I used to LOVE summer but its just way too hot now.
Any maybe winters not cold enough people would appreciate some warmth
listen here, canadian, you may like it when your extremities hurt from how fucking cold it is, and love sweating because you have to wear layers to not freeze, but your nose is still cold, but some of us actually like feeling like we’re warm enough and being ok with things being bright, visible, welcoming and comfortable.
Too hot? just stay indoors between 11 to 3 and you’ll be fine.
EDIT: Unlike those random ass non summer months when it can rain or be shittier than usual at random, we know when it’s too fucking hot or so sunny it will burn you; it’s the same fucking time every day.
Too cold? Put on more clothes until you’re warm and cozy.
Too hot? Keep taking off clothes until you’re just a sweaty naked mess begging for the sweet release of death.
Too cold? Put on more clothes until you’re warm and cozy.
again, different parts are difficult to keep warm, like my nose or my hands and feet. How the fuck am I meant to type with thick gloves on?
Also, the differing levels of activity and transitions make it awkward, I’m dressed in a thick coat because its cold, and my core starts to get warm because I’m walking , but my arms would be freezing, and when I get to my destination I take of my coat and stench bomb wherever the fuck I am
As opposed to being too hot all over and desperate for anything that gives the slightest momentary relief. Not being able stand any activity because movement just makes you hotter and the heat has sapped your will to live. Being sweaty all over no matter what you do because it’s all your body can do to keep you alive.
Our bodies generate heat. When trying to warm up, physics is on our side. When trying to cool down, we are fighting a losing battle. You’re worrying about typing in gloves while I’m trying to figure how to waterproof my whole system so I can work from my shower.
bruh just turn on a fan
That only helps up to about 80F for me. Beyond that, it’s just misery with a breeze.
Ok. It introduces wind. Temps still remain high.
Stay inside from 11-3? More like stay inside from May-September.
I never stop sweating for like four months of the year and hate it.
Too hot? just stay indoors between 11 and 3 and you’ll be fine.
Good thing no one works outdoors and every building has A/C.
It sucks to work outdoors full stop. You think they prefer it cold or rainy?
My dad’s a welder, works outside every day. I asked him, he said obviously it depends on the situation but in general he’d take cold and dry. 1-5 degrees and raining is just about worst case scenario for him. We’re Canadian though so we’re used to the cold, maybe if you asked someone from Florida or something they’d have a different answer.
My dad’s a welder,
he’d take cold and dry. 1-5 degrees and raining is just about worst case scenario for him.He’s working with fire. of course he prefers winter.
Too hot? just stay indoors between 11 to 3 and you’ll be fine.
Cries in European (we usually don’t have AC)
https://lemmy.world/post/40277663/21045211
bruh just turn on a fan
Bruh, learn physics: Those don’t work too well if it’s too humid. 🙄
… isn’t it the other way around?
Nope. You lose heat by evaporation of water on your skin. If the air is too humid, water can evaporate worse and worse.
That’s why heat in the Sahara is easier to handle than in the amazon forest.
OK, but I’m not talking about making your body temperature drop, I’m talking about feeling cooler. Doesn’t having more stuff in the breeze make it feel cooler?
I don’t know what else to tell you other than “evaporation makes it feel colder”.
No. What makes you feel colder is the air moving faster and therefore absorbing sweat off your skin more quickly. If the air is already moist then its capacity for extra heat goes down. You should look up what Wet Bulb Temperature is. In short, it’s when the humidity nears 100%, which prevents the air from absorbing any heat from your body because it’s no longer pulling sweat off of you. At this level of humidity, even special forces units have found themselves incapacitated within hours due to heat stroke during army tests of soldier capabilities in those conditions. There was a heatwave of about 70-80F in the UK a couple of years ago where multiple people died of heat stroke related organ failure because the humidity was so high that their organs couldn’t cool down and overheated until they just stopped working.
If you want to cool down, ideally the first step is to get a dehumidifier to pull water out of the air. This is how air conditioners work as well, they pull moisture out of the air which carries heat, and then transfer that heat and moisture somewhere else.
In the short term, you can use a “swamp cooler” as an ad hoc air conditioner to help cool down. A swamp cooler is just a big bucket of ice in front of a fan. The ice will cool down the air in front of the fan as it blows over it, allowing it to absorb heat from the rest of the room. This only works short-term though, because it won’t do anything about the humidity in the room and will actually increase the humidity as the ice melts.
Have you ever been in a Turkish sauna? That’s the same principle. Warm water in the air is definitely not pleasant and refreshing.
That’s what your mom did (I’m her fan)
A dehumidifier plus a “swamp cooler” (a bucket of ice in front of a fan) works pretty well so long as you keep it to one room and only expect it to work for a few hours or so. Otherwise you’ll be buying a lot of ice and doing a lot of work dumping the water from the dehumidifier.
Won’t the dehumidifier warm up the room again?
Yes, but it’s not a big deal because it only will run once the humidity gets above a certain level - especially if you’re using it to cover multiple rooms where any heat from it running will disperse across a wide area. You set it to something like 60% and it will pop on occasionally for a few minutes to maintain that level.
In a closed room with a swamp cooler it’s a bit of a different story, but that’s why I recommend that only for a short period of time, a couple of hours at most. Just long enough to cool down yourself and the room.
So you leave the dehumidifier on all the time on an automatic setting in a central location in the house to keep the air in the house fairly dry, run a swamp cooler late in the afternoon to cool down your room, and if it isn’t too hot and humid outside, open a couple of windows in the house to get some cross ventilation going and air out the house once the sun goes down.
You know that scene from riddick where the guy steps into the sun/desert storm and gets instantly vaporized? Thats what its like here in the summer. Every year my state sends everyone a letter telling them basically not to go outside. Winters are aight, they get a little cold. Coldest i can remember was about -10f or im guessing about -14C
I live in Calgary. The 3 things Calgarians will invariably tell you are: 1) Calgary Olympics was the only profitable one and was well managed. 2) Tennessee barbeque is the greatest. 3) it gets to -40, but it’s not so bad because it’s dry cold.
Only one of those is unconditionally true.
- Calgary Olympics was the only profitable one and was well managed
is it this one?
Yup. They used it as an impetus to build public transportation infrastructure, turned the Olympic complex into a winter sporting area, and the athlete dorms into student/affordable housing.
Since then, public transportation has turned to dog shit for most of the city, but it works well for me. Plenty of people still use the winter sporting infrastructure (I think), and housing still exists even if everything around those areas are getting gentrified, which somewhat of a universal truth.
Summer? When things are green? I can get strawberries from our garden? It isn’t dark at 4:30 in the afternoon? I don’t have to scrape ice off the car while it preheats idling?
That atrocious season?
Yes, that season with 40°C (104°F) and up to 90% humidity, where you can’t be outside in the sun for a quarter of the available daylight if you don’t want to die young, and the only way to fight the heat is AC.
#TeamWinter
May I present a counter argument:
#THE FUCKING SUN
Oh those two weeks where it’s like super nice and your replenish your vitamin d for the year?
Norwegian here
Ya that atrocious season. The season where you can walk through the woods on a full moon, the luminescence making the snow practically glow as the Milky Way makes its Milky Way. That season that has a stillness and quietness not found anywhere else, where you could hear a pin drop from a football field away. That atrocious season where you get to take ridiculously hot saunas, then jump in the snow or lake, and get to feel clean from the inside out. That atrocious season where you get to cuddle up with your family in front of a nice fire and read a book. Bleh who needs it
where you get to take ridiculously hot saunas, then jump in the snow or lake,
Be careful. That behavior can cause a stroke.
You should write a book. That’s top tier descriptiveness.
This is huuuuugely dependent on where you live.
It’s hot as shit here and things get brown, not Green.
Christmas also much less magical haha (because it’s summer)
No. It’s the nice weather and long days.
I also enjoy actually seeing the fucking sun once in a while.
Spotted a 9 to 5 workoid. (It takes one to know one)
Well, 7-6. I live in the dark.
Two words.
Summer nights.
Warm, but not too hot, beautiful and calming.
Winter can fuck off until it brings sensible amount of snow.
Fall can fuck off fully as I hate rain.
On the fence about Spring. Sometimes it’s Fall lite, sometines it’s Summer Nights daylight version.
Damn. Your take on fall saddens me. Where I come from fall is the driest season of the year. The chill finally starts to settle in the air and the leaves start to change and a steady light breeze starts in due to the leaves dropping from the trees.
A wet fall on the other hand sounds miserable.
Where I live fall is basically a completely random mix of anything between +15 °C and dry weather (but the ground is still wet from yesterday) and rain at +1 °C, with nights being anything between +10 and -5.
Winter is basically two months of damp +2°C days followed by a February with actual snow that nobody is really happy about because it happens at the worst time possible.
Spring is nice. Then summer rolls around with temps between 30 and 40 °C because of climate change. It’s still better than fall and winter.
Here’s it’s famously golden and famously wet. Coupled with overall gray (thankfully less and less) look of the cities…welcome to depresso season. Or angery for me. Cause rain.
Summer nights are okay but I hate mosquitoes so I don’t get to enjoy them as much as I’d like.
people who say they like [other season] are lying to themselves. It is objectively correct to like [poster’s favorite season]
The sun is out.
Plants are doing their thing.
Life is abundant.
Idk who the fuck actually thinks “yes winter thank god”
No bugs.
Snow.
Sun is still out but isn’t a deadly laser.
Hot cocoa by a crackling fire.
Snow
If only.
Agree with the rest
The heat is restrictive.
Plants are releasing allergens, requring medication and/or extensive exposure therapies.
Abundance of life can be overwhelming and invasive in the form of road traffic full of boat trailers, pickup flag caravans, and grills and smokers billowing on residential development scales.
I can regulate my temperature in the cold, where there are barely any allergens that get me and everyone’s holed up inside so I can be outside and in peace more often than not.
But my ancestors were bog people. If it isn’t misty or foggy in the morning I am genetically obligated to be grouchy until ingesting heated caffiene or complaining about the english.
People who live in hot places I assume
Dead silent moonlit landscapes are just incredible.
Dry is key, wet and cold winters are awful. Like -6C to -17C is perfect. -6C is practically t-shirt weather. Anything between-3C and 5C (27F-41F) is just misery.
Living somewhere that the snow stays powdery and it’s -10C on average for 4 months of the winter is awesome!
Dry is key, wet and cold winters are awful.
I think this is a key distinction between the people who generally like one over the other. If you live somewhere where winter is wet and summer is dry, you probably prefer summer. And vice versa.
The other big thing that I never see anyone talk about is the wind. I think the wind is probably one of the most impactful things for a season. Hot summer with a cool breeze bringing cold air from over the ocean? Fantastic and refreshing. Snow on the ground and gusting 8-16 kmh? I don’t care how sunny it is, that wind is cutting through every single layer you put on. I woke up the other day to a wind chill that brought the temp from -10°C to -17°C. That’s 14°F to 1°F.
Watching the sun rise every morning is nice.
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Na winter can absolutely jog on. Give me my warm days and lots of sunlight.
Texas weather sucks all year. It’s so hot you’ll die in an hour in the summer and the wind makes it cold as shit even in fall.
Today as a prime example of too cold out of nowhere (depending where you are, big state)
Well summer was pretty mild this year at least. Frickin weather roulette down here.
So hot in summer that it doesn’t drop below 80 even at night
BULLSHIT! We get longer daylight, and the sweat is just a gentle reminder that you aren’t in constant pain from temperatures below 60F. Also there are less snowbirds jamming the roadways.
converts 60F to Celsius 60F is genuinely the most comfortablr possible temp for me lol. Even a little too warm if it’s sunny.
24C is about the coolest comfortable temperature for me.
I’ve lived in temps ranging from 112°F to -23°F. Anything 40°F-85°F is fine by me.
Depends on your climate. Climate usually cold? Summer is a relief. Climate usually hot? Summer sucks.
It all depends on where you live.
❌Hot girl summer
✅Cold bitch winter
Fuck summer and winter, two sides of the same shitty extremes coin. Fall, and to a lesser extent spring, are where it’s at.
