How long are your seasons?

[MisterSir]

Let's see. Being as how I live in Britain, Summer lasts three weeks, Spring around two months, Autumn four and Winter five.

...it's nice.

 

[CurlyKat]

It's 60 degrees today. It's supposed to get a little warmer over the weekend, then rain Tuesday and get cold again. That's pretty much typical weather pattern.

I SO miss when anything below 60 was considered cold! It hit 39 today and we were all talking about the giant heat wave and how that was so drastically warmer than it had been. I even walked around outside for a bit without a coat or jacket on and wasn't freezing and running for a heater. Yes, I realize that means I'm entirely too acclimated and will probably die of a heat stroke or something when I go back and try to soak in all the sun.

Oh, and don't worry, it's back down to 28 now. The little warm snap will probably move on in the next day or so when all the cold and snowy crap moves in from the UK. Then it'll get trapped against the Alps and just hover over us for weeks on end, dumping rain, sleet, snow, and sometimes weird combinations of all of the above that comes at you sideways.

 

[FurryFury]

My husband claims to like the cold and hate the heat. Yet, he's been fussing all year that I keep the house at 69 degrees F. He won't tell me what temp he wants the house at.

He keeps the vents fully open in the bathrooms. I have to time my visits to when the heat is off so I don't pass out!

He sits on a vent whilst on his computer, something he does a great deal of. So that the heat or cold is blowing on him. I could NOT deal with that either way.

January 2008 we went to the mountains where there was some snow, something we rarely see. He enjoyed it, sitting in the hot tub with a light snow falling around him. He kept saying it was like when he was growing up and snow as more common.

I'm not at all sure snow as more common or that it was colder in those days. I've lived in the South all my life. I've only seen significant show twice in the deep South.

In the middle South I spent one cold year in 77-78. It snowed frequently that year. I was glad to go back to the deep South.

I'm truly confused about what would make him happy temp wise. What I do know is this. Neither of us can sleep if it is too hot. Sleep is important.

In the past year I've either had more fevers and/or hot flashes than ever in my entire life. I'm not sure which or if it's both. LOL.

 

[Homburg]

Winter starts mid-december to early january. Spring starts in late february or early march. Summer starts in May or thereabouts. Fall is October.

Spring - 3 months
Summer - 4 months
Fall - 2.5 months
Winter - 2.5 months

Spring is rainy. Summer wavers between gorgeous and humid. Fall is perfect. Winter is fairly mild, but the wind can get nasty. And it all changes on a daily basis. Yesterday was 22deg, and sunday will be 61.

 

[mediocre]

Ah seasons in Wisconsin.....

First there is summer it lasts four to five months.

Then we are planning on having fall on a Thursday this year, at which point we'll move right into Football season. After football we'll transition smoothly into winter which will last until the end of March. At which point we'll have a couple of days of spring and move right back into summer again.

Weather in Wisconsin. Wait a few hours, it'll change.

 

[myinnerslut]

up at school there were three seasons.

winter
summer
mud

home winter is untill mid to late march, spring it until july, summer is until august/early september, and winter starts in december but it feels like it by the end of november sometimes

 

[lilsubangel]

Not sure about the seasons just yet, as i just moved to Arizona in December...it hasn't gone below 66 degrees since i got here. Right now we've had a week of 80 degree weather...it's been beautiful. From what i understand, it's pretty much spring and summer here, lol.

Having lived in New York my entire life, the winters seem to have gotten longer and colder. i certainly don't miss the snow one bit.

 

[Netzach]

About 5 degrees hotter than Minneapolis.

The average high is 88. Low is 68. Record is 106 but that was 1930. Maybe once or twice during the summer we'll get to 100. Once the Bermuda High builds up in late Spring no fronts come though. So the only rain is convective type thunderstorms which are hit and miss.

That's north Georgia. South you can add about 4 degrees.

That's not so bad, except the summer is about 8-10 degrees more than I can stand. DC would kill me, I'm convinced, for one thing. I can hardly stand thinking about filthy hot sweaty NYC. Ugh.

I really mean it I don't like heat. Especially for exertion. I'm so much lighter on my feet when it's a little colder.

 

[tie_me_up_18]

well.. in maine.. november through early april we have like 6 feet of snow on the ground. end of april through late may is spring. June through august is summer. (which should be longer in my perspective!) and september through october is fall. but october can get down to below freezing some nights.

 

[CutieMouse]

Texas - it winter-mix/sleeted a week or so ago, and ¼" of ice shut down the whole.freaking.metroplex. I should not complain, however, since I consider anything below 45-50 to be cold. Anything 32 or lower is just inhumane and unnatural.

This year I think we've had maaaaybe a week or two of daytime highs in the 30s, and a day or two in the 20s. We had our freakish ice-thing already, and it's almost mid-February, which means we won't have another one this year... Tomorrow's high is supposed to be 75, but windy; we're going to the zoo.

I've lived here almost 30 years, and fall usually lasts late October - Christmas (leaves don't really drop until Thanksgiving; they go from green to brown in an instant), then a few weeks of potentially real winter, then by February it's either spotty days in the 70s, or steady cold (meaning 30s/40s)- that's about it for winter. Spring - tulips are always blooming by Easter/you're stuck in that WTH to wear phase where it's cold in the morning but shorts weather in the afternoon... the entire freaking month of May is just wet. Flooding, blame it on the Byron Nelson wet. Summer might hit in May (bad years we're hitting 100 before Memorial Day), but might wait until June... it's not that unusual to still have daytime highs in the 90s well into October; overnight lows rarely drop below 85 from Memorial Day until October.

 

[rida]

To add some different climate: Tokyo

Winter goes from mid December to mid February. What does winter mean? It is very dry. We rarely have frost, highs are around 10C (50F), often sunny but with chilly Siberian wind. We get some snow sometime, but never last more than 24hours on the ground, if it stays at all. Plum trees start blossoming in mid February.

Spring is March to May. It can rain a lot. March can be less than 10C (50F) one day and 20C (68F9) the next. (one year we had 24C -75F on a Saturday and on Sunday we woke up that it was snowing ... although it all melt by lunch time). By the end of March we have the cherry blossom. April to May we can have those gorgeous days when it is nice and sunny and warm but it is not humid so it is not sticky: what I call the tank tops and long jeans weather .

June to mid July is rainy season: monsoon come in and the sky turns gray and heavy with humidity and rains. Temperature are usually below 25C (77F) so it is still bearable.

Than, one day, the sky opens and you know that summer is here: temperature will not drop under 25C (77F) not even at night, and humidity will not drop under 80% until late September. From August to September we get typhoons that can bring a lot of rain and wind.

Autumn starts around October: you can still get days of 25C but the humidity has now dropped to human levels and morning and evening are now cool. It is also when we get the first Siberian wind blow. Leaves change their color late in November and than winter is here.

 

[Sweetheart25]

Winter is way too long on the east coast

 

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[WriterDom]

Well, you have a lot more daylight to play with in the summer. Say it's Saturday and you have the day off. It's light at 6:30. You have a good four hours to do what you want to do outside. I might wait until noon or one to even turn on the AC. It's hot as hell until about 7 when the sun starts losing all its intensity. Then you have another two and a half hours of daylight where it is reasonably comfortable unless you run a 10K or something. By 9 or 10 I can usually cut the ac off.

One month of natural gas in the winter can be more than an entire year of electric if I'm not careful. So no, I'm no fan of winter.

 

[JMohegan]

OK, maybe not -45 most days of the week. But anything below zero and it's just not pleasant.

I love high 20's bright and crisp.

I'd put the tolerable mark at about 10.

20's bright & crisp - yup. Skiing across a landscape covered in pure white snow. That's about as close to heaven on earth as you can get in a solo endeavor.

That's not so bad, except the summer is about 8-10 degrees more than I can stand. DC would kill me, I'm convinced, for one thing. I can hardly stand thinking about filthy hot sweaty NYC. Ugh.

I really mean it I don't like heat. Especially for exertion. I'm so much lighter on my feet when it's a little colder.

Yeah, that doesn't sound so bad, but you asked WD the wrong question. 80 degrees in DC can feel a hell of a lot worse than 80 in LA.

Temp + humidity = heat index. That's the sticky in the sweaty that makes you go ugh.

 

[WriterDom]

http://www.city-data.com/top2/c485.html

Only a Yankee would think Washington is hot. It doesn't even make the top 100 in terms of humidity. Try New Orleans. Or anywhere between New Orleans and Corpus Christi. Where you have not only unbearable humidity but six months out of the year with temperatures above 80. And during the summer, nights where it doesn't get below 80. You walk out the door and within 50 feet you are drenched in sweat.

Washington is no more humid than Atlanta. Well, one point during the day more and one less at night. Yeah, damn hot in July but New Orleans will redefine hot for you. No wonder it's more dangerous than Baghdad. An afternoon of that shit and you are ready to kill someone.

 

[Netzach]

I'd put the tolerable mark at about 10.

20's bright & crisp - yup. Skiing across a landscape covered in pure white snow. That's about as close to heaven on earth as you can get in a solo endeavor.

Yeah, that doesn't sound so bad, but you asked WD the wrong question. 80 degrees in DC can feel a hell of a lot worse than 80 in LA.

Temp + humidity = heat index. That's the sticky in the sweaty that makes you go ugh.

Everyone always says this, but I think it's overrated. It's not the humidity, it's the heat.

102 in spain was the same shitty 102 that I hate in NYC.

 

[Homburg]

To add some different climate: Tokyo

Did you get any ash where you are?

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http://www.city-data.com/top2/c485.html

Only a Yankee would think Washington is hot. It doesn't even make the top 100 in terms of humidity. Try New Orleans. Or anywhere between New Orleans and Corpus Christi. Where you have not only unbearable humidity but six months out of the year with temperatures above 80. And during the summer, nights where it doesn't get below 80. You walk out the door and within 50 feet you are drenched in sweat.

See, when I think DC, I think cold and wet. The humidity is tolerable, though the whole place is a swamp, so it has a bit of ranness to it.

Washington is no more humid than Atlanta. Well, one point during the day more and one less at night. Yeah, damn hot in July but New Orleans will redefine hot for you. No wonder it's more dangerous than Baghdad. An afternoon of that shit and you are ready to kill someone.

Haven't been to New Orleans. I thought Atlanta was pretty nice climate-wise. Didn't strike me as unpleasant in either direction, any of the times I've visited.

I'm with you on saying only a Northerner would call DC hot. Not hot.

 

[Netzach]

http://www.city-data.com/top2/c485.html

Only a Yankee would think Washington is hot. It doesn't even make the top 100 in terms of humidity. Try New Orleans. Or anywhere between New Orleans and Corpus Christi. Where you have not only unbearable humidity but six months out of the year with temperatures above 80. And during the summer, nights where it doesn't get below 80. You walk out the door and within 50 feet you are drenched in sweat.

Washington is no more humid than Atlanta. Well, one point during the day more and one less at night. Yeah, damn hot in July but New Orleans will redefine hot for you. No wonder it's more dangerous than Baghdad. An afternoon of that shit and you are ready to kill someone.

Ugh. I'll take the -20.
Actually, while I sense no distinct relief from heat in lack of humidity, 0 degrees and no humidity is not as unpleasant as wet 20. That gets under your coat in a way that dry cold doesn't.

The inside of your nose freezing is unusual, granted.

And while winter may be long and dark, there's something really cool about 10pm dusk in the summer, too. You only get that on the more northern latitudes.

Anyhow, you wanted to know how anyone can stand it, so I'm trying to answer. I've never intimated I'd do well in life south of the Mason Dixon, either. For myriad reasons.

Although Austin is great, there's no way I'm signing on for that weather.

 

[BiBunny]

Wiki says the average high around home in January is 58, and the average low is 36. I think that's a bit generous, personally, or maybe it's just been damned cold this winter. It says the average high in July is 93 with the average low as 71. I don't have humidity figures for you, I'm afraid, but it's usually quite stifling. (EDIT: Wait, I found a humidity index. 73.6%. The largest nearby city is on the top 100 list WD linked to up there.)

It normally rains and storms here every freaking day in the early summer, just for a few minutes in the afternoon, which contributes to it. A couple of years ago, though, we had an awful drought, and it didn't rain for MONTHS. The humidity was low, too, from the lack of moisture anywhere.

It was the most awful thing I'd ever experienced. It was like having my head stuck in an oven. The wind blew a lot, but it was an infernally hot wind. I seriously imagine the second level of Hell must be a lot like this particular summer was: excruciatingly hot, heavy hot wind, and no mid-afternoon thunderstorm to kill the sun for an hour or so.

OMG, give me humidity any day.

 

[JMohegan]

The heat index measures what the combination of air temperature and humidity feels like to the human body. The formula itself was constructed using a collection of subjective responses, but to my knowledge, the premise underlying the need for the formula is not up for scientific debate.

The higher the level of humidity, the hotter a given air temperature feels to the human body. To see how much hotter, click me.

Of course, individual perceptions of what's tolerable/not vary widely. I don't claim that mine are any more rational than those of anyone else.

http://www.city-data.com/top2/c485.html

Only a Yankee would think Washington is hot. It doesn't even make the top 100 in terms of humidity. Try New Orleans. Or anywhere between New Orleans and Corpus Christi. Where you have not only unbearable humidity but six months out of the year with temperatures above 80. And during the summer, nights where it doesn't get below 80. You walk out the door and within 50 feet you are drenched in sweat.

Washington is no more humid than Atlanta. Well, one point during the day more and one less at night. Yeah, damn hot in July but New Orleans will redefine hot for you. No wonder it's more dangerous than Baghdad. An afternoon of that shit and you are ready to kill someone.

Maybe it's a matter of Scandinavian ancestry, or too much time spent happily in the north. Or maybe it's my penchant for getting out and running around, or an offshoot of claustrophobia. I don't know.

But July & August in DC aren't just hot to me; those months are mostly sweltering.

 

[intothewoods]

I can't believe I've ignored this gem of a thread! I love to complain about the weather, and you INSANE people on this coast who insist on heating me to 100 degrees inside in the winter, and freezing my pants off inside in the summer. Color me confused! Do you want to kill yourselves??

DC is hot, but it's also muggy as all hell.

I'd put the tolerable mark at about 10.

20's bright & crisp - yup. Skiing across a landscape covered in pure white snow. That's about as close to heaven on earth as you can get in a solo endeavor.

Yeah, that doesn't sound so bad, but you asked WD the wrong question. 80 degrees in DC can feel a hell of a lot worse than 80 in LA.

Temp + humidity = heat index. That's the sticky in the sweaty that makes you go ugh.

Minor quibble: the smog is terrible in LA. I prefer DC in that respect.

We typically have a brief winter, which I like. August and sometimes September are quite sticky and gross, but fall and spring are really beautiful. I do miss the west coast lifestyle of always being outdoors. It's doable here, but it's not as easy as the west coast.

 

[Homburg]

I'm a bit surprised to see Asheville NC on that list. I've spent so much time in that area growing up, and never once considered it all that nasty. In fact, it's gorgeous there. And it has morphed into this wonderful bohemian art city. HUGE change from when I was a kid spending summers there.

 

[intothewoods]

I'm a bit surprised to see Asheville NC on that list. I've spent so much time in that area growing up, and never once considered it all that nasty. In fact, it's gorgeous there. And it has morphed into this wonderful bohemian art city. HUGE change from when I was a kid spending summers there.

Ooh, I am dying to visit there.

 

[JMohegan]

Minor quibble: the smog is terrible in LA. I prefer DC in that respect.

I've spent more time in the latter, and may have missed the former's worst days. But you know, DC does have "code red". Not just the one that means "the terrorists are really gonna do it this time!" but the one that means "it's actually unhealthy to breathe outdoors."

As an aside - some days, flying into Manhattan can give one serious pause - when you can literally see the filthy air hanging over the island.