Speak for yourself. Love and miss that cooler, predictable weather. Sick of this shit where I send my kids to school in 30 degree weather and pick them up in 70-80 degree weather. ALSO...IT. FUCKEN. WIMDY. And to top it off stank ass Bradford pears spaffing into the breeze through spring and summer. Oh and lots of tornados every year. Oklahoma weather is bullshit.
I actually moved here from Tulsa so I know very well what you mean lol. Left Tulsa 2 years ago after 15 years. I miss the thunderstorms but literally nothing else lol.
A buddy of mine helped his sister move from AZ to Socal, he comes from a family of city-planner types, so he's constantly going on about roadway designs. He told me that while my area has better constructed roads, and our drivers are terrible, that Socal had worse roads, but great drivers (road discipline wise, at least). Probably sample bias but neat trivia.
Missouri here. Most of this area is valid in making the weather statement. Because we're right where weather fronts like to meet up at to fight, we will literally get times when the high is 35f one day and then 70f the next. I think last year we had a day that went from 78f to 19f over the course of like half a day.
A couple years ago I was back in Florida visiting my parents and I forgot how weird shit was there sometimes. About 75+ degrees outside and out of nowhere sudden hail/downpour. Hail of all different sized, one piece was like half a soft ball. Went on for maybe 60 seconds. Was long enough for me to open the door, acknowledge I could no longer see shit, and then pick up that giant piece of ice and the storm cloud passed. A bit over 2-3" of rain I emptied out of the rain gauge.
Everywhere has weird weather moments, but that one will always stand out to me.
I worked for a dollar branded store they would monitor the companies Reddit for employees that were being saying something bad.
They’d look thru the account for pictures of the store layout or anything identifiable. Like the weather on certain days were specifically helpful yes.
In more ways than people realize. I’ve got so many heartbreaking stories.
My record for most drugs found in the bathroom was six baggies of crystal. One of my jobs as GM+ was “he’s been in the bathroom for a really long time… and there’s no noise in there”
“Alright I get the narcan from my car (we weren’t allowed to keep it in the building but sometimes you need narcan)”
Another horrible story is the time I spent all day stomping on baby Jesus. Products have to be destroyed so not peasants can take them out of the trash. Surprisingly a lot of people didn’t want to stomp on Jesus Christmas ornaments. So I went around to all the store to stomp on Jesus for them.
Actually the worst part of all is people died at stores. Nothing that was our fault but yeah, I saw people die and didn’t even list that as one of the “sad things” it was just a tuesday
Sorry I thought it was obvious if you think about it.
It was dollar tree. I worked the transition from family dollar-dollar tree- dollar tree plus.
What I can say good about dollar tree is I went from part time cashier on Christmas for extra money to running stores in 6 months. I opened 7 stores, lead the stocking teams, helped out at dozens of stores and was “person you call” when you don’t know who to call. DMs called me. On the other hand i had a mental breakdown (litterly I was hospitalized for close to a month then I moved home with my mother that’s how damaging the work was under that one specific district manager) so dollar tree is a great place to move up but it’s like… Harvey Weinstein…. Yeah he can make you a star but at a cost.
Also on a lighter note, I don’t believe in Nebraska. It’s a myth. I’ve never met a person from Nebraska and neither has anyone one else. I’ve never seen a Nebraskan license plate. Is it Nebraskan? Nebraskanight? Nebraskanought?
Do you guys have austronoughts or something? Or is it just corn?
The next town over from me is having a dispute over repaint the water tower that currently features someone you’ve never heard of and his (music?) career.
Anyway I suspect Nebraska news is that all the time.
To be clear I’ll take my stereotype card. I’m from Texas. Yes I had horses but not everyone from Texas did… yes I rode it to school for special events but it wasn’t a day to day a thing. We had a car.
What does Nebraska have? Elephants? My god do you guy have like mammoths or something. I bet you have a good hockey team. I don’t watch sports but it sounds like a Nebraska thing “Nebraska mammoths”
I know sports teams are normally named after a city but I can’t think of a single city in Nebraska. Nebraska city? My good is the state capital Nebraska city and it has an amazing zoo and a board walk are that’s kinda dangerous after sundown?
I’ve got bad news for you about capitalism in general.
Dollar tree isn’t specifically bad. In fact I recommend working there if you need a lot of experience really quickly. It’s “easy “ in that way. You’ll move up faster than you would at Walmart.
But yeah most stores regardless of brand there is ALOT more going on than you see. Like someone dropping dead in line 10 min before you walked in. If the store manager is running the register at any store something very bad happend s/happening
Sure, but I was talking about general complaints. Things like, "the drivers here are so bad", "the winters are too cold and the summers are too hot", "the government sure is poorly run", "the yellow sports car parked out in front of the fast food place I work looks so stupid", "I hate my boss and his stupid name, like seriously, who is named Methuselah Honeysuckle", and "If they don't give me a raise this time, I'm going to start a union, I'm serious, working a Chipotle sucks".
You know, the kind of stuff that could never be traced back to me.
Drove through VA once, and we were amazed at how good the drivers were. Normal speeds, being predictable instead of trying to be "polite", not sitting in the passing lane for miles, it was crazy.
The only big problem with drivers in VA, imo, is that while they're good they're competitive within the bounds of good. And moreso within/near city or big town limits. Really this just means that if you turn on your indicator to show that you're trying to change lanes, many VA drivers will speed up to pass you to allow you to merge behind them rather than in front of them. Comparatively not a big deal, but I didn't even realize this was a thing until I lived in NC and regularly experienced people happily making way for me to merge when I indicated.
"If you don't like the weather in [insert location] wait five minutes"
I used to naively believe this was actually unique to Newfoundland. Recently learned that it's a saying everywhere and everyone acts like it's unique to where they live
I have heard this almost exclusively for Florida and not any of the surrounding states. Or really I have never heard it about any other states on the Eastern seaboard.
Nah, Florida's gone from bright, clear, and sunny to "holy fuck, did we forget about a hurricane hitting land?" In the time it's taken me to go to the bathroom.
I was gonna say the same. I'm middle east-coast, and one day will be 85f and the next can be below freezing, and alternate each day for a week after, and that's before precipitation/wind.
yeah it's crazy, like where I am it can be like 60-70 during the day, but then drop 30-40 degrees when the sun goes down and usually doesn't warm back up until the next day
In Colorado those changes can happen same day within a few hours. No need for multiple days. It will be 14f in the morning, snowing, then by lunch it’s all melted and 60-70 then by dinner it’s incredibly windy and raining.
There's a big difference between drivers who only drive in rural areas and drivers who drive in crowded rush hour traffic in big cities. And, different big cities have their own challenges. As a visitor, trying to navigate LA's freeway hell was awful, and the drivers who were used to it were not at all accommodating. But, I think LA drivers would find driving in Boston and its Masshole drivers to be hell, because it's all about squeezing down narrow streets that come from a time before automobiles.
I used to be a trucker. Drive everything east of the Mississippi.
Indiana has the dumbest drivers. Never have I been to a state with a lower average i.q. Idk, it might be an environmental thing, like in the water, or too many generations of cousin fucking. But something ain't right there. They make poor choices and have a lack of self preservation.
New england the rudest, but they're at least predictable. When they do something rude and reckless its always in pursuit of a goal. E.g. making the next exit, turn, lane ect.
The south has the most lackadaisical drivers. They just don't give a fuck. They're doing what they're doing and that's that.
The Midwest has the nicest most considerate drivers, and as a result traffic jams are far fewer, everything just flows smoother.
I find that ironic because Massachusetts drivers and New Jersey drives are the worst drivers I've ever seen. On the East Coast, it's almost guaranteed that the car overtaking you doing 30 over the speed limit is going to be from one of those two states.
Never been to the east coast (that's a goal for sure though), but I totally get that. It's why I like driving the areas surrounding LA. People are more decisive while driving than other states up the coast. The California driver is more likely to be an asshole, yes, but one who knows what's happening around them, makes a decision, and stick to it. My home state drives (ha) me insane with the amount of people who just seem totally checked out, either fiddling around on a cell phone or some other bullshit that shouldn't be done while driving.
Went to Texas once. Made it to Paris, was there for a couple minutes, decided to leave after almost being involved in a fatal car crash right in front of me
Living in Seattle there weren't like extreme weather swings but there are days where you get to see several types of weather softly cycle through. Sometimes in the winter I'd get snow and rain and sun and fog all in a single day, or days where I look in one direction and it's rain and can't see the sky and look the other direction and it's blue skies and sun. Seattle has such stellar rainbows because of this
Arkansas doesn't require driver's ed so I think we do have the market cornered on bad drivers. I see folks slam on their brakes on the interstate, reverse back to their exit, the interstates themselves were obviously designed by folks who don't understand how it works, etc. I've lived in several states and never seen anything quite like it.
I think what people don't realize is that roads are mostly designed by politicians and transit engineers just check to make sure the whole thing doesn't collapse or sink when a car drives over it.
There are standards but 9/10 times the standards are written by the local council member whose background is in like real estate law or is the son of the local auto dealership owner.
Nah, when I say this I'm referring to when my temperature goes from (in fahrenheit) -5, to almost 50, to 10 degrees in only 4 days. Got rain one day and snow the next.
I've lived in quite a few places and I still think of Maryland drivers as the worst I've encountered. Istanbul drivers are the most ballsy/skilled/terrifying/helpful.
I was coming here to say this exact thing... I've never seen such an aggressively clueless population of drivers as those in Maryland. They will savagely cut you off in the left lane to go the speed limit or less.
I do know one New Mexico town that had a day with the record high and record low in the same year at least at one point. Probably has a new record high by now.
Few years ago I moved to Oregon. Because of the Willamette valley and mountains, it never gets to hot or cold though out the year. Like a perfect year round average.
In Houston, some days there isn't a cloud in the sky, then it rains like 2 inches over 30 minutes and then it goes back to clear skies and the water evaporates making the air sticky. Goes from perfect to drenched to perfect to a totally different kind of drenched in an hour's time. Also the drivers all lose their minds when the weather changes. So all the time... I guess.
The all time record high temp and all time record low temp for my area are set on the same day about ten years ago. I'd say the weather here is a little wild
I think the most extreme and consistent bipolar weather I’ve seen was in Nevada where during the night it’d get down to 30°F (-1°C) and then almost as soon as the sun came up the frost would evaporate as daytime temperatures rose to 113°F (45°C)
In terms of chaos, I’d say Utah takes the cake. Not just because it can go from snowing to 90°F weather and back repeatedly in a week, but because during those chaotic weeks you can drive less than an hour in any direction and find completely different weather.
If violence in the chaos is desired, the southern Midwest probably wins. Tornadoes and golf ball sized hail will fuck up your day and then everything is unbearably sunny again. The east is a close second since it gets wrecked by hurricanes occasionally, but less frequently than tornadoes hit the midwest
I doubt Californians think their state is bipolar. Same with other temperate states.
The fucking Russian drivers are the worst. I saw plenty of them in Masuren and Ermland (Warmia) before Poland closed the border with the shitbag Muscovites from the illegally occupied Kaliningrad.
Any northern country is disqualified as they know how to drive in snow. The worst drivers have to be a place that doesn't get regular snow.
I've had people say Vietnam is the worst, but everyone rides slow, are riding from a very young age, and are prepared for literally anything to happen on the road at any minute. The issue isn't skill, it's that they're on hardmode, riding overloaded crap bikes with crap rubber while simultaneously texting, smoking, and drinking. They perform much better than I could in the same situation.
A day? In New England we say if you don't like the weather, wait 15 minutes, it'll change. And Boston drivers aren't bad, just aggressive. New Jersey drivers are bad.
In New England we say if you don’t like the weather, wait 15 minutes, it’ll change.
Which New England are you in? When it's rainy/snowy, that weather sticks around for days. Generally speaking, most places with high humidity generally have more consistent weather. It's areas with low humidity (and high elevation) where you get really big weather and temperature swings.
This use of bipolar has very little to do with the experience of most bipolar people. Bipolar rapid cycling is defined as four episodes per year, much closer to the change of the seasons than the change of weather from day to day.
Capricious is my favorite adjective, rather than trying to ascribe mental disorders to global systems. If you’re asking regarding a specific human, you should talk to a psychiatrist — if it is disruptive to their life, it may be a sign of borderline personality disorder.
appreciated, but it's been a long time. my curiosity was not just to get a label for what they had, but also a reference for my own mental health should I notice any similarities in behavior.
mental health is an ocean and I'm but a single drop of water. sometimes it's nice to know if my drop is freshwater or saltwater though.
SoCal here. Nope, weather is consistently great. Also, Arizona's drivers are much worse.
I was going to say everywhere but San Diego. I would describe the weather there as room temperature.
NorCal here. Weather here isn't great but it's very predictable.
Speak for yourself. Love and miss that cooler, predictable weather. Sick of this shit where I send my kids to school in 30 degree weather and pick them up in 70-80 degree weather. ALSO...IT. FUCKEN. WIMDY. And to top it off stank ass Bradford pears spaffing into the breeze through spring and summer. Oh and lots of tornados every year. Oklahoma weather is bullshit.
I actually moved here from Tulsa so I know very well what you mean lol. Left Tulsa 2 years ago after 15 years. I miss the thunderstorms but literally nothing else lol.
LOL perfect. The thunderstorms were the only thing I missed when I lived in other places too. Love a good thunderstorm.
A buddy of mine helped his sister move from AZ to Socal, he comes from a family of city-planner types, so he's constantly going on about roadway designs. He told me that while my area has better constructed roads, and our drivers are terrible, that Socal had worse roads, but great drivers (road discipline wise, at least). Probably sample bias but neat trivia.
The main thing I noticed about Socal drivers is frequent horn use.
When your bumper to bumper at 70-80mph you gotta alert them quick.
Washington has the worst drivers on the west coast.
Oregon has the best.
CA and AZ are both pretty average.
Arizona is not on the West Coast
We could be connected to the Gulf of California before too long.
Missouri here. Most of this area is valid in making the weather statement. Because we're right where weather fronts like to meet up at to fight, we will literally get times when the high is 35f one day and then 70f the next. I think last year we had a day that went from 78f to 19f over the course of like half a day.
"SoCal weather is so bipolar like one moment it could be hot and sunny and 10 minute drive later it could be cold and cloudy" /s
Nobody in California ever said that shit.
Having rain 3 days a year isn't bipolar weather
Yeah but weather over there fluctuates a lot between on fire and not on fire
A couple years ago I was back in Florida visiting my parents and I forgot how weird shit was there sometimes. About 75+ degrees outside and out of nowhere sudden hail/downpour. Hail of all different sized, one piece was like half a soft ball. Went on for maybe 60 seconds. Was long enough for me to open the door, acknowledge I could no longer see shit, and then pick up that giant piece of ice and the storm cloud passed. A bit over 2-3" of rain I emptied out of the rain gauge.
Everywhere has weird weather moments, but that one will always stand out to me.
You must be Southern California. Northern it rains all the time.
Seriously Colorado though:
Yea Colorado is peak "four seasons in one day" territory sometimes
Rest of the world panicking for Colorado for a second
Well, guess it's nice to know I'm not giving away my location when I complain.
I worked for a dollar branded store they would monitor the companies Reddit for employees that were being saying something bad.
They’d look thru the account for pictures of the store layout or anything identifiable. Like the weather on certain days were specifically helpful yes.
Are you willing to name and shame? Which company was it?
Honestly? Dollar stores are all pretty bad.
In more ways than people realize. I’ve got so many heartbreaking stories.
My record for most drugs found in the bathroom was six baggies of crystal. One of my jobs as GM+ was “he’s been in the bathroom for a really long time… and there’s no noise in there”
“Alright I get the narcan from my car (we weren’t allowed to keep it in the building but sometimes you need narcan)”
Another horrible story is the time I spent all day stomping on baby Jesus. Products have to be destroyed so not peasants can take them out of the trash. Surprisingly a lot of people didn’t want to stomp on Jesus Christmas ornaments. So I went around to all the store to stomp on Jesus for them.
I figure if some place is selling Jesus merch to amass wealth, it's not intended as a holy item and shouldn't be treated as one. Stomp away. Lol
That said though, the company demanding damaging product before chucking it is just shit tier behavior.
Actually the worst part of all is people died at stores. Nothing that was our fault but yeah, I saw people die and didn’t even list that as one of the “sad things” it was just a tuesday
I've only been in one. The food I saw meant for humans, I wouldn't feed to my pets. Never again
Sorry I thought it was obvious if you think about it.
It was dollar tree. I worked the transition from family dollar-dollar tree- dollar tree plus.
What I can say good about dollar tree is I went from part time cashier on Christmas for extra money to running stores in 6 months. I opened 7 stores, lead the stocking teams, helped out at dozens of stores and was “person you call” when you don’t know who to call. DMs called me. On the other hand i had a mental breakdown (litterly I was hospitalized for close to a month then I moved home with my mother that’s how damaging the work was under that one specific district manager) so dollar tree is a great place to move up but it’s like… Harvey Weinstein…. Yeah he can make you a star but at a cost.
Lol sorry I have ptsd lol
Tell dollar tree I will never shop at a dollar. Tree.
Also on a lighter note, I don’t believe in Nebraska. It’s a myth. I’ve never met a person from Nebraska and neither has anyone one else. I’ve never seen a Nebraskan license plate. Is it Nebraskan? Nebraskanight? Nebraskanought?
Do you guys have austronoughts or something? Or is it just corn?
The next town over from me is having a dispute over repaint the water tower that currently features someone you’ve never heard of and his (music?) career.
Anyway I suspect Nebraska news is that all the time.
To be clear I’ll take my stereotype card. I’m from Texas. Yes I had horses but not everyone from Texas did… yes I rode it to school for special events but it wasn’t a day to day a thing. We had a car.
What does Nebraska have? Elephants? My god do you guy have like mammoths or something. I bet you have a good hockey team. I don’t watch sports but it sounds like a Nebraska thing “Nebraska mammoths”
I know sports teams are normally named after a city but I can’t think of a single city in Nebraska. Nebraska city? My good is the state capital Nebraska city and it has an amazing zoo and a board walk are that’s kinda dangerous after sundown?
Nebraska isn’t real
I’ve got bad news for you about capitalism in general.
Dollar tree isn’t specifically bad. In fact I recommend working there if you need a lot of experience really quickly. It’s “easy “ in that way. You’ll move up faster than you would at Walmart.
But yeah most stores regardless of brand there is ALOT more going on than you see. Like someone dropping dead in line 10 min before you walked in. If the store manager is running the register at any store something very bad happend s/happening
Sure, but I was talking about general complaints. Things like, "the drivers here are so bad", "the winters are too cold and the summers are too hot", "the government sure is poorly run", "the yellow sports car parked out in front of the fast food place I work looks so stupid", "I hate my boss and his stupid name, like seriously, who is named Methuselah Honeysuckle", and "If they don't give me a raise this time, I'm going to start a union, I'm serious, working a Chipotle sucks".
You know, the kind of stuff that could never be traced back to me.
I totally get that and thought about it. People reading it might think differently and I wanted to warn them. Not specifically you.
Funny story though: my ex wife lived in the same small town as me and she told me “you’re employees were talking shit about you”
“Well yeah… I’m the boss. We all talk shit about our bosses “
“Do you want to know what they said “
“Nope.‘if it’s important they’ll talk me directly “
No Californian would say that. The weather is stable and nice 9 months of the year and cloudy and nice the sun the other 3.
Unless it's a little bit too hot and too dry
Hey, the drivers in my state are fine. It's the drivers in the neighboring state that are all reckless idiots who don't know to drive.
Do you live in PA DE VA or WVA by chance
VA 😉
Drove through VA once, and we were amazed at how good the drivers were. Normal speeds, being predictable instead of trying to be "polite", not sitting in the passing lane for miles, it was crazy.
The only big problem with drivers in VA, imo, is that while they're good they're competitive within the bounds of good. And moreso within/near city or big town limits. Really this just means that if you turn on your indicator to show that you're trying to change lanes, many VA drivers will speed up to pass you to allow you to merge behind them rather than in front of them. Comparatively not a big deal, but I didn't even realize this was a thing until I lived in NC and regularly experienced people happily making way for me to merge when I indicated.
I knew it , I'm in the state that causes all the havoc!
Every day I start the car I gotta slap my face and look in the mirror and pump myself up
If it makes you feel better, I think you guys are a better state in almost every other way but driving 😂
edit: Genuinely y'all might have the best state flag in the nation, and that's coming from a Virginian and our flag is pretty fucking great
Best flag on earth 😁
Worst drivers on earth ...most aggressive anyway
Nah drivers in my state don't know how to drive either
"If you don't like the weather in [insert location] wait five minutes"
I used to naively believe this was actually unique to Newfoundland. Recently learned that it's a saying everywhere and everyone acts like it's unique to where they live
It's not, though. People from LA will say the exact opposite.
That saying pops up anywhere where there's a large range of weather. Which is most places, but not everywhere.
What do people in LA say then? "Well if you don't like the weather... Get used to it?"
Its really hard to not like the weather in LA
I've heard "If you want snow, drive to it," which is pretty related.
I have heard this almost exclusively for Florida and not any of the surrounding states. Or really I have never heard it about any other states on the Eastern seaboard.
Nah, Florida's gone from bright, clear, and sunny to "holy fuck, did we forget about a hurricane hitting land?" In the time it's taken me to go to the bathroom.
Not use the bathroom. Just getting there.
SE Nebraska, 5-6 pm every spring and summer. Sunny in the east. Dark wall cloud to the west
When I lived in Daytona Beach you could count on the 3PM rainstorm.
I don't think I've ever heard this in Ontario
Down by the lake you would.
People say it abt New England, Great Lakes, the South, the Midwest. Literally everywhere I've lived, if you don't like the weather... wait.
In central Indiana it was 70 with tornados and then 20 and snowing two day later.
I was gonna say the same. I'm middle east-coast, and one day will be 85f and the next can be below freezing, and alternate each day for a week after, and that's before precipitation/wind.
Thank you for proving OP's point.
yeah it's crazy, like where I am it can be like 60-70 during the day, but then drop 30-40 degrees when the sun goes down and usually doesn't warm back up until the next day
In Colorado those changes can happen same day within a few hours. No need for multiple days. It will be 14f in the morning, snowing, then by lunch it’s all melted and 60-70 then by dinner it’s incredibly windy and raining.
1st Feburary, 2026 it was nearly as cold in Miami Florida (35 F [1.7 C]) as it was in Chicago Illinois (30 F [-1.1 C])
There's a big difference between drivers who only drive in rural areas and drivers who drive in crowded rush hour traffic in big cities. And, different big cities have their own challenges. As a visitor, trying to navigate LA's freeway hell was awful, and the drivers who were used to it were not at all accommodating. But, I think LA drivers would find driving in Boston and its Masshole drivers to be hell, because it's all about squeezing down narrow streets that come from a time before automobiles.
I used to be a trucker. Drive everything east of the Mississippi.
Indiana has the dumbest drivers. Never have I been to a state with a lower average i.q. Idk, it might be an environmental thing, like in the water, or too many generations of cousin fucking. But something ain't right there. They make poor choices and have a lack of self preservation.
New england the rudest, but they're at least predictable. When they do something rude and reckless its always in pursuit of a goal. E.g. making the next exit, turn, lane ect.
The south has the most lackadaisical drivers. They just don't give a fuck. They're doing what they're doing and that's that.
The Midwest has the nicest most considerate drivers, and as a result traffic jams are far fewer, everything just flows smoother.
California I believe has the statistically worst drivers. New York id say has the most insane but skillful enough to somehow not die drivers.
https://www.moneygeek.com/resources/states-with-the-worst-drivers/
New Mexico has the worse drivers, Texas is fifth. California seems to just be average.
I find that ironic because Massachusetts drivers and New Jersey drives are the worst drivers I've ever seen. On the East Coast, it's almost guaranteed that the car overtaking you doing 30 over the speed limit is going to be from one of those two states.
Call me weird but I enjoy driving in Manhattan. People drive at a reasonable pace.
Don't be silly, no one drives in manhattan, there's too much traffic
Never been to the east coast (that's a goal for sure though), but I totally get that. It's why I like driving the areas surrounding LA. People are more decisive while driving than other states up the coast. The California driver is more likely to be an asshole, yes, but one who knows what's happening around them, makes a decision, and stick to it. My home state drives (ha) me insane with the amount of people who just seem totally checked out, either fiddling around on a cell phone or some other bullshit that shouldn't be done while driving.
Exactly. The real pro move is driving in Montreal.
I witnessed a right turn from the left lane in utah. Except the street was 4 lanes wide.
Texas drivers are the worst drivers in Kansas
Went to Texas once. Made it to Paris, was there for a couple minutes, decided to leave after almost being involved in a fatal car crash right in front of me
Living at altitude, this is actually true. Very low atmospheric buffering. Temperature swings of 40 degrees within a few hours.
Yeah in Colorado it can be 60 degrees and sunny and snowing in the same day
No one in the southwest say this lol
In monsoon season it's absolutely 'the forecast cannot help you. It might rain here, it might rain 50 yards away'
But they would be correct about having the worst drivers
'don't like the weather, wait an hour.', every state i've been to.
You've never been to so cal, we always just say isn't the weather perfect here.
not as an adult
Yeah well in [insert location] we have two seasons, winter and construction.
Construction isn't a season where I'm at, it's a constant. Our seasons are hot, wildfire, mudslide, and earthquake.
I'm guessing wherever you live doesn't have lots of snow and frozen ground.
Closest we get to snow is the ash from wildfires, womp womp. Nearby mountains get snow though, so that's nice.
Florida is hot and construction
In my state, it was 70° last week; now it is 28°.
Week? Yesterday my daughter and I rode bikes to her school in 30° and rode home in 73°. Choosing her outfits is very difficult this week.
Thermal underwear under jeggings, no-show socks, Uggs, and a wool tube top. Problem solved!
Would you happen to be somewhere near east Tennessee/north Carolina? Same exact thing happened here
I'm pretty close to Bowling Green, KY. Did you see the guy that got caught having sex with the dead deer on the side of the road? One county over :/
Are the people in your city also famous for crashing cars into buildings at an alarming rate?
Nobody here is famous. And the mayor's name is Billy-Bob.
Here in New England we don't talk about rain and shine, we talk about how yesterday was 60f and today it's 17f with getting 3ft of snow.
Just looked it up and apparently my state actually has a remarkably low rate of traffic deaths, so apparently we're actually pretty good drivers
The real issue is being temperate enough to freeze, but not cold enough regularly to have good road maintenance or drivers experienced with ice/snow.
PNW here, nope, it's just a light rain, sometimes some sun, but that's seasonal. Rarely there's a storm.
The Midwest on the other hand, nah it typically gives you fair warning when it's about to do something crazy
Living in Seattle there weren't like extreme weather swings but there are days where you get to see several types of weather softly cycle through. Sometimes in the winter I'd get snow and rain and sun and fog all in a single day, or days where I look in one direction and it's rain and can't see the sky and look the other direction and it's blue skies and sun. Seattle has such stellar rainbows because of this
All the drivers in my state are the worst, and all the drivers from other states are the worst too.
It is a scientific fact that Tennessee has the worst drivers. Not my state, btw.
Florida literally has a monsoon season where it goes from sunny to pouring to sunny around the same time every day for like 4 months.
If desperately needs to enter the monsoon season as well
There is an exceptional drought occurring
You got at least a month before irregular rains, and 2 months before the wet season actually starts.
What are the estuaryies looking like?
Arkansas doesn't require driver's ed so I think we do have the market cornered on bad drivers. I see folks slam on their brakes on the interstate, reverse back to their exit, the interstates themselves were obviously designed by folks who don't understand how it works, etc. I've lived in several states and never seen anything quite like it.
I think what people don't realize is that roads are mostly designed by politicians and transit engineers just check to make sure the whole thing doesn't collapse or sink when a car drives over it.
There are standards but 9/10 times the standards are written by the local council member whose background is in like real estate law or is the son of the local auto dealership owner.
They do that shit in Florida often enough as well. Mostly the same reason. People who don't, or legally should not, have a license.
Nah, when I say this I'm referring to when my temperature goes from (in fahrenheit) -5, to almost 50, to 10 degrees in only 4 days. Got rain one day and snow the next.
Shit, in my state we regularly have days with lows in the 20s and highs in the 70-80s.
Its raining in Oregon. We'll see the sun in July... Hopefully.
We've had a rather fucky winter on the west side so far, admittedly.
We've streaky.... The rains finally came, but they were gone for so long that I was worrying a bit about fire seasons. Still am honestly.
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It's raining in Oregon
Everyone in the midatlantic agrees delaware drivers are the worst.
That's a crazy way to spell Maryland, famous for its awful driving.
not a real state
I've lived in quite a few places and I still think of Maryland drivers as the worst I've encountered. Istanbul drivers are the most ballsy/skilled/terrifying/helpful.
I was coming here to say this exact thing... I've never seen such an aggressively clueless population of drivers as those in Maryland. They will savagely cut you off in the left lane to go the speed limit or less.
NJ legitimately has some of the worst, most aggressive drivers
New Mexico - uhh, no? It's just sunny...
I do know one New Mexico town that had a day with the record high and record low in the same year at least at one point. Probably has a new record high by now.
Few years ago I moved to Oregon. Because of the Willamette valley and mountains, it never gets to hot or cold though out the year. Like a perfect year round average.
I thought my state was the worst, but turns out Miami takes the cake. Grand Theft Auto was basically accurate.
In Houston, some days there isn't a cloud in the sky, then it rains like 2 inches over 30 minutes and then it goes back to clear skies and the water evaporates making the air sticky. Goes from perfect to drenched to perfect to a totally different kind of drenched in an hour's time. Also the drivers all lose their minds when the weather changes. So all the time... I guess.
The all time record high temp and all time record low temp for my area are set on the same day about ten years ago. I'd say the weather here is a little wild
I think the most extreme and consistent bipolar weather I’ve seen was in Nevada where during the night it’d get down to 30°F (-1°C) and then almost as soon as the sun came up the frost would evaporate as daytime temperatures rose to 113°F (45°C)
In terms of chaos, I’d say Utah takes the cake. Not just because it can go from snowing to 90°F weather and back repeatedly in a week, but because during those chaotic weeks you can drive less than an hour in any direction and find completely different weather.
If violence in the chaos is desired, the southern Midwest probably wins. Tornadoes and golf ball sized hail will fuck up your day and then everything is unbearably sunny again. The east is a close second since it gets wrecked by hurricanes occasionally, but less frequently than tornadoes hit the midwest
I doubt Californians think their state is bipolar. Same with other temperate states.
Nah. The state I used to live in I wouldn't say either of those things.
Arkansas has the worst drivers. I've lived in 6 states and driven in many others.
You missed Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, and South Dakota
Laughs in Canadian.
In my state not all the drivers are the worst. Just those from 22, 8, 14counties. That's Crete, hastings, grand island
It was 70 degrees Friday, then the temperature plummeted and it started snowing last night in East Tennessee ☹️
Worst drivers are in Italy, everybody knows that.
I thought it was France
The fucking Russian drivers are the worst. I saw plenty of them in Masuren and Ermland (Warmia) before Poland closed the border with the shitbag Muscovites from the illegally occupied Kaliningrad.
Any northern country is disqualified as they know how to drive in snow. The worst drivers have to be a place that doesn't get regular snow.
I've had people say Vietnam is the worst, but everyone rides slow, are riding from a very young age, and are prepared for literally anything to happen on the road at any minute. The issue isn't skill, it's that they're on hardmode, riding overloaded crap bikes with crap rubber while simultaneously texting, smoking, and drinking. They perform much better than I could in the same situation.
Nope, it's always cloudy. Or like some valleys are cloudy and some are sunny. But they are predictable.
A day? In New England we say if you don't like the weather, wait 15 minutes, it'll change. And Boston drivers aren't bad, just aggressive. New Jersey drivers are bad.
NJ won't even let them pump gas.
Worcester on the other hand, has shit drivers. Every time I've been through there I've seen people do dumb shit on the road.
Pennsylvania drivers take the cake. NJ is a mishmash.
Which New England are you in? When it's rainy/snowy, that weather sticks around for days. Generally speaking, most places with high humidity generally have more consistent weather. It's areas with low humidity (and high elevation) where you get really big weather and temperature swings.
I grew up in Boston, I've lived in Phoenix for the last 25 years... I think you have that backwards, at least that's been my experience.
This use of bipolar has very little to do with the experience of most bipolar people. Bipolar rapid cycling is defined as four episodes per year, much closer to the change of the seasons than the change of weather from day to day.
What can I say, people love minimizing mental health issues and turning them into jokes.
what's term for someone who has waaayyy more than four per year? like...four per week.
Capricious is my favorite adjective, rather than trying to ascribe mental disorders to global systems. If you’re asking regarding a specific human, you should talk to a psychiatrist — if it is disruptive to their life, it may be a sign of borderline personality disorder.
won't matter much now since they're dead 🤷
just curious though.
My condolences for your loss.
appreciated, but it's been a long time. my curiosity was not just to get a label for what they had, but also a reference for my own mental health should I notice any similarities in behavior.
mental health is an ocean and I'm but a single drop of water. sometimes it's nice to know if my drop is freshwater or saltwater though.