Winter Discussion

[Spacetraindriver]

Its December so lets talk about the happiest time of the year! Talk about Christmas! Hanukah! Vacations! Complaints of snow! Complaints of lack of snow! Just general wintery discussion! I'll get its started. What should I get for Christmas?

[Bill Phil]

For yourself or someone else?

I like the cold. It's easier to counteract. Just get a good fire going (unless you're under a burn ban like where I live...) or get a bunch of layers. Hot hands are a good help too. But the heat? All you can really do is get some ice and take off some clothes (not too many, of course). Ice cream and cold drinks might help, too. But the cold is just easier to counteract, at least to me. Snow, while somewhat fun, can be annoying. I'm glad I don't live in a place where it's common.

[CAKE99]

For me, it's the most horrible time of the year, SUMMER, DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUN

For me, Winter is the best season, as I live in australia (lack of capitalization of the first letter intended), there is no snow, ever.

[Superfluous J]

The only good thing about Winter this year is that it means 2016 is over.

And comforters. I love sleeping under a comforter. And sledding. I lost 50 pounds this year and am excited about not having to carry that up the hill each time.

Yes I'm in my 40s and I sled. No I don't have kids. Don't judge me

[legoclone09]

Well, I love Christmas for quite obvious reason of getting things, I also love skiing, and there is no such thing as snow in southern California. Or water for that matter....

I love comforters too. I usually sleep with a sherpa blanket, normal sheets, and then a comforter in winter. It's so warm.

[Robotengineer]

29 minutes ago, 5thHorseman said:

The only good thing about Winter this year is that it means 2016 is over.

^This.

Winter in OK sucks. It's cold and windy, but we rarely ever get a snow that one can actually justify getting dressed up and playing in (last one was about 5 years ago), mostly just 1 or 2 inches of dry, powdery snow, once a year. 

TBH, I kind of like the cold, it just doesn't like me. My hands dry out and look dead, my toes freeze, and my nose runs if I'm outside for any significant period of time. Then the buildings on campus are kept way too warm, so I either have to shed 2 or 3 layers every time I enter a building or sweat a lot (or both). 

I'd still take the cold over the heat any day though.

[tater]

Here in northern NM, we get snow, though not terribly much in Albuquerque itself. My house is about 1500 feet above town, and we'll get several snows deep enough for sledding in the neighborhood (mind the cactus!) until the sun melts it, often within a day. We get the odd effect in the SW where by an afternoon, we have "positive shadows" where the shadowed areas are white, and the rest of the ground is the normal dirt color  .

[razark]

What the hell is "snow"?  Is it related to that ice stuff that shuts this city down?  (It's quite impressive to see an entire seven-story office building empty out so everyone can go look at the snow.  And it's melting as soon as it lands on anything.)

 

I like winter.  It's when the leaves (slightly) change color and drop off the trees.  The temperature dips into the 50s, then back to the 80s, then into the 60s, then the 70s, then the 30s for one night (which makes everyone fear the overpasses), back to the 80s, then the 40s for a week, and then we put on shorts and celebrate Christmas.  Nothing quite like an evening at the mother-in-law's, with the fire roaring while I'm roaring that it's 90+ degrees in the house, are you people insane?!?

Of course, in cold weather, you can add as many layers as you want.  In summer, you can only take off a finite number of layers.  (And that number is even further limited by HR, of course.)  It's just tiring having to check the overnight hourly forecast to see what time you need to switch from the heavy blanket to the thinnest sheet.

[monstah]

7 hours ago, CAKE99 said:

For me, it's the most horrible time of the year, SUMMER, DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUN

For me, Winter is the best season, as I live in australia (lack of capitalization of the first letter intended), there is no snow, ever.

Same here, in Brazil. Hot, rainy summer Christmas.

That, the fact that both Christmas and New year's eve are on weekends this year and I'll have no vacation or extended leave whatsoever, and the fact that I'm not a Christmas kind of guy already to begin with, means I'm not too excited about it. I do enjoy New year's a lot, but this year... meh. Too much going on here for me to enjoy it  

 

 

 

But let me not poop in your party! Have a nice one, everyone. I know to some people Christmas is a very special family time. Enjoy your families!

 

 

3 hours ago, razark said:

(And that number is even further limited by HR, of course.)

Ahahahaha!  

[kerbiloid]

I like winter. Every summer. The farther it is - the stronger I like.

[LordFerret]

Speaking of winter, and snow... we got our first snow just last night, a light dusting.

[TheSaint]

6 hours ago, razark said:

What the hell is "snow"?  Is it related to that ice stuff that shuts this city down?  (It's quite impressive to see an entire seven-story office building empty out so everyone can go look at the snow.  And it's melting as soon as it lands on anything.)

I like winter.  It's when the leaves (slightly) change color and drop off the trees.  The temperature dips into the 50s, then back to the 80s, then into the 60s, then the 70s, then the 30s for one night (which makes everyone fear the overpasses), back to the 80s, then the 40s for a week, and then we put on shorts and celebrate Christmas.  Nothing quite like an evening at the mother-in-law's, with the fire roaring while I'm roaring that it's 90+ degrees in the house, are you people insane?!?

Of course, in cold weather, you can add as many layers as you want.  In summer, you can only take off a finite number of layers.  (And that number is even further limited by HR, of course.)  It's just tiring having to check the overnight hourly forecast to see what time you need to switch from the heavy blanket to the thinnest sheet.

As opposed to summer in Houston, when the sidewalks melt and they have to build new ones? I spent some time down there setting up a data center for one of my previous employers. Actually my boss from that company ended up moving to Houston after he left there.

I like where we live now. We have four seasons, but not extreme ones. We usually get one or two good snows in a winter, maybe three or four inches each time, enough for the kids to get out sledding and build a couple of snowmen. The lowest overnight temps will get down to the high teens in January and February. Daytime highs in the summer never get above the high 90's. It's all good.

[razark]

11 hours ago, TheSaint said:

As opposed to summer in Houston, when the sidewalks melt and they have to build new ones?

We do not build new sidewalks every time they melt!  We just wait for new ones to congeal out of the air.

Summer is not my favorite time of year around here.  I'd have to seriously question your former boss's sanity if he moved here after visiting in the summer.

[The Space Dino]

Where I live is summer 24/7 with occasional rain and haze...

[NSEP]

Winter sucks in The Netherlands, instead of a winter wonderland, it is a depressing empty land without snow, foliage and all that beautifull gunk. It looks very post-apocalyptic actually.

The only snow we get is in like February, when it should be taking a switch for Spring, but no. And only 1cm or less for that per year.

 

19 hours ago, LordFerret said:

Speaking of winter, and snow... we got our first snow just last night, a light dusting.

Your lucky, i have to wait 3 months for just a little dusting.

Summer is even worse. Why? Mosquitos, mosquitos everywhere! In summer, disease just breaks out of nowere. And im talking about illnesses waaay fancier than the classic cold.

[Shpaget]

It's been an unusually dry period for the last couple of weeks. No snow. next to no rain... It is fairly cold, but then again, not nearly as cold as one would expect for mid December. The temperature is hovering around 0°C.

I don't mind, really. It means I can still go to work on my bike, which is both faster and cheaper than public transportation, and going by car is out of the picture, since it's impossible to find a free parking spot in the town center and paying for the underground garage would quickly rob me of my paycheck.

The forecast says pretty much the same for the next week or so.

BTW, it's still autumn, but winter is coming, they say.

[Randox]

Winter is starting with a bang in Eastern Canada. The weather is a bit hilarious with the dramatic temperature shifts (were foretasted to go from -11 to +10 inside 24 hours), and it's too windy, but the abundance of early snow is quite atmospheric. The chances of a white Christmas look good, and I'll get around to resenting the snow in the new year, as per usual.

[Tex_NL]

It's probably going to be a wet/grey Christmas as usual.
If I ever get the desire for cold, the freezers at work are set to -20C (-4F).  But the circulation in my left hand is crap due to an injury a few years ago so I prefer not to spend more time in there than is absolutely necessary.

[TheSaint]

12 hours ago, razark said:

We do not build new sidewalks every time they melt!  We just wait for new ones to congeal out of the air.

Summer is not my favorite time of year around here.  I'd have to seriously question your former boss's sanity if he moved here after visiting in the summer.

I was flying out there with him once in July. On the plane he was already thinking about making the move and we were talking about it, and I told him he was nuts because of the heat. We get off the plane and walk out of the airport, and the heat just hits us like a wall. We stop for a second by the curb, and he looks over at me and says, "Yeah, okay, this might take some getting used to."

[Green Baron]

Temperature between 10(°C) in the morning and 17 in the afternoon. That's a little less than last year at the time, overall a little less than the median temps.

Noone gets me back to snow and ice. Never ! Jamais ! Niemals ! Jamas !

 

[razark]

19 minutes ago, TheSaint said:

We get off the plane and walk out of the airport, and the heat just hits us like a wall.

I've lived here most of my life, and I know that feeling exactly.  Coming out of baggage claim, into the heat and humidity and the car exhaust of a parking garage.  Bleh.

[kerbiloid]

5 hours ago, NSEP said:

instead of a winter wonderland, it is a depressing empty land without snow, foliage and all that beautifull gunk. It looks very post-apocalyptic actually.

The only snow we get is in like February, when it should be taking a switch for Spring, but no. And only 1cm or less for that per year.

Winter of my dream!

[tater]

Chance of rain today, then snow tomorrow. Hoping the cold front comes in early and it's all snow. Cold rain is awful.

The desert is pretty with snow.

Edited December 16, 2016 by tater

[TheSaint]

2 minutes ago, tater said:

Chance of rain today, then snow tomorrow. Hoping the cold front comes in early and it's all snow. Cold rain is awful.

The desert is pretty with snow.

The rain we're getting today is probably headed your way. It's nothing big, just a little drizzle. No snow for us yet, it's looking like a brown Christmas this year.

[Spacetraindriver]

Reading all of these is worrying me about heading north for Winter Break...