
The exact same thing is true about cold weather. Younger people handle it fine. Older people lose that ability.
By the same principle, you don't see too many people still welding as a profession, meaning carrying their rigs to job sites and working in full body covering, in their late 50s on. The constant heat of the job takes its toll, and people move on or retire early. This is comparable to dealing with hot weather as you get older.
On Sunday I had to make an emergency deck belt replacement on my lawn tractor, and the job was more involved than I had thought. The forecast had been low 80s and cloudy. When the old belt failed, where I was, it had become sunny and was in the low 90s—so much for the forecast. I had heat exhaustion after finishing and ended up calling in sick from work the next day. It's been a hot summer here and I avoid doing much outside if I don't need to.
About health problems, I noticed a big change in my ability to handle heat after having West Nile in 2003. My fever hit 104 when I got sick with it. That virus took something out of me I never got back. Some illnesses could have the same effect on you.
Yeah, I've run in 20 degree weather. It was fine, everything was covered up except for my face. Face froze a little bit. I get pretty sluggish in 90 degree weather though.
Yeah, my dad died some years ago at a young age in his 60s.
He certainly had health issues/triple bypass but was still an active person, including sports like fishing, golf and bowling.
Super cold after snow day he died right in the driveway, was going to use the snowblower to clear the end of the driveway where the plow pushed the snow back, the driveway itself was already done previously by a kid that he paid.
He never did make it to the end of the driveway. Died in the middle of the driveway not even exerting himself yet.
That’s when we (our family) learned that the cold can be deadly to heart patients as your blood vessel’s constrict to save body heat, this raises blood pressure and stresses the heart which can be deadly for someone with heart disease.
On the flip side he was actually encouraged by his heart doctor in a very prestigious heart hospital to mow the lawn with his self propelled mower which he enjoyed. Exercise we learned is very important after bypass surgery though I’m sure all cases may be different exercise is key importantence for most…
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I'll take the Michigan winter anytime over oppressive heat and humidity.
I've lived in North Texas since I was 10. When I was younger during summer vacation my friends and I would stay outside only coming home at dark. No problems, fast forward to today, I literaly just finished changing the oil in my Kia, its 90+ and really humid, and Im completely soaked in sweat. So yes you do get used to the heat, but the older I get (born in 73) the more it kicks my a$$. Just part of getting old I guess, I adapt drink lots of water and take breaks. It feels good to sweat.
Ya sorry to hear this.
I know that you can do better when you get into your 60's.
I never got used to heat years in 105F in a hot concession trailer working 16’s in front of hot lights and presses just made it so you moved in slow mo
Didn’t like it, looked lazy but always slowly finished the job, tearing down all the displays repacking, hooking up trailers at midnight after a long week was always interesting
Cold never bothered me much -40F winter camping by a mall in multiple sleeping bags every year
Motor home was lucky to be heated to 15F inside some nights, used it and the trailer as a workspace to paint and make frames for the booth before Christmas
Hard work but usually fun, wasn’t fun if things got slow
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