Sometimes when you've been blasting the heat to keep your car defrosted, opening the window feels amazing. Like switching to the cool side of the pillow.
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I'm smoking, bruh.
Mice got into the car and shat in the air vents, so no, I'm not ok.
I ran the heater too high with the coat on and don't want to get all sweaty.
The window keeps fogging up from humidity so I'm trying to get some dry air to circulate.
Doggo farted.
Turn on the heat and turn off recirculating air. Also if it’s bad turn on A/C. You shouldn’t need to open the windows to get dry air inside in winter time.
Opening the window is an immediate solution and completely comfortable while I sort out the AC settings. If it is getting frost on the outside and moisture on the inside, switching away from heat means it frosts back over.
It isn't an issue with a newer cars where you can set a temp. It is an issue with cars where the temp settings are all manual.
It's almost always the first one for me.
1/2 are good ones, my first car fogged at the slightest bit of humidity, but also I just usually have windows down all seasons. Sometimes it's just nice, winter night drives the windows are down (summer too but it's different in the winter)
Ya'll ok?
Get bent.
Canadians
It feels nice.
I bundle up because it’s cold but my car is warm and the store is warm so I’m too hot and can’t take my coat off
Well, where I live, it never really gets that cold. -32 is the lowest it's been all year, so...
-32 F or C?
Though that low they're getting pretty close.
C. Only weirdos use F. I actually have no idea how F works. It's funny, I have a pretty good sense of what an inch and a pound is, I know I'm six feet tall, I run a mile in about 12 minutes... But the only F I know is 98.6° is 37°C.
F is better for human conditions (because it's based on the human condition), C is better if you're doing any kind of sciencey stuff, because base 10.
I can use either one. Same with feet, inches, centimeters, etc, except in construction, because those systems were built around fractional relationships so have hard-embedded measurements and calculations.
And spare me the condescension, Britain only switched to metric starting in 1975, and it wasn't made official until the 1990's. Brits still routinely use Stone for weight, mph for cars (though use kph too).
The only reason Western Europe switched was because WWII destroyed their infrastructure, and since they had to build/rebuild, there was an opportunity to switch more extensively with little pain.
The failure of a planetary probe is a great example of the costs and risks involved in switching. Every business would have to re-tool and re-train. Are you going to pay the trillions that would cost?
My dog complains if I don't have at least a back window down, which means the front is also cracked.
Heated seats make it ok.
Define "winter".
I've survived the coldest in the lower 48. Chicago, DC, Baltimore, Philly, etc, winters genwralky don't get below zero and stay there for 2 months.
Then places like Colorado, Utah, 4 corners states, etc, are pretty mild really. They get cold, but don't stay cold, and lots of sun.
Montana, the Dakotas, those have bitter winters.
Worth noting as well that your heat is from waste heat from your engine (where the AC is drawing power to run the compressor and pumps) so you're not really losing anything by blasting the heat with the windows down, if that's how you want to roll
It's SoCal, coldest day's like 60F. Still, live here like most people and you'll be dressed like a polar bear at 60F too. It is strange how your body likely adapts to the range of temps you experience regularly. I've moved here from a colder place twice and both times the low 60's are still short sleeve tee and shorts weather for around 2 years before the adapted temps kick in and it feels cold.
I'm in California and it's 70 degrees during the day.