My first real winter since 2022.

[glowingfish]

A bit of relevant backstory:
From October of 2023 to March of 2024, I was in Costa Rica.
From October of 2024 to April of 2025, I was in Costa Rica again.

In between, I did experience a few places with cold. But not the middle of winter, and not long, long dark hours.

So right now, I am preparing myself for both. I am in Spokane, and we had our first frost, and daytime temperatures are hovering around 10C/50F. And it is getting dark earlier and earlier. Before long, we will be in the middle of winter...and all I will want to do is sleep and eat.
Lets see how I adjust to that...

Comments

[glowingfish]

It is one of those things that isn't scary if you've been around it all your life. We just prepare for it and know when to not go out.

And another thing is that statistically, a lot more people die from heat than from cold. Your body has ways of dealing with cold, even if you aren't prepared. But it has more limited ways of dealing with heat.

[kiramori]

Well, I wonder if deaths related to heat are something exclusive to some really hot and dry countries. Brazil is pretty humid, and while we have very intense hot days sometimes, I don't ever see news of people dying from heatstroke, so there must be scarier heat elsewhere.