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This even more just in - the weather thread
Papersatan:
Having grown up in one of the nation's cloudiest cities, it actually doesn't bother me a lot to not see the sun for a week or more. Maybe having blue skies be less than half the skies makes me appreciate them more? Like, grey is the normal, and blue is a wonderful treat?
It makes me think a little about the problem of "what color is the sky", which if you have any passing interest in linguistics or postmodern theory you have surly run across, I think I have even posted a video or two here. but, where I grew up the most frequent sky color was a horizon to horizon solid, untextured pale grey/white, so why should it be fact that the sky is blue?
I also have mixed feelings on snow with regards to grey skies. I think a fresh coat of snow brightens things up, but heavy snowfall over an over grinds people down; it feels like some sort of Sisyphean punishment that will never end. So glad that this part of Michigan does not seem to get pummeled in the same way.
Asterus:
Well, this part of the mitten just loves being a horrible person with the weather. Nowadays, we will actually get pretty clear days in between the snowfalls. However, on these nice, clear, sunny days, the wind picks up to about 10-20 mph with next to no air moisture. It makes walking to class an ordeal. At least nothing's drastic enough to actually interfere with my life, as opposed to one trip I went on once to West Ottawa.
TheEvilDog:
Well, we're in for a storm tonight. Right now there's horizontal rain outside and the wind is picking up fast.
Sometimes I really hate living on the coast.
Papersatan:
When I say pummeled in the same way, I maybe should explain that I am from Rochester NY which averages 95 inches of snow and has 200 "cloud cover days" (more than 3/4 of the sky is cloud) a year. It can still be pretty gross and feel like a mild winter to me. I think I am feeling my acclimation to extreme winters more right now because a lot of my classmates are not from the north and are complaining about how it is still snowing when it is already the end of March. For me spring comes in April. I don't think I ever though to March as a part of spring. You may get one or two preview days, but it is not going to be nice until April, and even April will get at least one storm.
ankhtahr:
Local weather according to one of my favourite unexact weather sites: -2°?! It's fucking cold and snowing.
Even though I probably won't make friends by this post, I have to say that I actually prefer this weather over summer weather. I have to go to school by bicycle everyday, but to me it's still more comfortable to cycle to school in snow, compared to cycling in drizzle, which is usually the default weather here. I can brush the snowflakes off my trousers, before they melt, something I can't do with drizzle or rain. I prefer low temperatures over high temperatures anyway, everything above 20°C makes me frickin' tired, while everything below 5°C makes me lively and cheerful. I don't get winter depression, I tend to get summer depression/aggression. In the winter everything is a little bit dampened, I like the cold, everything appears a bit more calm to me. My perfect day is sunny, around -10°C, crystal clear sky and air, and snow on the ground. When such a day happens to occur, it actually brings a smile onto my face and makes me happy. In the summer it's too hot, the air is usually humid, which makes it harder to breath, I'm sweaty, everything is somewhat sticky, maybe I even need to apply sunscreen, which is even stickier, and I don't feel like moving at all. We're living in a flat, right under the roof, and the window in my room opens into some kind of inner yard, which keeps the air from moving. In the summer I often get around 35°C in my room, even when I open the windows. I can't sleep because of that, and don't feel like doing anything in the day. Result: I'm rather grumpy in the summer. And everybody else is just so chipper. When I turn on the radio or TV, or listen to anybody else, all I hear is how "fantastic" the weather is. This sometimes really makes me want to yell at the screen: "Fuck you! This isn't a fan-fucking-tastic day! It's too fucking hot, I can't do anything, and don't you tell me, how I should be fucking happy about it!"
In other words: I'm happy that it's snowing…
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