That was a figment of the imagination that you see up in the mountains and you think it’s cold and wet but you can’t really tell. The worst part of winter is that it’s dark and rainy but since today is the solstice days will start getting longer so joy to you all on this the longest night
What is this “winter”, of which you speak? I live in the SF Bay Area. We only have Spring, Summer, and Fall. I’ve seen trees that still have brown leaves when green buds start to form.
I live in Houston and rarely does winter suck for me. The weather is in the 60s or 70s during the day for much of the winter.
I like to see snow occasionally and I can go visit the snow briefly. When I get tired of it, I come home to my 60s and 70s. We may get a few true winter days but normally not more than a weekend.
High Desert Southwest. Golf in short sleeves in the morning and then go snowboarding in the Sandia or Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the afternoon. It’s rough I tell you!
I don’t like cold weather (fortunately not many days below freezing here). Not a fan of snow (fortunately most years it doesn’t snow).
But still have to deal with the lack of daylight. And the plants all dormant and lack of green.
I prefer spring and autumn to winter. Heck I prefer the nasty heat and humidity of summer to winter… But, winter is mostly over by February 1st here (with the occasional cold snap for a few months after, which is OK)… So I can deal with it for the short while it lasts. Winter is a minor inconvenience in honesty.
Honestly, something related that REALLY bothers me (perhaps more than it should): the overabundance of people making remarks about weather, regardless of the type. “Oh, this isn’t cold at all, you don’t know what cold is!” Shut up, nobody asked, and for someone who doesn’t live in Siberia, yes, 40 degrees is in fact cold! Who wants the soapbox next, I’m done with it, heh.
Ice storms at lay an inch of ice on the street, and then it snows on top of that, or even worse
Having all that happen, and then having the fabled perfect impregnable irreproachable Texas power system and grid completely completely fail for a week or two, because nobody thought to winterize most of the parts of it
Now that really sucks
Having the ice storms and the snow and the power grid failure and then on top of that listening to the idiot lying Texas politicians blame it on renewable energy
Well, the brain just melts even though there’s no heat to cause it to melt. Apparently there’s the combustion of stupidity that makes up the difference.
When you haven’t seen the sun in two weeks and your beginning to forget what it looks like bc everyday is just bla and grey then you wake up and become blinded by the sun beaming off the snow glowing brighter than the lights on the house in Christmas family vacation.
People who wear coats for the Arctic when it drops to the high 60s here in West Central Florida.
@yakkoTDI yep that is a Major ROTFLOL! I know!
@yakkoTDI sorry, that’s kind of me. Raised in Jacksonville and live in Central Florida now. My blood is thinnnnn!
@milstarr @yakkoTDI BTDT, still do it here in Houston.
@yakkoTDI that’s shorts and T-shirt weather!
@yakkoTDI SE Georgia here, and the same. It’s in the fifties before I even consider sleeves.
EVERY … SINGLE … SECOND of it!!!
/giphy winter sucks
I’d choose a different giphy but this one is too funny!!
That was a figment of the imagination that you see up in the mountains and you think it’s cold and wet but you can’t really tell. The worst part of winter is that it’s dark and rainy but since today is the solstice days will start getting longer so joy to you all on this the longest night
Driving on ice.
Then a more minor complaint, but I hate it: having to bundle up and wear boots to go get the mail or take out the trash.
Listening to northerners complain about snow. Texas just gets rain …
that freezes into black ice.
@hchavers Oh, we get plenty of black ice. [See comment below about broken femur.
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Any time it’s cold
When it melts and you’ve got salty mud with all the refuse people “hid” in the snow.
What is this “winter”, of which you speak? I live in the SF Bay Area. We only have Spring, Summer, and Fall. I’ve seen trees that still have brown leaves when green buds start to form.
@khearn
The third consecutive week of steady rain.
Knowing that in a few months it will be 104 in the shade again. ugh!
All of it… including broken femurs.
Running in 25°f in the morning.
Houston only gets a Yankee winter for about a week every third or fourth year, just barely enough to keep those godawful palm trees killed off.
any time it gets below 70, snow or no snow, is the worst part of winter.
You forgot, All of the Above.
I live in Houston and rarely does winter suck for me. The weather is in the 60s or 70s during the day for much of the winter.
I like to see snow occasionally and I can go visit the snow briefly. When I get tired of it, I come home to my 60s and 70s. We may get a few true winter days but normally not more than a weekend.
When all the “Snow Birds” (Retirees) come down to Florida, clogging up our roads and driving super slow in the left lane.
@ETFrisco
I hate driving in Florida, you see every other license plate except Florida. Nobody knows how to drive in that fucking state.
High Desert Southwest. Golf in short sleeves in the morning and then go snowboarding in the Sandia or Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the afternoon. It’s rough I tell you!
I don’t like cold weather (fortunately not many days below freezing here). Not a fan of snow (fortunately most years it doesn’t snow).
But still have to deal with the lack of daylight. And the plants all dormant and lack of green.
I prefer spring and autumn to winter. Heck I prefer the nasty heat and humidity of summer to winter… But, winter is mostly over by February 1st here (with the occasional cold snap for a few months after, which is OK)… So I can deal with it for the short while it lasts. Winter is a minor inconvenience in honesty.
None of these answers apply to me because it never snows here…and I love winter because of it!
Honestly, something related that REALLY bothers me (perhaps more than it should): the overabundance of people making remarks about weather, regardless of the type. “Oh, this isn’t cold at all, you don’t know what cold is!” Shut up, nobody asked, and for someone who doesn’t live in Siberia, yes, 40 degrees is in fact cold! Who wants the soapbox next, I’m done with it, heh.
@PooltoyWolf
When I have to shovel 200 feet of sidewalk that literally no one ever uses except me while I’m shoveling the sidewalk.
Snow? Snow. Yeah, I think I have heard of snow.
having to mow the weeds cause the grass died off
The part when you’re doing your state and federal taxes.
@macromeh You could wait until late March or early April when it’s Spring!!
Having to listen to people complain about cold weather or brag about not having cold weather
Ice storms and the aftermath are horrible
Ice storms at lay an inch of ice on the street, and then it snows on top of that, or even worse
Having all that happen, and then having the fabled perfect impregnable irreproachable Texas power system and grid completely completely fail for a week or two, because nobody thought to winterize most of the parts of it
Now that really sucks
Having the ice storms and the snow and the power grid failure and then on top of that listening to the idiot lying Texas politicians blame it on renewable energy
Well, the brain just melts even though there’s no heat to cause it to melt. Apparently there’s the combustion of stupidity that makes up the difference.
When you haven’t seen the sun in two weeks and your beginning to forget what it looks like bc everyday is just bla and grey then you wake up and become blinded by the sun beaming off the snow glowing brighter than the lights on the house in Christmas family vacation.