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South is worse. The heat and the brutal heat surround and pound you for about ten months a year. There is no respite at night. If the days are in the nineties, the nights are in the eighties. Still oppressive. Everything smells from the heat.
I feel the opposite. Hot nights can be annoying if they're sticky, but they won't deter me from sitting at an outside bar for 3 hours with a group of friends.
A cold, bitter day becomes a colder, bitter night. If your high temp is 11, the low might be -1. Add in a wind chill and you're looking at -11, easily. Very few people are going to be outside recreationally (boat rides, beer gardens, concerts, movie nights in the park, etc.) during the evening in that kind of weather. This is 24/7 Netflix weather.
Brutal winters are much worse. Temperatures are often very low, snow is usually abundant, and you can't do anything outside without serious risk of frostbite. The sky darkens early which makes it even worse and more unpleasant. While Thanksgiving and Christmas brighten up the winter months, it's not something I enjoy.
Can any of you winter-haters really not find anything enjoyable or productive to do indoors? Are you unable to enjoy an amazing dinner in a cozy booth at a fine restaurant? Do you have an aversion to some immersive reading by the fireplace? No time to focus on a hobby or a collection? Or research and plan some new perennials to bring into the garden? Or invite friends for movie nights at home? The possibilities are endless. Good grief!
Winter really isn't days, weeks, and months on end of cold, snow, wind, ice, injury, forced confinement, and self-pity!
South is worse. The heat and the brutal heat surround and pound you for about ten months a year. There is no respite at night. If the days are in the nineties, the nights are in the eighties. Still oppressive. Everything smells from the heat.
The cold and the snow have very short seasons and then you are into blissful spring, somewhat hot summer (but not as bad as the south), and glorious autumn.
See, I have lived in the north and in the south and I consider a brutal summer in the south to be easier to deal with than a brutal winter in the north. And I love love love our springs here in NE Texas.
Remember, we are talking about BRUTAL temperatures, not the average ones.
Can any of you winter-haters really not find anything enjoyable or productive to do indoors? Are you unable to enjoy an amazing dinner in a cozy booth at a fine restaurant? Do you have an aversion to some immersive reading by the fireplace? No time to focus on a hobby or a collection? Or research and plan some new perennials to bring into the garden? Or invite friends for movie nights at home? The possibilities are endless. Good grief!
Winter really isn't days, weeks, and months on end of cold, snow, wind, ice, injury, forced confinement, and self-pity!
No, but winter IS lugging coats and hats and scarves around all over the place. Brutal winters are terrible to me, terrible. Worse than brutal summers in my opinion. And yes, we find all sorts of things to do inside, in the AC. LOL
Remember. we are discussing BRUTAL temps, not typically milder temps. Brutal cold, brutal heat.
Can any of you winter-haters really not find anything enjoyable or productive to do indoors? Are you unable to enjoy an amazing dinner in a cozy booth at a fine restaurant? Do you have an aversion to some immersive reading by the fireplace? No time to focus on a hobby or a collection? Or research and plan some new perennials to bring into the garden? Or invite friends for movie nights at home? The possibilities are endless. Good grief!
Winter really isn't days, weeks, and months on end of cold, snow, wind, ice, injury, forced confinement, and self-pity!
I love sunny days and gloriously pleasant temperate weather but I often find myself SO peacefully happy when it’s pouring rain and snow-in as there’s something so calming about those weather (providing 1: you don’t have to go out. 2: you’re not on the road.) in the comfort of your home.
I always find the first day of snow so beautiful. The world is calm and almost serene.
Reading by the fire place and listening to the crackling fire is lovely.
A cozy crowded restaurant in winter, especially during Xmas time, is one of my favorite things. It’s always comforting, brings out a lot of sense of camaraderie among the fellow restaurant patrons, it feels festive and warm and fuzzy.
Something about cold weather and night time together makes me love the world, love people around me and corny expression like “we are in this together”, I don’t know why. Watching psychological thrillers like The Silence of the Lambs for the 289th time in the cold, cold night wrapping in the warm soft blanket in the sweetly dim living room has to be one of the “joie de vivre” in the world.
I don't find it to be brutally cold until it gets well below -20F if there is no wind. If there is wind than that is an entirely different answer, probably less than 10F.
I hate any high temperatures above 85F with humidity. Any low temperatures above 70F are nasty.
We've been topping 100 every day for weeks, and I have now gone two days in a row eating every meal outside on a patio. Is that something that anyone does in a brutal winter? I'm thinking not lol.
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