Temperature Intolerance

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I'm better off dealing with summer heat than any form of cold seasons. Cold seasons makes me likely to get sick.
The climate here is crazy sometimes. Near unbarable heat all day, then it rains at dusk, then it's hot again at night. Sometimes the sun's heat and light searing down at the same there it's windy and raining.

My temperature tolerance is leaning towards heat than cold. (I could bare the heat of 39 C all day, but not anything below 15 C)
And for some reason, I have some advantages over that.

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I love the tropically hot weather(27*C+) with high humidity, the one you get a few hours before a sudden summer thunderstorm breaks through.

There is still sun but you can feel the air is heavy and the sky appears almost white. There is no real difference in the temperatures of sun and shadow and the dense wind makes you feel warm but the sun doesn't make you feel hot as it does during hot but dry days.
And the rain that comes a few hours later doesn't feel cold too. It's like a pleasant shower. It also doesn't bring cold air with itself - the rain turns into warm cloud right after hitting the warm ground so you can feel warm air all around you.

I hate cold days and the sunny days with dry, cold wind.

I especially hate wet and cold winter days - they make me unable to get warm because no matter what I wear the cold humidity gets through my clothes.
I don't particularly mind cold and dry winter days. My clothes work well even in -30*C, although my face feels cold then.
And while I am usually quite happy with the spring and fall sunny, warm, dry days(they are better than wet and cold days that are the only alternative during that times of year) they also piss me off. The sun makes me feel hot but I cannot take off my jacket because the cold wind is going to make me cold really fast. Hell... I am even going to feel hot and cold at the same time...

Cold makes me sad. When I cannot get warm I get tired and depressed.
It works the other way around as well - when I get tired and depressed my body temperature gets cold.

I hate hot sunny weather. I have very fair skin and light eyes. Summer is a misery.

I never understood why people want to take their vacations during summer, and what's more, they travel south to beaches that are even hotter than where they live. It is the most ass backwards thing I ever heard of.

I don't like extreme cold either, but we don't get much of that where I live. I can tolerate cold better than heat, but only because I bundle up more than other people do.

I'm most comfortable with temps between 55-75 F. And overcast days with scattered rain.

Throughout my life when I have been hot and sweating, people would tell me to think about cold things or being cold, but it has never helped, - not even a little bit.
My body and my imagination don't have that type of connection.

On the other hand, I have the ability to tell you what the temperature is within 2*F, and most often less than 1*F tolerance.
That's with the air around me, but I can do the same thing by touching things, though with a little higher % of tolerance. The same goes for weighing things without a scale.

I've lived in Tennessee for over half my life now, and I HATE hot weather and high humidity. I'd be happy if it stayed in the 60s (F) year round. I'll go outside in the summer to go to work, run errands and do necessary yard work. Other than that, I do my best to stay where it's air conditioned most of the time. At work I almost always have a fan on me, even in the winter time. For some reason, I get uncomfortable when the air is still (like in a car when the driver doesn't turn on the blower immediately after starting the engine), even if it's not super hot.

And I'm with the person who mentioned the oddity of people going South for summer vacations. That's the wrong direction for me. I usually head North to my native New England. Even up there has gotten too warm this time of year for me. If I could afford to do so, and my wife was agreeable to the idea, I'd love to move to Iceland or even Greenland when I retire. Extreme cold is much preferable to extreme heat.

Yes, I get headaches from heat as well here in the southern US. I absolutely loathe hot temperatures too, and where I live, this is starting to get worse and worse, especially with added humidity. I can't stand it either, I just tolerate it and only go out when there is no other choice. I've often told myself I would rather freeze to death than die from heatstroke, but that may be an extreme of mine. Even cool nights are a rarity here.