Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 04, 2022

The answer is “Physics”.

Don’t mean to ruin a comic with facts, but water is much more conductive than air, especially when you’re wearing a shirt during the run.

It can always be “to be or not to be”: to be or not to be freezing, to be or not to be shivering, to be or not to be overheating, to be or not to be sweatin’, …

The better question is: Why are you ignoring your body when it is trying to tell you to knock it off already?

It has to do with thermal impedance.. Oh, never mind.

Basic thermodynamics. Water is a great conductor of heat and transfers it off your body easily. Air..not so much. That’s why you can drop a glowing hot metal object into a bucket of water and it can be picked up within seconds.

Only if Frazz is contemplating suicide.

Early June question in Canada: are we getting ground frost this morning?

Um, water conducts heat 25 times faster than air. Scuba dive and see what I mean.

Because the heat transfer coefficient of water is much higher than that of air. Conversely, the r-value of air is much higher than that of water.

By “open water” I assume you mean Lake Michigan. I grew up just 2 blocks from our small town Lake Michigan beach. A place where no one went swimming until late July early august, but never ever in June as the water temp was still in the 40s

The heat capacity of water is 20 times that of air.

Even Frazz has got to be this smart.

Gas versus a liquid; Heat exchange via conduction; 100x as many water molecules on your surface versus the air particles. Temperature difference is small additional bonus; but not the main factor.

But I noticed an interesting phenomenon when one follows the other: we were installing the boat lift at the water-ski club last week, and after 20 minutes chest deep in cold water I was on the verge of shivering. On the 10 mile bike ride home I discovered an abundance of energy. Riding into a stiff wind, I was spinning the big chain ring, and passed a younger rider like he was standing still. Are there cold-water triathletes out there who have noticed the same?

It’s a physics thing, or perhaps metaphysics?

Isn’t there something about “outrageous fortune” in there somewhere?

Wouldn’t you just love to see Frazz roll over and give a big kiss in the last panel?I have always found that type of body heat is the most pleasing.Oh well, just a passing thought.Happy Saturday everyone!

Bookmark today’s strip so you can refer to it some time in the future when a relatively new reader asks whether anyone besides Caulfield ever has questions that can only be handled by the profound wisdom of the school janitor.

Any scuba diver can answer that.

It’s June here, and it’s COLD.

Perhaps Frazz just needs to follow his swim with a good 5K run.

Happy Pentecost! Jesus isn’t dead. He’s just given up the ghost.