How has your perception of weather changed since you've studied it? (warm, record)

[MeteoFlan]

I came to Buxton first in 2003, that good summer, and then subsequent summers were pretty decent. I was at uni from 2006-2009 and that's around the time when summers began to deteriorate to the typical rubbish that seems to have taken over since.

Therefore in my first few years in Buxton I had no idea just how cold the summers really are on average until I saw the averages from the met office. I couldn't believe the average high for June for example was only 17 and 19 for July.

[forgotten username]

I've always been interested in the passing of seasons because I'm kind of an outdoor person, my parents always took me out when I was a kid and I continued. I'm also a nerd about music and also about calendars. I also love maps and cartography.

I guess I'm obsessed with the passing of time and I generally associate a year with what the weather was at the time, at which point I was in my life, the music I was into then and where I traveled.

Also, growing up in a variable climate which has features of continental, subtropical, oceanic and mediterranean influences, I'm used to checking the weather pretty much all the time and my memories have been associated with most kinds of weather a temperate climate can bring (snow, rain, sun, wind, fog)

I started studying it a bit more when i started studying because I was in geography and I had bought a book about it. This is how I found out about the various types of climates besides the usual temperate / polar / desert / jungle / etc subdivisions. Also, at the time I started checking the weather in various locations in the world, and spending a year studying in Toronto was also a result of me being very interested in winter and snow and living in a climate which was not reliable reguarding snow. I was a kid in the 1980s and I have many memories of snowy winters, and in the 1990s most of our winters have been almost snow-free. I wanted to reconnect with my childhood maybe ?

I'm not sure I gave the right answer to this thread but here we go.

[SummerStroke]

Living in a subarctic climate, I only came to realise the fail whale derp of a climate this is once I saw the statistics.

[Walshie79]

Since I've been studying worldwide weather (last 10-15 years) I've come to realise just how little sunshine the UK gets by world standards. At school we are taught "Britain is warm because of the Gulf Stream" blah blah blah, not in summer it isn't- places further north in Scandinavia, Russia etc have warmer summers than we do. And realising that places like Stockholm average well over 200 hours sun in June and July while most of the UK doesn't was the nail in the coffin.

When I was at university in Newcastle I knew lots of foreign students, and their comments about the weather gave me an insight too, some of them surprised me. The guy from Saskatchewan said we don't know what cold means, but he noticed how dark it was in the winter. The Iranian woman surprised me when she said "Yes, we get snow in Tehran, all the time". The Spaniards (there were lots of them) "We love the city but not the weather". But the one who never ever complained was the Chinese housemate I had one year, who came from Chongqing. Now I know why, the first thing he did on arriving was probably point at the sun and say "What's that?".

[divisionbyzero0]

Originally Posted by Mr.Sir

Don't be, as a kid I thought that rainy areas were wet because they had a lot of lakes for evaporation. And that dry areas didn't have any lakes for the clouds to get any water from.

As a kid I was wondering why when we get milky sunny skies (i called that "white sun") feels more uncomfortably hot than clear skies / yellow/orange sun, in the same temperature/sun angle
Turns out that was the humidity that makes me uncomfortable...

[Infamous92]

I thought our (Mid-Atlantic USA) winters were among the coldest on Earth outside of the poles, I know that isn't remotely the case now, but it's funny. And I thought all climates had a hot summer, definitely not true.

[wawa1992]

I've become much more interested in variable weather and my climatic preferences have tended more and more continental.

[divisionbyzero0]

Preferences changed as well, more cool-liking compared to 5 years before

[Ethereal]

Beginning to hate cold and heat as much as each other.

I used to love heat and didn't mind the cold before. Recently, I was in favour of the cold.

Now I really can't stand both.

[Nichle]

I used to have pretty much no idea when the seasons were, except that summer was around the end/beginning of a year, but winter was around the middle (New Zealand). I couldn't tell you which order spring and autumn were, or what season April was. I also thought that pretty much everywhere in New Zealand had basically the exact same climate, with any differences being day-to-day anomalies caused by rain, cloud or wind.

I guess that's what happens when you grow up staying inside a lot nearly all the time, and when day-to-day variations in your own climate can be larger than seasonal ones.