poor ragebait
The reason you find cold water refreshing is because of early humans.
Water in streams, lakes, rivers, and springs is pretty much always a lot cooler than the air. Unless it’s a very small pond or a puddle, water is pretty cool, especially if you go deeper than just the surface to take your water.
Have you never been in a river in the spring?
Icy water yes. But cold water was available, the whole reason people find cold water refreshing is because running water/spring water etc are cold and more likely to be safe to drink. While stagnant water were more likely to be warm and have more bacteria, making it lot less safe.
30°C air is hot as fuck, 30°C water is a perfect cold shower.
You never actually drank from a natural spring, have you?
My kitchen tap doesn’t carry that flavour
Depending on the aquifer the water temperature at the spring can be really cold, even in the warmest days.
People don’t understand that they don’t have to agree with a shower thought xD
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Yeah, I bet they wished they had shade
You might only have ice-cold water during the spring if you’re near a river that just flowed down from the mountains but even most well water is going to be much cooler than surface temperatures.
I feel like most natural spring water is pretty cool. They didn’t have refrigeration though, so this might be true for icy cold water?
Cold water is easy to heat if you know how to make fire. Most early humans probably knew how to make fire. Hot water, however, is difficult to cool without refrigeration.
Spring and well water is often cool. I don’t know about the water that comes down from the mountains. Does it retain it’s coolness when the snow melts and runs down into the valley?
Hot water is pretty easy to cool. Just leave it in a vessel in a cool place and come back later.
