@Andy_Szymczak said:
Any support here for the 4 seasons? I enjoy the changes, if it snows, I hope for a big blizzard! Nice to see the spring come alive, summer’s balmy days are welcome as well, And fall colors are extraordinary to behold.
Four seasons definitely. Although I could do without the blizzards, having gone through more than I can count. Annual average snowfall here is over 150". One winter it exceeded 200". That was a long hard winter.
Spring is my favorite season and summers are stellar. Autumn is beautiful but makes me a bit nostalgic because I know the ice man will be marching in. On the other hand, I paddle from April to December and during the four months I’m off the water I get things done around the house, chores I ignore during paddling season.
I would not be happy in the southern climes. Heat and humidity are not my friends. I once visited family in Maryland and Virginia in the summer. Swore I’d only return in their “winter.”
You four seasons people have to be “hit over the head” with seasonal change to tell the difference. Warm weather people can tell the different subtle changes that make up the seasons. B) Actually that’s great. Y’all come on down and bring your snow bird money.
Some of this is heat tolerance. I can’t stand heat - heck I even go somewhere with cold water in the summer to escape the heat around home, which is hardly epic stuff by southern standards. Even if I don’t love cold all the time, it can be solved with a layer of clothing or burning a little more fuel in the furnace. Once I am too hot - which for me is anywhere from 85 up - all I can do is get into water or hide someplace with AC. Not that the getting into the water part isn’t nice, but most parks and water access points shut down at sunset so you have to go home or pay to camp.
Yup. Went through that yesterday afternoon when it was 50F & pouring buckets of rain, then dropped 40-some degrees in a few hours and back to snow. The big flash freeze. Oddly, the roads were great today. Mine had been sanded and the highway was completely clear.
Summer here is sometimes defined as three months of bad sledding. But then, what can you expect from a state shaped like a mitten?
Where I used to live in upstate NY, we always said “Three months of spring, three months of fall, six months of winter, no summer at all.” I do miss the vibrant seasonal changes.
Actually, that’s what I find more of the problem.
‘Up there’ when it hangs around 0 degrees for a few weeks, when it get’s up to 30, it feels like spring.
‘Down here’ when it’s been in the 60s for a while, then goes down to the 30s, feels like the arctic.
(not to mention having to change whole sets of paddling gear each ‘transition’)
Definitely do not have the traditional four seasons here in North Texas. 61 degrees yesterday afternoon and 16 this morning. I think the seasons are Dang Hot, Fall, Confused, and Tornado.
@TreeA10 said:
Definitely do not have the traditional four seasons here in North Texas. 61 degrees yesterday afternoon and 16 this morning. I think the seasons are Dang Hot, Fall, Confused, and Tornado.
Is that the part of Texas that gets “Blue Northerns”?
@TreeA10 said:
Definitely do not have the traditional four seasons here in North Texas. 61 degrees yesterday afternoon and 16 this morning. I think the seasons are Dang Hot, Fall, Confused, and Tornado.
That description is hilarious. Thanks for the laughter!
Out here in the PNW, we just had a spring preview this past weekend. It was all sunshine and in the 60’s. Yesterday was nice too and right now I’m watching the sun come up after an early morning shower. Hhmm, I might load up one of the kayaks and do some paddling today.
@TreeA10 said:
Definitely do not have the traditional four seasons here in North Texas. 61 degrees yesterday afternoon and 16 this morning. I think the seasons are Dang Hot, Fall, Confused, and Tornado.
Is that the part of Texas that gets “Blue Northerns”?
All of Texas is subject to Blue Northers. We had several in Houston.
