Me, I've always preferred summer. From 8-yo to 16-yo, I delivered newspapers in all seasons. I loved heat and humidity. Thrived in it. I hated cold, wet, snow, ice, and related crap. That stayed with me. I'm loving the current conditions in late July/early August in SoNE. Heat and humidity is good as far as I'm concerned. So, how do you feel about your climate?
I would follow up on my original post by saying my absolute favorite places on hot, sunny days are at Thompson and Lime Rock. (Don't tell Annie). With sun block, of course. So that could be an adjunct to my original post ... where do you like to be in your favorite season?
Summer. When people tell me they prefer cold weather because you can always wear more clothes, I want to smack them upside the head.
Grow food in the winter. Survive with the power out in the winter. Have your car break down on a back road in the winter.
Sweating is good for the soul. Shut off your AC, relish the life giving heat.
Bah, I hate humidity. I’m willing to tolerate cold if it means not dripping sweat and needing to shower again just as soon as you get out of the shower.
Frankly, I’d rather have fall year round.
It depends. In summer, I prefer winter and in winter I prefer summer. Actually I prefer fall more, moderate temps and not a much pollen as spring.
give me summer. Last week when it was threatening to reach triple digits, I considered turning on the AC in the car.. I never did. I wear a fleece all year around at work as the air being set at a constant 72 is too cold for me
Winter = hockey
Summer = motorcycle.
I'm conflicted.
Ever since I quit skiing, and got a motorcycle, I have no use for cold and snow. No berking use, whatsoever. At all. None.
Snow = drift anything RWD. Anything. That alone is worth it.
Summer
Appleseed said:Snow = drift anything RWD. Anything. That alone is worth it.
I might be able to drift on my work, before the city throws down enough salt to start making things rust so fast you can hear it....
Duke said:Bah, I hate humidity. I’m willing to tolerate cold if it means not dripping sweat and needing to shower again just as soon as you get out of the shower.
Frankly, I’d rather have fall year round.
Duke has the right season picked out.
+2 for Fall.
It's by far my favourite season.
The only reason I like spring over fall, in Oklahoma, spring is crazy thunderstorm season.
I prefer summer. However, I have neighbors with outdoor speakers dialed to 10 playing "Bro Country" until 1:30 am some weekends. They don't do that in the winter, so there's that.
Region might have a lot to do with it. I berkeleying HAAAAAAATE being hot. That said, we *might* get a week of snow here, so I have no idea what it’s like to deal with that months at a time.
Both. Because if you have a great version of both, then you get both a strong Spring and a wonderful Fall.
I've done part of winter where it doesn't happen- I'd be miserable if I had to live in constant 80-90F. And my brother lived south of Fairbanks, and I'd be miserable if it regularly got to -40- -60. As it stands, we get warm in summer- a handful of days over 90, and cold in the winter- a handful of days just below 0. The only thing that really makes winter here in SE MI suck is the cloud cover- which is higher than many other places.
Summer is where it's at. Cold sucks. Darkness sucks. Cars don't function well in the cold. My joints ache in the cold.
Give me some life giving warmth thanks!
Anything that is outside of 45-65F can piss off. It's almost like my people come from a temperate climate and have not adapted to anything else. Oh sun, no sun either. Clouds and a perpetual mist would be fine, unless it's time to go racing.
KyAllroad (Jeremy) said:Summer is where it's at. Cold sucks. Darkness sucks. Cars don't function well in the cold. My joints ache in the cold.
Give me some life giving warmth thanks!
Dense, cold air makes power.
Between the two, winter.
But preferably, from best to worst: Fall, Spring, Winter, Summer
Lately in Kansas though, we haven't been getting much of Fall or Spring. Maybe a couple weeks or so, but that's it. Just one extreme to the next.
Streetwiseguy said:When people tell me they prefer cold weather because you can always wear more clothes, I want to smack them upside the head.
Why? It's true. Worst of all, heat makes you want to not to anything but sit in front of a fan, and then you feel bad about not getting anything done. If it's cold then you have thermal headroom in which to do things like work or exercise.
If I had to pick one or other other, I'd have to grudgingly pick summer, but I'm happy to take winters in return for milder summers.
Duke said:Bah, I hate humidity. I’m willing to tolerate cold if it means not dripping sweat and needing to shower again just as soon as you get out of the shower.
This. Even though I have to use moisturizer in low-humidity environments to keep my skin from drying to the point of cracking and bleeding, it's a small price to pay, humidity + heat = the devil.
Appleseed said:KyAllroad (Jeremy) said:Summer is where it's at. Cold sucks. Darkness sucks. Cars don't function well in the cold. My joints ache in the cold.
Give me some life giving warmth thanks!
Dense, cold air makes power.
Also this, cold and dry air is the best for a car, it gives the best cooling and the densest charge for ICEs, and you can use powertrain waste heat to make the cabin comfortable if you need to vs. running AC which always takes power.
It'll be around 110f here until the end of the month, peaking around 115. I'll take two months of this over two weeks of 30f every time. I don't have AC in my car (though the wife does) and the house only has window units. WINTER BLOWS GOATS!
Summer = Scantily-clad women.
'Nuff said.
Fall trumps them all.
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