I can relate to every single thing you said, and I love it! But summer has never come close to killing me, but winter has. Hell, I got a touch of hypothermia on a lonely creek in Florida, in July.
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I hate winter, but not because of the climate (we get a couple of days if snow at best), but because it's just constantly dark. It's incredibly depressing. It's already getting dark by 16:30 now.
And fuck DST! It makes the problem even worse 😩
Yeah, it was really noticeable when the clocks changed last weekend. Can't wait for the lighter evenings again!
Snow is great if you don't need to drive anywhere
You forgot one perk that I really like.
The snow is sound dampening, everything is just much quieter in winter (as an added benefit to there just being less noise generating things going on)
Yeah! I live in NYC and when it snows here it's so tranquil it's kinda surreal.
Yeah, I take walks outside so much more in the winter, it's Autism-friendly season. Lol. Well, at least those of us that are hypersensory, for the hyposensory folks, I suppose I could see them liking the opposite, as they tend to do.
Although snowmobiles and gas-powered snow tools are pretty popular around here, so I gotta take my walks at night still anyway. 2 stroke engines are the bane of a quiet contemplative stroll.
At least the snowmobile sounds are dampened by the snow a bit, unlike noisy mopeds and motorcycles in the summer!
Oh i hadn't thought about that, you're right. Which reminds me... snow as cold as it is, ironically makes for good insulation making the temperature slightly warmer on cold days as opposed to the same cold days if the ground had no snow.
Cold months are great. Summer is just unbearable.
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:D warm in the winter, too hot in the summer
At least in my experience, this does seem to be an unpopular opinion. One that I share.
70F without a thick layer of clouds might as well be the inside of an oven.
45F in spring is T-shirt weather, in fall it's light hoody weather. The difference is humidity.
The ideal outdoor temperature is between 0F and 25F. Subzero is acceptable down to -30F. At that point stay inside.
You can always put more clothes on, but you can only get so naked.
Snow is great, perhaps the single greatest ground covering.
It's easy to cool off in a proper winter. Just inhale deeply. It's also easy also to stay warm, just dress appropriately for the weather.
It's not hard to keep a house warm in the winter either. Just make sure it's properly insulated for the weather. You'll only need to run the heat a few times a week or in severely cold temperatures if it's built properly and not massively oversized for the number of people living in it.
My electricity more than doubles in the summer because AC is so horribly inefficient.
Summer is the single worst season. Fuck summer.
I agree completely. I sleep outside a lot in the winter and I despise temps in the 30s F (0 to 5C). There's nothing worse than near-freezing rain. It needs to be colder. But -40 is too cold. My house isn't well insulated though and I'm not in a position to fix that right now.
Unpopular opinion (largely discredited in anthropology circles): cold weather encourages resourceful behaviour and improves human cooperation. In climates where you can survive winter outdoors, homelessness is not as detrimental to continued existence. Three walls and no roof is fine in a slum in Florida, but harder to pull off in Minneapolis.
This societal coordination which is required to survive winter leads to more orderly and more socialist civilizations. Because hairless apes have no business being in that climate. So it is human ingenuity that is selected for -- and that includes development of systems of cooperation.
If I extrapolate, our space faring descendants will face much bigger hurdles, but ideally will develop even better systems to deal with it.
Bonus picture. Me doing arctic exploration.
Living in a place where winter used to mean lots of snow and regularly hitting below 0°F but now is mostly rain. Hearing the phrase "at least it isn't snow" on a 95°F day makes me want to punch them. Same for complaining about winter weather when it's so much more mild than it used to be. Fuck global warming and fuck everyone who's happy about its warmer weather.
I would agree if my area got much snow, but it's exclusively icy cold rain.
I love winter. Winter here goes down to 3°C at its lowest at night. Its not too cold. Meanwhile summers hit 50.
No more loud motorcycles on the streets. If you live next to a busy street u know what Im talking about