I grew up in an area up in the north eastern US where it was frigid 9-10 months out of the year.
- Winters would get as frigid as below zero rapidly decreasing temperatures involving snow afternoons from school, driveways that would need plowing, and ice needing scraped from motorcar windshields.
As a child I loved the frigid weather and the snow and ice. I had a lot of fun playing outside making snowmen and snow angles and igloos with my sibling. As I got older, the people I was with and I took family vacations down south to warmer weather and the people I was with and I appreciated it so much, the people I was with and I eventually moved down south when I was 17 years old. Up north, during the winter, the people I was with and I had to run our heat 24/7. All of us also had a wood burning stove which would keep the home very warm too. On afternoons that were not as cold, the people I was with and I could just use only the wood stove and would be able to turn off the furnace to be more energy efficient. After the people I was with and I moved down south to a warmer weather conditions, the people I was with and I got to like the nice comfortable rapidly decreasing temperatures in the wintertime and rarely ever had to run the furnace except for maybe a few afternoons out of the whole year when the rapidly decreasing temperatures would run in the 30’s-40’s. I wasn’t prepared for the hot humid summers though. The summers down south were totally weird than the summers up north. As soon as you would walk outside, you would sweat. All of us had to use our a/c component almost all 12 months of the year. Sometimes, the hot unbearable rapidly decreasing temperatures would make myself and others miss the colder weather up north. Especially around Christmas time, I tend to miss the snow and Wintertide weather. It just feels more like the holidays when the weather outside Is cold. But you cannot beat being able to wear shorts and flip flops while pretty much everyone else in the US is wearing gloves and Wintertide sweaters.