It’s barely a season though. Summer and winter are months long. Any place that actually gets something akin to autumn anymore, itonly lasts for like a few weeks. If that. There are two seasons: summer and winter. They just have barely discernible transition periods which more often than not amount to a few days of back and forth weather, from nice for a day or two, back to the previous seasons temps, then lurching forward to the next, then back and forth with some median-“season” days mixed in mid swing.
Thanks Shell, Exxon, BP, Koch industries, Lockheed, et al
Yep, they fucked up the planet just to make more money. I’d rather buy an NFT made by an AI than give those people another penny, if I had a choice in the matter
It's my favorite season, except this past year it was rarely ever cool. Winter was better this year. I feel like that's only going too become more true as we go on.
Winter is about to arrive down here. It's dry season, with "cold" (18-22º C) nights and scorching hot (29º+) days. Oh, and there's a fuckton of heatwaves that might come around, which are totally not caused by excessive pollution and CO2 emission!
lol no, that's the most american thing about me and i refuse.
i literally use metric for everything else in my day job and overall life; but for temperature, Fahrenheit makes more sense to me. 100 F? deadly. 70 F? great. 50 F? chilly. 0 F? deadly.
Spring is the worst fucking season weather wise. It's perpetually wet and rainy, and the temperature is erratic. In the past 3 weeks it has been 55, 75, then 30, and now we are up to 80 in my part of Ohio. You cant accommodate for it, you cant plan anything outside, and my allergies go absolutely bananas. Summer is consitent, and the fall never really has wild weather changes, just a steady cooling down.
Apparently you don't live in Scotland (west coast at least).
Spring may not be warm, but we get some clear dry days, and if you're in the sun and out of the wind you can feel the heat.
By summer it's so muggy and humid that 15 degrees (Celsius) feels oppressive. I used to live in Australia but the (not-)heat here feels worse.
Nah, #teamsummer here. I struggle so much in the winter. I either the blanket is too thick and I'm warm but at the cost of waking up drenched it sweat or it's too thin and I have a hard time falling asleep because it's chilly. There's just no blanket that's breathable and isolates well. In the summer I can just use a thin cotton bed sheet and sleep with the window open. Nights like this are one of my favorite things and I love falling asleep to the sound of crickets chirping outside.
I would hardly run the AC if the hottest it got in summertime in Oklahoma City was 90°F. But last year, we had several instances where it got up to 100 or 105. And the dew point was 70-75 degrees all summer. So your sweat hardly evaporates. I run my AC all day to keep it 80 degrees and swampy indoors.
I would love to redo my whole house's HVAC system where one smallish central unit cools the kitchen and living room and each of the bedrooms have their own ductless mini split. This is one way to achieve zoning. There's no reason to cool the entire house to 65 degrees if I'm about to be asleep in the bedroom for the next 8 hours. There's no reason to try to keep the whole house cool when I'm about to spend my day in my home office. Just cool the room I'm in and leave the rest alone.
I could also do window units, but for some reason, my wife is vehemently opposed to them. Her parents just put window units in all their bedrooms and one in their living room. They don't use the central unit anymore. They only cool the room they're in right now, and their power bills went from $400 to $150 in summer. They paid for themselves in one season.
That works now, but from June to August the nights aren't all that much cooler and there is rarely any wind either. Still makes sense, but it feels so futile. I am Sisyphus.
The nights aren't very cool in some parts of the world.
I wish bug nets for windows (or at all) were standard in Sweden.
In some places in the country you will be bitten by 10 thousand mosquitoes just because you dared to open the window for a minute.
I keep my PC in my bedroom so it's hard in general to keep the room comfortable but in the winter you can at least open the windows for a few seconds and nearly instantly make the room comfortable (and without insects). In the summer it's fucking impossible to keep the room cool no matter what you do. At least the PC has good cooling so it survives; I just wish I would.
I'm more of a Spring/Fall enjoyer, but I like winter too. Summer I just turn on a bunch of fans because AC is expensive AF and has a chonky carbon footprint
When I was in high school my roommate insisted on opening the windows and putting a box fan in them, cranking it to full blast. We’d go to sleep fully dressed lol.
I hated it at first, but honestly, I kind of grew to love it.
I bought a "portable" air conditioner that sits inside the room and has two hoses. It will cool my bedroom on the second floor without drawing air into the rest of the house. I usually spend an hour cooling things down 8-10 degrees before bed. Worth every dollar I spent on it.
Bonus, it's a heat pump that can heat the room too. Great as a backup in case the heat failed in the winter.
It really depends on where you are. There are places where summer is the same temperature as some other place's winter.
Also, I hate the fact that in winter you have to stay inside all the time, there's no sun and everything is cold and sad. Spring and Summer are the times of the year when you travel, go out, enjoy nature and make memories.
And if you have a decently insulated home or AC, you can sleep great.
Winter you put memory foam to keep you from the cold water, in summer you sleep on the cold water.
Only downsides to a water bed are: 1. Heavy 2. You have to add chemicals to your mattress as regular maintenance 3. It can't really be extra firm (but a lot more firm than people think)
The water will steal every bit of heat from your body, but you'll stay warm with a blanket
Sometimes I can’t take a bath cause the moving water makes my head spinny. I can’t imagine how bad the water bed would feel lol. I’d probably have mid night breaks for puking.
High-quality water beds have stabilizer pads in the mattress
The idea of the old crappy 70's water bed where they slosh around is a poor idea.
You aren't laying on a ziploc bag barely filled with any water.
It's more like a ziploc bag filled with molasses. If I pushed a corner down it would slowly bring up everywhere else. If I stopped pushing a corner it everything would slowly go back down.
Say I have a massive gut and sleeping on my right side. I'm displacing X amount of water. If I was to turn to my left side I am still displacing the same amount of water. Just the empty space that use to hold my gut would be filled with the water from the other side where my gut is now. Someone on other side of bed wouldn't even feel it because the water underneath them doesn't change.
I quickly acclimate to either, but it's not fun. Low 50f/10C is very comfortable to me by late January while 90f/32C is fine in July. It's the damn December and May that are hell.
I'm abit extreme with how much seasonal variation, in that I use extremely little climate control in my house (a fan at most and usually only a single space heater). Nighttime/morning exterior temps dropping to 25f/-4C was pretty normal this winter. I'd guess the house stayed just above 0C at the lowest for the most part. Usually start acclamating with a few cold showers. The problem is 70 starts feeling oppressive and I end up getting heat uticaria going grocery shopping lol.