which is more harmful to a person, extreme hot weather or extreme cold weather?
By cher913
@cher913 (25782)
Canada
July 12, 2007 7:19am CST
I live in Canada and i remember just a few short months ago, we were worried about a cold weather alert and the city of toronto was opening heating centres for street people to go and spend the night there...
well now its summer...this week we have had very hot days and there has been a heat alert for 3 days (yes folks, it does get hot in canada!!) (we had temps of over 100 for 3 days!)
my question is which is more detremental to your health?
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3 responses
@TenchiMuyou (91)
• Brazil
12 Jul 07
Hard one to tell... But I think hot weather... I live in Brazil, and sometimes the temperature goes over 40C, and in times like that I fell dizzy if I keep myself under the sun for sometime. OTOH, there was a time I got to London, and the temperature was negative, and very windy (thats make you fell even colder), and ok, I was really freezing and bad, but not about to faint like here. But hard to tell becaus the temperature was like -4C... which is not that much.
@TenchiMuyou (91)
• Brazil
13 Jul 07
Lol! 30 is hot, but easy to handle yet. 35 i already start felling bad... over 38 usually only under some shadow.
@joyce959 (1559)
• Philippines
12 Jul 07
It is said that anything that is beyond normal is bad or harmful.
So, I would say that extreme hot weather and extreme cold weather are both harmful to man.
That is why certain appliances and gadgets were made, like the airconditioners to be used when the weather is hot, and heaters to be used when the weather is cold.
I am thankful that I live in a country where the weather is just fair and even. We have just 2 climate/ season... rainy/wet and summer/hot season. We don't have winter and spring as other countries like Canada and US have, where there is extremely hot and extremely cold weather.
@anjrit (997)
• Indonesia
12 Jul 07
for me,the extreme cold is more detremental to my health.I live in Tropical country that the sunlight are full here.So,we have adapted to the hot extreme.
If there cold extreme,I don't know how to make my body can strange to face it.We are not common with a condition that's very cold
