I much prefer spring as a season. It’s not overwhelmingly warm.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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).
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
where you get to take ridiculously hot saunas, then jump in the snow or lake,
Be careful. That behavior can cause a stroke.
You should write a book. That’s top tier descriptiveness.
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.
people who say they like [other season] are lying to themselves. It is objectively correct to like [poster’s favorite season]
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If it stayed light until 8pm in the winter I’m sure I would like winter better than I currently do
“Hot take” - lol. Sorry, couldn’t help but giggle at the dad joke…
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.
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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.
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 live in Australia, I fucking love summer.
Winter is absolute painful hell. Literally painful for me at times.
It all depends where you live
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.
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 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
Na winter can absolutely jog on. Give me my warm days and lots of sunlight.
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.
