counter-point: some people exist who like showing off skin and that’s easier to do if it’s not fucking freezing out there
Hard disagree. In summer plants are doing a lot of cool things as are the insects and all that activity invites many interactions with larger animals also. Whereas in the winter almost everything closes shop and goes dormant which makes invasive ne’er-do-wells like Youngia japonica and Lamium amplexicaule more prominent.
Naaaah I hate being in the cold for extended periods of time. I moved away from the north because I hated the winters.
At least in summer you can go out and do something without having to bundle up. I hate having to put on layers to just go for a walk.
clearly never been to west Texas
I like summers as in - long warm sunny days where I can hangout in a t shirt and shorts and do fun outdoor activities for a few months.
I don’t like summers as in - If I step outside I’m soaked in sweat immediately and run the air conditioning nonstop to still be kind of warm inside. Where the only enjoyable time was 2 weeks of spring like weather and 2 weeks of fall like weather between brutal winters and summers (I’m exaggerating a little).
I grew up in the northern part of the USA. Summer is also when we didn’t have to bundle up in 8 layers.
A lot of us like sundress / bikini season.
Spring & fall were generally the planting/harvest season so work was a LITTLE lighter in the summer.
All that said, fuck this heat. I’ll take cold any day.
The lowest temp I’ve experienced in my state is -52f. I like summer too. Fall is my favorite though. At least the two weeks of it we get.
Maybe if global warming hadn’t reached this point it’d be enjoyable.
While that’s a contributing factor, I remember being young in the 90s and still hating summer. I’ve always preferred the fall and winter.
Facts. Fall clearly is the ultimate season. And I personally love Winter and think it’s the most beautiful.
Ok summers are bad now but man there was something special about walking outside on a sunny day with some of your friends and no plans. Even as an adult, no plans and good weather is a recipe for a good time.
As long as we can do it indoors in air conditioning.
Stop using AC and go outside, you will find summers great.
Going outside is the important bit. Anyone who hates summer doesn’t spend leisure time outside.
I’ll die on that hill.
It’s a cool 64° where I’m at, I love the summer.
You know what else sucks? beaches. By most individual metrics they are a shitshow, but when you add all these ngatives together in peoples minds, they end up with a positive impression somehow. Do I want to go sit in sand in full sun, consume sandy food and lukewarm drinks, with limited access to normal amenities, listening to other peoples dipshit music, closely packed together with pasty bloated whale like humans without clothes? No I dont.
There are ways to make beach time enjoyable. 1) Remember it’s a rare place we’re legally allowed to lay around half naked in public & just loiter doing nothing, and it’s normal & expected behavior. 2) There’s water nearby to cool off & play. 3) Bring things to keep yourself comfortable: blankets towels chairs shade music food beverages whatever. 4) Don’t be a pasty bloated whale-like human. Being fit & healthy makes for a good time everywhere you go, 24/7/365.
Hey now some of us are pasty and semi bloated but the beach is still a good time. Even if it hurts a bit.
Dude, you need to go to a nice beach by a nice hotel. They have chairs set-up for you with umbrellas and someone will walk by and take your food and drink order and your food won’t have sand and the drinks will be cold and you can just walk into the hotel for any amenities and you’ll be with people who know better than to play music at the beach.
This is kinda regional perhaps. Winter here is like 6 hours of daytime at its worst, but most days it’s overcast so you really get 5-6 hours of real sunshine a week. It’s depressing as fuck. And oftentimes the snow doesn’t really last, it melts and everything is just muddy to boot.
Spring is when both nature and people (we’re part of nature after all) start to come alive. Summer is fucking wild. It doesn’t go dark around summer solstice. Like the sun technically sets for like 5-6 hours, but it’s never truly dark for a few weeks before and after summer solstice. It just… energizes you if you’re a night owl to start with.
Yes it gets hot, but the truly hot weather is just heat waves. Surprisingly enough while southern and central Europe was all kinds of fucked this year, we only truly had like 2 weeks of hot and it was a pleasant hot.
And like if I want to, I can just stay in during the day, enjoy my cooled home, then go out at like 7 PM when the sun is still out, but it’s not that hot anymore. You sit outside being bitten by mosquitoes, but you don’t really notice that it’s suddenly 3 AM because you were having beers with your friends, sitting around a fire at some campsite…
We really didn’t have the same summer, south west of france here. First heatwave was mid may wich already was close to 40c for two weeks, then actual summer arrives and sometimes for weeks we didn’t have anything below 30c even at night. I can’t enjoy my cooled home as it’s not cooled. Spent most of summer at home, dripping from the sweat only wearing undies. Every summer is harder to go through than the previous one and it legit scares me to think about how it will be in say 10 years.
Completely disagree. Even if your working and don’t have “summers off” like you used too. Summer time weekends heading to the lake, going outdoors for a hike or a picnic. Just generally having the sunshine on you is still far far far better than a winter world that becomes black and white for a few months.
If summer wasn’t better than winter in pretty much every way, S.A.D. (seasonal affective disorder) would be most common in summer instead of winter.
Summer is the worst time for hiking and picnics. It’s blisteringly fucking hot out and makes the hike magnitudes more exhausting and miserable being drenched in sweat. Fall is the best time for that when it’s actually cool but not yet freezing.
And personally I prefer overcast days versus bright-as-fuck sunny days where I’m constantly squinting cause it’s so damn bright out, plus the heat it brings makes it that much worse.
Winter bears summer in almost every way for me. That black and white winter wonderland is the best.
Me, an intellectual:
I LOVE summer.
I HATE the feeling of cold on my skin. Even just a little bit.
100 degrees farenheit? Bring it. I’ll take it over being even a little cold.
The heat means I can hang out naked. It means I can jump in the river. I means I can go camping. It means I can do anything but sit inside and freeze my ass off all winter in the darkness.
I only feel complete between May-September.
You’re going to love the future.
Sounds like you’d be a good fit in Arizona or Ecuador or Belize or Central America
Currently camping in Scotland with temperatures ranging 7-20°c over the 24h cycle. It’s fantastic. We die when we do it in southern Europe summer. The problem is the price you pay in winter for those mild summers…
