The only thing I hate about this post is associating prudeness to feminism.
Many, many women are fine with showing off their bodies, on the beach or otherwise. And yes, I agree with you on the idea it’s fine for people to like that image. Feminism would just be about giving women control of the decision to show themselves off, not about claiming “sexy images = Male-gaze-powered, and therefore toxic”
I dont know who this guy is behind me that is bending me right now but I would like to sincerely thank them . They probably read Druid@lemmy.zip's comment and they just tryna help me out.... wonderfull....
Wait.... theyre doing a bit more than just bending me over-Hnrgnth
I strongly agree. I like the variety of the four seasons where I live, including winter, but summer has become my favorite. It's when I get to work with growing things outside, there's lots of festivals, people are more willing to go out and do things. But I wouldn't feel the same way if I lived in Phoenix, Arizona for instance.
I've lived in half a dozen cities on multiple continents and have never lived somewhere where summer was the worst season. Even living in a place where winter temps meant overnight lows of 5 and highs of 15, summer was still much better. I've even spent time in tropical locations where the seasons are "rainy" and "not rainy", so it was basically summer all the time, and I liked that a lot better than even a mild winter.
I've had the exact opposite experience. Summer has been the worst experience no matter where I have visited or lived. Heat is fucking miserable to exist in, humid or dry. Give me snow and overcast days over the summer sun.
ya summer in new orleans is some of the most humid in north america Ive heard because of its high water plane there and , well, all the water around new orleans too lol. Thats probably why they have so many hurricanes.
NBut I actually dont care how humid or unhumid it is. I just like it being hot. I dont care if I move to the Amazon or Congoloses rainforests or Sahara Desert when I get older but Ill be glad that Im done with winters here forever lol.
Except opposite here. Hate the heat. I want to move somewhere that summers only last a month at most and the majority of the year is a winter wonderland
Im SERIOISLY curious as to how the homeless people and addicts in Siberia , Alaska , Nordic countries , and northern uk survive.... ESPECIALLY when winter rolls around....
I think that finland made a change to their laws to allow all adults who request a small apartment get one promptly.
I grew up in the north, I live in the South now, and I relish every hot, sweaty, extra long summer. The severe depression that winter would cause becomes a motivator to bake like an oven later in life.
I grew up in the north, and never adapted after moving to the south. I would bicycle every day and still look like someone poured a bucket of water on me just being outside for 20 minutes walking. It has taught me to value the feeling of being a little too cold.
This winter I was in the north again, and was reasonably comfortable in -20C, but not nearly as comfortable as the indigenous people who can walk around without gloves and still use a phone without any issue.
You adapt to some extent, but I think everyone is built different at a metabolic level, something to do with the way blood circulates in your capillaries or something.
Also, you basically can't go outside. Sure, you can go from a heated building to a heated vehicle then into a different heated building. Or, when it isn't too cold you can do certain sports outside. But, even going for a walk means putting on a huge number of layers, and then trudging through snow which slows you down, trips you up, and gives you very little traction.
Not to mention that never being able to open a window means no nature sounds for months on end. The cold and snow means no sight of living nature (other than pine trees) for months.
It's also extremely difficult and dangerous to bike (at least here) so you either need to own a car, spend a lot on taxis / lyft, or spend nearly as long as it would take to walk and take public transit.
If I lived somewhere where winter lasted 1-2 months I might enjoy it. But, where I live it's 5+ months, and I fucking hate it.
Also archaeologival evidence confirmed that humans did 'some' hibernation during the winter months....
It was too dangerous and uncomfortable to just go out and about during the winter cause you could freeze to death, slip on ice and get injured, since visibility is decreased you are more vulnerable to other humans wjo wanted to steal from you or do you in AND animals too, you could starve to death since there was fewer plants to pick from and fewer animals to hunt. People in neolithic eras didnt really hibernate completrly like bears but rsther entered a state of 'tupor' where they did FAAAR less during the winter months until it cleared up in late spring. 'Why put yourself at risk and be uncomfortable too?' is probably what theyre thinking.
We cant do a siimilar thing today? Im not saying nobody goes to work during those months but it I feel we would be happier overall if it is accepted that people go to work and go to outings faaar less during the winter months. Im pretty sure in some superarctic parts of Alaska and Siberia that this is already done. I havent read of it being done there but Id find it hard to believe they dont already....
A pair of socks, with a second good pair of wollen socks help. But you just gotta make yourself ok with being cold. It's really not so bad if you keep moving.
thata why you should always attempt to eat a MASSIVE bulking meal before goong out in the winter , or even whenever its cold too to be honest. ALl those extra calories get burned as you move around and keep you warm. You and the people youre going with need to find some way to get some warmness inside you.
Drinking coffee? Add lard
Eating cereal in milk ? Lard!
Eating grits? lard
Drinking water? Believe it or not, lard!
Licking her out? .... Lard?
Extra calories can go a long way in making things warmer. 😋
Summer holiday: its probably to hot for school.
Winter holiday: its probably too snowy to get to school safely.
Easter holiday: go pretend to care about religion instead of school.
Autumn holiday: go help your family get ready for winter instead of school.
You saw snow? I’m in my 40s in Southern California, and I can confidently say that I’ve only witnessed snowfall a handful of times before it completely melted away. Throw a snowball for me?
I can put 15 layers on in winter and still be cold. My toes and face are the worst. If I try to protect my nose, I get snot everywhere and it's gross. If I don't, I feel like my face will freeze off my body. Too hot sucks as well. No winning for me except for spring maybe.
Yeah, cold all the time, barely see the sun because I'm at work the entire time it's out. Can't do much of anything outside, roads are frequently shit, can't get together as much with my friends because none of our homes are big enough, think about offing myself constantly because of the above factors, winter blows.
No it's an issue because I fucking hate being cold. I'd still hate it if the government was taking care of my needs. It's not like I'm living on the streets, I'm living in a house with HVAC, I still fucking hate it.
Oh, well that wasn't said. If you could be with your friends, got to see the sun, the roads were easy and third spaces managed, you wouldn't notice how miserable the outside is for you. Also you could just move somewhere warmer instead of thinking about offing yourself for 1/3 of a year.
Yeah I've asked my mom, it was cold here in the winter in the soviet era too. And I believe a lot of people had these things called "jobs", except they were even less voluntary than they are now, so being at work for the entirety of the sunny daytime period of 10 AM to 3 PM hasn't exactly been invented with capitalism.
The one thing capitalism has changed is it gathered everyone into the cities because there's a lot less support of small countryside schools and such. So instead of walking 5 KM to bus stop to take the bus to school, kids can now take a city bus that stops closer to their home and comes every 30 minutes at most.
There's a bunch of problems you could solve by abolishing capitalism, but weather ain't one of them.
People that don't have jobs today lose their housing and starve to death. You think there's a level below that?
And no, what caused that was mechanization of farming.
Now, thanks to capitalism, we're dealing with heatwaves beyond predictions and snowstorms that out freeze historic data, so I wouldn't say that capitalism isn't impacting the weather. Also, before it, people had the ability to take breaks from work, which doesn't really exist today.
My hands feel like they're being crushed by boulders, and face feels like needle face x1000 in the cold. The peak of summer may be miserable but I can still function without extreme pain. And before anybody mentions better gloves or a face covering, it doesn't help. I've tried every magical glove in existence. And heated ones make me sweat after 5-10 minutes and I'm arguably in a worse position, same with full face coverings. FUCK WINTER.
I hate winter. Switching all my winter wardrobe to wool has made it at least less sweaty under all the layers. Seems like every winter thing is made of some synthetic fiber that acts like wearing a plastic bag when you sweat. Wool is the way.
I don't mind being hot but I hate humidity. It's 7am and the temperature is 67 with a "feels like" temperature of 77. And there is no breeze. There is never any breeze here. I fucking hate it
Real talk! I grew up on the equator and moved to somewhere it snows on occasion. All the mfers saying "I can only get so naked" haven't experienced the cold.
All the mfers saying "I can only get so naked" haven't experienced the cold.
I grew up (and still live) in a part of Canada where it regularly gets below -40°C in the winter, and... no. I 100% will say stuff like "I can't take off any more clothes."
Winter is fine, I can always add another layer. Summer sucks now, it didn't get this hot nearly as often in the past, and I mostly hate summer now.
It's hotter than the other seasons, and it's hotter than it used to be.
I don't like the hot.
I prefer the cold, and my comment was saying I prefer the cold, specifically because I can't handle the hot well.
I was saying it's very silly to claim something along the lines of "The only reason people think they prefer the cold season is because they haven't experienced real cold."
I've experienced the cold. I prefer it.
I still see no contradiction, but maybe I'm just dense?
Edit: Minor structural change, less ambiguous wording.
Spring is my favourite season. When you get the first warm day after a depressing winter and the new leaves are growing and the cherry blossoms are in bloom.
We got summer in spring this year. In fact I think we got summer in winter (February) this year too.
Almost no bugs now, until we get a good bit of rain. No bugs to speak of for a month here. Or longer. I am leaving my door open with no insect intrusions.
Also, where I am, early spring might not have many parasitic insects, but there are explosions of ticks, wood tick types, they don't generally carry disease but still. After it dries out in the summer there are like none now.
Plus spring has tons of cold snaps here. We get leaves later than moscow even though they are way north.
That sounds nice. Where I am there are lots of mosquitos, flies, bees and wasps from late spring until we get a good cold snap. So there's usually a couple weeks where it's warm enough to have the door and windows open with no worries for those pests.
Summer has been pretty brutal this year, just so ungodly humid. Fortunately a dehumidifier costs a lot less to run than air conditioning.
And fall is ok temp wise, and the smells and colors are nice, but all the work of raking leaves and shit sucks big time. Especially when you have trees that don’t drop until the very tail of fall, after the brutal cold has started.
The good thing about my part of London is all the trees have been cut down. So we don't have wildlife anymore, but at least we don't have to rake leaves /s
Ok summers are bad now but man there was something special about walking outside on a sunny day with some of your friends and no plans. Even as an adult, no plans and good weather is a recipe for a good time.
Also we have kinda do seasons here, right now it's "wet", meaning in the highlands it tends to be drizzly and clouds more often, and you get 1-2 15 minute showers, and in the low lands, it's sunny all day, and you get absolutely dumped on for 15-30 minutes in the late afternoon and sometimes in the morning.
I didnt actuallt think about the fact that its cooler in the mountains even at the equator so I was always curious as to why large numbers of people near the equator chose to live im such places. I thought they mainly did it cause up in the mountains the view is prettier.
But the heat of the equator gets mellowed out a bit by the heightened level into the atmosphere... so....
It's p nice being able to wear a jacket, there's areas like this all over the Highlands. The regions north of Hanoi is like this too, Sa Pa (gives ski resort town vibes, was just some poor ethnic minority villages 20 years ago, now it has a ton of investment and Vietnamese moved in from all over the country), Ha Giang (was the poorest area, now a lot of tourists go there, the cops there suck), Cao Bang (nearly as poor, didn't get as many tourists, but the people are way more chill, better hiking IMO), but Da Lat is a bit more charming.
Many areas in Yunnan, China, incl Kunming, a city of 10m have similar climate, and great food if you like mushrooms. Medellin in Colombia is also pretty stable and an amazing place to live, but a little warmer.
As someone who hates the cold, gonna have to disagree on it being a bad season. As much as I hate the bees/wasps/mosquitoes, I hate the Devil's Dandruff ( snow ) and the ice that follows with it more.
I can handle the higher heat, but struggle a lot more with the cold.
Personally, I'm over-insulated (fat), naturally run hot and sweaty even besides that, and am from a Nordic country so I suffer in anything over 20°C (68F).
Except when cycling outdoors, then I PREFER it hot, easily tolerating over 30C (86F) as long as I have plenty of water, sugar, and electrolytes 😁
Gotcha, but I still have to disagree. As a hot, sweaty person like the OC, getting enough potassium (or even sodium at times) for cycling in hot weather through diet alone would require massive quantities of food. The amount of sweating that can happen when one doesn't have the physique for long-distance running is nuts!
Fun fact: when cycling, I usually do at least 60km, sometimes 100 or above and I tend to already start to sweat profusely 5 minutes into any kind of workout.
Also, since I'm very heavy, I'm slow in spite of putting around 180-220 watts to the pedals throughout, so that's many hours and many liters of water, salt, and other minerals expelled with nothing coming in except for water, a couple bananas or three, and a few electrolyte tabs in one of the two water bottles I bring and frequently refill.
I guarantee you that, no matter what the "average" person of average weight with average amounts of perspiration doing an average to long duration workout needs, I DO see a significant benefit from the electrolytes compared to when I had nothing but water and bananas for the 4-8 hour rides.
Well 60 km is a very long ways. 60 * 2/3= 120/3=40 miles. At 7 mph, a slow pace for a bicycle, that is almost 6 hours. Even at 15 mph that is still two and a half ish hours.
So maybe you need electrolytes.
Yet I did 10 -20 miles jogging with 2k feet elevation gain like 5 days a week or so for years, year round, and didn't need anything other than water.
With the elevation gain, it really slows down the jogging, a jog is very slow up hills, slower than a walk on level ground, so I would be out for hours as well, (although I would stop halfway and stretch and do crunches and such.)
I liked summer back when it was the only season that was tolerable to be outside in as a kid living in the Northeast. Now it's the only season where I live that's intolerable to be outside in so I'm all good on it.
I didn't change. Fucking summer changed. There's a South Pacific hurricane season now. Everyone's talking about climate change like it's a distant threat. The climate has already changed. I whine about it very little because most localities have it way worse than we do in southern California.
People say its a 'distant threat' cause the IPCC has confirmed tjat for the NEXT 200 YEARS greenhouse gases will have notable negative effect on most of humanity, ESPECIALLY those who live near the equator and they say we wont hit apocalytic levels of 'bad' until the next 50 or so years so....
I HATE the feeling of cold on my skin. Even just a little bit.
100 degrees farenheit? Bring it. I'll take it over being even a little cold.
The heat means I can hang out naked. It means I can jump in the river. I means I can go camping. It means I can do anything but sit inside and freeze my ass off all winter in the darkness.
Currently camping in Scotland with temperatures ranging 7-20°c over the 24h cycle. It's fantastic. We die when we do it in southern Europe summer. The problem is the price you pay in winter for those mild summers...
I don't mind the cold, but I do mind the super short days and endless grey/wet. It's similar where we live but a bit less so. I'm wondering why that previous comment got me down votes?..
Yeah endless wet can get a bit depressing after a while. Mixed feelings on the short days as there are fun things to do at night too. Like sitting around a fire has a different vibe at night.
Here's three months or so where it's so stupidly hot you can't even sleep properly at night, and if you want to go outside you have to smother yourself in goo repeatedly because the sky will kill you. Also there are millions of what are essentially flying dirty syringes who's only purpose is to steal your blood that are seeking you out constantly. And not only do they steal your blood, the place where they stole it from will turn red and itch like crazy for no discernible purpose other than fuck you presumably. You can sort of keep these away by smothering yourself in a second type of goo that's probably poison of some sort.
Good thing we invented housing so we can avoid this right? It would be, except that as soon as it starts everybody seems determined to spend every second of it outside, and becomes fixated on making everyone else be outside too. There also seems to be some connection with sunshine and everyone wanting to be as loud as humanly possible.
I genuinely wish I could just hibernate like a bear through summers lol, as soon as June 1st hits just peace out until September.
You know what else sucks? beaches. By most individual metrics they are a shitshow, but when you add all these ngatives together in peoples minds, they end up with a positive impression somehow. Do I want to go sit in sand in full sun, consume sandy food and lukewarm drinks, with limited access to normal amenities, listening to other peoples dipshit music, closely packed together with pasty bloated whale like humans without clothes? No I dont.
There are ways to make beach time enjoyable. 1) Remember it's a rare place we're legally allowed to lay around half naked in public & just loiter doing nothing, and it's normal & expected behavior. 2) There's water nearby to cool off & play. 3) Bring things to keep yourself comfortable: blankets towels chairs shade music food beverages whatever. 4) Don't be a pasty bloated whale-like human. Being fit & healthy makes for a good time everywhere you go, 24/7/365.
Dude, you need to go to a nice beach by a nice hotel. They have chairs set-up for you with umbrellas and someone will walk by and take your food and drink order and your food won't have sand and the drinks will be cold and you can just walk into the hotel for any amenities and you'll be with people who know better than to play music at the beach.
I live near one, never had a problem with being packed in or other peoples music because I just walk along the beach to find a clear area. Its also a gravel beach so no sand.
Insulated water bottles exist. Tbh I don't often bring food with me. Wtf kind of amenities are you expecting. Do you complain about nature not having free WiFi too?
I have always hated the whole “it’s summer you must come outside and do things with us right now” thing. I don’t get why you don’t spend time outside all year round. Why is it important now that it’s intolerably hot and bright?
Note that I’m perfectly fine being in hot weather and will happily move around and do my normal thing. I just don’t understand wanting to specifically go into it and hang out or do activities.
Why not go personally inspect puffin habitats and let me know where they are?
Because it's easier to read Wikipedia than going to the nearest puffin place (the North Atlantic Ocean) from the non-baltic peninsula with hardly any rock on which I live 😄
That translation makes sense - Mediterranean climates (like Greece has) don't have to deal with humid summers. It's easier to like hot weather when your sweat evaporates.
In places with hot, humid summers, sweat just piles up until you're a shiny, dripping, salty mess. And you still feel hot.
It also makes sense if "sunshine" is considered "good weather." Mediterranean climates have their wet season in winter, so summers are the dry season, with clear skies and little rain. It makes sense in Greece, but other places get regular thunderstorms in summer, occasional tropical storms/hurricanes, or season-long monsoons that bring torrential rain inland.
It does suck, though, because for the past 15ish years we've had relatively mild summers (meaning no solid weeks of over 100F), so people brush off climate change because, "it was hotter when I was younger."
I wish it were fall vacation, and normalized for even adults (around the world, not just as a job benefit for some but as a fact of life) to take at least a month off somewhere between late August and the end of October. That's peak time to go outside and enjoy the changing weather, perfect temperature for a light jacket, enjoy the scenery with all the trees changing colors, etc -- the middle of summer's just too fucking hot, now. You're either boiling alive in the sun or it's pissing rain, and no in-between. It'd probably do wonders for the average person's mental health, and air quality/the environment, too, if everyone just took a month off around the same time each year and it was just a thing you were expected to have.
Buuuuut line must go up and we've got pumpkin spice lattes to sell, so.
Big autumn head myself! It's just so fucking cozy.
I have a big lake here and everyone is just walking around it in circles all day long because Autumn is just so cool.
The falling leaves are my kind of cherry blossoms, very short lived but so beautiful.
I don't how anybody would prefer any other season. Like whats is wrong with you?!
Everyones talking about how great flowers in spring smell, but have you smelled autumn?!
Im just a bit sad it took me 24 years to realize, if not I would have cherished them alot more.
It is no use though to dwell in past though, looking forward to lots of really cozy autumns!!
typical autumn HATERS smh always so serious and stuck up. dates are made up anyways. when the leaves are falling I am happy :) that's really all there is to it.
My dad has worked in the same white collar job since he graduated highschool and he doesn't get paid anything super great or have a pension or anything, but he has like 5 weeks of vacation a year. Ever since I was a little kid he's always taken 2 weeks off every fall and just spent it puttering around in the yard, going for walks, and enjoying the weather.
Outside of TV shows, people don’t congregate right around the grill the whole time. Also, the heat of the grill stays outside. When it’s hot out, using the oven or the stove inside heats the house up quite a lot, and it’s really hard to cool it back down in the evening, so when it’s hot is when we’re most likely to grill.
Aye, SOMETIMES you have to watch-dog your food on the grill especially if youre in scotland and youre dealing with girl scouts that are about 8 stories tall and are a crustacean from the Palezoic Era
Just remember to grill $3.50 alongside your food and to always watch it. Dont end up like me or my cousin's family on that sad , sad summer day.... 🥺🫂
Hard disagree. In summer plants are doing a lot of cool things as are the insects and all that activity invites many interactions with larger animals also. Whereas in the winter almost everything closes shop and goes dormant which makes invasive ne’er-do-wells like Youngia japonica and Lamium amplexicaule more prominent.
I live in a rather xeric sandhills environment with blazing sun and this year has had more drought than typical, so indeed a good number of my less well adapted or more poorly positioned plants have been crisping up. Even so, summer is a season of fruiting and growth for many. Ex. partridge pea barely germinates at the end of spring. It was July-early August for it to blossom gloriously, mid-August for the cloudless sulphur caterpillars to appear en masses to devour those blooms and leaves, and at present the caterpillars are undergoing metamorphosis while the partridge pea bereft of blooms now pushes out the eponymous pea pods. Beautyberries have only just now turned their delightful purple color, the black-eyed susans grew in the spring but did not flower until the summer. I can’t take a step anywhere without the grasshoppers fleeing and despite the dry conditions there are tree frogs taking shelter in the shadows of my house’s siding and toads singing, anoles basking in the force of the sun.
Interestingly one of the plants that looks happier is rhubarb. At least the one I planted a few months ago is. I think its size and deep roots help it store more water and get it from deeper soil. So it manages pretty well with watering once a week.
Tree kale also seems to be OK with the lack of water. But it has been eaten by wildlife instead. I had given up on it but after seeing some of them still alive despite not being watered in over a month and the leaves all being eaten way constantly, I decided to try and see if it can be helped. Got netting for it recently and it does look like it is starting to recover and grow some leaves. Probably give it a bit longer and if it does well I might make a more sturdy frame for the netting with a few canes.
Egyptian walking onions might be able to manage but I only got them recently so they haven't really been tested in my area. Pretty sure they would be fine for a week though. Prefer to have things I don't need to water in the week as well as on the weekend.
I hate the cold. Winter needs regular sauna at or over 100° to be tolerable. Summer at 25-35° is totally acceptable, as long as overnight it does drop off. Some of these heat waves, ouf.
Completely disagree. Even if your working and don't have "summers off" like you used too. Summer time weekends heading to the lake, going outdoors for a hike or a picnic. Just generally having the sunshine on you is still far far far better than a winter world that becomes black and white for a few months.
If summer wasn't better than winter in pretty much every way, S.A.D. (seasonal affective disorder) would be most common in summer instead of winter.
Summer is the worst time for hiking and picnics. It's blisteringly fucking hot out and makes the hike magnitudes more exhausting and miserable being drenched in sweat. Fall is the best time for that when it's actually cool but not yet freezing.
And personally I prefer overcast days versus bright-as-fuck sunny days where I'm constantly squinting cause it's so damn bright out, plus the heat it brings makes it that much worse.
Winter bears summer in almost every way for me. That black and white winter wonderland is the best.
we fortunately never get any in Glasgow 🙏 Though I went to Loch Lomond when it was sunny a few weeks ago, and did my hike in record time bc whenever I wanted to sit down to rest a bit, some blood-sucking flies started circling around me 😅
I like summers as in - long warm sunny days where I can hangout in a t shirt and shorts and do fun outdoor activities for a few months.
I don't like summers as in - If I step outside I'm soaked in sweat immediately and run the air conditioning nonstop to still be kind of warm inside. Where the only enjoyable time was 2 weeks of spring like weather and 2 weeks of fall like weather between brutal winters and summers (I'm exaggerating a little).
This is kinda regional perhaps. Winter here is like 6 hours of daytime at its worst, but most days it's overcast so you really get 5-6 hours of real sunshine a week. It's depressing as fuck. And oftentimes the snow doesn't really last, it melts and everything is just muddy to boot.
Spring is when both nature and people (we're part of nature after all) start to come alive. Summer is fucking wild. It doesn't go dark around summer solstice. Like the sun technically sets for like 5-6 hours, but it's never truly dark for a few weeks before and after summer solstice. It just... energizes you if you're a night owl to start with.
Yes it gets hot, but the truly hot weather is just heat waves. Surprisingly enough while southern and central Europe was all kinds of fucked this year, we only truly had like 2 weeks of hot and it was a pleasant hot.
And like if I want to, I can just stay in during the day, enjoy my cooled home, then go out at like 7 PM when the sun is still out, but it's not that hot anymore. You sit outside being bitten by mosquitoes, but you don't really notice that it's suddenly 3 AM because you were having beers with your friends, sitting around a fire at some campsite...
We really didn't have the same summer, south west of france here. First heatwave was mid may wich already was close to 40c for two weeks, then actual summer arrives and sometimes for weeks we didn't have anything below 30c even at night. I can't enjoy my cooled home as it's not cooled. Spent most of summer at home, dripping from the sweat only wearing undies. Every summer is harder to go through than the previous one and it legit scares me to think about how it will be in say 10 years.
Yeah when I'm dressed slutty in the winter it's all "why are your hands that color" and not "that dress really shows off your tits". And gods forbid I want to go out topless…
I don’t like summer or dislike winter for the temperature. What I do hate is the short fucking days in winter. I despise it. It’s literally the only thing that makes me consider moving to a shitty southern state so I can actually have sunlight to a reasonable hour. Dark at 6AM and dark at 4:30PM. The entire part of the day I can use and see without artificial light is consumed by indoor work. I’ll tolerate the heat for an extra ~4 hours of light.
And it was time off because all the kids were kept at home for helping on the farm in summer. School teachers gave up and closed school. That turned into vacationing time.
Nah, it's also relative to where you live. Here in the Midwest US summer is fantastic. Great weather and all kinds of activity. Look at Texas in the summer and its horrendous. It's so hot nobody wants to do anything. They vacation in the summer to get out of the heat, I vacation in the winter to get out of the cold.
Yep! They're go out and do stuff seasons. They're also slutty seasons for those who celebrate. Do you know how hard it is to be slutty in January‽ I've managed it, but it ain't easy. But it's also shit like going for hikes, biking, long nights talking to strangers at bars, and all sorts of other fun stuff.
I do love fall too, but it's a different kind of fun and it has the sadness that winter is coming soon.
We got so much time off in November due to teacher student conferences, teacher days, and other fuckery we usually did go on vacation in fall.
One year we went to Disney and the boat guy asked where we were from and over half the boat said NJ, he asked if we were a group and we all laughed and said no. Cause we weren't. We just all decided vacation instead of teacher learning days.
I like summer because I can wear something skimpy, it's light out, and it's just generally the season people tend to be out doing stuff and having fun. I also love spring.
Winter is the worst. It's too cold, too dark, generally miserable, and everyone just wants to sleep it away. Autumn is fine though
Really depends, if youre sitting in a pool with a few beers or not. Living in a condo like a rat i basically skipped summers. Hate to share public places who litter and either themselves or their dog pees or poos in the place.
Get a garden and it's fun again. I know it's not possible for everyone but condo life is, for me, inhumane.
I hated summer as a kid. I liked school better. Home life sucked. If I wasnt getting screamed at inside, I was getting screamed at out doing farm work. so much goddamn farm work in the summers.
Fall was my favorite growing up, back to school meant no more farm work.
Now I love summers. I like fall still, but winter makes me sad, so end of summer sucks. Closing down my garden is my least favorite time of the year.
....Nah. Id say I personally like it. Even with the annoying gnats and mosqutoes and wasps and the sweaty conditions. I hate cold seasons because I have difficulty getting and staying warm. During the summer that isnt a problem.
no, even the hottest summers are many times better than winters where I live; weather below 10°C is just not suited for sustaining human life and makes me want to go indoors immediately, no comparison to hot weather
"not suited for human life"? Really? 10°C is... incredibly mild. Most humans are comfortable at that temperature with just a jacket and maybe a hat.
Cold weather is all about actually dressing appropriately. Every person I've ever heard bitch and moan about it are never dressed appropriately. With the right clothing, you can be comfortable at most any low temperature (obviously, extremely low temperatures require specialized clothing/equipment).
The same cannot be said for hot weather, where extreme heat is both dangerous and unavoidable.
Cold weather is all about actually dressing appropriately. Every person I’ve ever heard bitch and moan about it are never dressed appropriately. With the right clothing, you can be comfortable at most any low temperature (obviously, extremely low temperatures require specialized clothing/equipment).
This. I visited Helsinki for the first time last winter, and we arrived just after the peak of a cold wave (between -11 and -21°C day and night). We went with proper layers so we were all right, but the next day on the small free walking tour there was an Indian guy who was only wearing a thin jacket like I would wear around +5°C. The poor dude was shivering and visibly miserable the whole time, so the tour guide made sure to add a few more indoor stops than usual where he could thaw a bit.
See I like winter, and where I live we have extended (days if not weeks) of -50°C and below.
The darkness on the other hand, is a bit much.
That being said, I love every season where I live. Summers are nice, fall is the best, winters are great but a bit long, and spring is the end of that long winter.
I do prefer summer. Our summers are not that hot though. It's like 80 degrees every day, from 40 to 60's at night. Last August it got down in the 30's at night or so for a couple of weeks. 33 degrees one morning.
Winter is what sucks, especially the last one, hardest winter since the 90s we have gone soft here.
No. Autumn winds suck, they crack my lips. Winter is miserable. Spring is sneezy. Summer is hot, so what? Best season for surfing. And I'm Australian, our summer is dangerous, but still my favourite season.
listen here, canadian, you may like it when your extremities hurt from how fucking cold it is, and love sweating because you have to wear layers to not freeze, but your nose is still cold, but some of us actually like feeling like we’re warm enough and being ok with things being bright, visible, welcoming and comfortable.
Too hot? just stay indoors between 11 to 3 and you’ll be fine.
EDIT: Unlike those random ass non summer months when it can rain or be shittier than usual at random, we know when it’s too fucking hot or so sunny it will burn you; it’s the same fucking time every day.
Lose some weight and get into outdoor hobbies. Summer is awesome, hiking, biking, paddling, going to the beach, summer is great if you like to actually do things outside.
It's actively over 100°F in the city I just left and has been consistently for over a month. Waking up literally every day to an "Excessive Heat Warning" is soul sucking.
The heat index here was 111 the other day. It approached wet bulb temps. I’m a former marine and bike 50 miles a week.
The outside in the summer will literally kill you because you can’t evaporatively cool enough from sweating. It’s a biological impossibility at that point.
When it has just rained and it is still in the high 90s, you risk death playing sports outside.
I have been to jungle warfare training, fought in deserts at 125 degrees, and sweat through 60 lbs of gear and body armor.
You must live someplace really nice. Around here summer days are 95-100F with 80% or higher humidity, putting the heat index around 115. That's not "awesome", and that's coming from someone that bikes 150 miles or more a week.
Yeah but like being in the city sucks in summer and most people cant afford to be anywhere else so most people are gonna hate summer, thats just how it is. And being fit doesnt help either, nearly had a heatstroke walking to gym today, weather was forty degrees...
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makeshift0546@lemmy.today · 61 pts · 1d
Nah. Lake + beach + half naked ladies.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 23h
I go fishing so much over the summer. Also, it was a bit cooler weather when I was a kid.
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · -9 pts · 1d
if you wanna see naked people you can go to a nudist beach
pulsey@feddit.org · 48 pts · 1d
Don't go to a nudist beach for the purpose of seeing naked people.
That's creepy.
Also, you will see all kinds of naked people.
makeshift0546@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 1d
Not in the winter.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 23h
Not with that attitude!
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1d
True
makeshift0546@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 19h
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip · -14 pts · 1d
cringe
RudeOnTuesdays@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1d
Not cringe, actually
liuther9@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 16h
You might want to change your perspective of life cause this is just sad
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17h
The guys are even more half-naked.
makeshift0546@lemmy.today · -11 pts · 1d
Awwww some dude admitted he liked boobies and this has hurt your feminine view of the world 😭
Touch grass. You people need to interact with real people more.
Katana314@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 1d
The only thing I hate about this post is associating prudeness to feminism.
Many, many women are fine with showing off their bodies, on the beach or otherwise. And yes, I agree with you on the idea it’s fine for people to like that image. Feminism would just be about giving women control of the decision to show themselves off, not about claiming “sexy images = Male-gaze-powered, and therefore toxic”
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 17h
Indeed! We must give all adults of all genders the right to determine what they can do with their bodies....
SHowing it off or not...
makeshift0546@lemmy.today · -1 pts · 19h
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip · -11 pts · 1d
get bent
kreskin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 18h
Good advice.. but I'm way ahead of you. I'm not even sure there's even a word for how bent I already am.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17h
Folded? Creased? Rolled?
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17h
I dont know who this guy is behind me that is bending me right now but I would like to sincerely thank them . They probably read Druid@lemmy.zip's comment and they just tryna help me out.... wonderfull....
Wait.... theyre doing a bit more than just bending me over-Hnrgnth
makeshift0546@lemmy.today · -1 pts · 19h
Cringe
collapse_already@lemmy.ml · 47 pts · 1d
I think it depends on where you live. I have visited places where summer is the best season. I live where summer is the worst season.
awfulawful@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 1d
I strongly agree. I like the variety of the four seasons where I live, including winter, but summer has become my favorite. It's when I get to work with growing things outside, there's lots of festivals, people are more willing to go out and do things. But I wouldn't feel the same way if I lived in Phoenix, Arizona for instance.
merc@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 18h
I've lived in half a dozen cities on multiple continents and have never lived somewhere where summer was the worst season. Even living in a place where winter temps meant overnight lows of 5 and highs of 15, summer was still much better. I've even spent time in tropical locations where the seasons are "rainy" and "not rainy", so it was basically summer all the time, and I liked that a lot better than even a mild winter.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 15h
I've had the exact opposite experience. Summer has been the worst experience no matter where I have visited or lived. Heat is fucking miserable to exist in, humid or dry. Give me snow and overcast days over the summer sun.
merc@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 15h
Do you not like going outside? Do you not enjoy swimming?
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 14h
I love going outside, when the outside isn't trying to bake me alive. I enjoy swimming, I do it plenty during the fall.
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17h
and where exactly are these different places cause now Im curious?
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 15h
A summer in Calgary is gonna be magnitudes different than a summer down in New Orleans.
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15h
ya summer in new orleans is some of the most humid in north america Ive heard because of its high water plane there and , well, all the water around new orleans too lol. Thats probably why they have so many hurricanes.
NBut I actually dont care how humid or unhumid it is. I just like it being hot. I dont care if I move to the Amazon or Congoloses rainforests or Sahara Desert when I get older but Ill be glad that Im done with winters here forever lol.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 14h
Except opposite here. Hate the heat. I want to move somewhere that summers only last a month at most and the majority of the year is a winter wonderland
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 8h
uhhhh you may be looking for Antartica lol
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 35m
Can I just get somewhere where it's always spring or fall?
luxadazy@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 15h
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15h
Im SERIOISLY curious as to how the homeless people and addicts in Siberia , Alaska , Nordic countries , and northern uk survive.... ESPECIALLY when winter rolls around....
I think that finland made a change to their laws to allow all adults who request a small apartment get one promptly.
But what about the other people I mentioned?....
luxadazy@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 14h
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 1d
Where I live, winter means:
I hate all those things. I love summer because it’s the opposite.
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 6 pts · 23h
I grew up in the north, I live in the South now, and I relish every hot, sweaty, extra long summer. The severe depression that winter would cause becomes a motivator to bake like an oven later in life.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 22h
I grew up in the north, and never adapted after moving to the south. I would bicycle every day and still look like someone poured a bucket of water on me just being outside for 20 minutes walking. It has taught me to value the feeling of being a little too cold.
This winter I was in the north again, and was reasonably comfortable in -20C, but not nearly as comfortable as the indigenous people who can walk around without gloves and still use a phone without any issue.
You adapt to some extent, but I think everyone is built different at a metabolic level, something to do with the way blood circulates in your capillaries or something.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1d
Personally, I love summer for cycling but hate it otherwise, detest winter, dislike autumn, and adore spring 😁
merc@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 18h
Also, you basically can't go outside. Sure, you can go from a heated building to a heated vehicle then into a different heated building. Or, when it isn't too cold you can do certain sports outside. But, even going for a walk means putting on a huge number of layers, and then trudging through snow which slows you down, trips you up, and gives you very little traction.
Not to mention that never being able to open a window means no nature sounds for months on end. The cold and snow means no sight of living nature (other than pine trees) for months.
It's also extremely difficult and dangerous to bike (at least here) so you either need to own a car, spend a lot on taxis / lyft, or spend nearly as long as it would take to walk and take public transit.
If I lived somewhere where winter lasted 1-2 months I might enjoy it. But, where I live it's 5+ months, and I fucking hate it.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 17h
Fairbanks, Alaska?
merc@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 16h
Nope, Canada.
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 17h
Also archaeologival evidence confirmed that humans did 'some' hibernation during the winter months....
It was too dangerous and uncomfortable to just go out and about during the winter cause you could freeze to death, slip on ice and get injured, since visibility is decreased you are more vulnerable to other humans wjo wanted to steal from you or do you in AND animals too, you could starve to death since there was fewer plants to pick from and fewer animals to hunt. People in neolithic eras didnt really hibernate completrly like bears but rsther entered a state of 'tupor' where they did FAAAR less during the winter months until it cleared up in late spring. 'Why put yourself at risk and be uncomfortable too?' is probably what theyre thinking.
We cant do a siimilar thing today? Im not saying nobody goes to work during those months but it I feel we would be happier overall if it is accepted that people go to work and go to outings faaar less during the winter months. Im pretty sure in some superarctic parts of Alaska and Siberia that this is already done. I havent read of it being done there but Id find it hard to believe they dont already....
MintyFresh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 19h
A good winter night walk can't be beat. Layer up just right. Enjoy a silence unrivaled. Enjoy a sky so clear the starlight makes the snow glow.
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17h
....uhhh....what type of boots do you own that allow you to go on frequent winter night walks please?
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 15h
Just any kind of lace up boot works?
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15h
preferably one with wide toes and wide sole too please!
MintyFresh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15h
A pair of socks, with a second good pair of wollen socks help. But you just gotta make yourself ok with being cold. It's really not so bad if you keep moving.
systemglitch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 13h
Yep, key is to stay moving.
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 8h
thata why you should always attempt to eat a MASSIVE bulking meal before goong out in the winter , or even whenever its cold too to be honest. ALl those extra calories get burned as you move around and keep you warm. You and the people youre going with need to find some way to get some warmness inside you.
Drinking coffee? Add lard
Eating cereal in milk ? Lard!
Eating grits? lard
Drinking water? Believe it or not, lard!
Licking her out? .... Lard?
Extra calories can go a long way in making things warmer. 😋
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17h
THANK YOU.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 17h
I wish it got dark at 5 PM, peak winter is 3 PM here :(
Nomad@infosec.pub · 33 pts · 1d
Summer holiday: its probably to hot for school. Winter holiday: its probably too snowy to get to school safely. Easter holiday: go pretend to care about religion instead of school. Autumn holiday: go help your family get ready for winter instead of school.
So time off was never part of the equation.
OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 19h
You saw snow? I’m in my 40s in Southern California, and I can confidently say that I’ve only witnessed snowfall a handful of times before it completely melted away. Throw a snowball for me?
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 4 pts · 1d
In my country at least, summer holidays were used to help bringing in the harvest.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 27 pts · 1d
I don't mind being hot. I hate being cold.
glups@piefed.social · 22 pts · 1d
If you're cold you can always put on another layer. If you're hot, you run out of layers to take off
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1d
You can always take off more layers
AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social · 6 pts · 23h
I can put 15 layers on in winter and still be cold. My toes and face are the worst. If I try to protect my nose, I get snot everywhere and it's gross. If I don't, I feel like my face will freeze off my body. Too hot sucks as well. No winning for me except for spring maybe.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 1d
Yeah, cold all the time, barely see the sun because I'm at work the entire time it's out. Can't do much of anything outside, roads are frequently shit, can't get together as much with my friends because none of our homes are big enough, think about offing myself constantly because of the above factors, winter blows.
Calfpupa@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1d
Every reason you gave was because of capitalism
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 1d
Capitalism is making it cold outside?
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1d
Cold air damming increases with climate change, so unironically yes.
Cheebus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
Climate change
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 1d
It would still be cold if there was zero pollution.
Calfpupa@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1d
The cold is only an issue because capitalism, yes. Fwiw, "it's cold outside" is a neutral statement.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 1d
No it's an issue because I fucking hate being cold. I'd still hate it if the government was taking care of my needs. It's not like I'm living on the streets, I'm living in a house with HVAC, I still fucking hate it.
Calfpupa@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1d
Oh, well that wasn't said. If you could be with your friends, got to see the sun, the roads were easy and third spaces managed, you wouldn't notice how miserable the outside is for you. Also you could just move somewhere warmer instead of thinking about offing yourself for 1/3 of a year.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 0 pts · 17h
Unless they need you exactly where your job is so you won't get an apartment in another city somewhere where it's warmer. Perks of a planned economy.
Like I'm fairly sure half the soviet union would've moved to somewhere around the black sea if they could have.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 0 pts · 17h
Yeah I've asked my mom, it was cold here in the winter in the soviet era too. And I believe a lot of people had these things called "jobs", except they were even less voluntary than they are now, so being at work for the entirety of the sunny daytime period of 10 AM to 3 PM hasn't exactly been invented with capitalism.
The one thing capitalism has changed is it gathered everyone into the cities because there's a lot less support of small countryside schools and such. So instead of walking 5 KM to bus stop to take the bus to school, kids can now take a city bus that stops closer to their home and comes every 30 minutes at most.
There's a bunch of problems you could solve by abolishing capitalism, but weather ain't one of them.
Calfpupa@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 16h
People that don't have jobs today lose their housing and starve to death. You think there's a level below that?
And no, what caused that was mechanization of farming.
Now, thanks to capitalism, we're dealing with heatwaves beyond predictions and snowstorms that out freeze historic data, so I wouldn't say that capitalism isn't impacting the weather. Also, before it, people had the ability to take breaks from work, which doesn't really exist today.
shartgargle@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1d
My hands feel like they're being crushed by boulders, and face feels like needle face x1000 in the cold. The peak of summer may be miserable but I can still function without extreme pain. And before anybody mentions better gloves or a face covering, it doesn't help. I've tried every magical glove in existence. And heated ones make me sweat after 5-10 minutes and I'm arguably in a worse position, same with full face coverings. FUCK WINTER.
Leviathan@fedinsfw.app · 8 pts · 1d
I hate winter. Switching all my winter wardrobe to wool has made it at least less sweaty under all the layers. Seems like every winter thing is made of some synthetic fiber that acts like wearing a plastic bag when you sweat. Wool is the way.
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 1d
Wool is the only (that I am aware of,) fabric that will keep you warm after it's wet. Cotton is the worst, it sticks to your skin when wet.
If you are caught outside, stranded, they say to make sure to take layers off, because if you sweat, you die.
mrmisses@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
I don't mind being hot but I hate humidity. It's 7am and the temperature is 67 with a "feels like" temperature of 77. And there is no breeze. There is never any breeze here. I fucking hate it
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 1d
Real talk! I grew up on the equator and moved to somewhere it snows on occasion. All the mfers saying "I can only get so naked" haven't experienced the cold.
T0RB1T@piefed.ca · 11 pts · 1d
I grew up (and still live) in a part of Canada where it regularly gets below -40°C in the winter, and... no. I 100% will say stuff like "I can't take off any more clothes."
Winter is fine, I can always add another layer. Summer sucks now, it didn't get this hot nearly as often in the past, and I mostly hate summer now.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 1d
You are contradicting yourself not one line break later.
T0RB1T@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 1d
Please humor me, where is the contradiction?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 1d
You said summer is more hot.
I think our frames of references are cattywompus.
T0RB1T@piefed.ca · 8 pts · 1d
Yes, summer is indeed more hot.
It's hotter than the other seasons, and it's hotter than it used to be.
I don't like the hot.
I prefer the cold, and my comment was saying I prefer the cold, specifically because I can't handle the hot well.
I was saying it's very silly to claim something along the lines of "The only reason people think they prefer the cold season is because they haven't experienced real cold."
I've experienced the cold. I prefer it.
I still see no contradiction, but maybe I'm just dense?
Edit: Minor structural change, less ambiguous wording.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 0 pts · 15h
I've experienced subzero cold and 110°+ heat.
I'll take the cold thanks.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 14h
You're welcome.
DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 27 pts · 1d
Spring is my favourite season. When you get the first warm day after a depressing winter and the new leaves are growing and the cherry blossoms are in bloom.
We got summer in spring this year. In fact I think we got summer in winter (February) this year too.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1d
Mmmm, pollen. The plants are having sex in my nose.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
Plus not many bugs yet
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 1d
Almost no bugs now, until we get a good bit of rain. No bugs to speak of for a month here. Or longer. I am leaving my door open with no insect intrusions.
Also, where I am, early spring might not have many parasitic insects, but there are explosions of ticks, wood tick types, they don't generally carry disease but still. After it dries out in the summer there are like none now.
Plus spring has tons of cold snaps here. We get leaves later than moscow even though they are way north.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 23h
That sounds nice. Where I am there are lots of mosquitos, flies, bees and wasps from late spring until we get a good cold snap. So there's usually a couple weeks where it's warm enough to have the door and windows open with no worries for those pests.
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 23h
Right there with you.
Summer has been pretty brutal this year, just so ungodly humid. Fortunately a dehumidifier costs a lot less to run than air conditioning.
And fall is ok temp wise, and the smells and colors are nice, but all the work of raking leaves and shit sucks big time. Especially when you have trees that don’t drop until the very tail of fall, after the brutal cold has started.
DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 6h
The good thing about my part of London is all the trees have been cut down. So we don't have wildlife anymore, but at least we don't have to rake leaves /s
thethrilloftime69@feddit.online · 27 pts · 18h
Ok summers are bad now but man there was something special about walking outside on a sunny day with some of your friends and no plans. Even as an adult, no plans and good weather is a recipe for a good time.
CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 18h
As long as we can do it indoors in air conditioning.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 20 pts · 22h
The fuck's a "season"?
blackberry28@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 22h
Vietnam does not use the metric system? Prolly then the only victory the US achieved in the Vietnam war lol
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 22h
They do, but I'm from America so I use whatever.
Also we have kinda do seasons here, right now it's "wet", meaning in the highlands it tends to be drizzly and clouds more often, and you get 1-2 15 minute showers, and in the low lands, it's sunny all day, and you get absolutely dumped on for 15-30 minutes in the late afternoon and sometimes in the morning.
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17h
Same thing happens in Nigeria Ive heard. I think that many countries near the equator also have seasons that look like this too.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 14h
Yes, equatorial areas only have wet and dry seasons, but they tend to be too hot, up here in the mountains, it's always nice.
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 56m
In the mountains at the equator....
I didnt actuallt think about the fact that its cooler in the mountains even at the equator so I was always curious as to why large numbers of people near the equator chose to live im such places. I thought they mainly did it cause up in the mountains the view is prettier.
But the heat of the equator gets mellowed out a bit by the heightened level into the atmosphere... so....
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 27m
You're not wrong.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 22h
As someone who is constantly cold unless I'm at 75°F or above, this looks amazing. Thanks, dysautonomia!
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 21h
It's p nice being able to wear a jacket, there's areas like this all over the Highlands. The regions north of Hanoi is like this too, Sa Pa (gives ski resort town vibes, was just some poor ethnic minority villages 20 years ago, now it has a ton of investment and Vietnamese moved in from all over the country), Ha Giang (was the poorest area, now a lot of tourists go there, the cops there suck), Cao Bang (nearly as poor, didn't get as many tourists, but the people are way more chill, better hiking IMO), but Da Lat is a bit more charming.
Many areas in Yunnan, China, incl Kunming, a city of 10m have similar climate, and great food if you like mushrooms. Medellin in Colombia is also pretty stable and an amazing place to live, but a little warmer.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 17h
Tbh when my body temp is under 75F, I'm also kinda cold
Oh, you meant air temp? Tbh I'd say lucky you because it's easier to put on clothes when it's cold than it is to be more naked when you're hot
end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 15h
Is there a place like this but like 40°F and moist?
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 14h
https://weatherspark.com/map
Mostly islands in the antarctic ocean or north atlantic, off alaska, and a few in the Andes if you prefer mountains.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 1d
As someone who hates the cold, gonna have to disagree on it being a bad season. As much as I hate the bees/wasps/mosquitoes, I hate the Devil's Dandruff ( snow ) and the ice that follows with it more.
I can handle the higher heat, but struggle a lot more with the cold.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 1d
Personally, I'm over-insulated (fat), naturally run hot and sweaty even besides that, and am from a Nordic country so I suffer in anything over 20°C (68F).
Except when cycling outdoors, then I PREFER it hot, easily tolerating over 30C (86F) as long as I have plenty of water, sugar, and electrolytes 😁
bedwyr@piefed.ca · -2 pts · 1d
I have never in my life supplemented "electrolytes," and have always been fine, and I run distance.
It's more marketing bullshit for beverages than anything. You are already getting too much salt I can assure you.
But if you do find yourself getting muscle cramps, it can be from low potassium.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 6 pts · 1d
Potassium is an electrolyte.
bedwyr@piefed.ca · -2 pts · 1d
I know, that's why I mentioned it, along with salt, which is an electrolyte as well.
If you have a decent diet, you don't need to supplement electrolytes, according to The Guardian, and my experience.
But if you do notice muscle cramps, you want to try to up your potassium to see if that's the problem, which is what I was trying to say.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 1d
Gotcha, but I still have to disagree. As a hot, sweaty person like the OC, getting enough potassium (or even sodium at times) for cycling in hot weather through diet alone would require massive quantities of food. The amount of sweating that can happen when one doesn't have the physique for long-distance running is nuts!
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1d
Fun fact: when cycling, I usually do at least 60km, sometimes 100 or above and I tend to already start to sweat profusely 5 minutes into any kind of workout.
Also, since I'm very heavy, I'm slow in spite of putting around 180-220 watts to the pedals throughout, so that's many hours and many liters of water, salt, and other minerals expelled with nothing coming in except for water, a couple bananas or three, and a few electrolyte tabs in one of the two water bottles I bring and frequently refill.
I guarantee you that, no matter what the "average" person of average weight with average amounts of perspiration doing an average to long duration workout needs, I DO see a significant benefit from the electrolytes compared to when I had nothing but water and bananas for the 4-8 hour rides.
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 1d
Well 60 km is a very long ways. 60 * 2/3= 120/3=40 miles. At 7 mph, a slow pace for a bicycle, that is almost 6 hours. Even at 15 mph that is still two and a half ish hours.
So maybe you need electrolytes.
Yet I did 10 -20 miles jogging with 2k feet elevation gain like 5 days a week or so for years, year round, and didn't need anything other than water.
With the elevation gain, it really slows down the jogging, a jog is very slow up hills, slower than a walk on level ground, so I would be out for hours as well, (although I would stop halfway and stretch and do crunches and such.)
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1d
I liked summer back when it was the only season that was tolerable to be outside in as a kid living in the Northeast. Now it's the only season where I live that's intolerable to be outside in so I'm all good on it.
I didn't change. Fucking summer changed. There's a South Pacific hurricane season now. Everyone's talking about climate change like it's a distant threat. The climate has already changed. I whine about it very little because most localities have it way worse than we do in southern California.
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17h
People say its a 'distant threat' cause the IPCC has confirmed tjat for the NEXT 200 YEARS greenhouse gases will have notable negative effect on most of humanity, ESPECIALLY those who live near the equator and they say we wont hit apocalytic levels of 'bad' until the next 50 or so years so....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0KQYNtPl7V4&t=2874s&pp=ygUaYmFkZW1wYW5hZGEgY2xpbWF0ZSBjaGFuZ2U%3D
FishFace@piefed.social · 18 pts · 1d
When I was a kid, summer was max 25 degrees. Perfect! Now it gets above 35 degrees regularly. The actual season did not used to be atrocious (for me).
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 21h
I LOVE summer.
I HATE the feeling of cold on my skin. Even just a little bit.
100 degrees farenheit? Bring it. I'll take it over being even a little cold.
The heat means I can hang out naked. It means I can jump in the river. I means I can go camping. It means I can do anything but sit inside and freeze my ass off all winter in the darkness.
I only feel complete between May-September.
CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 17h
Sounds like you'd be a good fit in Arizona or Ecuador or Belize or Central America
tigermountain@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17h
You're going to love the future.
Obi@sopuli.xyz · 0 pts · 20h
Currently camping in Scotland with temperatures ranging 7-20°c over the 24h cycle. It's fantastic. We die when we do it in southern Europe summer. The problem is the price you pay in winter for those mild summers...
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 4h
I live in England but have been to Scotland in winter. It isn't that bad, just put a jumper on.
Obi@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 4h
I don't mind the cold, but I do mind the super short days and endless grey/wet. It's similar where we live but a bit less so. I'm wondering why that previous comment got me down votes?..
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 2h
Yeah endless wet can get a bit depressing after a while. Mixed feelings on the short days as there are fun things to do at night too. Like sitting around a fire has a different vibe at night.
remon@ani.social · 14 pts · 1d
I'll still take it over winter any day.
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 1d
Summer really is the worst.
Here's three months or so where it's so stupidly hot you can't even sleep properly at night, and if you want to go outside you have to smother yourself in goo repeatedly because the sky will kill you. Also there are millions of what are essentially flying dirty syringes who's only purpose is to steal your blood that are seeking you out constantly. And not only do they steal your blood, the place where they stole it from will turn red and itch like crazy for no discernible purpose other than fuck you presumably. You can sort of keep these away by smothering yourself in a second type of goo that's probably poison of some sort.
Good thing we invented housing so we can avoid this right? It would be, except that as soon as it starts everybody seems determined to spend every second of it outside, and becomes fixated on making everyone else be outside too. There also seems to be some connection with sunshine and everyone wanting to be as loud as humanly possible.
I genuinely wish I could just hibernate like a bear through summers lol, as soon as June 1st hits just peace out until September.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 18h
You know what else sucks? beaches. By most individual metrics they are a shitshow, but when you add all these ngatives together in peoples minds, they end up with a positive impression somehow. Do I want to go sit in sand in full sun, consume sandy food and lukewarm drinks, with limited access to normal amenities, listening to other peoples dipshit music, closely packed together with pasty bloated whale like humans without clothes? No I dont.
CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 18h
There are ways to make beach time enjoyable. 1) Remember it's a rare place we're legally allowed to lay around half naked in public & just loiter doing nothing, and it's normal & expected behavior. 2) There's water nearby to cool off & play. 3) Bring things to keep yourself comfortable: blankets towels chairs shade music food beverages whatever. 4) Don't be a pasty bloated whale-like human. Being fit & healthy makes for a good time everywhere you go, 24/7/365.
architect@thelemmy.club · 4 pts · 17h
Hey now some of us are pasty and semi bloated but the beach is still a good time. Even if it hurts a bit.
tigermountain@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17h
Dude, you need to go to a nice beach by a nice hotel. They have chairs set-up for you with umbrellas and someone will walk by and take your food and drink order and your food won't have sand and the drinks will be cold and you can just walk into the hotel for any amenities and you'll be with people who know better than to play music at the beach.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 4h
Hotel? Can't think of a worse way of going to the beach, and so expensive.
I often cycle to the beach after work for a swim.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 5h
Go to better beaches then.
I live near one, never had a problem with being packed in or other peoples music because I just walk along the beach to find a clear area. Its also a gravel beach so no sand.
Insulated water bottles exist. Tbh I don't often bring food with me. Wtf kind of amenities are you expecting. Do you complain about nature not having free WiFi too?
heliotrope@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 1d
My favourite season is Autumn.
runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1d
Well do I have good news for you (assuming you're in the northern hemisphere)
TehWorld@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 16h
I grew up in the northern part of the USA. Summer is also when we didn’t have to bundle up in 8 layers.
A lot of us like sundress / bikini season.
Spring & fall were generally the planting/harvest season so work was a LITTLE lighter in the summer.
All that said, fuck this heat. I’ll take cold any day.
CptOblivius@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 14h
The lowest temp I've experienced in my state is -52f. I like summer too. Fall is my favorite though. At least the two weeks of it we get.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 21h
Early Autumn/Late Spring is peak.
The height of any season is (usually) bad.
stoly@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 22h
I have always hated the whole “it’s summer you must come outside and do things with us right now” thing. I don’t get why you don’t spend time outside all year round. Why is it important now that it’s intolerably hot and bright?
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 15h
This so much. I never could understand how it being bright and hot out were boons to some people.
Bright hot days make me want to stay inside with the A/C cranked and the blinds closed.
stoly@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15h
Note that I’m perfectly fine being in hot weather and will happily move around and do my normal thing. I just don’t understand wanting to specifically go into it and hang out or do activities.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 14h
Yea, I do not function in the heat. Hot weather makes me physically exhausted.
Rooster326@programming.dev · 1 pts · 18h
But you can spend time outside all year round.
stoly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17h
That’s exactly my point
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21h
Where I live summer rarely cracks 85 and the rest of the year is around 40 with near constant rain
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d
The translation of the Greek term for summer is "good weather."
Go back to whatever frigid Baltic rock you came from, OP. Talk shit about me with the puffins, it's fine.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1d
Sounds like you're as knowledgeable about pelagic seabird distribution as you're tolerant towards differing weather preferences 😄
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 14h
This is the most unique insult I have read in a while.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 12h
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Yes, that's correct. See, look, you can get that right. Why not go personally inspect puffin habitats and let me know where they are?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1d
Because it's easier to read Wikipedia than going to the nearest puffin place (the North Atlantic Ocean) from the non-baltic peninsula with hardly any rock on which I live 😄
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
That translation makes sense - Mediterranean climates (like Greece has) don't have to deal with humid summers. It's easier to like hot weather when your sweat evaporates.
In places with hot, humid summers, sweat just piles up until you're a shiny, dripping, salty mess. And you still feel hot.
It also makes sense if "sunshine" is considered "good weather." Mediterranean climates have their wet season in winter, so summers are the dry season, with clear skies and little rain. It makes sense in Greece, but other places get regular thunderstorms in summer, occasional tropical storms/hurricanes, or season-long monsoons that bring torrential rain inland.
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social · 10 pts · 1d
Summer used to be nice and not too warm, but we're way past that at this point unfortunately
village604@adultswim.fan · 7 pts · 1d
Depends on your location. It's always been fucking awful here
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social · 4 pts · 1d
That's probably true, yeah.
village604@adultswim.fan · 3 pts · 1d
It does suck, though, because for the past 15ish years we've had relatively mild summers (meaning no solid weeks of over 100F), so people brush off climate change because, "it was hotter when I was younger."
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17h
Picks up snow
"If global warming is real, then explain this! Snow. In my hand. ...Hmmmph!"
village604@adultswim.fan · 1 pts · 13h
They said that during snowpocolypse
volore@scribe.disroot.org · 10 pts · 1d
I wish it were fall vacation, and normalized for even adults (around the world, not just as a job benefit for some but as a fact of life) to take at least a month off somewhere between late August and the end of October. That's peak time to go outside and enjoy the changing weather, perfect temperature for a light jacket, enjoy the scenery with all the trees changing colors, etc -- the middle of summer's just too fucking hot, now. You're either boiling alive in the sun or it's pissing rain, and no in-between. It'd probably do wonders for the average person's mental health, and air quality/the environment, too, if everyone just took a month off around the same time each year and it was just a thing you were expected to have.
Buuuuut line must go up and we've got pumpkin spice lattes to sell, so.
vogi@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1d
Big autumn head myself! It's just so fucking cozy.
I have a big lake here and everyone is just walking around it in circles all day long because Autumn is just so cool.
The falling leaves are my kind of cherry blossoms, very short lived but so beautiful.
I don't how anybody would prefer any other season. Like whats is wrong with you?!
Everyones talking about how great flowers in spring smell, but have you smelled autumn?!
Im just a bit sad it took me 24 years to realize, if not I would have cherished them alot more.
It is no use though to dwell in past though, looking forward to lots of really cozy autumns!!
Viceversa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
October is rainy and November is plain miserable.
vogi@piefed.social · 0 pts · 1d
Rainy can be cozy depending on the severity. November is only miserable because its so close to Winter, that has nothing to do with Autumn.
Viceversa@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
November is part of the autumn
0ops@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 1d
Like right smack in the middle of it: Sept 21- Dec-21. "[November] has nothing to do with autumn" lmao, what?? No month is more autumn than November
vogi@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1d
typical autumn HATERS smh always so serious and stuck up. dates are made up anyways. when the leaves are falling I am happy :) that's really all there is to it.
lonefighter@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
My dad has worked in the same white collar job since he graduated highschool and he doesn't get paid anything super great or have a pension or anything, but he has like 5 weeks of vacation a year. Ever since I was a little kid he's always taken 2 weeks off every fall and just spent it puttering around in the yard, going for walks, and enjoying the weather.
ninjabard@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 23h
I'll never understand why it became the norm to use fire to cook outside during the hottest months of the year.
Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 23h
Using a stove warms up the house.
ninjabard@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 23h
And most grilling you have to stand next to the source of the heat which gets far hotter than a stove.
SpermHowitzer@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 22h
Outside of TV shows, people don’t congregate right around the grill the whole time. Also, the heat of the grill stays outside. When it’s hot out, using the oven or the stove inside heats the house up quite a lot, and it’s really hard to cool it back down in the evening, so when it’s hot is when we’re most likely to grill.
Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 22h
Momentary discomfort, and then you have the option to enjoy your food in a still-cool home.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 21h
Outside you have a nice breeze.
And you don't need to watch-dog your food.
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17h
Aye, SOMETIMES you have to watch-dog your food on the grill especially if youre in scotland and youre dealing with girl scouts that are about 8 stories tall and are a crustacean from the Palezoic Era
Just remember to grill $3.50 alongside your food and to always watch it. Dont end up like me or my cousin's family on that sad , sad summer day.... 🥺🫂
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · -1 pts · 15h
Yea a nice breeze of hot as fuck air that makes it hard to breathe. Pass.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 23h
Probably because it's easier than using snow to cook outside in the winter 🤷🏻
Nautalax@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 14h
Hard disagree. In summer plants are doing a lot of cool things as are the insects and all that activity invites many interactions with larger animals also. Whereas in the winter almost everything closes shop and goes dormant which makes invasive ne’er-do-wells like Youngia japonica and Lamium amplexicaule more prominent.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 5h
In summer most plants I have are struggling due to lack of water. Far more interesting things going on in spring and autumn.
Nautalax@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2h
I live in a rather xeric sandhills environment with blazing sun and this year has had more drought than typical, so indeed a good number of my less well adapted or more poorly positioned plants have been crisping up. Even so, summer is a season of fruiting and growth for many. Ex. partridge pea barely germinates at the end of spring. It was July-early August for it to blossom gloriously, mid-August for the cloudless sulphur caterpillars to appear en masses to devour those blooms and leaves, and at present the caterpillars are undergoing metamorphosis while the partridge pea bereft of blooms now pushes out the eponymous pea pods. Beautyberries have only just now turned their delightful purple color, the black-eyed susans grew in the spring but did not flower until the summer. I can’t take a step anywhere without the grasshoppers fleeing and despite the dry conditions there are tree frogs taking shelter in the shadows of my house’s siding and toads singing, anoles basking in the force of the sun.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1h
Interestingly one of the plants that looks happier is rhubarb. At least the one I planted a few months ago is. I think its size and deep roots help it store more water and get it from deeper soil. So it manages pretty well with watering once a week.
Tree kale also seems to be OK with the lack of water. But it has been eaten by wildlife instead. I had given up on it but after seeing some of them still alive despite not being watered in over a month and the leaves all being eaten way constantly, I decided to try and see if it can be helped. Got netting for it recently and it does look like it is starting to recover and grow some leaves. Probably give it a bit longer and if it does well I might make a more sturdy frame for the netting with a few canes.
Egyptian walking onions might be able to manage but I only got them recently so they haven't really been tested in my area. Pretty sure they would be fine for a week though. Prefer to have things I don't need to water in the week as well as on the weekend.
Stolas@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 16h
Maybe if global warming hadn't reached this point it'd be enjoyable.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 15h
While that's a contributing factor, I remember being young in the 90s and still hating summer. I've always preferred the fall and winter.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 1d
I hate the cold. Winter needs regular sauna at or over 100° to be tolerable. Summer at 25-35° is totally acceptable, as long as overnight it does drop off. Some of these heat waves, ouf.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 17h
Completely disagree. Even if your working and don't have "summers off" like you used too. Summer time weekends heading to the lake, going outdoors for a hike or a picnic. Just generally having the sunshine on you is still far far far better than a winter world that becomes black and white for a few months.
If summer wasn't better than winter in pretty much every way, S.A.D. (seasonal affective disorder) would be most common in summer instead of winter.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 15h
Summer is the worst time for hiking and picnics. It's blisteringly fucking hot out and makes the hike magnitudes more exhausting and miserable being drenched in sweat. Fall is the best time for that when it's actually cool but not yet freezing.
And personally I prefer overcast days versus bright-as-fuck sunny days where I'm constantly squinting cause it's so damn bright out, plus the heat it brings makes it that much worse.
Winter bears summer in almost every way for me. That black and white winter wonderland is the best.
kazerniel@piefed.world · 6 pts · 21h
definitely not the case in Scotland 😄
Obi@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 20h
Midges though 😅
kazerniel@piefed.world · 2 pts · 20h
we fortunately never get any in Glasgow 🙏 Though I went to Loch Lomond when it was sunny a few weeks ago, and did my hike in record time bc whenever I wanted to sit down to rest a bit, some blood-sucking flies started circling around me 😅
Saapas@piefed.zip · 6 pts · 1d
I like it because it's sunny and warm
Bongles@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 15h
I like summers as in - long warm sunny days where I can hangout in a t shirt and shorts and do fun outdoor activities for a few months.
I don't like summers as in - If I step outside I'm soaked in sweat immediately and run the air conditioning nonstop to still be kind of warm inside. Where the only enjoyable time was 2 weeks of spring like weather and 2 weeks of fall like weather between brutal winters and summers (I'm exaggerating a little).
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 17h
This is kinda regional perhaps. Winter here is like 6 hours of daytime at its worst, but most days it's overcast so you really get 5-6 hours of real sunshine a week. It's depressing as fuck. And oftentimes the snow doesn't really last, it melts and everything is just muddy to boot.
Spring is when both nature and people (we're part of nature after all) start to come alive. Summer is fucking wild. It doesn't go dark around summer solstice. Like the sun technically sets for like 5-6 hours, but it's never truly dark for a few weeks before and after summer solstice. It just... energizes you if you're a night owl to start with.
Yes it gets hot, but the truly hot weather is just heat waves. Surprisingly enough while southern and central Europe was all kinds of fucked this year, we only truly had like 2 weeks of hot and it was a pleasant hot.
And like if I want to, I can just stay in during the day, enjoy my cooled home, then go out at like 7 PM when the sun is still out, but it's not that hot anymore. You sit outside being bitten by mosquitoes, but you don't really notice that it's suddenly 3 AM because you were having beers with your friends, sitting around a fire at some campsite...
StinkyRedMan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 15h
We really didn't have the same summer, south west of france here. First heatwave was mid may wich already was close to 40c for two weeks, then actual summer arrives and sometimes for weeks we didn't have anything below 30c even at night. I can't enjoy my cooled home as it's not cooled. Spent most of summer at home, dripping from the sweat only wearing undies. Every summer is harder to go through than the previous one and it legit scares me to think about how it will be in say 10 years.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1d
I've always preferred autumn. The perfect weather is cloudy with wind and maybe slight drizzle.
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 18h
Me, an intellectual:
artifex@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 1d
This is one of those rare times where I need to decide whether I’m going to downvote just because I disagree.
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org · 5 pts · 12h
counter-point: some people exist who like showing off skin and that's easier to do if it's not fucking freezing out there
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 43m
Yeah when I'm dressed slutty in the winter it's all "why are your hands that color" and not "that dress really shows off your tits". And gods forbid I want to go out topless…
Noodle07@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 9h
I love when ladies wear dress in winter
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
I don’t like summer or dislike winter for the temperature. What I do hate is the short fucking days in winter. I despise it. It’s literally the only thing that makes me consider moving to a shitty southern state so I can actually have sunlight to a reasonable hour. Dark at 6AM and dark at 4:30PM. The entire part of the day I can use and see without artificial light is consumed by indoor work. I’ll tolerate the heat for an extra ~4 hours of light.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 4 pts · 1d
And it was time off because all the kids were kept at home for helping on the farm in summer. School teachers gave up and closed school. That turned into vacationing time.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 23h
Nah, it's also relative to where you live. Here in the Midwest US summer is fantastic. Great weather and all kinds of activity. Look at Texas in the summer and its horrendous. It's so hot nobody wants to do anything. They vacation in the summer to get out of the heat, I vacation in the winter to get out of the cold.
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 16h
Facts. Fall clearly is the ultimate season. And I personally love Winter and think it's the most beautiful.
dismay3915@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 4h
Summer and spring are still the seasons I do fun stuff in. Winter and fall are always filled with misery and catastrophe
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 49m
Yep! They're go out and do stuff seasons. They're also slutty seasons for those who celebrate. Do you know how hard it is to be slutty in January‽ I've managed it, but it ain't easy. But it's also shit like going for hikes, biking, long nights talking to strangers at bars, and all sorts of other fun stuff.
I do love fall too, but it's a different kind of fun and it has the sadness that winter is coming soon.
Fuck January and February.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2h
November being the worst offender.
Autumn colors are gone, it's wet all the time and the days are getting shorter. It's always cold, there is no fruits to go pick up.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
We got so much time off in November due to teacher student conferences, teacher days, and other fuckery we usually did go on vacation in fall.
One year we went to Disney and the boat guy asked where we were from and over half the boat said NJ, he asked if we were a group and we all laughed and said no. Cause we weren't. We just all decided vacation instead of teacher learning days.
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1d
Central coast of CA, it’s an amazing time. Warm during day but well under 90, cools down at night perfect blend
criscodisco@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
In the South, summer is like living inside of a wet sock.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 52m
I like summer because I can wear something skimpy, it's light out, and it's just generally the season people tend to be out doing stuff and having fun. I also love spring.
Winter is the worst. It's too cold, too dark, generally miserable, and everyone just wants to sleep it away. Autumn is fine though
lukalix98@programming.dev · 3 pts · 1d
I agree 100%, but I think it mostly has to do with more natural light during the day.
hirihit640@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1d
Anybody have that screenshot of the post saying "summer sucks it just has good marketing"?
rumba@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1d
Depends on your latitude and weather/sea patterns.
The Caribbean has some nice moderate temperatures all year long, but nasty hurricanes. Seasonally it doesn't change that much.
As you head to the north and south extremes, winters are brutal and you don't get much daytime.
For the mid and south US, it's miserable outside
Nightsoul@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 14h
Naaaah I hate being in the cold for extended periods of time. I moved away from the north because I hated the winters.
At least in summer you can go out and do something without having to bundle up. I hate having to put on layers to just go for a walk.
pspspssst@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 12h
clearly never been to west Texas
Gust@piefed.social · 3 pts · 1d
My family moved almost every summer when I was a kid. I've hated the season since I was old enough to make friends
Waterpumpee@lemmus.org · 3 pts · 1d
Really depends, if youre sitting in a pool with a few beers or not. Living in a condo like a rat i basically skipped summers. Hate to share public places who litter and either themselves or their dog pees or poos in the place.
Get a garden and it's fun again. I know it's not possible for everyone but condo life is, for me, inhumane.
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1d
I hated summer as a kid. I liked school better. Home life sucked. If I wasnt getting screamed at inside, I was getting screamed at out doing farm work. so much goddamn farm work in the summers.
Fall was my favorite growing up, back to school meant no more farm work.
Now I love summers. I like fall still, but winter makes me sad, so end of summer sucks. Closing down my garden is my least favorite time of the year.
nednobbins@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 23h
I like summer and if that racist shithead Michael Richards disagrees I'm doubling down.
melfie@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 15h
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17h
....Nah. Id say I personally like it. Even with the annoying gnats and mosqutoes and wasps and the sweaty conditions. I hate cold seasons because I have difficulty getting and staying warm. During the summer that isnt a problem.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 1d
no, even the hottest summers are many times better than winters where I live; weather below 10°C is just not suited for sustaining human life and makes me want to go indoors immediately, no comparison to hot weather
expr@programming.dev · 8 pts · 1d
"not suited for human life"? Really? 10°C is... incredibly mild. Most humans are comfortable at that temperature with just a jacket and maybe a hat.
Cold weather is all about actually dressing appropriately. Every person I've ever heard bitch and moan about it are never dressed appropriately. With the right clothing, you can be comfortable at most any low temperature (obviously, extremely low temperatures require specialized clothing/equipment).
The same cannot be said for hot weather, where extreme heat is both dangerous and unavoidable.
0ops@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 1d
Tbf dressing for the heat is absolutely a thing (and it doesn't mean get naked), but yeah if it's humid out there isn't much you can do.
kazerniel@piefed.world · 2 pts · 20h
This. I visited Helsinki for the first time last winter, and we arrived just after the peak of a cold wave (between -11 and -21°C day and night). We went with proper layers so we were all right, but the next day on the small free walking tour there was an Indian guy who was only wearing a thin jacket like I would wear around +5°C. The poor dude was shivering and visibly miserable the whole time, so the tour guide made sure to add a few more indoor stops than usual where he could thaw a bit.
Grrrison@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
See I like winter, and where I live we have extended (days if not weeks) of -50°C and below.
The darkness on the other hand, is a bit much.
That being said, I love every season where I live. Summers are nice, fall is the best, winters are great but a bit long, and spring is the end of that long winter.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 1d
-50°C would cause me to never want to leave an indoor space ever in my life again or something I think, never experienced that
ManOMorphos@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21h
I've been to places where it hits 13⁰ C early morning in the summer, not even high latitudes by any means.
Regardless, I'd always rather be too cold than too hot. Cooling down is a lot harder and usually more expensive.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 14h
Bruh, anything above 20°C makes me want to go inside and crank up the A/C.
10°C is HEAVENLY.
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 1d
I do prefer summer. Our summers are not that hot though. It's like 80 degrees every day, from 40 to 60's at night. Last August it got down in the 30's at night or so for a couple of weeks. 33 degrees one morning.
Winter is what sucks, especially the last one, hardest winter since the 90s we have gone soft here.
systemglitch@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 13h
Stop using AC and go outside, you will find summers great.
Going outside is the important bit. Anyone who hates summer doesn't spend leisure time outside.
I'll die on that hill.
curiousaur@reddthat.com · 0 pts · 15h
It's a cool 64° where I'm at, I love the summer.
magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 16h
We need to fix this
EtherTide@aussie.zone · 0 pts · 15h
No. Autumn winds suck, they crack my lips. Winter is miserable. Spring is sneezy. Summer is hot, so what? Best season for surfing. And I'm Australian, our summer is dangerous, but still my favourite season.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 22h
repost from last time :
https://lemmy.world/post/40277663/21043862
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca · -2 pts · 23h
Lose some weight and get into outdoor hobbies. Summer is awesome, hiking, biking, paddling, going to the beach, summer is great if you like to actually do things outside.
offspec@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 23h
It's actively over 100°F in the city I just left and has been consistently for over a month. Waking up literally every day to an "Excessive Heat Warning" is soul sucking.
sudoshakes@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 22h
The heat index here was 111 the other day. It approached wet bulb temps. I’m a former marine and bike 50 miles a week.
The outside in the summer will literally kill you because you can’t evaporatively cool enough from sweating. It’s a biological impossibility at that point.
When it has just rained and it is still in the high 90s, you risk death playing sports outside.
I have been to jungle warfare training, fought in deserts at 125 degrees, and sweat through 60 lbs of gear and body armor.
The summers now are lethal.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 22h
You must live someplace really nice. Around here summer days are 95-100F with 80% or higher humidity, putting the heat index around 115. That's not "awesome", and that's coming from someone that bikes 150 miles or more a week.
Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 22h
Yeah but like being in the city sucks in summer and most people cant afford to be anywhere else so most people are gonna hate summer, thats just how it is. And being fit doesnt help either, nearly had a heatstroke walking to gym today, weather was forty degrees...
stoly@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 22h
You can do most of that year round
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 22h
Sorry, but 100°F and 80%+ humidity would actually kill me.
I much prefer fall/spring before it gets insanely hot or cold