If you had to choose between spending time in daytime temperatures around 90 degrees F or around 40 degrees F, which would you choose? Your answer probably depends on if you’re always hot or if you’re always cold.
According to this article from House Call Doctor, you’re probably cold all the time if you’re a woman, if you’re older, if you’re less active, if your BMI is low, and if you’re a smoker. You’re probably always warm or hot if you’re a man, if you’re young, if you lead an active lifestyle, and if you have a higher BMI. Do you think this is accurate?
70 degrees is my comfort temp.
I used to prefer the 40 deg. Spent 15 years on Ski Patrol, had snowmobiles, & hunted in the winter. But starting in my mid 50’s, it gradually switched, so now I prefer the warmer climes. That’s part of the reason we’ve been fulltimers for the last 12 years. we follow the warmth. 90 is not ideal. 75 is ideal.
In South Texas, you don’t have to choose. Take this coming Saturday. The high will be in the mid 80s and the low will be in the mid 30s.
Actually neither – part of the reason I became a full-time RVer…
Any temp below 68 is cold, any any temp above 73 is HOT.
I agree.
Easy choice for me. Tee shirts, shorts, and flip flops versus sweat shirts, heavy pants, wooly sox, and mittens. I’d rather sweat all day than shiver for five minutes.
Agree!
Actually neither, I’ve always said I can put on enough clothes to keep warm, but I can’t take off enough clothes to be cool. I prefer temps between 65-75, there’s only one place I know of in the US where that’s possible, within 10 miles of the ocean in San Diego, CA. But that area is overrun with aliens now.
The poll results don’t look good for the Climate Change Green New Deal advocates.
Didn’t vote cause I prefer neither. If you said 70° I would have been on board. I think in this poll should have been a middle temperature.
Yes Skip I agree. Actually their needs to be at least one more choice, rather than the 2 extremes! My wife & I enjoy 75 degrees, but when we are out camping, we really don’t care!
Snoopy
That’s the whole point of the hypothetical. You have to pick one.
If they had put 70 in there it would have gotten 100% of the vote. No point in that.
Neither, No Vote:
70~75 is fine, keep the doors and windows open for fresh air. Who wants to go camping and have to run the AC or heater. We both love the outdoors, and take it as it comes. If you choose 90! What are the evening like? And if you decide on 40, I believe you will be inside keeping warm, but then you could have a campfire to sit around and roast marshmallows.
Either way, as long as you enjoy where you are staying enjoy it, as you decide to be there.
Hot or Cool.
I chose 90, but only because that means the night time temps would be above freezing. I don’t have a TT designed for winter travel. How about a pool with minimum and maximum temps? If the minimum for a location was 40, that would be my preference!
Today, 90 degrees sounds heavenly. We are in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada and it’s currently -40, yes we are crazy. Next winter we will be in southern US where its above freezing!
65-75. I have a toy hauler and the bike usually goes with us. Any temp above 75 or below 65 is uncomfortable while riding. We always wear protective gear, helmets, a jacket and long pants and boots.
Even while traveling, those temps mean we can drive without air conditioning or heat on.
Ditto!
Here in NW Georgia it’s 75 degrees in the last week of the year. That just ain’t right y’all! When it’s cold you can layer, when it’s hot, you can peel down to your skin and get arrested. Give me cold anytime 🙋♀️
If I’m sitting in the shade, I’ll take 90°. If I’m hiking in the sun, 40° would be fine.
Ah, 90 degrees. Springtime in Texas !
HaHAHAha,,,,,,, yeah.
I voted 90 degrees only because I enjoy growing flowers and vegetables
Hard to do at 40 degrees.
I can always put something on to get warmer, or go sit in the hot tub. At
90 degrees there is only so much you can take off.
90 and low humidity anytime! Here on the east coast, when it gets to 90, it is usually dripping nasty with high humidity.
Shorts and T-shirts here in Northern California! I tend to run cold so 90 in the shade with our usual low humidity is quite comfortable.
Actually, neither of these. You can put on more layers if you’re cold, but once you go past the comfort level, you can’t take off enough. Then what. My preferred temperatures fall in the middle of the range given.
Growing up in Missouri, Ninety degrees never came with low humidity. Hardly anyone had A/C in home or car, yet somehow we survived.
I picked 90°, but I could just as well have chosen 40°. I prefer the former when I am at home and regularly mowing grass and doing work on the yard. I prefer the latter when traveling in the RV and when cleaning up fallen trees, piling and burning brush, clearing fence rows, and other work around the farm.
I have never liked heat and 90 is hot.
Ditto
My preference is 68° F. I used to be able to handle 100° Plus temps with no problem but the older I get the less I can tolerate the heat. I grew up in Southern Nevada and Eastern Arizona, lived all around the world during my working life and experienced temps from -60°F to 125°F. I would love to chase that 68° dream year round but sadly that will not play out now. In 18 months we will relocate to Michigan so hopefully my body can re-climatize to that environment after living the past 30 years in the west with temps ranging from 10° lows overnight, 60° day time in the winter to 120° Highs during summer.
I’m a woman and I’m almost always cold, and that’s been the case my whole life, except during 2 pregnancies!! I HATE being cold! I’ll take 100 degrees over 40.
40 with an exclamation point! 90 and high humidity is miserable. If I’m cold, I can always put on more clothes. Y’all don’t want me going the other way with 90.
It said assume low humidity.
Having spent my entire 77 years living in the Mojave desert, I would naturally pick 90º.
It’s more about the sunshine for me. 40 degrees on a beautiful day is still a beautiful day. 90 degrees is fine too on a sunny day, but it’s harder for us to keep our dogs safe in the camper van.
I’ll always take hot over cold.
Voted 90 for the wife, I would take the 40.
impossible to answer. humidity level? dew point? wind direction and speed? 90f with a low dew point & humidity and a breeze can be very comfortable unless stuck in direct sunlight for hours. raise the humidity, dew point of 65-deg or higher, no breeze and it’s a totally different day.
Well put. There are too many variables that play into effect. A sunny day in the mid to upper 40s feels a lot different than a cloudy/rainy day in the low to mid 40s.
Read much?
“ASSUME LOW HUMIDITY AND CALM OR NO WINDS”
I’m presently in AZ near Phoenix. I’m cold. It’s 54 degrees ,cloudy light wind. I really didn’t Come to Az to bask in 55 degree temps. Not real happy!
I’ve spent 25 years working outside in the Puget Sounds weather, 40F is better than 90F. It’s easier to get warm than to cool off in most cases.
AGREE!
Lived for for awhile in Massachusetts and Maine. I much prefer cooler temperatures.
i would have voted for 70,,, Just saying ….
me two
I would never deliberately be anywhere that it was 90F, 80F is OK for laying around doing nothing but not for any activity.
I like seasonable weather. I don’t like 40 degrees in July and I don’t like 70 degrees in January. I have to agree that it’s easier to get warmer if you’re cold than it is to get cooler if you’re too warm.
As someone who lived, worked, and recreated for decades in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Bullhead City, Arizona, but then moved to northern New Mexico, where it’s notably colder in winter, I’d trade 90 for 40 any day, particularly given the low humidity criteria involved in the question. One gets used to dry heat, and sweats without even knowing it, which keeps one cool. Once acclimatized, keep drinking water and you stay cool. In both Nevada and Arizona I worked outside in temps well over 100, up to around 115, when I’d dump water over my head and soak my clothes, only to be totally dry remarkably quickly. 90 got to feel real comfortable.
Cooler temps are better. You can put more clothes on. There are only so many you can take off before someone calls the cops.