The perks of winter:
- it is easier to keep warm during winter than it is to keep cool in the summer
- get to wear more clothings which means more pockets to carry things
- all the hell spawned insects go into hibernation
- everything layered in a blanket of snow glistens and sparkles.
- can build stuff with snow so easily
- unpleasant people are deterred or avoid going out as they are bitter about the snow so less likely to encounter them in the winter.
- the weaklings rely more on help as they are not strong enough for winter
- can do more exercising without overheating
Snow is great if you don’t need to drive anywhere
I hate winter, but not because of the climate (we get a couple of days if snow at best), but because it’s just constantly dark. It’s incredibly depressing. It’s already getting dark by 16:30 now.
And fuck DST! It makes the problem even worse 😩
You forgot one perk that I really like.
The snow is sound dampening, everything is just much quieter in winter (as an added benefit to there just being less noise generating things going on)
Oh i hadn’t thought about that, you’re right. Which reminds me… snow as cold as it is, ironically makes for good insulation making the temperature slightly warmer on cold days as opposed to the same cold days if the ground had no snow.
Unpopular opinion (largely discredited in anthropology circles): cold weather encourages resourceful behaviour and improves human cooperation. In climates where you can survive winter outdoors, homelessness is not as detrimental to continued existence. Three walls and no roof is fine in a slum in Florida, but harder to pull off in Minneapolis.
This societal coordination which is required to survive winter leads to more orderly and more socialist civilizations. Because hairless apes have no business being in that climate. So it is human ingenuity that is selected for – and that includes development of systems of cooperation.
If I extrapolate, our space faring descendants will face much bigger hurdles, but ideally will develop even better systems to deal with it.
Bonus picture. Me doing arctic exploration.
Cold months are great. Summer is just unbearable.
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:D warm in the winter, too hot in the summer
Living in a place where winter used to mean lots of snow and regularly hitting below 0°F but now is mostly rain. Hearing the phrase “at least it isn’t snow” on a 95°F day makes me want to punch them. Same for complaining about winter weather when it’s so much more mild than it used to be. Fuck global warming and fuck everyone who’s happy about its warmer weather.
