I live at 7,400'. Winters can be long. Our Aspen trees are just starting to bud now. At this elevation we never get above 90, usually low 80's. I think May - October is the best time of year here!

I hear ya, brother. That's why I live in the GWN. Of course we still have the dreadful summer here, but it's not as bad as when I lived just south of the Equator Line.

I’ll take the heat over cold any day of the week.

Give me summer. I've got A/C everything and getting cool is not an issue. I don't need to scrape "hot" off of my car windows, I don't need boots and a parka to check the mail, my car has never slid off the road because it was too hot out. For me, cold winter winds are miserable. But I get it that those of you who sweat when it's 73 degrees and you have to move a muscle are uncomfortable when it's warm. That's just not me.

Eh *shrug*, it's weather. Weather happens. In summer (here) it gets hot and humid. We get mosquitoes and ticks and horseflies and wasps and stuff. We get thunderstorms and sometimes tornadoes. In the wintertime it can get bitterly cold. I can snow its ass off and turn driving into a nightmare. Clearing the snow gets old. Then there are the heating bills. Fall has its own issues. Sure, you can have just-warm-enough days and nicely cool nights, but the fracking leaves. Just when you think you've got 'em all: More appear as if by magic. And you got to get 'em up, or they destroy the lawn. That leaves us with springtime. Beautiful... when it's not raining, windy or storming.

But each of those seasons has its upsides. I love 'em all. I'm just glad I'm still on the top side of the grass to enjoy 'em

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Same.

I hate summer. I hate being hot. I hate sweating. I hate sunburns. I hate bug bites. I hate dealing with allergies.

I'm definitely a Fall/Winter kind of guy.

This sums up my hatred of summer as well.

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But I get it that those of you who sweat when it's 73 degrees and you have to move a muscle are uncomfortable when it's warm. That's just not me.

Yep ng, kind of like you guys who shiver when it gets in the twenties and a nice little fresh cool breeze blows and those of you who don't want to move a muscle to put a coat on and go to the wood pile and split some kindling and carry some wood in and put in the stove, etc. Let alone go out and cut and stack 5 cord of wood each year for fear of getting uncomfortably cold. yep just like it. I understand

I thank God most day's for letting A/C's be invented. We did not have a/c until I was 21 and just married....August heat here can make you wish there was a way to get more unclothed than just your birthday suit! I live for late October Vacations so I can travel to the coolness of the mountains of N. Carolina. I know I live in the wrong place for my heat aversion, but here is where the family is. My a/c is usually on 65 at night for comfortable sleeping/hibernation.

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Originally posted by David W:

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Same.

I hate summer. I hate being hot. I hate sweating. I hate sunburns. I hate bug bites. I hate dealing with allergies.

I'm definitely a Fall/Winter kind of guy.

This sums up my hatred of summer as well.

Me too, I want 10/15-11/15 weather year round.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Same.

I hate summer. I hate being hot. I hate sweating. I hate sunburns. I hate bug bites. I hate dealing with allergies.

I'm definitely a Fall/Winter kind of guy.

I'm right there with you. My wife says I have reverse-SAD (seasonal affective disorder). Considering I actually get depressed when it's hot I tend to agree.

I'm usually fine until mid-July though. That's when we seem to get multiple 100F+ days in a row and everything around here seems to burn. I usually start hating life around August 1 and am miserable until Oct 1 when it starts cooling down around here. I'll take a crisp cold Autumn afternoon any day.

Yeah, I've never been big on the sun. I'm more of a nyctophile and a pluviophile. Although, Bay Area summers can be quite foggy, like today, which is okay. It'll suck come late September-early October.

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Originally posted by PowerSurge:
I’ll take the heat over cold any day of the week.

I prefer cold, because I can always layer up on clothes and blankets. If I'm too hot, I can't take off bare skin. I can only strip down so far!

I freakin hate cold weather. Give me triple digits please. I wish I never had to see snow again the rest of my life.

I am more comfortable when it is around 80 or less, but my main outdoor activity is golf, and I feel better and looser when it is 80 and up.

Plus, I have lived so long where it is hot and humid, I notice it less.

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Originally posted by braillediver:
Out here in the Seattle area- 1 day of nice weather and they complain about the heat. Above 80 degrees an they whine "It's too hot".

Yep! When it hits 75°, Lowe's & Home Depot trot out the huge stacks of portable fans & air conditioners.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
I hate summer. I hate being hot. I hate sweating. I hate sunburns. I hate bug bites. I hate dealing with allergies.

I'm definitely a Fall/Winter kind of guy.

Absolutely!

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Originally posted by ScreamingCockatoo:
the warmer it gets, the less the wife wears.
I love summer...

The colder the weather, the closer she snuggles...

I like seasonal changes but prefer fall and winter. It would also be nice if it never got above 74 degrees with 40% RH during the summer, but that's a pipe dream. It's 90 today and I'm suffering like a dawg.

I like summers a lot. In Northern Michigan. Every year we seem to stay there just a little longer. Last year, we were gone for a record 11 weeks.

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Originally posted by HRK:

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Originally posted by ScreamingCockatoo:
the warmer it gets, the less the wife wears.
I love summer...

The colder the weather, the closer she snuggles...

And bundled up like Eskimos...

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:

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But I get it that those of you who sweat when it's 73 degrees and you have to move a muscle are uncomfortable when it's warm. That's just not me.

put a coat on and go to the wood pile and split some kindling and carry some wood in and put in the stove, etc. Let alone go out and cut and stack 5 cord of wood each year for fear of getting uncomfortably cold. yep just like it. I understand

See what you did there? Sighting activities that the end result is to keep you warm