How cold do you feel?

[cjsmith]

I am firmly convinced that chilly is colder than cold. Cold hisses across your skin; chilly gets into your bones. Cold means a parka in the snow, and thin watery sunlight; chilly means trying to type with mittens in your office, and sniffles, and a deadline.

California has chilly. Of all the places I've lived*, northern California does chilly in the biggest way.

*eg Boston

(From a comment elsewhere.)

Comments

[eeyore-grrl.livejournal.com]

where ARE you? chilly used to be 37F when i was kinda cold, but not, yet, suffering from hypothermia. now that i'm in san jose, ca --> my definition has changed. :)

[sirdiesel.livejournal.com]

I'm from NY but go to school in NC. My definition of "cold" has definitely changed since I've been here. I'll say it's "freezing" when it's in the 40s, and I'll even occasionally mean it.