Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27234079-20190413013142/@comment-25936766-20190526161913

MobiusEternal1 wrote:

1) Add to that, higher altitude usually means even colder temperatures and subject to more bitter wind chill, in an arctic region no less.

2) While Weiss may be able to go outside temporarily for training, she has Aura to help with that.

3) From looking at the last episode, I’d place a rough estimate of 5,000 feet or 1.5 kilometers. 1) The thing about that though, is that despite Solitas being cold enough to freeze Grimm, the people of Mantle still managed to survive long before becoming the most advanced Kingdom on the planet. So while definitely under freezing temperature, it might not be as cold as it seems.

Though for analysis's sake: Alsius (Atlas Academy) existed before the Great War, and Atlas was built around it after said war. That was ~80 years before Vol.1. We can assume Atlas being a floating city is more recent, say after building Amity Colosseum.

That would leave us with the people of Mantle/Atlas having hundreds/thousands of years to adapt to the cold, and let's say more-or-less 60 years to adapt to the colder cold.

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2) Aura didn't help her against the snowstorm though. If anything she was shivering more than the others.

Though the whole thing is head-tilting since Weiss lived in Atlas almost all her life and was the only one who bothered to dress "for the cold" and yet she shivers, while Blake, far more exposed and raised either on-the-go or on an island, did not shiver at all. There's also Northen Anima not being as cold as Atlas, located in the actual north pole, which just makes the (lack of) shivering more confusing.

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3) That would be about 4 times the height of the Empire State, to give it some scale. Though it's still hard to say, all we saw of Atlas and Mantle was a 2D picture and Rainbow was already at some unknown height up in the air.