Cold is Relative

 If I think about two of the coldest times I ever physically got, one was running down mt. Shasta in around 35 or 36 degrees with no jacket because my car was stuck at a higher altitude. So, cold driving rain at 35 or 36 degrees can be fatal without dry clothes or a plastic rain poncho or something like that. Luckily, I could run to a friend cabin about 5 miles away and I barely was able to do this without a jacket or plastic poncho then because I was in my early 30s.

The 2nd time I almost died from the cold was this time snow when we had to build and snow cave to survive the night just trying to snowshoe from Bunny Flat on Everitt Memorial Highway to Horse Camp. We ONLY had sleeping bags and food and snow shoes and winter gear without Ground cloths or tents because we didn't think we would need tents or ground cloths in 1970 that winter vacation from college in Horse Camp emergency Lodge on Mt. Shasta. However, it was night and we got into a white out and when we realized we walked a circle and found out own tracks again we knew we were in trouble in the white out in a blizzard. Luckily, one of us had taken a Winter Survival Course in the Sierras so he knew how to use our snow shoes to dig a snow cave to survive the night where you can keep a snow cave up to 50 degrees inside without it melting into water that much. However, we woke up next morning with our levi Jeans wet from melting snow and our sleeping bags wet too. The thing that saved us when we dug outselves out past the 3 feet of new powder snow was that it was 20 degrees Fahrenheit which caused our wet pants from melted snow to freeze solid except for the knees and hips. This insulated us enough where we didn't just freeze to death right then.

So, the point is you can die in a rainstorm at 36 degrees or in a snow cave at 20 degrees outside so Cold is relative in this way.

So, it's good to be prepared for anything.

By the way it's supposed to be 42 here on the SF Coast today and below freezing inland tonight. Last night many of the coastal ranges got a dusting of snow too.

November is often the coldest time of year for us here simply because there is less cloud cover at night in November and cloud cover holds the heat in especially along the coast at night or keeps the sun out and keeps it cool in the summers here.

It's like the Boy Scout Motto:"BE PREPARED".