The mosquitoes are dead.
It’s the chiggers for me. I can’t go to my camp in the swamp without bathing in repellent.
Mosquitoes are, surprisingly, not much of an issue. Tiny fish eat the eggs and there’s a thousand dragonflies to eat the adults.
Returning home after work, hands freezing as they touch the cold metal doorknob. Turning on lamps, lighting candles, making a lovingly tender and warm cup of coffee, snuggling up with a pet and a partner on a couch, cozy under the various old blankets you’ve collected over the years, and playing Stardew Valley, Skyrim, or any other comfort game together.
Grab some warm stew or curry, throw on a well-loved hoodie, and enjoy the security and hospitality you give yourself and your family.
Warm pie and cookies for dessert, and a book to sip on and savor.
And still being chilled to the bone hours after all this.
The cold, pretty much. Rather live in 0 deg. temperatures than deal with sweat, mosquitos, and people asking about swimming / go to the beach / sit out in the sun for no reason and get skin cancer.
The ponds and lakes freeze over for ice fishing or skating, the snow itself is often an activity (build stuff out of snow, eat the snow, throw the snow). The cold is refreshing and pleasant in the mornings and really helps to wake me up when I’m feeling sleepy. Perfect time to make soups, stews or breads. No BS about “it’s too hot to make this type of food, we should make hamburgers for the sixth day in a row”.
Not having to tear my own skin and the AC running at -20C in order to feel comfortable.
I love the winter, thank you very much ☺️.
Winter:
-10°C outside, sometimes colder; comfy +22°C inside. Sun sets at 1600, but that’s what tea, candles and mood lighting is for. Everything is nice and quiet outside, with an occasional noise of snowplows after it snows.Summer:
30°C outside, 30°C inside (aircon is not common here in older houses). Hotter in the sun in the middle of the sea of asphalt and concrete that is called “city”. Sun sets at 2200 and rises at 0400.When the sun rises it’s like fucking Jurassic Park outside when all the birds wake up and start making noises. And by “birds” I mean not lovely songbirds like blackbirds and skylarks but pidgeons, crows and seagulls (and no, I don’t live by the sea; I live pretty much as far from the sea as one can in my country. The city is overrun with seagulls.). They seemingly love to scream right into the ventilation shafts of apartment buildings.
When the sun sets in summer all the inebriated revellers come out and start making noises including loud and off-note singing, loud laughing and loud inarticulate screaming. Add loud boomboxes to the mix and it’s one hell of a racket.
Also, mosquitos. Lots of mosquitos.
I live in the bottom half of the planet, I think I it’s been over a decade since I last saw a negative temperature after dawn. It used to be pretty common when I was a kid. It’s now easier to get a 35°C day in the middle of winter than any negative temperature at all.
I like your writing style.
However as a warm weather enjoyer: you’re just wrong. That’s all
Oooh, what about the air getting so dry that my sinuses crack and bleed, seeping blood in a post-nasal drip into my stomach, making me low-level nauseated for months on end! My skin and lips I can moisturize, but not much I can do about my sinuses unless I want to humidify my house to the point where the windows start growing mold. Fun times!
It creates such a calming atmosphere. The grey sky during the day, the darkness setting earlier and the white sky far into the evening when it’s snowing is so therapeutic for me for some reason. It gets me in a state where it’s enough just to be alive.
And the biting cold is such a pleasant sensation, especially when going for a run. And there are no mosquitos. Winter is all I like manfested in nature.
a funny thing i’ve realized is that a big part of the reason for the calm atmosphere is that cars are slowed down and their incessant noise is absorbed by the snow.
Winter is great because it makes urban areas more less hostile.
Probably the stunning beauty, no rain, no bugs, and snow is pretty great for so many activities
Snowmobiling and Ice Fishing are my favorites.
Living in a place that never exceeds 85°F (29.5° C) and never gets below 40°F (4.5° C)
NZ?
IB, CA, US
Other than super dry skin, taking 3x the time to leave the house and white knuckle driving every day?
My honest favourite part of winter is 4 fold:
- Christmas season. There’s an overwhelming positive energy in the air. Family, drinks, friends and good food.
- Every thing is quiet, fresh and sterile. It looks amazing after a fresh snow.
- It’s hockey season.
- No yard work. Fuck leaves (and leafs)
A bunch of leaves fell at my place this year after snow was already on the ground. As if raking leaves out of bare grass weren’t bad enough.
Shoveling for myself and my two elderly neighors, notwithstanding, I prefer Minnesota winters over Minnesota summers.
Winter is the best season for a lot of reasons, and for sure they’re geographical reasons. Here we have 9 months of summer, 2 months of winter, and 2 weeks each of fall and spring. Summer is awful because it’s hot, dusty, dry and the ACs are loud and noisy. Spring and fall, it’s either allergies or I’m sick. Winter is quiet, it’s cold, and the humidity is just perfect! You get to snuggle under a blanket and enjoy a hot drink while everything is serene around you. It doesn’t get very cold here, so it all works out great!
The thing I dislike the most is not directly the cold, but it is the feeling that nobody is outside just for the sake of it and nobody is enjoying it. Like, when summer comes everything feels alive. Not just the nature but people, hiking, walking, doing picnics, hanging our, eating ice cream etc. People outside look like they’re enjoying life. But during winter? Fuck no. And everyone looks the same, oh look 10 people in thick as balls black / grey / dark winter coats who look like round blobs. A bit of a hyperbole but that’s how I always feel like.
And the darkness sucks. Fun to go to down when it is pitch black and it is again pitch black when you get back home.
this isn’t an inherent winter problem, but something we have to design our environments to encourage.
it’s perfectly normal to go on a winter walk just because it’s enjoyable here, and i highly doubt people would be choosing to walk as much as they are if they didn’t find that to be the most enjoyable option, considering that we have good public transport in the town.
The sun sets 14:56 today where I am, still love winter. It’s so quiet outside with the snow muffling sounds, it’s beautiful, I prefer being too cold to being too hot(I can always put on more clothes, can’t take off my own skin), the sun sets properly(it doesn’t in summer) .
I live where winter is short and mild, and most people love it.
Even so, even here, when you ask people what they like about winter, it’s sweaters and boots, cuddling up with hot coffee, sitting around a fire. Literally describing warmth. They like being warm. Why not enjoy the summer then?
Because the summers are now scorching hot
