grumpy wrote: [quote=alexbugnon]Here in the Northeast, wind starts in October until sometime in March. Cold wind is the number one factor that makes me go home! Thus, a windproof layer or two are always on me. I own windproof hat, jacket, gloves and pants. I wear the jacket and gloves on above freezing windy days and all 4 on below freezing days. I always wear my insulated pac boots and insulated windproof gloves below 40 degrees.
You are more inland than we are. When I was 16 we moved to Boston and found what we called “Boston cold” the mercury said 40 but it felt colder than -10 back upstate. Then difference was the wind and the DAMP. I was out in fog this morning at 40, and with all my layers I was still shivering, until the sun came out. No wind just DAMP. Penetrated all those layers and chilled me.
My first experience of American cold was in the Boston blizzard of ’78 during my freshman year in college. I had never experienced arctic cold before, being from the milder Switzerland climate! Me and my roommates lived in the kitchen for 3 days with all burners on!!
