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Today 55-58 degrees fahrenheit. A couple of weeks ago it was 35 degrees

Today raining hard and windy. I work outside pushing carts

Scheduled to work 10am to 2:45pm.

After break, started shivering so hard that I thought about leaving work early, even if I got an Occurrence (been working there over two years and zero occurrences).

Loitered around inside the building for one hour. (The other lot attendant was doing the same thing.) Wet shoes, clothes and hair. Three jackets and still trembling.

The older I get the more vulnerable to cold weather I get. And where I live is not that cold.

Paranoid of getting hypothermia or sick

39, 5'3, 120#

Also, paranoid that if I get made redundant, no other company will ever hire my worthless corpse again and I will be homeless.

Shoes got wet three consecutive days

Pretty soon will need new shoes

55 fahrenheit is ca 12 celcius. It's not that cold.
Perhaps you're talking about the rain as the big issue.

It’s cold enough if you’re standing out in it for a few hours. Wind and driving rain doesn’t help. And people react differently to heat and cold.

I worked for very long periods of time outside in every kind of weather, much of it sub zero. the trick is to wear appropriate foot wear and to dress in as many layers as possible. Use natural fiber such as wool, which will insulate from heat as well as cold and breathes even if it gets wet. if it is going to be super cold, you can use heated socks and glove/mittens or chemical warmers (but it doesn't sound that cold where you are working (yet?) . Experiment with various thicknesses and fabrics, down, thinsulate, and treat all exterior clothing with spray on water repellant. Eventually you will come upon the right combo of clothing to make working in present weather conditons comfortable. Ask those around you who have been working in the outdoors for a long time how they cope... you might get some useful information for your area.

I'll add to my previous post. drink lots of water, liquids like broth or juice (no alcohol) and stay hydrated, if its really cold, try to drink warm liquids . if you are even slightly dehydrated your body's thermostat can not work at its best.

I will just be annoying and take it non-literally.

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I drink 5 liters of water a day. The healthy recommended amount is only 2 liters a day for my sex, age, height, and weight. At work, the litterbox often out of order, and doesn't have enough toilets for everyone in the building anyways. On the way to and from work, there are only a couple public litterboxes, and they are "customer only".

Correct footwear is better than wrong footwear, but in the rain, it is all wrong.

The past couple weeks, it's been so hot that I employees working inside the building have been complaining about having to go to the bathroom outside. Sweating. Weather forecast says it's getting colder in the next couple of days. Then the raining season starts a couple weeks later.

Heat, rain, thunder, lightning, hail, makes me even more exhausted than usual.

Wet shoes from 7am to 7pm. Paranoid of getting sick.

Changing clothes in the breakroom @ work.