It’s true though! Whenever I’m UpCountry Maui I’m freezing in the evenings and morning and it’s only low 60s. I pack leg warmers and wool socks and sweaters to layer bc I get cold! Maybe it’s humidity?
Humidity plays a large role in how we feel temperature. With high humidity, 40F makes me ache. I can handle 20F in the mountains much easier than I can handle 40F on the coast.
Up where my woods are the humidity is typically lower than where I live by the coast. In the summer it gets much hotter here in the woods, but I can handle 100F in the woods easier than 93F in the humidity on the coast. Especially if a breeze is blowing. In the woods if I go in the shade of a tree I actually feel cooler. Down on the bayou, if I go in the shade I start growing algae.
I carry around a spray bottle with water and mist myself while working outside. It doesn’t really work as well in high humidity.
I remember that people used to say your blood thins in warmer climates. I remember reading somewhere a long time ago that the type of body fat we carry changes based on the climate. Not sure if either of those have a scientific basis.
All I know is we are currently having an ice storm here. I guess I should have gone home yesterday.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/cool-temperature-alters-human-fat-metabolism
