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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.
It depends om where you live. Sumner is not like what you write everywere. π
Yep. Winter in Michigan is a long gray hell. The summers are beautiful though! Itβs enough that by June youβve forgiven yourself for moving to a place with winters like that, until itβs January again and youβre wishing for a single ray of sunshine.
Bingo. In Colorado itβs generally incredible. Low insect level, clear skies, great temps, and dry. We love it thank you very much.
It's coarse and rough and gets everywhere?
OP tried so hard to rephrase it...
The women, and the children, too
Have children, can confirm they get everywhere.
was this was ghost written by anakin skywalker
Nice try but I see that Sith dog whistle
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.
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.
being forced to shower like every 3 hours just to not feeling sweaty
Bro do you live in the desert? Or are you obese? Both? This feels like a very local/personal experience lol. Far from everyone has these issues with summer.
Maybe it's all a joke and I'm whooshing hard but... Anyway.
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.
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.
Best season, weather is nice enough so Ican enjoy outdoor activities.
There's no such thing as bad weather only inappropriate gear.
The problem is, in the summer, "appropriate gear" means an air conditioned house.
Yes you can play tennis in bubble jackets rifling through snow but it's not exactly pleasant, you can put skis on your skateboard but it ain't the same.
Clearly whoever wrote this has not seen an oregon coast summer. But don't move here... It's terrible... I promise...
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?
I love summer. I love wearing shorts and t-shirts, swimming in the sea, being outside, and opening the doors like the garden is just another room in my house.
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
Love summer. Love all the seasons, but would be nice if summer was one, two months longer and winter shorter.
Ok Satan
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.
Wait. Winter is coming
hard disagree. as a brit, i truly love the few genuine summer days we get
I like summer. I can wear shorts. They're cool and comfy.
Are they easy to wear?
Allergies by day, mosquitoes by night, heat during work, rain during leisure, it can get pretty bad. Autumn is awesome, it's nicer out with no forces of nature used against anyone and the festivities and aesthetics are amazing, but Spring and Summer make the wait challenging.
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
I just stay inside with the nice AC lol
Absolutely.
I can put on more clothes, but I can't strip my skin. I mean, with enough dedication I probably could...
It doesn't work that way for me. I have been so cold that clothing didn't make me not cold. Even here where it rarely ever gets to freezing. Hot weather, I can slow down, sitting still in the shade with a breeze I can be comfortable from 90F to about 100F. Don't know about hotter, we haven't reached it yet.
I don't try to do work outside when it's that hot. If daytime event in the sun - hat or visor, long sleeved loose linen shirt and pants, and oddly enough, Merino wool thong and socks are often more comfortable than anything else.
Hot yoga is 90-103 so I guess I can also move in the heat without freaking out but they manage the humidity, it's different from outside. And I sweat a lot in those classes.
Any of these I prefer to being cold, cannot get warm. Maybe I need to talk to Wim Hof, but it seems better to be tolerant of heat, than cold.
I can be comfortable from 90F to about 100F.
I envy you. I am already hot at 65F...
As someone who lives in Greece, 10 minutes from the beach, I actually agree with you. I never liked the Greek heat. I like the sea when there's not many people in it though.
Also, stronger, blinding sunlight and more headaches.
Getting worse every year too
Completely agree. I hate heat with a passion. My 2 biggest annoyances are lawn mowers being loud and neighbors outside all day with kids that scream their fucking lungs out. Just high pitched fucking screaming for hours on end.
I know i used to play outside when i was little, but never did i yell and scream uncontrollably for fucking hours, driving anyone in a 200 meter radius fucking insane. Sorry i just don't get it.
Edit: im sorry if i sound like a boomer. Im autistic and the screaming is giving me a fight of flight reaction. Often i don't care. But a family 2 houses down screams sooooo loud. Not even laughing or anything. Just pure high pitched screaming. And they will go on until 10pm or so every day if the sun shines.
I use noise canceling earphones but i can't and don't want to wear those all day long.
Am summer fae. Hard disagree. The worst part of summer is indoors where they abuse air conditioning to create a dry frigid wasteland.
And wildfire smoke which didn't use to be a thing where I live.
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.
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.
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! π" THE FUCK YOU MEAN "WARM" THIS SHITS ACTUAL HELL
I wouldn't call that hell either tbh but if your winter is 15C there isn't much excuse to wait for summer.
Honestly, how it's been so far here this year, it's pretty much the perfect season. Temperature during the day between 18C and 25C. Warm in the sun, but with a cold wind. Cooler in the night, so I can sleep decently. And nice and sunny, with very long daylight. I always notice that I'm a lot happier when it's light outside, so I'm feeling a lot better in this weather. I do agree that the 30+ C days and 20+ C nights are hell, mostly because airco's aren't that common here
I like it more than winter.