I used to LOVE summer but its just way too hot now.
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I also enjoy actually seeing the fucking sun once in a while.
Summer? When things are green? I can get strawberries from our garden? It isn’t dark at 4:30 in the afternoon? I don’t have to scrape ice off the car while it preheats idling?
That atrocious season?
Yes, that season with 40°C (104°F) and up to 90% humidity, where you can't be outside in the sun for a quarter of the available daylight if you don't want to die young, and the only way to fight the heat is AC.
#TeamWinter
I used to live in Australia, and moved to the Nordics. I love summer and winter here. Australian summers are too hot, and winter is just wet and cold. Nordic winters have snow (hopefully soon) and it's dry outside, and summers are maximum 30c, anything over 25c is a heatwave. I can deal with that.
May I present a counter argument:
#THE FUCKING SUN
Ya that atrocious season. The season where you can walk through the woods on a full moon, the luminescence making the snow practically glow as the Milky Way makes its Milky Way. That season that has a stillness and quietness not found anywhere else, where you could hear a pin drop from a football field away. That atrocious season where you get to take ridiculously hot saunas, then jump in the snow or lake, and get to feel clean from the inside out. That atrocious season where you get to cuddle up with your family in front of a nice fire and read a book. Bleh who needs it
This is huuuuugely dependent on where you live.
It's hot as shit here and things get brown, not Green.
Christmas also much less magical haha (because it's summer)
people who say they like [other season] are lying to themselves. It is objectively correct to like [poster's favorite season]
Depends on your climate. Climate usually cold? Summer is a relief. Climate usually hot? Summer sucks.
Two words.
Summer nights.
Warm, but not too hot, beautiful and calming.
Winter can fuck off until it brings sensible amount of snow.
Fall can fuck off fully as I hate rain.
On the fence about Spring. Sometimes it's Fall lite, sometines it's Summer Nights daylight version.
Damn. Your take on fall saddens me. Where I come from fall is the driest season of the year. The chill finally starts to settle in the air and the leaves start to change and a steady light breeze starts in due to the leaves dropping from the trees.
A wet fall on the other hand sounds miserable.
Where I live fall is basically a completely random mix of anything between +15 °C and dry weather (but the ground is still wet from yesterday) and rain at +1 °C, with nights being anything between +10 and -5.
Winter is basically two months of damp +2°C days followed by a February with actual snow that nobody is really happy about because it happens at the worst time possible.
Spring is nice. Then summer rolls around with temps between 30 and 40 °C because of climate change. It's still better than fall and winter.
Here's it's famously golden and famously wet. Coupled with overall gray (thankfully less and less) look of the cities...welcome to depresso season. Or angery for me. Cause rain.
Summer nights are okay but I hate mosquitoes so I don't get to enjoy them as much as I'd like.
I am currently living in Romania, where summer will kill you and winter will also kill you
My house is 100 years old and my heating consists of three electric heaters, two wooden stoves and a partridge in a pear tree air conditioning
EDIT: My greatgrandparents built the house themselves. It is not well-insulated at all. I may realistically have to ditch if it hits like -25°C
I like summer the most cause it's the only season I don't feel like shit. Whether it's allergies, sinuses, or just general hatred for going outside (and no don't tell me to just put on more layers cause I'm already wearing 5 layers in 8° weather and still freezing my ass off while struggling to move). Doesn't help that I work in a cooler so spending 8-11 hours in a cold room only to leave into the colder outside isn't enjoyable. I miss going on walks at local parks, but all I want to do now is get back in bed ASAP cause that's the warm place.
I’m already wearing 5 layers
Why would you need more than 3 layers? Is your middle layer not insulating enough? Are there exposed parts of your body? If you don't feel like wearing a scarf or mask, some vaseline on the nose/cheeks can help.
Tried the Vaseline cause I'm not allowed to wear scaves or masks at work where it's also cold af. Didn't work. Same with trying to wear 3 layers of cottom gloves while working which didn't stop my hands from being in pain from the cold (they get cold faster than anything else on me) and more hinders my ability to work efficiently. I'm only comfortable when in a 70-85° area (or whatever my shower can get to at max heat). Any less and I'm freezing, but I can handle a decent bit more.
3 layers of cotton gloves
Big, bulky mittens, hopefully your jacket has straps on the wrist so no heat escapes there. If you need to use a touch-screen, they make 1-finger mittens.
My problem is with having to twist my hands and bend my fingers around my hook a lot. Work only allows the cotton gloves they supply which get changed out often due to them getting soaked fast which only makes it colder. They gave me these sleeve things which are extremely tight, but even wrapping them around the ends of the gloves doesn't stop my hands from freezing.
wouldn't you want 4 finger mittens?
in spring the rain is miserable, makes everything muddy, and you cant walk afterwards because of that mud + overgrown plants. and winter is just that but cold snow and the constant worry of my pipes freezing or water system fucking up. fall is decent but has nothing good for going on it, though going on walks at 100(f) is heavenly.
Na winter can absolutely jog on. Give me my warm days and lots of sunlight.
Fuck summer and winter, two sides of the same shitty extremes coin. Fall, and to a lesser extent spring, are where it's at.
Winter and Summer are both too extreme. That leaves Spring and Autumn.
I hate bugs, and Spring is the 'buggiest' season, so for me, Autumn wins by default, lol.
I love summer because the weather is nice and I get good sunlight and that feels nice. I can walk to work in a cotton shirt instead of a waterproof parka. The rest of the year where I live is constant grey and drizzle. We don't even get fun winter shit like snow here, just grey and wet and cold.
Autumn is the best. It's like spring but dry. It's like summer but not boiling.
Autumn and spring are usually pretty wet here in the UK... Which is fine because I like rain.
Hello fellow rain lover in the UK. I like the rain, and the dark. Walking in the rain on a winter evening is as good as it gets. It's best when there's no wind and the sound of the rain changes depending on what it's falling on. That moment when I move from next to a lake to some trees (as an example) is amazing sound transition.
Yeah.... i get ya.... but for me autumn makes my brain go "Fuck! Its almost winter..... Fuck! Its almost winter" Ad inifitum. So for me spring wins cause i know ive got maximum time until the freezing temps make my bones hurt, and patches of ice are sneakily waiting to make me fall.....
No ticks is pretty great.
...is pretty great about winter, I assume was the rest of that sentence?
I live in WV. Global warming has allowed those fuckers to THRIVE. I used to play in the woods and get like 5 a summer. I am now older and rarely go beyond a yard and find 3+ each time. I found one on me last month. They usually disappear in September. It's to the point I'm ready to bite the bullet and buy annoying ass guineas and just let the fuckers roam. I'm not super rural, and I'm sure my neighbors might get mad, but fuuuuck lyme disease.
But I like warm! >:v
I like snow and I like sun. Everything in between is just grey, boring, depressing, with lot's of wind.
God I love autumn. Can chill by the lake with a picnic basket and wait for the stars to come out. Camping when it's pleasantly cool. Plus those fresh orange leaves, and the beetles in the firelight. Autumn is amazing.
I love summer because it's the only season that's consistently not cold, and I hate being cold more than I hate being hot.
I'm the same way. Hate being cold. I've started to just say my favorite season is "not winter". Though it helps I live in an area with incredible summers and miserable winters.
Yeah, being hot sucks but drink water and snack and you'll survive. Being extremely cold is PAIN. That said I much prefer spring. Warm days, cool nights, and rain is pretty neat.
People always say "just put on more layers" but it's important to understand that cold kills way more people than heat. Depending on the source, the ratio is between 9:1 and 18:1.
Still, I find it objectively easier to defend from cold than heat. Other than living indoors with AC or inside water, what can you do?
I can get used to being hot. Plus you get relief in the shade and at night. When it's cold, it's too cold during the day, night, sun, or shade. It's also a PITA to put on several layers of clothes plus a coat. In the summer I can pretty much roll a t shirt, shorts, and flip flops 24\7.
several layers of clothes plus a coat
You're wearing the wrong clothes.
I walk/hike for hours in -2--20C with 1-2 layers plus a coat. You have your skin layer; some kind of generuc athletic wear to wick away sweat, your insulating layer, a thick sweater, and your coat, but usually I just have the skin layer and unzipped coat.
Same with the legs, long underwear for the skin, sweatpants for insulation, and snowpants, but usually just jeans and underwear.
I know how to dress, dumbass. I don't like the cold, so I wear three layers plus a coat on my upper and two layers on my bottoms along with wool socks and winter boots. ... Several layers. Plus hat, gloves and a face covering if it's also windy.
If you're dressing correctly, IDK how you can be cold. Get a thicker insulating layer?
I don't WANT to put on all the shit to just go outside without being cold. Just like I don't want to shed off so much once I get back inside just to not be hot.
No. It's the nice weather and long days.
If you count nice weather as scorching hot air that's difficult to breathe in, nonstop blinding sunlight, rarely any precipitation to cool things down, and for all that pain to last like 16 hours of the day, then sure, that's nice weather. Not to mention the million bugs constantly trying to get you.
Summer used to be nicer, though. Before the climate crisis made it unbearable.
Winter being more fun, because there actually was snow for downhill sports is pure nostalgia from when I was a kid. I can agree on that. But summer was great if you had access to a lake or pool.
This is true, luckily where I live we still get a ton of snow(lake effect) so I can continue to enjoy winter(except for the driving) hopefully for a while longer. Summer has unfortunately become unbearable though, getting between 90°f-110°f for weeks on end with unbelievably high humidity has been nothing but pain.
Yeah, I guess you and the other person don't really share climates. Summer means very different things to people from central Sweden and people from Sicily (not from US, so... difference between Mississippi or Colorado, maybe?)
I don’t recall hitting 110°F (43°C) but other than that your description is spot on with my recent experience in Michigan.
I miss summers where it was just humid, not stupidly hot AND humid.
NW Ohio and this summer's baseline was mid 90's with full humidity, and just more heat thrown on top. Quite a few days in a row over 100, which is fairly unheard of on Lake Erie. My apartment doesn't have AC, my office doesn't have AC, and my car doesn't have AC.
I don't count nice weather as those things you dramatised.
Well I haven't experienced a summer in the last 10 years that didn't have those attributes which I am quite serious in saying I only slightly dramatized. Where I live, I might get an accumulative week of days during the summer where it's bearable to go outside.
I love all of that except the bugs and they don't bother me as much as the cold.
I have friends, they also dislike summer for the same logical reasons, so we stay inside and remain comfortable. If your only point is to try to insult me by insinuating I don't have friends, while fantasizing about being a perv at your local beach, then good luck in life bud.
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