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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fuck the Winter!
I don’t mind melting skin and vampiric, malaria bringing insects as long as I can enjoy long summer evenings, cool drinks, the summerwind rustling in trees while laying in their shadows, eating icecream and going for a swim.
All this is monumentally better than the long darkness, scraping ice from your cars windscreen at 06:00 am and seeing nothing but bare trees for months.
Winter is fine for a month or so, then it should be time again for spring.
I suffer physically during summer and mentally during winter. I 'd love for a long, extended spring time (because I have no allergies ruining it for me), but anthropogenic climate change is 86ing spring and autumn atm.
My condolences, that sucks!
And yes spring and autumn both are awesome. Nothing better than a clear, crisp autumn day.
Let me tell you about these magical lands called “equatorial mountain” climates.
See, you go to a place that’s hot year round, then go 1-2km directly upwards, and you get 365 days of spring weather, only variation being how much precipitation you get.
Bogota, Medellin, Da Lat, Kunming, all amazing weather year round. They also tend to have tons of edible mushrooms.
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There is a really jarring sensation when you go from wet, cold, and cloudy to hot, dry, and sunny by taking a 5 minute bike ride down into a valley, like you just rode into another world.
Do you have a list of such more cities?
No, sorry. There’s listicle articles you can google, or if there’s an equatorial region with mountains, any city or town above a certain altitude is going to have little variation. Weatherspark.com can help investigate.
Thank you
I know about mountain climates. However, I grew up close to an ocean coast, I love the salty smell of the sea, mountains are nice for a vacation but bearing down in the long run. Also Kunming is in China (fuck the CCP) and due to me being pretty much not able to work I am still best where I am (for now at least. Too many rich asses working on dismantling welfare here).
Also Kunming is in China (fuck the CCP)
We are discussing the weather. Be normal.
Be normal.
No
Expressing disdain towards autocratic regimes in a short side note is perfectly normal.
True, fuck the USSA, Shitrael and Germany
I mean, Medellin is way more dangerous than Kunming. Why didn’t you mention that one too?
Why is everyone slandering my favorite cities? Medellin has neighborhoods served by mass transit cable cars!
Because Medellin was not given as an example.
No, no its not. Its extremely weird and offputting to immediately declare how much you hate 1 particular government, especially in the context of someone telling you a positive thing about various places they’ve been to. Maybe touch grass.
It was a side note giving a reason why the example you gave is not an option for me. Had you brought up a place in Russia, Saudi Arabia or the USA I’d have made a similar comment.
Plus again it is just a side note. You are the one who wants to focus on that topic now. You could have continued conversing on amy other part of my response.
Hard disagree. In winter we have cozy warm clothing, crisp dry air to breathe, beautiful blankets of snow, houses lit up with decorative lights at night, and most importantly significantly less bugs! I love hiking and backpacking in winter. I would much rather sleep outside when it’s 0 C/32 F than when it’s 24 C/75 F+ at night. Once it starts getting warm here the humidity creeps up and you’re just sticky for months. Sitting outside on my porch on winter mornings bundled up in my coat and scarf having my morning coffee is one of my favorite things. If I do this in summer I’m eaten by mosquitoes within minutes.
I’m sure whether people like summer or winter more is heavily influenced by where they live, but here summer is hot, humid, full of mosquitoes and ticks, and just generally all around miserable. Late June through early September is the worst part of the year and it’s not even close for me.
I’m sure whether people like summer or winter more is heavily influenced by where they live
Yeah, agreed. And there’s nothing worse then humid and hot. I still prefer a normal continental summer to a normal continental winter though.
The only rational take here
Winter and snow are fine from a few weeks before Christmas up through New Year’s. After that I’m ready to get back to summer.
Where I live (mid-Atlantic US region), snow accumulation is rare before December. I’ve had maybe one “white Christmas” in my life - lots of rainy ones, though.
January is when the snow starts to really hit, with February having peak winter storms. Before that, it’s just like autumn, except without the colorful leaves.
I honestly think I probably eat more ice cream in winter…
Nothing wrong there. Being an adult should have at least some perks, eating ice cream whenever you want is one of them.
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.
I’ll always take winter over summer if I had to choose between the two. I live in the northern US where it gets down to -10 degrees F regularly in the winter.
ITT:
Y’all a bunch a weather bitches.
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.
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…
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.
No, it’s frozen here and raining and yucky.
Please send all your heats, we’ll take them.
It’s 42C here today, cooler than yesterday.
Will that be cash or check? Wait, come back
It is tough at 42C. It is tougher at -35C. Gimme that 42!
I will cry in cost of living but not in weather! (Berkeley, California)
Nope, it isn’t. At least not for me. I am more team “shoveling snow in a t-shirt”.
glances at my A/C and window screens
- glances at my electric bill *
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.
This week was nice but we had one last week and one’s forecast for this coming week, though I don’t think it’s going to be as bad as the one we got first week of July.
Glad I got my PV system installed before the first one hit. A/C just feels cooler when it’s free 😎
Heatwaves notwithstanding, still prefer summer. I hate shoveling snow, I hate being cold, I hate that people deal with slick roads every year but still can’t learn to drive (or NOT drive) on them, etc. My only complaints about summer are the humidity and mosquitos.
I will pick summer over winter any day. In summer there are a few days a year where it’s too hot do anything and the rest of the time I can go outside and enjoy my hobbies instead of sitting indoors all day.
In winter it’s cold non stop for months at a time. The moment I leave the house I start to suffer. And don’t say I need to wear more clothes. There’s a limit to how many clothes you can reasonably put on and when you’re skinny with low blood pressure, it’s just miserable.
