As long as I have a fan strong enough to redirect typhoons, I love summer. Fresh peaches and melon, beautiful sun, and time off. Winter’s also amazing, but only because my lamps can change colour temp to deal with the awful mornings and evenings. The transitional periods are just gray, drab crap.
I’m with you, OP. Give me winter all the time. I might have to move North if this keeps up.
Oh year. I’ve heard polar days are nice.
Summer was only better than winter when I was in school. It was better because there was no school for 3 whole months in the summer.
I spend 8-13 hours in a cold room for work. Last thing I want to do is leave to even colder weather. Even wearing 3-5 layers of clothing doesn’t help.
Just move to the half of the USA that’s currently experiencing drought conditions and then at least you don’t have to worry much about mosquitos. That’s one point for climate change!
My area has been in a drought since last year, it’s the 7th driest January-May since 1895. We still have very humid weather and mosquitoes.
mosquitos have adapted to lay eggs in small pools of water, cups, debris like tires also can harbor them. plus aedis ageypti have hardened eggs that can survive dessicaiton somewhat.
Yeah I can wear my flowy showy shirts and pants during the summer.
But I can’t wear my turtlenecks, scarves, or snugly jackets. Not to mention that sitting under a nice hearty blanket sipping cocoa on a crisp evening.
The summer I can chill in the shade of trees sipping iced tea though which is also hella nice.
Both have perks and draw backs.
It’s 92F in my house at 9% humidity. I have my ceiling fan, and an iced coffee. I’m good. I moved to the desert because I hate humidity. I still sweat here, but it’s not nearly as bad as California in the summer. I think I might literally die in Florida in the summer, I’ve never been to Florida and I never want to go, for many reasons, including the humidity.
Winter here isn’t too bad, mostly it’s the short days and overcast that gets me. Windy cold days are the worst.
Six months out of the year are great, six months not as great, but still better weather here than anywhere I can afford to live, so I’ll stay here.
92° in your house? I hope you’re okay and can find a way to cool it down, that sounds dangerous :( I should be grateful that my house only gets to 80° if it’s almost 100° outside. I feel guilty running my air conditioning, but I just want to feel comfortable and be able to do stuff.
I full on get vomitty if I get too hot. Give me winter. Give me cold.
Yeah I am the same exact way and have also been feeling very weird & sick lately (it was so bad I thought I had an actual flu or virus) but it’s definitely because I am getting too hot. I lose my appetite. I can’t think as straight. I get irritated. I start feeling lethargic but restless, and I feel lightheaded and wobbly. I only began to feel hungry and felt normal again when it’s nighttime and cooler out. That’s what clued me in to the fact that the heat was causing those issues the whole time.
This gets me worried/panicked especially with climate change making it even more unbearable. I don’t want to continue feeling miserable for half the year, every single year, for the remainder of my life…
I like winter. If it’s cold I can just put on warm clothes. In the summer I can just bake.
ITT:
Y’all a bunch a weather bitches.
It’s just the same rage bait posts all around the year. In winter they will post a stickman freezing outside with icicles in his nose and 7 layers of clothes with text “winter lovers be like”
Autumn/Fall gets shits about rain and moody weather. Spring gets shit about allergies. One can’t please everybody…
Honestly, I’m with you and I was gonna come on here and say something similar but my buddy is an electrician who works on new buildings and he deals with so goddamn much heat in those buildings that he can hardly function when he’s not working. I’m all “go outside, drink electrolytes and lots of water, go swimming” but for some people this reality is hell.
Humans are adaptable. We live at the poles. We live in the deserts. I’ve enjoyed time in the Arctic and the Sahara.
I get what you’re saying, but people also spend most of their lives in a 68-72 F / 19-21 C degree bubble. That trains the body only to accept homeostasis. Of course, three hours at 110 F one rooftop can be rough, but it’s also a lot worse of that’s 40 degrees away from what you spend 99% of your time at.
Less AC. Be outside more. Cold showers and mid-day workouts.
Oh i hate summmer from the bottom of my heart. Already just thebrightness hurts and makes it harder to see anything, but the main curse is the heat. By the evening I’m just exhausted and head is stuffed. Of course the night isn’t much better, it’s not enough time to cool down and then sleep is disrupted and shallow.
So I’m perpetually sweating, tired, grumpy, slower and weaker.
Dark winter nights are the best, exactly that time when i cant see the sun at all, screw that fucker. No brightness, sleep is much deeper, always full of energy and it’s just so easy to generate bodyheat that the cold becomes nearly irrelevant.
I miss being able to regulate my body temperature by sticking out a foot from the blanket
I fucking hate summer and this is why.
BuT iT’s FrEeZiNg In WiNtEr. Not anymore because you need to fly to Asia for your vacations Bernadette! Also I can later clothes. Can’t take off skin.
Can’t take off skin.
Skill issue
Skin issue
it is freezing in winter! that’s why it’s better! try ice-skating on a lake in june!
It was around 50-60° for all of last winter for me. I live somewhere that people generally consider a cold place, too. I don’t want winter to be gone. I felt very sad that I couldn’t enjoy lots of the things that make winter so nice in the first place :(
that’s sad. we had a very warm winter too, it only dropped down to -30°C once or twice as compared to the usual one or two weeks.
dam, thats warm. we live on the west coast but, our temp goes down to 4C. i also get chillblains on my toes when it gets that cold.
mf complains about heat but can’t even be arsed to deglove ffs
My fingers and toes and nose would always stay cold in the winter, even if the rest of my body was so layered up that I was sweating. It’s a bit odd wearing a ski mask indoors and wearing super thick gloves indoors is not always feasible either depending on what you’re doing (eating, etc.). I compromised a bit with fingerless gloves, and it helped a bit, but not as much as I would have liked. And yeah eating foods with your hands just wasn’t doable that way.
Idk. I’m one of those people that is always too cold. I live in a hot climate now and it sucks major major balls for riding a motorcycle (just learned recently), BUT I prefer this environment in every other circumstance.
try it the other way ? layer up the fingers, toes and nose and nude up everywhere else ?
does it lose color, or becomes white? theres a phenenom called raynauds(often associated with certain conditions), i get chillbians when it gets near freezing.
I live in a hot climate now and it sucks major major balls for riding a motorcycle
I only go touring in spring and fall for this reason. I use it when the weather’s nice enough year round for errands that are too far for bicycle/public transit and don’t require the car, but even riding 20ish minutes to the supermarket sucks in 30+ degree heat with 80+% humidity.
Well you can, but you probably shouldn’t.
Can’t put on jackets I don’t have. Didn’t wear the right jacket? Fucking die, says mother nature. Fine, says you.
FUUUUCK winter.
Why get a good nights rest when you can instead be cooked alive, day after day?
slow roasted salted man-nuts.
the extremes get worse…
Summer
The Good:
- longer days, lots of time after work for outdoor activities
- relax in the sun
- fresh fruit
- more cultural activities
- swim in the see
The Bad:
- hot
Winter
The Good:
- not hot
The Bad:
- more rain
- drive to/from work when it’s still dark
- depressing
lots of time after work for outdoor activities
Outdoor activities get cancelled more and more because of the heat this year. People not showing up at events because they don’t like a heat stroke. It’s a bit too much summer.
I used to hike or cycle after work in summer. Now I do it less but not because of the heat. In the evening you can still do those things. In winter it get dark to fast.
More rain in winter? Are you European or Pacific Northwest?
Speaking as sometime from Central Europe, rain in winter is very much accurate. Typical Christmas weather is light rain at two degrees above freezing. When it does go below freezing in winter it’s usually relatively damp air with no precipitation so there’s no fun snow but a cold that becomes painful within seconds if you don’t have much body fat.
Even a full week of 43 °C wasn’t quite enough to make me like summer less than winter.
Southern Spain.
