I've been using the oldest pair of earmuffs I own because I hate the newer "back of the neck" ones, which just slide down my hair and off my ears. So I've been looking for the "traditional" ones. I've had these for a couple of days now. They do feel warm. The band is rather uncomfortable--not so much in terms of tightness, although there is a bit of that, but there are sharp little pieces/imperfections on the 2 "connector" pieces of the band that were painfully digging into my scalp, I had to use a nail file to file down those sharp edges. I agree with the previous comments about the band being rather difficult to untwist.