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The sun sucks, being forced to shower like every 4 hours just to not feeling sweaty, the fucking mosquitoes, the fact you can't wear anything that you want anymore due the heat, the people outside... The fucking beach. I try to avoid it... The fucking sand, not a fan of it. Is scratchy, harsh, annoying and it infiltrates in every nook and cranny. Is not worth the annoyance just to shower yourself with salt water.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Also, stronger, blinding sunlight and more headaches.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I didn't like summers or winters where I used to live, so I moved to somewhere where I like both seasons. Then moved again to somewhere that I love all four seasons.

But I get what you're saying; you're describing the summers of my childhood. Hot and humid so you feel like you need a cold shower within 5 minutes of walking outside. Sticky by day, swarmed by mosquitos at night.

But you lost me at the sand bit. I love the beach and ocean when it's like 10-30Β°C out. Colder and hotter are okay, too, but not as nice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Clearly whoever wrote this has not seen an oregon coast summer. But don't move here... It's terrible... I promise...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Summer is absolutely dogshit terrible. Anyone who claims they like it is lying to themselves. It's muggy, hot, humid, touristy, expensive. What is there to like?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I just stay inside with the nice AC lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Summer is my favorite part of the year in the US. Longer days, cool nights, lush greenery with beautiful skies, more activities to do outside, mangoes are in season, going to the pool, barbecues, basking in the sun and feeling the seasonal depression melt away.

I was born in the summer, maybe that has something to do with it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

It definitely is for me, with pretty much the same reasons as the ones you've listed. I spent most of the last two summers indoors, because the heat was just unbearable. My friends and I hung out in the evenings, when we could take short walks without discharging a small lake's worth of sweat. I can't wait for autumn to arrive.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Here it used to be very nice every summer, but these days it is always unbearably hot and there's a 1/3 chance that there's smoke from forest fires and always heavy water and fire restrictions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I love the spring and summer. I have fibromyalgia and the pain and fatigue is much better during the warmer months. I like the sunny weather as it cheers me up. The people outside make me feel like I'm on a holiday even when I'm not. It's the time of the year I feel the most motivated to do anything and I actually have the energy to do it.

Aside from that, the summer heat doesn't bother me that much. It's much better than the freezing cold for me. Unless it's almost 40Β°C, but I don't think anyone likes these high temperatures.

I agree with you about the mosquitoes, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Hot season is my least favorite, but I come to love the rainy season for being cooler & more dynamic even if it can sometimes be inconvenient

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Spring where I live is worst.

Lots of snow, lots of rain so that means a lot of slush, and any outdoor activity makes a mess of whatever you are wearing.

With the climate changes, we also get wild spikes of hot/cold weather. So one day you are in t-shirt and the next day you have a to wear a snow suit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I like it more than winter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My wife could’ve written this

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget to take out the trash darling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Already did 😎

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The Starks have joined the chat

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Absolutely. By body runs hot, and Autumn is my favorite. All the gray of winter exacerbates my depression, and snow is a pita. In Autumn all the goddamn bugs die and the inevitably swampy Chicago humidity is a non-factor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Summer fans are not real, no way you guys enjoy a billion fuckin degree weather and sunburns that turn you to leather or the absolute swamp in your pants from being outside for more than 2 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That depends on your body though. I never get sunburns and while 30C is warm but comfortable, anything under 5C is actually painful. So I don't get winter fans either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The thing is, in the winter you can just keep layering. But in summer, you can only remove so many layers before you have to rip your skin off to remove another one. Also I should mention that I'm in California where we get +35C summers and winter is 15C. BUT PEOPLE HERE STILL SAY SHIT LIKE "Can't wait for the warm weather! 😁" THE FUCK YOU MEAN "WARM" THIS SHITS ACTUAL HELL

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I wouldn't call that hell either tbh but if your winter is 15C there isn't much excuse to wait for summer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Summer is orders of magnitude less painful all around than winter. Fall, now, that is the absolute best time of year. Not too hot not too cold, nor too wet. Just purfick

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Spring is the worst. The weather is all over the place! One day you wear winter outfit and next day it’s tshirt and shorts but have an umbrella ready. Or a helmet for when it hails tennis balls.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Nice try but I see that Sith dog whistle

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I live in Florida, so it's hot but I LOVE our summers. We get warm mornings, afternoon thunderstorms, and warm evenings with lightning all through the sky, it is so beautiful. I like also how nobody at the beach is modest or worried about looks (I'm not in Miami) so you see all types in swimsuits.

So summer is my favorite mostly because of the rain, but I do like the beach.

ETA I also like the longer days and shorter nights.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Love summer. Love all the seasons, but would be nice if summer was one, two months longer and winter shorter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Simply move to the southeast US, summer starts at the beginning of April and ends around Halloween

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago

was this was ghost written by anakin skywalker

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Go outside in 40Β°C weather for a bit, come back inside, sit in front of air conditioner, be just fine in a couple of minutes

Go outside in even 10Β°C weather for a second, come back inside, freezing to death even in front of a heater for an hour because cold or even very cool weather chills me to the bone and it takes forever for me to get warm again

Yeah, I prefer summer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah, no.

You can almost always add more layers, so unless we're talking about literally Siberia in winter, you should be fine.

But if it's too warm for shorts and shirt, there's nothing I can do. I can't run around naked or remove my skin (not in an easily reversible manner at least).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Depends on where you are.

I’m in the Midwestern United States now, where summer is often pretty frustrating due to the high humidity. But I’m originally from Phoenix, where I really enjoyed summer (in the shade), because I love the feeling of warmth soaking into my bones, and I never got sweaty.

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