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I actually believe that most people are taught to hate the cold. Right now I'm here in CT and we've had snow every other day this week and I'm doing perfectly fine. Life goes on. I'm not sick of winter. I conditioned my mind to just accept it for what it is. It's all about attitude. We can look forward to enjoyable weather for the next 7 months, while the people living in Texas and Florida will be SUFFERING in extreme heat and humidity for 4-6 months nonstop, as they are constantly clamoring for climate controlled indoor temperatures. A lifestyle of AC 24/7. Personally, I think summers in CT get too hot sometimes and honestly, it sucks when you have to wear long sleeved business clothes to work like I do. There is NOTHING worse than walking into the office all sweaty in business clothes. GROSS!
The almanac was correct when it said that this winter would be much colder than average. The almanac also says that this summer will be much hotter than average. Not sure I'd want to be down south in the summer this year!
I actually believe that most people are taught to hate the cold. Right now I'm here in CT and we've had snow every other day this week and I'm doing perfectly fine. Life goes on. I'm not sick of winter. I conditioned my mind to just accept it for what it is. It's all about attitude. We can look forward to enjoyable weather for the next 7 months, while the people living in Texas and Florida will be SUFFERING in extreme heat and humidity for 4-6 months nonstop, as they are constantly clamoring for climate controlled indoor temperatures. A lifestyle of AC 24/7. Personally, I think summers in CT get too hot sometimes and honestly, it sucks when you have to wear long sleeved business clothes to work like I do. There is NOTHING worse than walking into the office all sweaty in business clothes. GROSS!
The almanac was correct when it said that this winter would be much colder than average. The almanac also says that this summer will be much hotter than average. Not sure I'd want to be down south in the summer this year!
Suffering? Miami Beach is a whopping 5F warmer in the summer than whatever suburb you are in Connecticut.
In the winter, we are 50-60F warmer than your sleepy suburb. We don't suffer in either season.
Suffering? Miami Beach is a whopping 5F warmer in the summer than whatever suburb you are in Connecticut.
In the winter, we are 50-60F warmer than your sleepy suburb. We don't suffer in either season.
Completely false.
The average high temperature in Miami during the summer is 91F. Here where I live now, it's 84F. That's a 7 degree difference, which is noticeable. And I don't live in a suburb. I live in a city.
Florida's climate and Florida in general is an anomaly and isn't how most Americans live.
The average high temperature in Miami during the summer is 91F. Here where I live now, it's 84F. That's a 7 degree difference, which is noticeable. And I don't live in a suburb. I live in a city.
Florida's climate is an anomaly and isn't how most Americans live.
I actually believe that most people are taught to hate the cold. Right now I'm here in CT and we've had snow every other day this week and I'm doing perfectly fine. Life goes on. I'm not sick of winter. I conditioned my mind to just accept it for what it is. It's all about attitude. We can look forward to enjoyable weather for the next 7 months, while the people living in Texas and Florida will be SUFFERING in extreme heat and humidity for 4-6 months nonstop, as they are constantly clamoring for climate controlled indoor temperatures. A lifestyle of AC 24/7. Personally, I think summers in CT get too hot sometimes and honestly, it sucks when you have to wear long sleeved business clothes to work like I do. There is NOTHING worse than walking into the office all sweaty in business clothes. GROSS!
The almanac was correct when it said that this winter would be much colder than average. The almanac also says that this summer will be much hotter than average. Not sure I'd want to be down south in the summer this year!
Also, people forget that the scenery in the north/northeast is generally more appealing than the scenery of the Southeast or Texas, to most people anyway. So, during the beautiful summer here in the northeast, we will have MOUNTAINS and hills and valleys combined with the heat! Most of Florida and Texas is nearly flat or totally flat.
I mean, you simply can't replicate this experience anywhere in Florida or Texas (picture of New Hampshire white mountains):
I agree with you. New Yorkers put up with terrible winters because it's New York. If I wasn't in New York, though, I wouldn't put up with it. I'd be in Florida or California. I guess other people deal with it because it's home and, as some said, you simply take the good with the bad.
This was the coldest February EVER on record in New York City and the second coldest winter I can remember during my lifetime (the coldest was winter of 03-04).
This winter was dangerously cold, and it presented a life danger that summer time temps in NYC do not. This past Tuesday, I would suspect the average person would die after a few minutes of being exposed to that cold with no clothing.
Same here north of Boston. November was pretty cold. December was tame but not far above average here and January and February were absolutely brutal. The last two winters have been incredibly cold and snowy. Typically we get around 40 inches of snow a year. Last year we had over 100 inches and this year over 100 inches. It's been a constant cold on top of it. In winters before we would get those days in between that would melt some of it away. We haven't been getting those days the last couple winters. It's to a point I can't see over the snow banks at all to make a turn and I drive a truck. Some of the local fishermen have resorted to shoveling instead of fishing. The water is so cold they're not catching anything. A couple older fishermen told me they've never seen anything like this. The estuaries are still completely frozen over. There are mini ice bergs floating around big enough to sink a boat. There are front loaders still trying to clear I-95's snow piled up on the median and shoulder. Dump trucks hauling snow. People willing to pay hundreds to have their roof cleared off. I've made more in the past 2 months plowing and roof raking than I did in the previous 6 months.
I really don't think NYCers have much to complain about weather or cold winter. They have pretty normal winters that by any definitely is not brutal.
I'll play devil's advocate for NYC winters and say that a climate that hovers right around the freezing mark and thus contends with snow, ice, sleet, rain, back to snow, then to rain, then a perfect sheet of transparent, inch-thick ice, then a couple of inches of snow over that, then it partially melts causing 6 inch deep puddles everywhere surrounded by 4 foot tall piles of ice and crystalized snow, then it rains two inches, then it is 5 degrees overnight, and so on and so on...
Is far more brutal than consistent frigid temperatures and heaps of fluffly snow.
I actually believe that most people are taught to hate the cold.
People aren't taught to hate it. That's like saying most people are taught to hate the smell of manure. For most people, cold weather is naturally uncomfortable. That's why restaurants don't offer outdoor seating when it's 32 degrees outside.
I'll play devil's advocate for NYC winters and say that a climate that hovers right around the freezing mark and thus contends with snow, ice, sleet, rain, back to snow, then to rain, then a perfect sheet of transparent, inch-thick ice, then a couple of inches of snow over that, then it partially melts causing 6 inch deep puddles everywhere surrounded by 4 foot tall piles of ice and crystalized snow, then it rains two inches, then it is 5 degrees overnight, and so on and so on...
Snow is very pretty...until it's plowed.
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