Na winter can absolutely jog on. Give me my warm days and lots of sunlight.
It all depends on where you live.
I used to LOVE summer but its just way too hot now.
Any maybe winters not cold enough people would appreciate some warmth
Summer? When things are green? I can get strawberries from our garden? It isn’t dark at 4:30 in the afternoon? I don’t have to scrape ice off the car while it preheats idling?
That atrocious season?
Yes, that season with 40°C (104°F) and up to 90% humidity, where you can’t be outside in the sun for a quarter of the available daylight if you don’t want to die young, and the only way to fight the heat is AC.
#TeamWinter
I used to live in Australia, and moved to the Nordics. I love summer and winter here. Australian summers are too hot, and winter is just wet and cold. Nordic winters have snow (hopefully soon) and it’s dry outside, and summers are maximum 30c, anything over 25c is a heatwave. I can deal with that.
That was also my strategy to fight global warming, I moved up North. I enjoy the climate here much more (even if my countrymen tell me I am crazy).
Yeah in the nordics you have actual seasons. You miss summer.
May I present a counter argument:
#THE FUCKING SUN
Oh those two weeks where it’s like super nice and your replenish your vitamin d for the year?
Norwegian here
This is huuuuugely dependent on where you live.
It’s hot as shit here and things get brown, not Green.
Christmas also much less magical haha (because it’s summer)
Ya that atrocious season. The season where you can walk through the woods on a full moon, the luminescence making the snow practically glow as the Milky Way makes its Milky Way. That season that has a stillness and quietness not found anywhere else, where you could hear a pin drop from a football field away. That atrocious season where you get to take ridiculously hot saunas, then jump in the snow or lake, and get to feel clean from the inside out. That atrocious season where you get to cuddle up with your family in front of a nice fire and read a book. Bleh who needs it
You should write a book. That’s top tier descriptiveness.
where you get to take ridiculously hot saunas, then jump in the snow or lake,
Be careful. That behavior can cause a stroke.
I kinda like all weather, I’m a weather-appreciating generalist I guess so long as it doesn’t stay the same for too long. But I definitely like light more than darkness, and god damn the nights get long in the winter. The serenity of a fresh snowfall is not worth three months with < 8 hours of daylight.
❌Hot girl summer
✅Cold bitch winter
Depends on your climate. Climate usually cold? Summer is a relief. Climate usually hot? Summer sucks.
I like summer the most cause it’s the only season I don’t feel like shit. Whether it’s allergies, sinuses, or just general hatred for going outside (and no don’t tell me to just put on more layers cause I’m already wearing 5 layers in 8° weather and still freezing my ass off while struggling to move). Doesn’t help that I work in a cooler so spending 8-11 hours in a cold room only to leave into the colder outside isn’t enjoyable. I miss going on walks at local parks, but all I want to do now is get back in bed ASAP cause that’s the warm place.
I’m already wearing 5 layers
Why would you need more than 3 layers? Is your middle layer not insulating enough? Are there exposed parts of your body? If you don’t feel like wearing a scarf or mask, some vaseline on the nose/cheeks can help.
Tried the Vaseline cause I’m not allowed to wear scaves or masks at work where it’s also cold af. Didn’t work. Same with trying to wear 3 layers of cottom gloves while working which didn’t stop my hands from being in pain from the cold (they get cold faster than anything else on me) and more hinders my ability to work efficiently. I’m only comfortable when in a 70-85° area (or whatever my shower can get to at max heat). Any less and I’m freezing, but I can handle a decent bit more.
3 layers of cotton gloves
Big, bulky mittens, hopefully your jacket has straps on the wrist so no heat escapes there. If you need to use a touch-screen, they make 1-finger mittens.
My problem is with having to twist my hands and bend my fingers around my hook a lot. Work only allows the cotton gloves they supply which get changed out often due to them getting soaked fast which only makes it colder. They gave me these sleeve things which are extremely tight, but even wrapping them around the ends of the gloves doesn’t stop my hands from freezing.
wouldn’t you want 4 finger mittens?
More surface area=more heat loss.
in spring the rain is miserable, makes everything muddy, and you cant walk afterwards because of that mud + overgrown plants. and winter is just that but cold snow and the constant worry of my pipes freezing or water system fucking up. fall is decent but has nothing good for going on it, though going on walks at 100(f) is heavenly.
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.
Too cold? Put on more clothes until you’re warm and cozy.
Too hot? Keep taking off clothes until you’re just a sweaty naked mess begging for the sweet release of death.
I got 3 layers on inside and my hands are still chilled and my feet bounce from being cold to being sweaty so I’m constantly taking my socks on and off. I was sitting in my office at work with my coat and jacket on for 3 hours yesterday before I got back up to a comfortable temperature after being outside. Also everything just fucking hurts all the time. Fuck this shit. I don’t have issues like this in summer.
It kinda sounds like you might need to see a doctor about that.
Wtf is a doctor going to do. It’s been this way my entire life.
I don’t know, I’m not a doctor. But if it takes 3 hours in a jacket indoors to get warm, there’s potentially an issue going on. Temperature regulation issues could be nothing, or they could be a symptom of an underlying issue.
My wife is like that and it’s probably the neuropathy from the lupus that no one but her eye doctor believes she has (despite her father and his mother dying from it). Like, if it’s below 78F, she has a jacket on.
So just because it has been that way your whole life, without a doctor looking into why, it is an unsolvable problem…? All you’ve said just screams “I want to have this problem because it’s something to complain about”.
Imagine if a person has had a limp their whole life, they complain about it and other people say “it shouldn’t be like that, it’s not normal and you should get it looked at” and their reply is what you said. See how fucking dumb that is? That’s you.So, say it is some medical issue where my body doesn’t regulate temperature properly, what will they actually be able to do? Make me spend $1000s on diagnostic tests? Put me on an expensive medication that I have to take forever? I live in America, our healthcare is a joke and I’m not going to waste my money on something that isn’t actively killing me. So yeah I’m going to complain.
Too cold? Put on more clothes until you’re warm and cozy.
again, different parts are difficult to keep warm, like my nose or my hands and feet. How the fuck am I meant to type with thick gloves on?
Also, the differing levels of activity and transitions make it awkward, I’m dressed in a thick coat because its cold, and my core starts to get warm because I’m walking , but my arms would be freezing, and when I get to my destination I take of my coat and stench bomb wherever the fuck I am
As opposed to being too hot all over and desperate for anything that gives the slightest momentary relief. Not being able stand any activity because movement just makes you hotter and the heat has sapped your will to live. Being sweaty all over no matter what you do because it’s all your body can do to keep you alive.
Our bodies generate heat. When trying to warm up, physics is on our side. When trying to cool down, we are fighting a losing battle. You’re worrying about typing in gloves while I’m trying to figure how to waterproof my whole system so I can work from my shower.
bruh just turn on a fan
That only helps up to about 80F for me. Beyond that, it’s just misery with a breeze.
Ok. It introduces wind. Temps still remain high.
Stay inside from 11-3? More like stay inside from May-September.
I never stop sweating for like four months of the year and hate it.
Too hot? just stay indoors between 11 and 3 and you’ll be fine.
Good thing no one works outdoors and every building has A/C.
It sucks to work outdoors full stop. You think they prefer it cold or rainy?
My dad’s a welder, works outside every day. I asked him, he said obviously it depends on the situation but in general he’d take cold and dry. 1-5 degrees and raining is just about worst case scenario for him. We’re Canadian though so we’re used to the cold, maybe if you asked someone from Florida or something they’d have a different answer.
My dad’s a welder,
he’d take cold and dry. 1-5 degrees and raining is just about worst case scenario for him.He’s working with fire. of course he prefers winter.
Canadian here. Fuck being cold.
And never seeing the sun.
How many mosquito bites did you get today?
I’d rather take the summer mosquitoes. It goes down to as low as -40c/f and I just don’t want to dress in like four layers w/ snowpants, balaklava, boots and all that to do every single thing that requires going outside like taking out the garbage or doing groceries
I’d assume the same number people who don’t live near swamps get. Or people who stay inside.
Too hot? just stay indoors between 11 to 3 and you’ll be fine.
Cries in European (we usually don’t have AC)
A dehumidifier plus a “swamp cooler” (a bucket of ice in front of a fan) works pretty well so long as you keep it to one room and only expect it to work for a few hours or so. Otherwise you’ll be buying a lot of ice and doing a lot of work dumping the water from the dehumidifier.
Won’t the dehumidifier warm up the room again?
Yes, but it’s not a big deal because it only will run once the humidity gets above a certain level - especially if you’re using it to cover multiple rooms where any heat from it running will disperse across a wide area. You set it to something like 60% and it will pop on occasionally for a few minutes to maintain that level.
In a closed room with a swamp cooler it’s a bit of a different story, but that’s why I recommend that only for a short period of time, a couple of hours at most. Just long enough to cool down yourself and the room.
So you leave the dehumidifier on all the time on an automatic setting in a central location in the house to keep the air in the house fairly dry, run a swamp cooler late in the afternoon to cool down your room, and if it isn’t too hot and humid outside, open a couple of windows in the house to get some cross ventilation going and air out the house once the sun goes down.
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bruh just turn on a fan
Bruh, learn physics: Those don’t work too well if it’s too humid. 🙄
… isn’t it the other way around?
Nope. You lose heat by evaporation of water on your skin. If the air is too humid, water can evaporate worse and worse.
That’s why heat in the Sahara is easier to handle than in the amazon forest.
OK, but I’m not talking about making your body temperature drop, I’m talking about feeling cooler. Doesn’t having more stuff in the breeze make it feel cooler?
No. What makes you feel colder is the air moving faster and therefore absorbing sweat off your skin more quickly. If the air is already moist then its capacity for extra heat goes down. You should look up what Wet Bulb Temperature is. In short, it’s when the humidity nears 100%, which prevents the air from absorbing any heat from your body because it’s no longer pulling sweat off of you. At this level of humidity, even special forces units have found themselves incapacitated within hours due to heat stroke during army tests of soldier capabilities in those conditions. There was a heatwave of about 70-80F in the UK a couple of years ago where multiple people died of heat stroke related organ failure because the humidity was so high that their organs couldn’t cool down and overheated until they just stopped working.
If you want to cool down, ideally the first step is to get a dehumidifier to pull water out of the air. This is how air conditioners work as well, they pull moisture out of the air which carries heat, and then transfer that heat and moisture somewhere else.
In the short term, you can use a “swamp cooler” as an ad hoc air conditioner to help cool down. A swamp cooler is just a big bucket of ice in front of a fan. The ice will cool down the air in front of the fan as it blows over it, allowing it to absorb heat from the rest of the room. This only works short-term though, because it won’t do anything about the humidity in the room and will actually increase the humidity as the ice melts.
I don’t know what else to tell you other than “evaporation makes it feel colder”.
Have you ever been in a Turkish sauna? That’s the same principle. Warm water in the air is definitely not pleasant and refreshing.
That’s what your mom did (I’m her fan)
You know that scene from riddick where the guy steps into the sun/desert storm and gets instantly vaporized? Thats what its like here in the summer. Every year my state sends everyone a letter telling them basically not to go outside. Winters are aight, they get a little cold. Coldest i can remember was about -10f or im guessing about -14C
I live in Calgary. The 3 things Calgarians will invariably tell you are: 1) Calgary Olympics was the only profitable one and was well managed. 2) Tennessee barbeque is the greatest. 3) it gets to -40, but it’s not so bad because it’s dry cold.
Only one of those is unconditionally true.
- Calgary Olympics was the only profitable one and was well managed
is it this one?
Yup. They used it as an impetus to build public transportation infrastructure, turned the Olympic complex into a winter sporting area, and the athlete dorms into student/affordable housing.
Since then, public transportation has turned to dog shit for most of the city, but it works well for me. Plenty of people still use the winter sporting infrastructure (I think), and housing still exists even if everything around those areas are getting gentrified, which somewhat of a universal truth.
Fuck that, where I am winters are; very cold days. short, overcast, rain and windy af
Summer is superb; cool, sunny, longer days
When i liveed in the tropics, summer was sweat dripping balls and horrible.
Your wingers sound delightful, trade you for my California seasons where the sun is a deadly Lazer most of the damned time. Even when it’s cold that bright fucker in the sky will burn your skin, though I guess I’m also exceptionally pale.
Summer is superb; cool
You haven’t been south and it shows buddy.
But I like warm! >:v
I like snow and I like sun. Everything in between is just grey, boring, depressing, with lot’s of wind.
Autumn is the best. It’s like spring but dry. It’s like summer but not boiling.
Autumn and spring are usually pretty wet here in the UK… Which is fine because I like rain.
Hello fellow rain lover in the UK. I like the rain, and the dark. Walking in the rain on a winter evening is as good as it gets. It’s best when there’s no wind and the sound of the rain changes depending on what it’s falling on. That moment when I move from next to a lake to some trees (as an example) is amazing sound transition.
Yeah… i get ya… but for me autumn makes my brain go “Fuck! Its almost winter… Fuck! Its almost winter” Ad inifitum. So for me spring wins cause i know ive got maximum time until the freezing temps make my bones hurt, and patches of ice are sneakily waiting to make me fall…
what it feels liek to come here as someone who likes summer…
(please, it is all in good fun, i understand how different people enjoy/suffer temperatures differently)
When you’re cold, you can always put more clothing on.
When you’re hot, you can only take so much clothing off.
technically there is an upper limit to how much clothing one can put on, even if that is the mass of the universe.
You’d collapse into a star well before that. And even before that, you’d be burnt up by molten sweaters. Though it’s not as bad as it sounds because you’d be crushed long before the heat got too much to stay solid.
i understand that, but personally, unles we are talking about >100F and >90% humidity, i don’t need more than a small fan and cool water to feel fine
Especially if you live in a hot, and HUMID environment. Sweat doesn’t cool you if it can’t evaporate due to high humidity. You just turn into a sweaty hot mess and overheat.
Humidity is a killer, hot or cold. -5 c can feel worst than -20 c
My argument is that summer is relatively terrible specifically in our current circumstances. For most of history, I would absolutely agree with you. But now we have all kinds of heaters and blankets and clothes designed with incredibly complicated materials to insulate us. There’s like 62 million ways keep warm, like 3 ways to keep cold (air conditionerand, touch cold thing, or take off clothes) then factor in global warming and obesity rates rising. It’s almost enough to forget that for most of history winter is when people starved and froze to death meanwhile summer was a time of wonderful abundance.
If it stayed light until 8pm in the winter I’m sure I would like winter better than I currently do
I haven’t lived in the south where summer sucks due to the heat. But, I have lived in places where summer drags on too long. Like it starts in March or April and ends in November. By the time it is over, you’re kinda sick of long days, and the expectation to be outside. Winter becomes a nice excuse to not talk to anyone and go to bed early.
