I full on get vomitty if I get too hot. Give me winter. Give me cold.
I’ll always take winter over summer if I had to choose between the two. I live in the northern US where it gets down to -10 degrees F regularly in the winter.
glances at my A/C and window screens
- glances at my electric bill *
Summer
The Good:
- longer days, lots of time after work for outdoor activities
- relax in the sun
- fresh fruit
- more cultural activities
- swim in the see
The Bad:
- hot
Winter
The Good:
- not hot
The Bad:
- more rain
- drive to/from work when it’s still dark
- depressing
lots of time after work for outdoor activities
Outdoor activities get cancelled more and more because of the heat this year. People not showing up at events because they don’t like a heat stroke. It’s a bit too much summer.
More rain in winter? Are you European or Pacific Northwest?
I like winter. If it’s cold I can just put on warm clothes. In the summer I can just bake.
Even with the heatwave, yep. Winter is so fucking garbage. Depressing shitty fucking time. SAD is a legit thing. Me-sweaty-itis, isn’t afaik.
The southern hemisphere be like…
😆😁😄
Both are good and have their benefits. Working outside in the hot sun is a struggle. Working outside in -30 is a struggle.
Where do you live? Canada?
Close, Finland
♪ How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning? ♪Where I live it’s cold and foggy all summer
I fucking hate summer and this is why.
BuT iT’s FrEeZiNg In WiNtEr. Not anymore because you need to fly to Asia for your vacations Bernadette! Also I can later clothes. Can’t take off skin.
Can’t put on jackets I don’t have. Didn’t wear the right jacket? Fucking die, says mother nature. Fine, says you.
FUUUUCK winter.
Can’t take off skin.
Skill issue
Skin issue
mf complains about heat but can’t even be arsed to deglove ffs
it is freezing in winter! that’s why it’s better! try ice-skating on a lake in june!
My fingers and toes and nose would always stay cold in the winter, even if the rest of my body was so layered up that I was sweating. It’s a bit odd wearing a ski mask indoors and wearing super thick gloves indoors is not always feasible either depending on what you’re doing (eating, etc.). I compromised a bit with fingerless gloves, and it helped a bit, but not as much as I would have liked. And yeah eating foods with your hands just wasn’t doable that way.
Idk. I’m one of those people that is always too cold. I live in a hot climate now and it sucks major major balls for riding a motorcycle (just learned recently), BUT I prefer this environment in every other circumstance.
I live in a hot climate now and it sucks major major balls for riding a motorcycle
I only go touring in spring and fall for this reason. I use it when the weather’s nice enough year round for errands that are too far for bicycle/public transit and don’t require the car, but even riding 20ish minutes to the supermarket sucks in 30+ degree heat with 80+% humidity.
Well you can, but you probably shouldn’t.
I will cry in cost of living but not in weather! (Berkeley, California)
Fuck the Winter!
I don’t mind melting skin and vampiric, malaria bringing insects as long as I can enjoy long summer evenings, cool drinks, the summerwind rustling in trees while laying in their shadows, eating icecream and going for a swim.
All this is monumentally better than the long darkness, scraping ice from your cars windscreen at 06:00 am and seeing nothing but bare trees for months.
Winter is fine for a month or so, then it should be time again for spring.
The only rational take here
Hard disagree. In winter we have cozy warm clothing, crisp dry air to breathe, beautiful blankets of snow, houses lit up with decorative lights at night, and most importantly significantly less bugs! I love hiking and backpacking in winter. I would much rather sleep outside when it’s 0 C/32 F than when it’s 24 C/75 F+ at night. Once it starts getting warm here the humidity creeps up and you’re just sticky for months. Sitting outside on my porch on winter mornings bundled up in my coat and scarf having my morning coffee is one of my favorite things. If I do this in summer I’m eaten by mosquitoes within minutes.
I’m sure whether people like summer or winter more is heavily influenced by where they live, but here summer is hot, humid, full of mosquitoes and ticks, and just generally all around miserable. Late June through early September is the worst part of the year and it’s not even close for me.
I suffer physically during summer and mentally during winter. I 'd love for a long, extended spring time (because I have no allergies ruining it for me), but anthropogenic climate change is 86ing spring and autumn atm.
Let me tell you about these magical lands called “equatorial mountain” climates.
See, you go to a place that’s hot year round, then go 1-2km directly upwards, and you get 365 days of spring weather, only variation being how much precipitation you get.
Bogota, Medellin, Da Lat, Kunming, all amazing weather year round. They also tend to have tons of edible mushrooms.
spoiler
There is a really jarring sensation when you go from wet, cold, and cloudy to hot, dry, and sunny by taking a 5 minute bike ride down into a valley, like you just rode into another world.
Do you have a list of such more cities?
No, sorry. There’s listicle articles you can google, or if there’s an equatorial region with mountains, any city or town above a certain altitude is going to have little variation. Weatherspark.com can help investigate.
I know about mountain climates. However, I grew up close to an ocean coast, I love the salty smell of the sea, mountains are nice for a vacation but bearing down in the long run. Also Kunming is in China (fuck the CCP) and due to me being pretty much not able to work I am still best where I am (for now at least. Too many rich asses working on dismantling welfare here).
Also Kunming is in China (fuck the CCP)
We are discussing the weather. Be normal.
Be normal.
No
Expressing disdain towards autocratic regimes in a short side note is perfectly normal.
No, no its not. Its extremely weird and offputting to immediately declare how much you hate 1 particular government, especially in the context of someone telling you a positive thing about various places they’ve been to. Maybe touch grass.
It was a side note giving a reason why the example you gave is not an option for me. Had you brought up a place in Russia, Saudi Arabia or the USA I’d have made a similar comment.
Plus again it is just a side note. You are the one who wants to focus on that topic now. You could have continued conversing on amy other part of my response.
My condolences, that sucks!
And yes spring and autumn both are awesome. Nothing better than a clear, crisp autumn day.
I honestly think I probably eat more ice cream in winter…
Nothing wrong there. Being an adult should have at least some perks, eating ice cream whenever you want is one of them.
Winter and snow are fine from a few weeks before Christmas up through New Year’s. After that I’m ready to get back to summer.
Where I live (mid-Atlantic US region), snow accumulation is rare before December. I’ve had maybe one “white Christmas” in my life - lots of rainy ones, though.
January is when the snow starts to really hit, with February having peak winter storms. Before that, it’s just like autumn, except without the colorful leaves.
No, it’s frozen here and raining and yucky.
Please send all your heats, we’ll take them.
It’s 42C here today, cooler than yesterday.
Will that be cash or check? Wait, come back
Nope, it isn’t. At least not for me. I am more team “shoveling snow in a t-shirt”.
