Crazy people!

[csm101]

Great White North!!! hey its above 32F still short weather.

 

[Phoenixrising]

I think it just depends on where you live. Last Nov at DL I was wearing tank tops and jeans during the day. I saw people range between tanks and shorts to parkas and heavy winter gear. So it depends on where you come from, and what you qualify as HOT! And if you are coming from what you call winter in your area to the warmer weather in Orlando.

 

[NavyDad]

I live in Michigan.

Halloween night it was 30 degrees and we got 3-4 inches of snow. Yesterday morning when I was walking my dog the thermostat read 16 degrees.

What you are describing sounds tropical....

 

[Moonwolf]

You under estimate the extremes someone will go to for food they love. I remember in college I had an obsession with virgin frozen strawberry daiquiris that they would sell in one of our dinning halls. There were several times in the middle of winter I would go out into the snow to get one.

 

[Maddysdaddy]

Another Canadian piping up here...

Probably wouldn't be in shorts if it was 50, but absolutely would be if the temperature was 60 (and might be in the pool as well).

Considering the average summer temp for where I live is high 70's/low 80's, I consider anything over 65 a very pleasant day.

And yeah, when we were down last year and the temps were in the 30's, my family was still eating Dole Whip floats.

 

[TinkGirl28]

This makes me laugh a little because usually my mom and I travel to Disney World together and almost always dress completely different. If we were there and it was in the 50s, my mom would probably be wearing her shorts and a t-shirt unless I could convince her to wear some light weight pants. I on the other hand would be wearing long pants, a long sleeve shirt, heavy jacket, scarf, gloves, and probably a hat. We live in the same area but have very different ideas of what is cold weather versus hot weather. I bust out of the scarf and gloves for anything colder then about 65-70 degrees.

 

[CampbellScot]

I was born and raised in Texas. I currently live in New Jersey. It gets very cold and snowy here and my poor Texas blood just freezes all winter. I couldn't be in shorts loving on a dole whip in 50 degree weather unless I was properly bundled. Including gloves for my hands.

 

[Bullseye]

Winter Is Coming...

 

[MickeyMinnie1971]

Winter Is Coming...

Looks like we are getting a relief from the cold for a few days at least. It's supposed to be in the 80's tomorrow, Wed, and Thursday.

 

[JanaDee]

This makes me laugh a little because usually my mom and I travel to Disney World together and almost always dress completely different. If we were there and it was in the 50s, my mom would probably be wearing her shorts and a t-shirt unless I could convince her to wear some light weight pants. I on the other hand would be wearing long pants, a long sleeve shirt, heavy jacket, scarf, gloves, and probably a hat. We live in the same area but have very different ideas of what is cold weather versus hot weather. I bust out of the scarf and gloves for anything colder then about 65-70 degrees.

A heavy jacket, scarf, gloves and hat for temps in the 50's??

 

[kittyab]

50's F is t-shirt weather

 

[Maddysdaddy]

I bust out of the scarf and gloves for anything colder then about 65-70 degrees.

Wow... I turn the a/c on once it hits 70, and bounce between a/c and cold showers once it hits 80.

 

[nd2fl]

50s sounds like great weather to me!!

 

[Pete S]

I laughed when I saw Katie's post - my Dad likes to tell the story about how he moved here (Ontario) from Scotland 60 years ago in mid December and did not own a pair of long pants. His influence has stuck with me, my wife and daughter both like the house warm so I am in shorts all winter even when I take the dog out.

When we come to Disney next month I may have long pants for the plane but certainly not to wear while we are there.

 

[dawgsgirl]

I need some help here!! I can never understand these "weather" threads. I can understand that folks from the northern climes are more used to cold weather. But do you work outside?? Do you stay outside in the cold all day?? Do you spend several hours outside after dark?? There is a huge difference to me in being acclimated to the cold and actually staying out in it all day and night.

 

[KatieCharlotte]

I need some help here!! I can never understand these "weather" threads. I can understand that folks from the northern climes are more used to cold weather. But do you work outside?? Do you stay outside in the cold all day?? Do you spend several hours outside after dark?? There is a huge difference to me in being acclimated to the cold and actually staying out in it all day and night.

I'm not the best one to explain because I actually get cold easier than most people in my part of the country, but even I find fifty degrees warm after a couple months of winter. Plenty of people do work and play outside for hours all winter long. Even for those of us who don't, you get used to feeling zero to twenty degree temps as you run to your car in the parking lot and wait for it to heat up, or walk to the bus stop. And we all are outside in the spring and fall when it is in the fifties, or we would only have at most three months of the year to be outside. We have awakened to 30 degrees while camping on Memorial Day weekend, and for the last two years our pool's mid-summer party was on a day where the high was low sixties.

 

[sfbank]

I'll throw in the opposite that I go through every year. We always travel to Disney in the summer. The last 5 years since my brain surgery I am always cold. I walked around at Disney this July/August in a sweatshirt pretty much every day we were there. I am sure I got crazy looks from people and cast members actually would joke with me about it. I live in Iowa so we have hot hot summers-still cold all the time

 

[kbelle8995]

Wearing shorts when everyone else is bundled up is what got us to be Grand Marshalls in the parade. You can tell the Northerners from the Southerners when the temp drops.

You can also tell the Northerners from the Southerners when the temperature goes up as well.

 

[MickeyMinnie1971]

I'll throw in the opposite that I go through every year. We always travel to Disney in the summer. The last 5 years since my brain surgery I am always cold. I walked around at Disney this July/August in a sweatshirt pretty much every day we were there. I am sure I got crazy looks from people and cast members actually would joke with me about it. I live in Iowa so we have hot hot summers-still cold all the time

I'm often cold when nobody else is too. I live here, and have never wore a sweatshirt in July or August though. I did wear jeans and a hoodie today and it was in the 70's. You won't find me in shorts and a t-shirt unless it's in the 80's. I had a tumor and had part of my pituitary removed. I'm not sure of that has anything to do with it or not, but I'm always cold.

 

[JZCubed]

We live in the Catskill Mountains about an hour north of NYC. It was 34 degrees yesterday morning and many people 'round here were wearing shorts, albeit with sweatshirts too.

I guess for most of us, and to paraphrase folks from Arizona, "It's a dry-cold."

At 50 degrees, most of us can go without the sweatshirt.

But I too marvel at folks wearing shorts when the temperature is far below freezing, like we experienced last winter.

And this is my problem......we travel to Disney end of November into early December......weather can be as low as in the 40's and as high as in the 80's....and my wife and child want plenty of pool time.....what to pack? Layers and a bathing suit.