Summer sucks

SerephelSerephel
edited July 2008 in General
I hate summer.

It was 100 degrees yesterday, and it will be 100 degrees again today. We get a brief reprieve for a few days at 95, and then it will jump up again.

It's also incredibly humid all day, every day. There are also billions of mosquitoes, along with lots of other painful, crunchy, icky bugs.

Winter is better. You can always put on more clothes to be comfortable, there are fewer bugs, and it's much easier to sleep when you don't sweat.

Discuss.
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  • ZlamzamboZlamzambo
    edited July 2008
    I totally agree, that’s why I’m glad to be living in a dessert like place in the north. Cold winters, mild summers and almost no humidity. Its going to be hard when I go to Japan, I hear we are going to be around those temperatures.
  • NoLongerNoLonger
    edited July 2008
    Discussion? About one thing!? I'm not sure you're exactly aware of who you're speaking to. Anyways, we haven't gotten above 85 and have been staying around 75 in Idaho, but It was still snowing and raining and such up until mid-March. There were a few days when it snowed, rained, and hailed in a time period of two hours.
  • BehemothBehemoth
    edited July 2008
    It's only been in the mid-80's for the last couple of weeks here. Of course, it's always humid as hell. Luckily, every vehicle I have to use has A/C, plus I've got a window unit that I keep cranked all night so i can sleep.
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited July 2008
    Summer's better than winter, but not as good as spring and fall. I'd much rather have +30 weather than -30.
  • NoLongerNoLonger
    edited July 2008
    Idaho is desert and mountains, so it's dry as always here.
  • SerephelSerephel
    edited July 2008
    NoLonger wrote: »
    Discussion? About one thing!? I'm not sure you're exactly aware of who you're speaking to. Anyways, we haven't gotten above 85 and have been staying around 75 in Idaho, but It was still snowing and raining and such up until mid-March. There were a few days when it snowed, rained, and hailed in a time period of two hours.

    No, you see, that's awesome. I like that. I don't like heatstroke, sunburns, and smelling like ass all day, especially when I'm with my girlfriend, at work, or anywhere else where I prefer to smell good, or at least neutral.

    BUT, I will concede, beer tastes better after a hot day.
  • waitingfortheencorewaitingfortheencore
    edited July 2008
    Pansies, it's fucking raining here in Ireland and it's FUCKING JULY!!!
  • DrLeopoldStrabismusDrLeopoldStrabismus
    edited July 2008
    Raining in July? I do NOT FUCKING BELIEVE IT.
  • brucebruce
    edited July 2008
    Ditto in England. Raining like a motherfucker, I might add.
  • hlavcohlavco
    edited July 2008
    Funny, I thought it was perfectly normal to have rainfall several times a month at least, including in July.
  • NoLongerNoLonger
    edited July 2008
    Same, also Serephel it is fine, the only problem I can see is that up to that point in March there had been 90 degree days as well as days almost going into the negatives. Now normally in Idaho spring starts in mid-May, the fact that we had freezes up to March with 75-90 degree days between and more precipitation than we normally have all YEAR in Idaho in the time period of a few months is what worries me. I'm not sure the exact situation there would be needed to cause that sort of weather but I think there's some serious climate change going on, mostly because of that damn global warming.

    Anyways the weather has been perfect here since then, that's not normal either though, Idaho Falls is in a desert so it normally has hot summers and cold winters, well we had the cold winter, that extended itself over a month too long, but our summer has been 5-10 degrees cooler than normal, can you tell me that a good sign?

    Grrrrrrr.....
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited July 2008
    waitingfortheencore wrote: »
    Pansies, it's fucking raining here in Ireland and it's FUCKING JULY!!!
    Isn't it always raining in Ireland? Or is that just in Britain?
  • ReallyCleanSocksReallyCleanSocks
    edited July 2008
    In June, it was too freakin' humid. I was sitting around most of the day, sweat covering my entire body, playing my PS2 in my boxers, and the boxers seemed like they were too much. It rained every single day at the end of the day, like clockwork, as nature's attempt to cool things down, which was pretty fruitless, I might add. Now, it's seemed to have evened off, and putting that air conditioner in the window just seemed like a foolish idea.
  • MrCheezeMrCheeze
    edited July 2008
    Rain is worse than heat, unless you're inside.

    Didn't your blood boil?
  • ReallyCleanSocksReallyCleanSocks
    edited July 2008
    MrCheeze wrote: »
    Rain is worse than heat, unless you're inside.

    Didn't your blood boil?

    I stayed inside the whole time. I was trying not to die.
  • SerephelSerephel
    edited July 2008
    We already had our rainy season. The skies would go gray or black in anticipation, and we would receive rain of biblical proportions. So the humidity would always be at 100% every day, and it would be terrible.

    Now it's still about 100 degrees, but the humidity dropped down to 95% every day. Joy.
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited July 2008
    MrCheeze wrote: »
    Rain is worse than heat, unless you're inside.

    Didn't your blood boil?
    I don't mind rain, as long as it's not windy. Wind makes umbrellas annoying to use.
  • illithid235illithid235
    edited July 2008
    Well, you know my feelings on this, Ryan, but for everyone else...

    I HATE SUMMER. Sunburn sucks ass. I always have to worry about being outside for more than 10 minutes because inevitably, even if I'm using sunscreen, I WILL get burned.

    And the bugs. Damn those bugs. They're everywhere, proving that they rule the world. Bastards.

    And the sweat. There's just nothing you can do, when you start sweating, the aftermath of that sweat will stay with you until you take a shower. Either it makes your clothes damp or it dries and your face gets sticky and stinky. And no matter what you do some days, you can't get away from the heat.

    And that sucks when you have a significant other, because it's super uncomfortable to get close to him/her.

    Winter is so much nicer.. the world is calm and beautiful, you don't sweat your ass off, and if you get cold, you can warm up, and no big deal. No sticky aftermath. No bugs. And it's a hell of a lot easier to be close to people. And sleeping is better, because you can pile on the covers.

    Blah, summer sucks indeed. Moving to Norway, I swear.
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited July 2008
    I'm guessing it's around 55 degrees in my basement right now. It is ALWAYS about the same temperature. Sometimes it's a little more humid than other times, but never unbearably so. Really the humidity just makes it feel slightly colder. Since the humidity is higher in the summer it feels slightly colder in the summer than it does in the winter. Ironic really.

    Naturally, it is for this reason that I choose to keep my various forms of entertainment in the basement where I would hardly know the difference whether it was -40 or 90 degrees outside. I never really have to endure the various seasonal quirks for all that long at any given stretch. Under these conditions the cold and snow of winter is clearly worse than other seasons for me.
  • Professor MacJakeProfessor MacJake
    edited July 2008
    illithid235 wrote: »
    And the sweat. There's just nothing you can do, when you start sweating, the aftermath of that sweat will stay with you until you take a shower. Either it makes your clothes damp or it dries and your face gets sticky and stinky. And no matter what you do some days, you can't get away from the heat.

    Move to Southern California. It was 116 degrees one day last month and it wasn't too bad outside. Sweating actually works out here, unlike in the Midwest - instead of rolling off you and making you soaking wet it actually evaporates and cools you off. It is the most amazing thing. I love it.
  • mariomario
    edited July 2008
    God bless low humidity environments! I remember being somewhat miserable at ConnectiCon just because of the slight increase in humidity back east.
  • kukopankikukopanki
    edited July 2008
    I can't understand what you're all going on about... 100 degrees? that doesn't make sense! Why don't you use a real temperature measurement system, like celsius?
  • PandaPanda
    edited July 2008
    They are, it was 100 degrees CELCIUS MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!
  • NoLongerNoLonger
    edited July 2008
    Uh... Ow? Kuko, just so you know 32 degrees fahrenheit is freezing and water boils at 212. Its a bit odd but whatever. 100 degrees fahrenheit is about 38 degrees celsius.
  • BehemothBehemoth
    edited July 2008
    C=(F-32)/1.8
    F=(C*1.8)+32
  • NukivajNukivaj
    edited July 2008
    Hey Seph, any recommendation for the Chinese Weather?
  • Mish42Mish42
    edited July 2008
    I actually LOVE summer. My birthday is in the summer, it's actually hot and wonderful and I'm not constantly FREEZING. I think I'm of a very very small minority though... my boyfriend HATES HATES HATES summer. We can be walking into a store with bad air conditioning and he'll start sweating a bunch.

    See, with me, I rarely ever sweat, even when I AM really hot. The most I'll get it a tiny little pit stain that's never big enough for anyone to see unless I lift my arms up high, and then even when that happens, I was somehow blessed to be born with no body odor, so I never wear deodorant and it's all good. I think it's a girl thing, but all through winter (which, for where I live, isn't bad at all) I'm shivering and my toes are always ice cold.

    So... I guess I'm not actually saying that summer is better, since I understand that I am unlike the majority of the world when it comes to how my body works in the summertime. Wow it took me 4 tries to try to say "in heat" or "in warm places" without thinking dirty. ANYWAY, Serephel, I can only hope your girlfriend understands that boys stink when they sweat and that they sweat a whole lot more than girls, and then forgives you for being stinky. I forgive my boyfriend, and he's pretty extreme as far as being miserable in the summertime.

    To add on how weird it is that I love summer... you know that feeling you get when you get into a car and it feels like the heat from the inside of the vehicle is consuming you, and you're pretty much suffocating due to the warmth of the air filling your lungs? I LOVE that feeling. It's like being wrapped up by a nice blanket :)
  • deku12345deku12345
    edited July 2008
    Mish42 wrote: »
    To add on how weird it is that I love summer... you know that feeling you get when you get into a car and it feels like the heat from the inside of the vehicle is consuming you, and you're pretty much suffocating due to the warmth of the air filling your lungs? I LOVE that feeling. It's like being wrapped up by a nice blanket :)

    I know exactly what you mean. I always get annoyed when someone turns on the AC.

    I prefer the summer too. I get cold really easily, and I just go swimming when it gets really hot. Plus I love how it takes longer to get dark.
  • QueenQuinlinQueenQuinlin
    edited July 2008
    I tend to spend most of winter wishing it was summer, and most of summer wishing it was winter. Fall is boring, spring is awesome. End of story.
  • geokogeoko
    edited July 2008
    Night Lord wrote: »
    Ditto in England. Raining like a motherfucker, I might add.

    aw, you guys got a wittwe wain, huh? sooo sad. California is burning.
    Combining with record dry conditions and high winds, an unusual lightning storm sets off more than 700 blazes.

    Could hardly breathe at my aunt and uncle's place from all the smoke this weekend. Come back when you have real problems. :P

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