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My winters are longer. Same holds true for any place in the Upper Midwest, interior northwest, and New England.
I use number of days above 75 F as the minimum criteria for summers, and days below 50 F as my cutoff for winter. We have more days below 50 than above 75.
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My winters are longer. Same holds true for any place in the Upper Midwest, interior northwest, and New England.
I use number of days above 75 F as the minimum criteria for summers, and days below 50 F as my cutoff for winter. We have more days below 50 than above 75.
Geez, my cutoff for winter is highs below 40F, below 50F would be a good part of November here as well.
Geez, my cutoff for winter is highs below 40F, below 50F would be a good part of November here as well.
The second half of November is practically winter. Leaves have fallen, and it looks barren. Nights are consistently below freezing. In the I 95 corridor this doesn’t happen until December, but they have a seasonal lag in April due to cold water temps.
Winter- usually give 6 months.
Fall is about 6 weeks.
Spring about 2 months...
Summer gets the rest.
Our spring and fall seem less and less each year.
And I'm quite fond of spring/fall.
Only part of winter that is tolerable...is the crispness of air...somewhat refreshing. But the cold chills, the ice, the snow. No thanks.
First snow usually falls in October and the last usually falls in May. Summer is shorter but very hot and dry. Our transitional seasons are kind of a joke; most of September is as hot as August, and just as it begins to cool and the leaves begin to change, BOOM, snow. Spring isn't very special either, highs in the 40s and maybe 50s, then highs in the 70s, and a week later we're up to those dreaded 80s and 90s.
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If you wanted to use 70°F and 100°F for winter/summer cutoffs here (for highs), summer would be longer. Our average high is only below 70°F from Dec 5th through Jan 31st or 58 days. While for summer, our average high is 100°F+ from May 30th through Sept 19th or 113 days. That makes summer almost twice the length of winter here
I'm in coastal Southern California, so we don't have typical seasons, but "summer" to me is the time of year when it's hot: daytime highs consistently reach 85F/29C. This is July, August, September, often but not always into October.
"Winter" is the time of year when it is usually cool and it's normal to get rain, whether we actually get much or not: the second half of November through mid-March. So, I'd say they come across to me as about equal, but compared to other areas, we get a lot more warm/hot weather than anything that could be called cold.
Mid-March through June are cool to warm and springlike. The best time of the year. Mid-October through mid-November is dry, often windy, some years still fairly hot and others cooler.
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