Things you should know about the cold

A Lake in Krakow

It's colder the longer you stay outside
I know, it sounds stupid but it's true. You may walk outside and think 'oh this is not so bad' but really, the cold hasn't seeped through yours clothes, through your skin and too your core yet.

The longer you stay cold, the longer it takes to warm up.
The vice versa of the previous. Once your core gets cold you will love intially walking into a warm place but after a while you will realise there is something not quite right and your still cold. This is because being outside for so long actually lowers your internal core temperature so that when your surface temperature warms i.e. your skin, you feel still feel 'off' and cold.

You can feel yourself defrost.
Just as if you would leave a peice of chicken breast outside in the snow for a while, its going to need to defost inside first before you cook it. Your fat, skin and muscle is just like materials such as concrete or earth, they become thermal mass. This means they do not change temperature easily and has a low conductivity, meaning they act kind of like insulation and will not let temperatures pass through it easily.

So if you ever have been outside for a while and come inside and get to a comfortable temperature again where you feel warm but then you feel like there is a breeze brushing against one part of your body, that is actually your skin, fat or muscle defrosting. Not many people would probably know what it feels like, but its just as if you are sitting on a cold bench and you can feel the cold bench through your jeans, except this time its not the cold bench thats cold, its your skin and fat thats attached to you. I mostly get this sensation across the top of my thighs. Im guessing this is because this is where my muscle and fat is the most. And also from me not wearing thermals so this is probably the part of my body that freezes the most.

You get really thirsty. 
I dont know what it is but i am always needing water!!! All the bloody time! I think it is maybe because i come from a country (Australia) where there is generally a pretty average to high degree of humidity in the air and here, it is kind of like a dry cold. So maybe the dry is making me parched.


Chapped lips.
Again, probably the same reason as above. Stock up on chapstick!

The novelty of snow wears off really fast.
Unless you find someway to enjoy the snow (like snowboarding etc) you. will. hate. it. Its kind of just like 'why you in my face and gettin up in my grill when cant you see im walking here!!!' . and it sticks to everything and will follow you everywhere. And horizontal snow, thats the worst. Cant escape it.

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Hello cold!!!