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by zdragnar 234 days ago
I'm not sure that people downvoting you have been around northerners much. Down here in the upper midwest US, we tend to consider 4 or 5C to be shorts weather in the spring. I've a friend who would wear flip flops / sandals outside down to roughly -10C.

Then again, most people aren't getting the equivalent of 15 minutes of index 7 UVB exposure at those temperatures, so it's not quite the same thing, but still.

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People are downvoting because it has nothing to do with the comment they're replying to or the original post. Most people are well aware temperature is relative too, I live in the American South and there are certainly people here who will wear shorts in cold or freezing weather too.
> Winter times can be effectively impossible because you can't sunbathe at 10 below