Winter is coming

[Mirage]

You british people have no idea what winter is.

[Cuchulainn]

Oh, and now that winter's here I get to finally wear these again!

I can't imagine it gets very cold in the Near East, does it? It always looks like a dust bowl. Kinda like SoCal, except with more screaming and pinch of sectarian and religious genocide.

[Yerushalmi]

Deserts have wide diurnal temperature variations to begin with, and these are magnified as you go inland. Jerusalem is on the top of a mountain, so it's quite colder than its surroundings as well. So the winters can get pretty cold here, though the gloves are a bit too thick to be appropriate.

We have screaming too, but the nearest sectarian and religious genocide is up in Syria.

[Cuchulainn]

It's worryingly close though isn't it. You don't need the Al-Nusra Front on your doorstep. They're already doing bad things to Christian's up there.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Winter is the best. I get to wear jeans and hoodies all the time. If it gets colder then I can wear my pea coat and gloves.

[Chemical]

So northern hemispherio-centric.
Bring on summer.
Suck it, snow beasts.

[Pike]

Winter is great because it actually gets down to livable temperatures again (aka below 65F because anything above 65F is too hot)

[Shauna]

I don't mind it getting cold. Cold is fine. I mind it getting wet. I already got absolutely drenched walking to get the bus yesterday. It is the beginning of something bad.

[Pike]

You british people have no idea what winter is.

I dunno man when I showed up in friggin March/April it was smurfING FREEZING

I'm sitting here flying in thinking "Oh I'm a Montanan, this is gonna be a cakewalk" and I was so wrong

[Mirage]

I guess it's not actually because it is extremely much colder than winters in for example the rockies or the UK, but that they often last a lot longer, and with no real summer afterwards to make up for them.

Also, anything below 65F is too cold. It's not that I can't handle the cold, I've bicycled to work in -20 C (and high relative humidity) several times. I just really really dislike it. Really really really dislike it. It's mostly because of the inconveniences it brings along with it. Need for thick uncomfortable clothes. Nothing fun to do because I hate skiing and snowboarding and trout. Roads get icy and you have to walk carefully to not slip and fall. Roads get clogged with snow so that it takes forever to get anywhere. I am just a real summer person. I'd prefer it if it was hot enough to walk around naked all year. And that's what I would do, too.

[Shauna]

We... don't tend to have a real summer here either. This year was a bizarre phenomenon in which we got more than 3 days of sun. Having temperatures of like 25C is not a common thing during summer, and the fact that we got more than one day of that sort of weather is insane. xD It doesn't get too cold during winter, I will admit, but then we just get consistent 10-15C rainy, windy weather throughout the rest of the year.

[Mirage]

But you live in the north so maybe that's why!

[yukina]

We've never had winter here so it's interesting to see how people here seem to anticipate the cold weather. Coldest I've experienced was 8 C when I was around 8 years old and were in one of the cities on top of a mountain. I thought my toes were gonna fall off. I think 21 C is plenty cold already )

[Mirage]

8 C is an average norwegian summer day.

[Slothy]

Guess I'm moving to Norway.