On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 13:46:15 +0100, Adam Lea
wrote:

Elderly people are more vulnerable to extremes in temperature, in either
direction, as their body is less efficient at regulating their internal
temperature. Whenever heatwaves or freezes occur you can guarantee the
excess deaths will come mostly from the elderly.

At the age of seventy-six, I now find it much harder to cope with hot
and cold than I did even five years ago. The current warm spell has
really laid me out and the cold spell in Feb/March earlier this year I
found quite hard even after 'wrapping up warm'.

However, I haven't died - yet.

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
By Loch Long, twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.co.uk/weather