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?
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.
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.
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
listen here, canadian, you may like it when your extremities hurt from how fucking cold it is, and love sweating because you have to wear layers to not freeze, but your nose is still cold, but some of us actually like feeling like we're warm enough and being ok with things being bright, visible, welcoming and comfortable.
Too hot? just stay indoors between 11 to 3 and you'll be fine.
EDIT: Unlike those random ass non summer months when it can rain or be shittier than usual at random, we know when it's too fucking hot or so sunny it will burn you; it's the same fucking time every day.
I got 3 layers on inside and my hands are still chilled and my feet bounce from being cold to being sweaty so I'm constantly taking my socks on and off. I was sitting in my office at work with my coat and jacket on for 3 hours yesterday before I got back up to a comfortable temperature after being outside. Also everything just fucking hurts all the time. Fuck this shit. I don't have issues like this in summer.
I don't know, I'm not a doctor. But if it takes 3 hours in a jacket indoors to get warm, there's potentially an issue going on. Temperature regulation issues could be nothing, or they could be a symptom of an underlying issue.
My wife is like that and it's probably the neuropathy from the lupus that no one but her eye doctor believes she has (despite her father and his mother dying from it). Like, if it's below 78F, she has a jacket on.
So just because it has been that way your whole life, without a doctor looking into why, it is an unsolvable problem...?
All you've said just screams "I want to have this problem because it's something to complain about".
Imagine if a person has had a limp their whole life, they complain about it and other people say "it shouldn't be like that, it's not normal and you should get it looked at" and their reply is what you said. See how fucking dumb that is? That's you.
So, say it is some medical issue where my body doesn't regulate temperature properly, what will they actually be able to do? Make me spend $1000s on diagnostic tests? Put me on an expensive medication that I have to take forever? I live in America, our healthcare is a joke and I'm not going to waste my money on something that isn't actively killing me. So yeah I'm going to complain.
Too cold? Put on more clothes until you’re warm and cozy.
again, different parts are difficult to keep warm, like my nose or my hands and feet. How the fuck am I meant to type with thick gloves on?
Also, the differing levels of activity and transitions make it awkward, I'm dressed in a thick coat because its cold, and my core starts to get warm because I'm walking , but my arms would be freezing, and when I get to my destination I take of my coat and stench bomb wherever the fuck I am
As opposed to being too hot all over and desperate for anything that gives the slightest momentary relief. Not being able stand any activity because movement just makes you hotter and the heat has sapped your will to live. Being sweaty all over no matter what you do because it's all your body can do to keep you alive.
Our bodies generate heat. When trying to warm up, physics is on our side. When trying to cool down, we are fighting a losing battle. You're worrying about typing in gloves while I'm trying to figure how to waterproof my whole system so I can work from my shower.
My dad’s a welder, works outside every day. I asked him, he said obviously it depends on the situation but in general he’d take cold and dry. 1-5 degrees and raining is just about worst case scenario for him. We’re Canadian though so we’re used to the cold, maybe if you asked someone from Florida or something they’d have a different answer.
I'd rather take the summer mosquitoes. It goes down to as low as -40c/f and I just don't want to dress in like four layers w/ snowpants, balaklava, boots and all that to do every single thing that requires going outside like taking out the garbage or doing groceries
A dehumidifier plus a "swamp cooler" (a bucket of ice in front of a fan) works pretty well so long as you keep it to one room and only expect it to work for a few hours or so. Otherwise you'll be buying a lot of ice and doing a lot of work dumping the water from the dehumidifier.
Yes, but it's not a big deal because it only will run once the humidity gets above a certain level - especially if you're using it to cover multiple rooms where any heat from it running will disperse across a wide area. You set it to something like 60% and it will pop on occasionally for a few minutes to maintain that level.
In a closed room with a swamp cooler it's a bit of a different story, but that's why I recommend that only for a short period of time, a couple of hours at most. Just long enough to cool down yourself and the room.
So you leave the dehumidifier on all the time on an automatic setting in a central location in the house to keep the air in the house fairly dry, run a swamp cooler late in the afternoon to cool down your room, and if it isn't too hot and humid outside, open a couple of windows in the house to get some cross ventilation going and air out the house once the sun goes down.
OK, but I'm not talking about making your body temperature drop, I'm talking about feeling cooler. Doesn't having more stuff in the breeze make it feel cooler?
No. What makes you feel colder is the air moving faster and therefore absorbing sweat off your skin more quickly. If the air is already moist then its capacity for extra heat goes down. You should look up what Wet Bulb Temperature is. In short, it's when the humidity nears 100%, which prevents the air from absorbing any heat from your body because it's no longer pulling sweat off of you. At this level of humidity, even special forces units have found themselves incapacitated within hours due to heat stroke during army tests of soldier capabilities in those conditions. There was a heatwave of about 70-80F in the UK a couple of years ago where multiple people died of heat stroke related organ failure because the humidity was so high that their organs couldn't cool down and overheated until they just stopped working.
If you want to cool down, ideally the first step is to get a dehumidifier to pull water out of the air. This is how air conditioners work as well, they pull moisture out of the air which carries heat, and then transfer that heat and moisture somewhere else.
In the short term, you can use a "swamp cooler" as an ad hoc air conditioner to help cool down. A swamp cooler is just a big bucket of ice in front of a fan. The ice will cool down the air in front of the fan as it blows over it, allowing it to absorb heat from the rest of the room. This only works short-term though, because it won't do anything about the humidity in the room and will actually increase the humidity as the ice melts.
You know that scene from riddick where the guy steps into the sun/desert storm and gets instantly vaporized? Thats what its like here in the summer. Every year my state sends everyone a letter telling them basically not to go outside. Winters are aight, they get a little cold. Coldest i can remember was about -10f or im guessing about -14C
I live in Calgary. The 3 things Calgarians will invariably tell you are: 1) Calgary Olympics was the only profitable one and was well managed. 2) Tennessee barbeque is the greatest. 3) it gets to -40, but it's not so bad because it's dry cold.
Yup. They used it as an impetus to build public transportation infrastructure, turned the Olympic complex into a winter sporting area, and the athlete dorms into student/affordable housing.
Since then, public transportation has turned to dog shit for most of the city, but it works well for me. Plenty of people still use the winter sporting infrastructure (I think), and housing still exists even if everything around those areas are getting gentrified, which somewhat of a universal truth.
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?)
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
I don't like cold rain, so Spring is out for me. Fall is DRY here. Like the only temporary drought we ever get. Summers are a mixed bag, mostly unbearably hot and humid, but we do occasionally get strangely cool and dry days where it is too chilly to be standing outside wet in a swimsuit. Winter is great as long as it's below freezing, which it mostly has been. It's not even winter yet and we've had four good snows. It was -19c yesterday morning, and we're at the same latitude as Portugal. Sometimes we get a warm winter day with that 2 or 3c rain and that can fuck right off.
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.
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.
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.
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.
God I love summer. Hard to go to the lake when it's frozen. Can't go hiking in the mud during spring or fall. Camping when it's 35 sucks. Just relaxing outside for hours in the 20s isn't ideal. Summer is amazing.
Same, drink plenty of water and you're fine. I'll take the warm weather over the cold any day of the year. Cold sucks, because all your doing is trying to stay warm.
A better description might be "So balls-squelchingly hot that you are constantly sweating, even when not moving, and you have to carry a spare change of clothes for when your first one inevitably becomes drenched; and you are constantly miserable because your body is not designed to be comfortable in +38°C temperatures and, unlike cold weather, you can not just wear more appropriate clothing because even when you are butt ass naked, your back will still resemble a fucking waterfall."
And what kind of activities do you do while you're out there in the cold? In the snow? Hang out in your tent. Walk to the fire to stay warm and back to the tent. I mean really there's not a ton that you can't actually do unless you are specifically out there to ski or snowboard or some other stupid cold weather sport like that.
I go snowshoeing during the day, or maybe drive around in the snow, my car is very capable. We don't have mountains nearby to ski or snowboard, and I don't care for cross country skiing.
Sometimes I'll drive to town for a meal in a local diner, or I'll spend some time cooking a nice meal at my camp. I don't spend time in my tent except to sleep or change my clothes, maybe roll a joint away from the wind.
I can sit comfortably outside in a chair for hours at -20C without getting cold. I like to stand by the fire sometimes, maybe listen to some music, there's never anyone right next to me it will bother. And yes a fire is nice, but I don't need it to stay warm. I do like to cook over the fire also. A campstove is efficient, but cooking some meat over a fire in the snow is a vibe.
Sometimes I have data coverage where I camp, and I might spend a little time on my phone or on a tablet. They don't mind bitter cold, although batteries don't perform quite as well. I have lots of options for power sources if needed. But honestly I prefer when I'm outside of data range and no one can reach me.
That's kind of a biased take, isn't it? You clearly don't enjoy snow activities, but that doesn't mean others don't like them. We hike, cook, play various games, all outside in the snow. Wear the proper gear and there is no bad weather.
Yes I've been ice fishing and I absolutely hate it. Never been snowmobiling but I imagine that it's much colder snowmobiling as well as you're going faster and the wind and everything like that so no thanks.
Yeah but you can't swim for a very long. Makes it really difficult to kayak or canoe or rap. Makes it unbearable to fish unless you bring a cabin and basically live on the lake.
Plants are releasing allergens, requring medication and/or extensive exposure therapies.
Abundance of life can be overwhelming and invasive in the form of road traffic full of boat trailers, pickup flag caravans, and grills and smokers billowing on residential development scales.
I can regulate my temperature in the cold, where there are barely any allergens that get me and everyone's holed up inside so I can be outside and in peace more often than not.
But my ancestors were bog people. If it isn't misty or foggy in the morning I am genetically obligated to be grouchy until ingesting heated caffiene or complaining about the english.
It isn't even winter yet and we've had four good snows already. We were -19c yesterday morning. I'm in southwest Ohio. Barely anyone around here really believes in global warming outside of the Earth's natural cycles, because it certainly has not gotten hotter here. Yeah I understand global data vs local data but the lived experience is we're very often below average temperature. Even summer days at the water park, sometimes it's pretty chilly to be wet in a swimsuit. We're at the same latitude as Portugal.
Yeah good for you I guess. I am 23 years old and in my lifetime we went from having at least 50cm of snow each winter to barely getting any at all and if we get it it melts due to rain next day. I mean the local lake used to freeze for people go skate. They even drove cars on it 80 years ago. It has frozen once in the last 10-15 years. I barely remember it freezing when I was little.
Dead silent moonlit landscapes are just incredible.
Dry is key, wet and cold winters are awful. Like -6C to -17C is perfect. -6C is practically t-shirt weather. Anything between-3C and 5C (27F-41F) is just misery.
Living somewhere that the snow stays powdery and it's -10C on average for 4 months of the winter is awesome!
I think this is a key distinction between the people who generally like one over the other. If you live somewhere where winter is wet and summer is dry, you probably prefer summer. And vice versa.
The other big thing that I never see anyone talk about is the wind. I think the wind is probably one of the most impactful things for a season. Hot summer with a cool breeze bringing cold air from over the ocean? Fantastic and refreshing. Snow on the ground and gusting 8-16 kmh? I don't care how sunny it is, that wind is cutting through every single layer you put on. I woke up the other day to a wind chill that brought the temp from -10°C to -17°C. That's 14°F to 1°F.
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.
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.
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.
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.
God I love winter. Love to go snowshowing on the lake when it’s frozen. Can’t go hiking in the mud during spring or fall. Camping when it’s 95 sucks. Just relaxing outside for hours in the 20s is ideal. Winter is amazing.
BULLSHIT! We get longer daylight, and the sweat is just a gentle reminder that you aren't in constant pain from temperatures below 60F. Also there are less snowbirds jamming the roadways.
Not in the slightest. I had a job for a while that occasionally used an open oven that got over 200F and it felt amazing to be in that space. That was in Florida summer.
This answer is too common and very selfish. I wear long sleeves and jeans in Florida summer for protection. Layers are the most inconvenient thing ever! Like, the impracticality of it is rediculous. How about I tell you that you can always cling wrap blocks of ice to your body, you entitled asshole! Yeah, and you can plug your freezer suit into the wall to stay cool. How convenient does that sound?! You're probably a morning person, too.
That is getting close to how I feel about the cold. I learned about how people differently experience pain and mine feels cold. So cold weather just feels like pain and it makes me grumpier.
I'm a night owl who likes winter, how is that relevant?
I sympathize though. I think being in Florida is the culprit. It is much nicer when your outside isn't actively trying to fry you. The humidity makes me feel like a lobster being boiled alive.
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.
Your wingers sound delightful, trade you for my California seasons where the sun is a deadly Lazer most of the damned time. Even when it's cold that bright fucker in the sky will burn your skin, though I guess I'm also exceptionally pale.
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.....
I love summer, but this does kind of make sense. I live in Korea, where they have a long winter break (Christmas until March) from school. People here seem to love winter, which is usually absolutely frigid and miserable.
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.
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.
My wife works for the schools and still has summer off. I have two kids in high school and one in college. All summer off. I hate summer. I'm going snow camping the week after Christmas though. Without them.
Depends a lot on the climate. I hated summer in Hungary with 3 months of 30-39°C days, now in Scotland, where it barely goes over 20°C for a couple weeks / year, I cherish every sunny day.
Depends on where you live. Summer in Minnesota is probably nice, no snow and lots of lakes to swim in. Summer in Perth is a life-threatening couple of months.
You'd collapse into a star well before that. And even before that, you'd be burnt up by molten sweaters. Though it's not as bad as it sounds because you'd be crushed long before the heat got too much to stay solid.
Especially if you live in a hot, and HUMID environment. Sweat doesn't cool you if it can't evaporate due to high humidity. You just turn into a sweaty hot mess and overheat.
My argument is that summer is relatively terrible specifically in our current circumstances. For most of history, I would absolutely agree with you. But now we have all kinds of heaters and blankets and clothes designed with incredibly complicated materials to insulate us. There's like 62 million ways keep warm, like 3 ways to keep cold (air conditionerand, touch cold thing, or take off clothes) then factor in global warming and obesity rates rising. It's almost enough to forget that for most of history winter is when people starved and froze to death meanwhile summer was a time of wonderful abundance.
I legitimately loathe any temperature <23°. At 20° I’m too uncomfortable to be outside without layers. I’d prefer to do nearly everything outside if feasible, and really enjoy nature. I also hate rain during the colder months.
I’m legitimately glad that people have options, but I think the population growth of the southwest shows where people are partial to the weather 😝
I upvoted this but holy Jesus. I'm stripping off at 18C and the scientifically proven melting point for shiny white people like me is 25C. Edit: it's very humid here in fairness.
If you don't mind me asking, where is it that temperature so regularly? Must be near the equator I'm guessing.
I’m in Tucson (1.5 hours south of Phoenix) where yesterday my car said it was 33° (unseasonably warm for this time of year). We're at 32°N latitude, same as Tel Aviv, but the hottest city at this latitude on the planet (other cities at this latitude are cooler overall because of oceanic/continental climatic influences). We usually get 3 weeks of “possible” <10° midday temps from Christmas to mid January, and every year at that time I’m swearing that I need to move to the Caribbean lmao. I’m also not “white”, so that might affect my sun and temperature perception 😆
Sunbelt here: I’m legitimately glad that people have options, but I think the population growth of the southwest shows where people are partial to the weather 😝
Or stupid people just tend to have more children just sayin
Agreed. Apple cider, pumpkin pie, warm enough to not need a light jacket during the day, then when the sun is down just a light jackal for the wind. Watching Over The Garden Wall and eating Halloween candy.
The cradle of humankind is generally though to be northern Africa.
We may have adapted to surviving in cold climates but that's not where our roots are.
Nordics have definitely evolved for cold weather. Most whites and Asians evolved white skin to help synthesize vitamin D from scarce sunlight. Africans evolved dark skin to avoid synthesizing too much vitamin D, which can be toxic.
9 grey months a year, will make you miss the summer, then you you get 3 weeks of it if you're lucky, and then back to the monotone grey, it's not about love, it's about my human need to see other colours
It's not nearly as bad as the spring thaw in my opinion. Frozen ground in the morning, wet mud in the afternoon then freezing into horrible little spikes again overnight. My time in construction when I was younger really sealed it for me.
10ish years ago I would have said Summer is the best but Spring and Autumn are close contendente. With winters being only ok because of the snow.
Nowadays I still say summer is best but spring and autumn are gone (replaced by alternating weeks of summer and weeks of winter) and winter is just dark, wet and too cold to be enjoyable but not cold enough to have snow.
And also summers used to be like 30°C max if it was hot, maybe a little warmer, now if we get a week of summer that is 30°C max we consider it a cool summer because on average the max day temperature hangs at around 38~40°C.
I'm not a fan of too much heat either, but honestly, where I live, it's not even that bad most summers. It's the darkness around christmas that's the worst. The 3 weeks before and the 3 weeks after specifically.
Spring and autumn are my favorites for sure, and spring is generally better because it rains less. There's something cleansing about that season.
2025 has completely changed my outlook on the seasons, to be honest.
It's for the better too. In my quest to be the "retired tech worker turned farmer" while still having my engineering job, I spent a LOT of time outside this year doing construction and creating DIY equipment to care for my pets.
With that, I have started my natural evolution into the old man that complains about losing daylight. And since I've lost weight I don't like staying quite as cold as before.
So winter has moved way down the list for me. I think Spring has too, because of the wet and the rain.
I still don't like it hot, and I love my beautiful outdoor scenery, so I think Autumn still takes the crown but I am looking forward to the long summer days next year more than ever. I have shit to do, I have plants that will need the sun, and I even have some reptiles that like getting the real thing too.
My favorite temp is around 15-18C. Sweater weather.
Cold sucks. But you don't need a lot of protection to be comfortable in 15C weather, and if you're too hot because you've been working or something, instant relief by just taking off a layer.
I kinda like all weather, I'm a weather-appreciating generalist I guess so long as it doesn't stay the same for too long. But I definitely like light more than darkness, and god damn the nights get long in the winter. The serenity of a fresh snowfall is not worth three months with < 8 hours of daylight.
I was homeschooled and lived in Alabama growing up. I didn't get summers off, and they were unbearably hot. I honestly kinda hated the summer.
But as an adult? I fucking love summer.
Hot take: seasons kind of suck. I don't like all the constant change. The extremes are much worse when you have the perspective of other seasons too. You can adapt and get used to most climates, but it's a pain in the ass when they keep changing. I lived in the desert for awhile and loved the consistency. So many of our activities and how we dress and what we eat change with the seasons. The consistency of an aseasonal climate really let's you get into a groove and not be so distracted by the weather.
I'm aware this is an unpopular opinion, but I encourage anyone that has an opportunity to try it for a year. I think it's especially grounding for adhd types.
I love hurricanes and yes it's the only time off you get in Florida. Could get up to 2 weeks if everything's fucked. It's great. So long as it isn't your stuff destroyed.
Summer here is rainy.... wet.... humid.... moist.... interspersed with very sunny, very hot days, and nature is blooming, it's wonderful. You essentially don't come out of hiding between 10 and 15 if you're white as I am. That's certainly a complication
I think it had more to do with farming families wanting the kids at home to help with the work during the growing season and out of their faces during winter.
I used to LOVE summer but its just way too hot now.
Any maybe winters not cold enough people would appreciate some warmth
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.
That was also my strategy to fight global warming, I moved up North. I enjoy the climate here much more (even if my countrymen tell me I am crazy).
Yeah in the nordics you have actual seasons. You miss summer.
May I present a counter argument:
#THE FUCKING SUN
Oh those two weeks where it's like super nice and your replenish your vitamin d for the year?
Norwegian here
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
You should write a book. That's top tier descriptiveness.
Be careful. That behavior can cause a stroke.
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)
listen here, canadian, you may like it when your extremities hurt from how fucking cold it is, and love sweating because you have to wear layers to not freeze, but your nose is still cold, but some of us actually like feeling like we're warm enough and being ok with things being bright, visible, welcoming and comfortable.
Too hot? just stay indoors between 11 to 3 and you'll be fine.
EDIT: Unlike those random ass non summer months when it can rain or be shittier than usual at random, we know when it's too fucking hot or so sunny it will burn you; it's the same fucking time every day.
Too cold? Put on more clothes until you're warm and cozy.
Too hot? Keep taking off clothes until you're just a sweaty naked mess begging for the sweet release of death.
I got 3 layers on inside and my hands are still chilled and my feet bounce from being cold to being sweaty so I'm constantly taking my socks on and off. I was sitting in my office at work with my coat and jacket on for 3 hours yesterday before I got back up to a comfortable temperature after being outside. Also everything just fucking hurts all the time. Fuck this shit. I don't have issues like this in summer.
It kinda sounds like you might need to see a doctor about that.
Wtf is a doctor going to do. It's been this way my entire life.
I don't know, I'm not a doctor. But if it takes 3 hours in a jacket indoors to get warm, there's potentially an issue going on. Temperature regulation issues could be nothing, or they could be a symptom of an underlying issue.
My wife is like that and it's probably the neuropathy from the lupus that no one but her eye doctor believes she has (despite her father and his mother dying from it). Like, if it's below 78F, she has a jacket on.
So just because it has been that way your whole life, without a doctor looking into why, it is an unsolvable problem...? All you've said just screams "I want to have this problem because it's something to complain about".
Imagine if a person has had a limp their whole life, they complain about it and other people say "it shouldn't be like that, it's not normal and you should get it looked at" and their reply is what you said. See how fucking dumb that is? That's you.
So, say it is some medical issue where my body doesn't regulate temperature properly, what will they actually be able to do? Make me spend $1000s on diagnostic tests? Put me on an expensive medication that I have to take forever? I live in America, our healthcare is a joke and I'm not going to waste my money on something that isn't actively killing me. So yeah I'm going to complain.
again, different parts are difficult to keep warm, like my nose or my hands and feet. How the fuck am I meant to type with thick gloves on?
Also, the differing levels of activity and transitions make it awkward, I'm dressed in a thick coat because its cold, and my core starts to get warm because I'm walking , but my arms would be freezing, and when I get to my destination I take of my coat and stench bomb wherever the fuck I am
As opposed to being too hot all over and desperate for anything that gives the slightest momentary relief. Not being able stand any activity because movement just makes you hotter and the heat has sapped your will to live. Being sweaty all over no matter what you do because it's all your body can do to keep you alive.
Our bodies generate heat. When trying to warm up, physics is on our side. When trying to cool down, we are fighting a losing battle. You're worrying about typing in gloves while I'm trying to figure how to waterproof my whole system so I can work from my shower.
bruh just turn on a fan
That only helps up to about 80F for me. Beyond that, it's just misery with a breeze.
Stay inside from 11-3? More like stay inside from May-September.
I never stop sweating for like four months of the year and hate it.
Good thing no one works outdoors and every building has A/C.
It sucks to work outdoors full stop. You think they prefer it cold or rainy?
My dad’s a welder, works outside every day. I asked him, he said obviously it depends on the situation but in general he’d take cold and dry. 1-5 degrees and raining is just about worst case scenario for him. We’re Canadian though so we’re used to the cold, maybe if you asked someone from Florida or something they’d have a different answer.
He's working with fire. of course he prefers winter.
And never seeing the sun.
How many mosquito bites did you get today?
I'd rather take the summer mosquitoes. It goes down to as low as -40c/f and I just don't want to dress in like four layers w/ snowpants, balaklava, boots and all that to do every single thing that requires going outside like taking out the garbage or doing groceries
I'd assume the same number people who don't live near swamps get. Or people who stay inside.
Cries in European (we usually don't have AC)
A dehumidifier plus a "swamp cooler" (a bucket of ice in front of a fan) works pretty well so long as you keep it to one room and only expect it to work for a few hours or so. Otherwise you'll be buying a lot of ice and doing a lot of work dumping the water from the dehumidifier.
Won't the dehumidifier warm up the room again?
Yes, but it's not a big deal because it only will run once the humidity gets above a certain level - especially if you're using it to cover multiple rooms where any heat from it running will disperse across a wide area. You set it to something like 60% and it will pop on occasionally for a few minutes to maintain that level.
In a closed room with a swamp cooler it's a bit of a different story, but that's why I recommend that only for a short period of time, a couple of hours at most. Just long enough to cool down yourself and the room.
So you leave the dehumidifier on all the time on an automatic setting in a central location in the house to keep the air in the house fairly dry, run a swamp cooler late in the afternoon to cool down your room, and if it isn't too hot and humid outside, open a couple of windows in the house to get some cross ventilation going and air out the house once the sun goes down.
Neither do Canadians
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Bruh, learn physics: Those don't work too well if it's too humid. 🙄
... isn't it the other way around?
Nope. You lose heat by evaporation of water on your skin. If the air is too humid, water can evaporate worse and worse.
That's why heat in the Sahara is easier to handle than in the amazon forest.
OK, but I'm not talking about making your body temperature drop, I'm talking about feeling cooler. Doesn't having more stuff in the breeze make it feel cooler?
I don't know what else to tell you other than "evaporation makes it feel colder".
No. What makes you feel colder is the air moving faster and therefore absorbing sweat off your skin more quickly. If the air is already moist then its capacity for extra heat goes down. You should look up what Wet Bulb Temperature is. In short, it's when the humidity nears 100%, which prevents the air from absorbing any heat from your body because it's no longer pulling sweat off of you. At this level of humidity, even special forces units have found themselves incapacitated within hours due to heat stroke during army tests of soldier capabilities in those conditions. There was a heatwave of about 70-80F in the UK a couple of years ago where multiple people died of heat stroke related organ failure because the humidity was so high that their organs couldn't cool down and overheated until they just stopped working.
If you want to cool down, ideally the first step is to get a dehumidifier to pull water out of the air. This is how air conditioners work as well, they pull moisture out of the air which carries heat, and then transfer that heat and moisture somewhere else.
In the short term, you can use a "swamp cooler" as an ad hoc air conditioner to help cool down. A swamp cooler is just a big bucket of ice in front of a fan. The ice will cool down the air in front of the fan as it blows over it, allowing it to absorb heat from the rest of the room. This only works short-term though, because it won't do anything about the humidity in the room and will actually increase the humidity as the ice melts.
Have you ever been in a Turkish sauna? That's the same principle. Warm water in the air is definitely not pleasant and refreshing.
You know that scene from riddick where the guy steps into the sun/desert storm and gets instantly vaporized? Thats what its like here in the summer. Every year my state sends everyone a letter telling them basically not to go outside. Winters are aight, they get a little cold. Coldest i can remember was about -10f or im guessing about -14C
I live in Calgary. The 3 things Calgarians will invariably tell you are: 1) Calgary Olympics was the only profitable one and was well managed. 2) Tennessee barbeque is the greatest. 3) it gets to -40, but it's not so bad because it's dry cold.
Only one of those is unconditionally true.
is it this one?
Yup. They used it as an impetus to build public transportation infrastructure, turned the Olympic complex into a winter sporting area, and the athlete dorms into student/affordable housing.
Since then, public transportation has turned to dog shit for most of the city, but it works well for me. Plenty of people still use the winter sporting infrastructure (I think), and housing still exists even if everything around those areas are getting gentrified, which somewhat of a universal truth.
I also enjoy actually seeing the fucking sun once in a while.
Spotted a 9 to 5 workoid. (It takes one to know one)
Well, 7-6. I live in the dark.
I work in a basement with no windows. Will regularly go 5 straight days with no sun. Still prefer winter over summer.
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?)
Absolutely, this was a point I was going to make until I got a reply telling me to "get some friends" and I decided to make a snide remark.
Yeah, that comment was kinda shit.
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 see what you did there.
It all depends where you live
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.
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 don't like cold rain, so Spring is out for me. Fall is DRY here. Like the only temporary drought we ever get. Summers are a mixed bag, mostly unbearably hot and humid, but we do occasionally get strangely cool and dry days where it is too chilly to be standing outside wet in a swimsuit. Winter is great as long as it's below freezing, which it mostly has been. It's not even winter yet and we've had four good snows. It was -19c yesterday morning, and we're at the same latitude as Portugal. Sometimes we get a warm winter day with that 2 or 3c rain and that can fuck right off.
Seconded summer nights.
♪ Kiss me, beneath the milky twilight... ♪
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.
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?
living indoors during winter is also highly advisable
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.
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'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.
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.
God I love summer. Hard to go to the lake when it's frozen. Can't go hiking in the mud during spring or fall. Camping when it's 35 sucks. Just relaxing outside for hours in the 20s isn't ideal. Summer is amazing.
Same, drink plenty of water and you're fine. I'll take the warm weather over the cold any day of the year. Cold sucks, because all your doing is trying to stay warm.
Warm weather he says.
Sure, "warm" is definitely a description.
A better description might be "So balls-squelchingly hot that you are constantly sweating, even when not moving, and you have to carry a spare change of clothes for when your first one inevitably becomes drenched; and you are constantly miserable because your body is not designed to be comfortable in +38°C temperatures and, unlike cold weather, you can not just wear more appropriate clothing because even when you are butt ass naked, your back will still resemble a fucking waterfall."
But sure, let's go with "warm" weather.
Lol I'm in the south, where that's normal. Guess I'm used to it.
I completely disagree. I easily stay warm camping in the snow, I have the proper gear. I am completely unable to be cool outdoors in the summer.
And what kind of activities do you do while you're out there in the cold? In the snow? Hang out in your tent. Walk to the fire to stay warm and back to the tent. I mean really there's not a ton that you can't actually do unless you are specifically out there to ski or snowboard or some other stupid cold weather sport like that.
I go snowshoeing during the day, or maybe drive around in the snow, my car is very capable. We don't have mountains nearby to ski or snowboard, and I don't care for cross country skiing.
Sometimes I'll drive to town for a meal in a local diner, or I'll spend some time cooking a nice meal at my camp. I don't spend time in my tent except to sleep or change my clothes, maybe roll a joint away from the wind.
I can sit comfortably outside in a chair for hours at -20C without getting cold. I like to stand by the fire sometimes, maybe listen to some music, there's never anyone right next to me it will bother. And yes a fire is nice, but I don't need it to stay warm. I do like to cook over the fire also. A campstove is efficient, but cooking some meat over a fire in the snow is a vibe.
Sometimes I have data coverage where I camp, and I might spend a little time on my phone or on a tablet. They don't mind bitter cold, although batteries don't perform quite as well. I have lots of options for power sources if needed. But honestly I prefer when I'm outside of data range and no one can reach me.
Lol the guy downvoting you because his pathetic "gotcha" didn't work.
That's kind of a biased take, isn't it? You clearly don't enjoy snow activities, but that doesn't mean others don't like them. We hike, cook, play various games, all outside in the snow. Wear the proper gear and there is no bad weather.
What's wrong with skiing or snowboarding?
It's cold
Sometimes I take my jacket off because it gets too hot.
Ever been ice fishing? Snow mobiling? Those are both fun ways to pass the tine at the lake in winter.
Yes I've been ice fishing and I absolutely hate it. Never been snowmobiling but I imagine that it's much colder snowmobiling as well as you're going faster and the wind and everything like that so no thanks.
Frozen lakes are what you can skate on. 35 is unbearable camping temperature. Way too hot.
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Yeah but you can't swim for a very long. Makes it really difficult to kayak or canoe or rap. Makes it unbearable to fish unless you bring a cabin and basically live on the lake.
Ouch. Fair, but ouch.
See. Terrible rap lyrics. Mouth to cold, can't rhym worth a damn, freezin, breezin, life in the winter ain't nothin but sneezin.
Why a cabin? Gloves and an axe will do fine.
The sun is out.
Plants are doing their thing.
Life is abundant.
Idk who the fuck actually thinks “yes winter thank god”
The heat is restrictive.
Plants are releasing allergens, requring medication and/or extensive exposure therapies.
Abundance of life can be overwhelming and invasive in the form of road traffic full of boat trailers, pickup flag caravans, and grills and smokers billowing on residential development scales.
I can regulate my temperature in the cold, where there are barely any allergens that get me and everyone's holed up inside so I can be outside and in peace more often than not.
But my ancestors were bog people. If it isn't misty or foggy in the morning I am genetically obligated to be grouchy until ingesting heated caffiene or complaining about the english.
No bugs.
Snow.
Sun is still out but isn't a deadly laser.
Hot cocoa by a crackling fire.
If only.
Agree with the rest
It isn't even winter yet and we've had four good snows already. We were -19c yesterday morning. I'm in southwest Ohio. Barely anyone around here really believes in global warming outside of the Earth's natural cycles, because it certainly has not gotten hotter here. Yeah I understand global data vs local data but the lived experience is we're very often below average temperature. Even summer days at the water park, sometimes it's pretty chilly to be wet in a swimsuit. We're at the same latitude as Portugal.
Yeah good for you I guess. I am 23 years old and in my lifetime we went from having at least 50cm of snow each winter to barely getting any at all and if we get it it melts due to rain next day. I mean the local lake used to freeze for people go skate. They even drove cars on it 80 years ago. It has frozen once in the last 10-15 years. I barely remember it freezing when I was little.
People who live in hot places I assume
Dead silent moonlit landscapes are just incredible.
Dry is key, wet and cold winters are awful. Like -6C to -17C is perfect. -6C is practically t-shirt weather. Anything between-3C and 5C (27F-41F) is just misery.
Living somewhere that the snow stays powdery and it's -10C on average for 4 months of the winter is awesome!
I think this is a key distinction between the people who generally like one over the other. If you live somewhere where winter is wet and summer is dry, you probably prefer summer. And vice versa.
The other big thing that I never see anyone talk about is the wind. I think the wind is probably one of the most impactful things for a season. Hot summer with a cool breeze bringing cold air from over the ocean? Fantastic and refreshing. Snow on the ground and gusting 8-16 kmh? I don't care how sunny it is, that wind is cutting through every single layer you put on. I woke up the other day to a wind chill that brought the temp from -10°C to -17°C. That's 14°F to 1°F.
Watching the sun rise every morning is nice.
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Na winter can absolutely jog on. Give me my warm days and lots of sunlight.
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.
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.
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?
More surface area=more heat loss.
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.
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 treeair conditioningEDIT: 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
Texas weather sucks all year. It's so hot you'll die in an hour in the summer and the wind makes it cold as shit even in fall.
Today as a prime example of too cold out of nowhere (depending where you are, big state)
Well summer was pretty mild this year at least. Frickin weather roulette down here.
So hot in summer that it doesn’t drop below 80 even at night
Texas weather sucks in the summer. If you're too cold in a Texas winter you need to buy some actual cold gear.
❌Hot girl summer
✅Cold bitch winter
It all depends on where you live.
Fuck summer and winter, two sides of the same shitty extremes coin. Fall, and to a lesser extent spring, are where it's at.
Fall is the best. It beats spring because spring tends to have more/worse storms, at least in place I've lived.
God I love winter. Love to go snowshowing on the lake when it’s frozen. Can’t go hiking in the mud during spring or fall. Camping when it’s 95 sucks. Just relaxing outside for hours in the 20s is ideal. Winter is amazing.
I see what you did there
:) I definitely did it on purpose. Sadly, later viewers will have a harder time seeing it.
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.
With climate change they both last a week in average.
BULLSHIT! We get longer daylight, and the sweat is just a gentle reminder that you aren't in constant pain from temperatures below 60F. Also there are less snowbirds jamming the roadways.
That doesn’t happen until after 90f. I’m from Florida and I would love for the temps to stay in the 80’s during the summer!
Not in the slightest. I had a job for a while that occasionally used an open oven that got over 200F and it felt amazing to be in that space. That was in Florida summer.
You can always put on more layers. You can't remove skin.
Not with that attitude!
This answer is too common and very selfish. I wear long sleeves and jeans in Florida summer for protection. Layers are the most inconvenient thing ever! Like, the impracticality of it is rediculous. How about I tell you that you can always cling wrap blocks of ice to your body, you entitled asshole! Yeah, and you can plug your freezer suit into the wall to stay cool. How convenient does that sound?! You're probably a morning person, too.
That is getting close to how I feel about the cold. I learned about how people differently experience pain and mine feels cold. So cold weather just feels like pain and it makes me grumpier.
I'm a night owl who likes winter, how is that relevant?
I sympathize though. I think being in Florida is the culprit. It is much nicer when your outside isn't actively trying to fry you. The humidity makes me feel like a lobster being boiled alive.
converts 60F to Celsius 60F is genuinely the most comfortablr possible temp for me lol. Even a little too warm if it's sunny.
24C is about the coolest comfortable temperature for me.
I've lived in temps ranging from 112°F to -23°F. Anything 40°F-85°F is fine by me.
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.
ticks: it is too cold in the winter, gotta go (gtg).
*freezes*Fuck that, where I am winters are; very cold days. short, overcast, rain and windy af
Summer is superb; cool, sunny, longer days
When i liveed in the tropics, summer was sweat dripping balls and horrible.
Your wingers sound delightful, trade you for my California seasons where the sun is a deadly Lazer most of the damned time. Even when it's cold that bright fucker in the sky will burn your skin, though I guess I'm also exceptionally pale.
You haven't been south and it shows buddy.
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.....
I love summer, but this does kind of make sense. I live in Korea, where they have a long winter break (Christmas until March) from school. People here seem to love winter, which is usually absolutely frigid and miserable.
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.
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.
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.
“Hot take” - lol. Sorry, couldn’t help but giggle at the dad joke..
My wife works for the schools and still has summer off. I have two kids in high school and one in college. All summer off. I hate summer. I'm going snow camping the week after Christmas though. Without them.
Depends a lot on the climate. I hated summer in Hungary with 3 months of 30-39°C days, now in Scotland, where it barely goes over 20°C for a couple weeks / year, I cherish every sunny day.
Northern summers are all bangers, except the mosquitos and midges...
Depends on where you live. Summer in Minnesota is probably nice, no snow and lots of lakes to swim in. Summer in Perth is a life-threatening couple of months.
what it feels liek to come here as someone who likes summer...
(please, it is all in good fun, i understand how different people enjoy/suffer temperatures differently)
When you're cold, you can always put more clothing on.
When you're hot, you can only take so much clothing off.
technically there is an upper limit to how much clothing one can put on, even if that is the mass of the universe.
You'd collapse into a star well before that. And even before that, you'd be burnt up by molten sweaters. Though it's not as bad as it sounds because you'd be crushed long before the heat got too much to stay solid.
Especially if you live in a hot, and HUMID environment. Sweat doesn't cool you if it can't evaporate due to high humidity. You just turn into a sweaty hot mess and overheat.
Humidity is a killer, hot or cold. -5 c can feel worst than -20 c
i understand that, but personally, unles we are talking about >100F and >90% humidity, i don't need more than a small fan and cool water to feel fine
My argument is that summer is relatively terrible specifically in our current circumstances. For most of history, I would absolutely agree with you. But now we have all kinds of heaters and blankets and clothes designed with incredibly complicated materials to insulate us. There's like 62 million ways keep warm, like 3 ways to keep cold (air conditionerand, touch cold thing, or take off clothes) then factor in global warming and obesity rates rising. It's almost enough to forget that for most of history winter is when people starved and froze to death meanwhile summer was a time of wonderful abundance.
Sunbelt here:
I legitimately loathe any temperature <23°. At 20° I’m too uncomfortable to be outside without layers. I’d prefer to do nearly everything outside if feasible, and really enjoy nature. I also hate rain during the colder months.
I’m legitimately glad that people have options, but I think the population growth of the southwest shows where people are partial to the weather 😝
I upvoted this but holy Jesus. I'm stripping off at 18C and the scientifically proven melting point for shiny white people like me is 25C. Edit: it's very humid here in fairness.
If you don't mind me asking, where is it that temperature so regularly? Must be near the equator I'm guessing.
I’m in Tucson (1.5 hours south of Phoenix) where yesterday my car said it was 33° (unseasonably warm for this time of year). We're at 32°N latitude, same as Tel Aviv, but the hottest city at this latitude on the planet (other cities at this latitude are cooler overall because of oceanic/continental climatic influences). We usually get 3 weeks of “possible” <10° midday temps from Christmas to mid January, and every year at that time I’m swearing that I need to move to the Caribbean lmao. I’m also not “white”, so that might affect my sun and temperature perception 😆
Ah that's the dry heat. It's a different beast.
Modern air conditioning does a lot of the heavy lifting for that preference.
You could say that about anywhere on the southern North American continent
The US south was underpopulated until A/C. The north was where the population was located until A/C.
That’s what I said though
Or stupid people just tend to have more children just sayin
...is it common for people in the northern hemisphere to not get time off school during winter?
Often a week or two around Christmas time. When I was in school 30 years ago, we got nothing.
But summer vacation was 3 months long.
Kids here get a week off in October near Halloween then two weeks around Christmas.
They get two weeks around Easter which would be your equivalent I suppose from a seasonal perspective.
We only got christmas holidays
Fall is peak, we just hated it because it meant we were back to school. By far the best weather and plenty of holidays.
Agreed. Apple cider, pumpkin pie, warm enough to not need a light jacket during the day, then when the sun is down just a light jackal for the wind. Watching Over The Garden Wall and eating Halloween candy.
Gimme dat vitamin D
I love the D
Propaganda put out by big winter!
The cradle of humankind is generally though to be northern Africa.
We may have adapted to surviving in cold climates but that's not where our roots are.
Nordics have definitely evolved for cold weather. Most whites and Asians evolved white skin to help synthesize vitamin D from scarce sunlight. Africans evolved dark skin to avoid synthesizing too much vitamin D, which can be toxic.
You believe northern Africa always had the same climate?
9 grey months a year, will make you miss the summer, then you you get 3 weeks of it if you're lucky, and then back to the monotone grey, it's not about love, it's about my human need to see other colours
They all have their benefits and drawbacks. I only dislike mud season at the end of winter.
No hate for the mud season during fall? I can't decide which is worse but I'd rather have no snow than have to deal with rotten snow.
It's not nearly as bad as the spring thaw in my opinion. Frozen ground in the morning, wet mud in the afternoon then freezing into horrible little spikes again overnight. My time in construction when I was younger really sealed it for me.
I live on the Chesapeake Bay so I love Summer.
10ish years ago I would have said Summer is the best but Spring and Autumn are close contendente. With winters being only ok because of the snow.
Nowadays I still say summer is best but spring and autumn are gone (replaced by alternating weeks of summer and weeks of winter) and winter is just dark, wet and too cold to be enjoyable but not cold enough to have snow.
And also summers used to be like 30°C max if it was hot, maybe a little warmer, now if we get a week of summer that is 30°C max we consider it a cool summer because on average the max day temperature hangs at around 38~40°C.
I enjoy summer before it gets too hot. June is excellent. August is rough. Spring is best though
I'm not a fan of too much heat either, but honestly, where I live, it's not even that bad most summers. It's the darkness around christmas that's the worst. The 3 weeks before and the 3 weeks after specifically.
Spring and autumn are my favorites for sure, and spring is generally better because it rains less. There's something cleansing about that season.
September & October are my favorite months.
Winter is pretty good too.
Summer meh.
2025 has completely changed my outlook on the seasons, to be honest.
It's for the better too. In my quest to be the "retired tech worker turned farmer" while still having my engineering job, I spent a LOT of time outside this year doing construction and creating DIY equipment to care for my pets.
With that, I have started my natural evolution into the old man that complains about losing daylight. And since I've lost weight I don't like staying quite as cold as before.
So winter has moved way down the list for me. I think Spring has too, because of the wet and the rain.
I still don't like it hot, and I love my beautiful outdoor scenery, so I think Autumn still takes the crown but I am looking forward to the long summer days next year more than ever. I have shit to do, I have plants that will need the sun, and I even have some reptiles that like getting the real thing too.
Huh. Summer's my favorite. Our summers are wonderful where I live. In fact it's the only season I enjoy at all, which in itself is a bit of a bummer.
My favorite temp is around 15-18C. Sweater weather.
Cold sucks. But you don't need a lot of protection to be comfortable in 15C weather, and if you're too hot because you've been working or something, instant relief by just taking off a layer.
Summer is too hot. Winter always sucks.
I'd be overheating at 15C in any kind of layers that thick if I'm not doing nothing.
By "taking off a layer" I mean, you take off your sweater and walk around in your t-shirt....
You would overheat in 15C weather in a T-shirt?
In just a t-shirt? Probably not.
Depends on where you live. In the Pacific Northwest, summers used to be pretty mild. Still decent some years
I hated summers cause it was when I was isolated and emotionally neglected.
I like summer. I also don't have to exist outside during the hottest part of the day though.
I grew up in the tropics and currently reside in a fairly cold place.
I prefer European summers and tropical winters
I kinda like all weather, I'm a weather-appreciating generalist I guess so long as it doesn't stay the same for too long. But I definitely like light more than darkness, and god damn the nights get long in the winter. The serenity of a fresh snowfall is not worth three months with < 8 hours of daylight.
I guess it depends on where you live. Summer over here is 3 months of 25c sunny days, heavenly
That's winter where I live
I was homeschooled and lived in Alabama growing up. I didn't get summers off, and they were unbearably hot. I honestly kinda hated the summer. But as an adult? I fucking love summer.
I much prefer spring as a season. It's not overwhelmingly warm.
If it stayed light until 8pm in the winter I'm sure I would like winter better than I currently do
Hot take: seasons kind of suck. I don't like all the constant change. The extremes are much worse when you have the perspective of other seasons too. You can adapt and get used to most climates, but it's a pain in the ass when they keep changing. I lived in the desert for awhile and loved the consistency. So many of our activities and how we dress and what we eat change with the seasons. The consistency of an aseasonal climate really let's you get into a groove and not be so distracted by the weather.
I'm aware this is an unpopular opinion, but I encourage anyone that has an opportunity to try it for a year. I think it's especially grounding for adhd types.
Wait, what about Christmas? Didn’t they get that off?
You might be on to something.
I love hurricanes and yes it's the only time off you get in Florida. Could get up to 2 weeks if everything's fucked. It's great. So long as it isn't your stuff destroyed.
nobody I know likes summer tbh
(maybe this is an american joke, hehe)
I'm a summer person. But even I must admit that a hot summer with some snow now and then would be fabulous!
Summer here is rainy.... wet.... humid.... moist.... interspersed with very sunny, very hot days, and nature is blooming, it's wonderful. You essentially don't come out of hiding between 10 and 15 if you're white as I am. That's certainly a complication
This is why I like summer. I like winter, but I wouldn't mind summer lasting way longer.
https://youtu.be/DvR6-SQzqO8
You think they made summer a break from school, so that kids and teachers don't have to suffer working with that shit?
I think it had more to do with farming families wanting the kids at home to help with the work during the growing season and out of their faces during winter.